338 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



wild Parsnips, Navew, Nigella, Peony the! choice Honey eight pounds six ounces, 

 male, Bazil, Hedge Mustard, (Irio) Treacle ! These being all chosen, and prepared with 

 Mustard, Fennel, Bishop's-weed, of each i diligence and art, let them be made into an 

 two drams, the berries of Bay, Juniper, | electuary just as Treacle or Mithridate is. 

 and Ivy, Sarsaparilla, (or for want of it the j CulpeperJ] The title shews you the scope 

 double weight of Cubebs,) Cubebs, of each jof the author in compiling it, I believe it is 

 one dram and an half, the leaves of Scor- j excellent for those uses. The dose of this 

 dium, Germander, Chamepitys, Centaury 5 is from a scruple to four scruples, or a dram 

 the less, Stoechas, Celtic Spikenard, Gala-; and an half: It provokes sweating abun- 

 ininth, Rue, Mints, Bctony, Vervain, |danlly, and in this or any other sweating 

 Scabious, Carduus Benediclus, Bawm, of | medicine, order your body thus: Take it in 

 each one dram and an half, Dittany of! bed, and cover yourself warm, in your 

 Crete three drains, Maijoram, St. John's \ sweating, drink posset-drink as hot as you 

 Wort, Schoenanlh, Horehound, Goats Rue, 'can, if it be fora fever, boil Sorrel and red 

 Savin, Burnel, cf each two drams, Figs, | Sage in posset-drink, sweat an hour or two if 

 Walnuts, Fistic-nuts, of each three ounces, j your strength will bear it, then the chamber 

 Emblicks, Myrobalans half an ounce, the \ being kept very warm, shift yourself all but 

 flowers of Violets, Borrage, Bugloss, Roses, \ your head, about which (your cap which 

 Lavender, Sage, Rosemary, of each four \ you sweat in being kept on) wrap a hot 

 scruples, Saflron tlireedrams, Cassia Lignea, j napkin, which will be a means to repel the 

 ten drams, Cloves, Nutmegs, Mace, of each j.vapours back. This I hold the best method 

 two drams and an half, black Pepper, long! for sweating in levers and pestilences, in 

 Pepper, all the three sorts of Sanders, wood | which this electuary is very good. I am 

 of Aloes, of each one dram and an half, | very loth to leave out this medicine, which 

 Hart's-horn half an ounce, Unicorn's-horn, j if it were stretched out, and cut in thongs, 

 or in its stead, Bezoar stone, one dram, i would reach round the world, 

 bone in a Stag's heart, Ivory, Stag's pizzlr, j Requics. Nicholaus. 



Castoreum, of each four scruples, Earth of J College.'] Take of red Rose leaves, the 

 Lemnos three drams, Opium one dram and ; whites being cut off, blue Violets, of each 

 an half, Orient Pearls, Emeralds, Jacinth,; three drams, Opium of Thebes, dissolved 

 red Coral, of each one dram and an half, Jin Wine, the seeds of white Henbane, 

 Camphire two drarns,Gum Arabic, Mastich, i Poppies white and black, the roots of Man- 

 Frankincense, Styrax, Turpentine, Saga- \ drakes, theseeds of Endive, Purslain, garden 

 penum, Opopanax, Laserpitium, or Myrrh, | Lettuce, Psyllium, Spodium, Gum, Traga- 

 of each two drams and an half, Musk, | canth, of each IAVO scruples and five grains, 

 Ambergris, of each one dram, oil of Vitriol | Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Ginger, of each a dram 

 half an ounce, species cordiales temperatae, | and an half. Sanders, yellow, white, and 

 Diamargariton, Diamoscu, Diambra, Elec- j red, of each a dram and an haJf, Sugar 

 tuarij de Gemmis, Troches of Camphire, | tnree times their weight, dissolved in Rose- 

 of Squills, of each two drams and an half, ; water : mix them together, and make of 

 Troches of Vipers two ounces, the juice of | them an electuary according to art. 

 Sorrel, Sow Thistles, Scordium, Vipers Bug-; Culpeper.~\ I like not the receipt taken 

 loss, Borrage, Bawm, of each half a pound, i inwardly. 



Hypocistis two drams, of the best Treacle ; Electuarium Reginte Coloniens. 



and Mithridate, of each six ounces, old* CollegeJ] Take of the seeds of Saxifrage 

 Wine three pounds, of the best Sugar, or; and Gromwell, juice of Liquorice, of each 



