THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



der, Cassia Lignea, Bdellum, Horehound, I half an ounce, filings of steel prepared with 

 of each one scruple and fourteen grains, j Vinegar twenty drams, let the Myrobalans 

 Cinnamon, Oppopanax, Castorium, long j be roasted with fresh butter, let therest, being 

 Birlhwort, the three sorts of Pepper, j powdered, be sprinkled with oil of sweet 

 Sagapen, Saffron, Parsley of each twodrams, | Almonds, then add Musk one dram, and 

 Hellebore black and white, of each six pvith their treble weight in Honey, make it 

 grains, clarified Honey a pound and a half, J into an electuary according to art. 

 mix them, and make of them an electuary ! Culpeper.'] It helps the immoderate 

 according to art. Let the species be kept i flowing of the menses in women, and the 

 dry in your shops. | haemorrhoids in men, it helps weakness of 



Culpeper.'] It takes away by the roots | the stomach, and restores colour lost, it 

 daily evils coming of melancholy, falling- j frees the body from crude humours, and 

 sickness, vertigo, convulsions, megrim, | strengthens the bladder, helps melancholy, 

 leprosies, and many other infirmities; for J and rectifies the distempers of the spleen, 

 rny part I should be loth to take it inwardly j You may take a dram in the morning, or 

 unless upon desperate occasions, or in \ two if your body be any thing strong, 

 clysters. It may well take away diseases | Tnphera sohitive. 



by the roots, if it takes away life and all. \ College.'] Take of Diacrydium, ten 

 Hiera Diacolocynthidos. \ drams, Turbith, an ounce and an half, 



College.'] Take of Colocynthis, Agarick, ? Cardamoms the less, Cloves, Cinnamon, 

 Germander, white Horehound, Stoechas, on Honey, of each three drams, yellow San- 

 each ten drams, Opopanax, Sagapen, Parsley ; ders, Liquorice, sweet Fennel seeds, of each 

 seeds, round Birlhwort roots, white Pepper j half an ounce, Acorns, Schoenanth, of each 

 of each five drams, Spikenard, Cinnamon, i a dram, red Roses, Citron pills preserved, 

 Myrrh, Indian leaf or Mace, Saffron, of 'of each three drams, Violets two drams, 

 each four drams, bruise the Gums in a \ Penids four ounces, white Sugar half a 

 mortar, sift the rest, and with three pounds t pound, Honey clarified in juice of Apples 

 of clarified honey, three ounces and five j one pound, make an electuary according to 

 drams, make it into an electuary according { art. 

 to art. Culpeper.'] The Diacrydium and Tur- 



Culpeper.] It helps the falling-sickness, bith, are a couple of untoward purges, the 

 madness, and the pain in the head called i rest are all cordials. 

 Kephalalgia, pains in the breastand stomach \ Athanasia Mithridatis. Galen, 



whether they come by sickness or bruises, ; College.^ Take of Cinnamon, Cassia, 

 pains in the loins or back-bone, hardness of! Schoenanth, of each an ounce and an half, 

 womens breasts, putrefaction of meat in the | Saffron, Myrrh, of each one ounce, Costus 

 stomach, and sour belchings. It is butjSpignel, (Meum,) Acorus, (Water-flag 

 used seldom and therefore hard to be gotten, j perhaps they mean. See the root in the 

 Tnphera the greater. \ Catalogue of Simples,) Agarick, Scordium, 



College.'] Take of Myrobalans, Chebs, \ Carrots, Parsley, of each half an ounce, 

 Bellericks, Inds and Emblicks, Nutmegs, j white Pepper eleven grains, Honey so much 

 of each five drams, Water-cress seeds, ! as is sufficient to make it into an electuar}' 

 Asarabacca roots, Persian Origanum, or \ according to art. 



eisc i>ittapy of Crete, black Pepper, Oli- j Culpeper.'] It prevails against poison, 

 Daman, Amtni, Ginger, Tamarisk, Indian | and the bitings of venomous beasts, and 

 Nard, Squinanth, Cypress roots of each i helps such whose meat putrifies in their 



