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age and strength is, if you cannot take this | and clarified, make it into an electuar, 

 or any other sweating medicine by itself, | according to art. 



mix it with a little Carduus or Dragon's | Culpcper.~\ It is exceeding good against 



water, or Angelica water, which in my i cold diseases of the stomach, liver, or 



opinion is the best of the three. : spleen, corruption of humours and putre- 



Theriacca Londimnsis. \ faction of meat in the stomach, ill favoured 



Or London Treacle. ! c lour of the W[ dropsies, cold faults in 



_ .. , . . TT , , ;tne reins and bladder, provokes urine. 



College ] Take of Hart s-horn two Take ft dram in the mornin F 



ounces, the seeds or Citrons, Sorrel, reony, | 



Bazil, of each one ounce, Scordium, Coral- j - ^ 



liana, of each six drams, the roots of Angelica, I 



Tormentil, Peony, the leaves of Dittany,! PURGING ELECTUARIES. 



Bay-berries, Juniper-berries, of each half i Benedicta Laxatioa. 



an ounce, the , flowers of Rosemary, Man- CM -j Take of cho ice Turbitl, ten 

 golds. Clove GiUiflowers, the tops of Saint Jd Diacridium, bark of Spurge Roots 



John s Wort Nutmegs Saffron, of each | prepared Hermodactils, Red Roses, of each 

 threedrams, the Roots of Gentian, Zedoary, J g v / dram Q Spikenard, Ginger, 



Ginger, Mace, Myrrh, the leaves of Scab!- j Saffronj , p Amornus, or for want 



ous, Devil s-bit, Carduus, of each two drams, 3 of it Calamus Aromalicus, Cardamoms the 

 Cloves, Opium, of each a dram, Malaga j ]ess? the seeds of Smal , Pars1 Fcnne , 

 Wine as much as is sufficient with their AsparaguSj Bruscus, Saxifrage, Groinwell. 

 treble weight in Honey, mix them accord- j Caraway, sal. gem. Galanga, Mace, of each 

 ing to art. j a dram, w ; tn their treble weight of clarified 



Culpeper.] The receipt is a pretty cor- [ Ho make them into ft an c i ec tuary 



dial, resists the pestilence, and is a good | according to art . Also you may k lh * p 

 antidote in pestilential times, it resists poi- j ie itsdf in sh 



son, strengthens cold stomachs, helps diges- 5 Culpeper. "] It purges flegm, chiefly from 

 tion, crudities of the stomach A man| the : oints> also it the reins and 



may safely take two drams ot it in a j bladder 

 morning, and let him fear no harm. Caryocostinum. 



Diacrocmna. j College^ Take of Cloves, Costus, or 



College^] Take of Saffron, AsarabaccaJZedoary, Ginger, Cummin, of each two 

 loots, the seeds of Parsley, Carrots, Annis, i drams, Hermodactils, Diacridium, of each 

 Smallage, of each half an ounce, Rhubarb, j half an ounce: Avith their double weight of 

 the roots of Meum, Indian Spikenard, of* Honey clarified in white wine, make them 



each six drams, Cassia Lignea, Costus, i 

 Myrrh, Schenanth, Cubebs, Madder roots, i 

 the juices of Maudlin, and Wormwood; 



into an electuary according to art. 



Culpeper!] Authors say it purges hot 

 rheums, and takes away inflammations in 



made thick, Opobalsamum, or oil of Nut- 1 wounds, I assure you the electuary works 

 megs, of each two drams, Cinnamon, j violently,and may safely be 2;iven in clysters, 

 Calamus Aromaticus, of each a dram and land so you may give two or three drams at 

 an half, Scordium, Cetrach, juice of Liquo- 1 a time, if the patient be strong. For taken 

 rice, of each two drams and an half, Traga- , otherwise it would kill a horse o?/m privilege- 

 canth a dram, with eight times their weight* Cassia Extractapro Clysf.eribm. 



in white sugar, dissolved in Endive water, \ Or Cassia extracted for Clysters. 



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