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pains, stop the fumes that trouble the brain | seldom used, and therefore are hardly to be 

 in fevers, (but beware of Opiates in the be- j had. 



ginning of fevers) to provoke sleep, take not: 

 above two grains of it at a time, going to i 

 bed ; if that provoke not sleep, the next; 



Pills of Rhubarb. Mesue. 

 College.^ Take of choice Rhubarb three 

 drams, Citron Myrobalans, Trochisci Diarr- 



night you may make bold with three. Havejhodon, of each three drams and an half, 

 a care how you be too busy with such? juice of Liquorice, and juice of Worm- 

 medicines, lest you make a man sleep to j wood, Mastich, of each one dram, the seeds 

 doom's-day. jof Smallage and Fennel, of each half a 



Nepenthes Opiatum. ; dram, Species Hiera Picra simp. Galeni, 



College.'] Take of tincture of Opium j ten drains, with juice of Fennel not clarified, 

 made first with distilled Vinegar, then with j and Honc J so much as 1S sufficient, make it 

 spirit of Wine, Saffron extracted in spirit of j inl a mass - 



Wine, of each an ounce, salt of Pearl and i Culpeper.] It purges choler, opens ob- 

 Coral, of each half an ounce, tincture of; structions of the liver, helps the yellow 

 species Diambrae seven drams, Ambergris :J aundlce > and dro P si e s m the beginning, 

 one dram : bring them into the form of Pills ! strengthens the stomach and lungs, 

 by the gentle heat of a bath. PdulaAralica Nicholaus 



Culpeper.-] The operation is like the! College.] Take of the best Aloes four 

 former ounces > Brjony roots, Myrobalans, Citrons, 



T,., , , . ,, A *Chebs, Indian Bellerick, and Emblick, 



Jrihiltf Assaireth. Avicenna. -..- .', -,->.. , A T> 



T m , e c IT- TV Mastich, Diagrydmm, Asarabacca, Roses, 



CoUege.] Take of Species Hiera Pi era } of each an ounce> Castorium three drams, 



Galeni one ounce, Mastich, Citron Myro- Saffron one dram> with Syrup of Worm . 



batons, of each halt an ounce, Aloes two { wood? ma k e it into a mass according to art. 



ounces, the Syrup of Stcechas as much as j Culpeper.l It helps such women as are 



is sufficient, make of them a mass accord- j not sufficient i y purge d i n their labour, helps 



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bodies are weakenetl by surfeits or ill diet, | p Ma , Arthritic(E , Nicholaus. 



to take half a dram or a scruple at night j CoUege ^ Take of Hermodactils, Turbith, 

 going to bed. iAgarick, of each half an ounce, Cassia 



Pills of Bdellium. Mesue. j Eignea, Indian Spikenard, Cloves, Xylobal- 



College.~\ Take of Bdellium ten drams, i samum, or Wood of Aloes, Carpobalsamum 

 Myrobalans, Bellericks, Emblicks, and or Cubebs, Mace, Galanga, Ginger, Mas- 

 Blacks, of each five drains, flakes of Iron, |tich, Assafoetida, the seeds of Annis, Fennel, 

 Leek seeds, of each three drams, Choncula { Saxifrage, Sparagus, Bruscus, Roses, Grom- 

 Veneris burnt, Coral burnt, Amber, of each; well, Sal. Gem. of each two drams, Scam- 

 a dram and an half, Pearls half an ounce, \ mony one ounce, of the best Aloes, the 

 dissolve the Bdellium in juice of Leeks and ! weight of them all, juice of Chamepitys 

 ^ith so much Syrup of juice of Leeks as is ! made thick with sugar, so much as is suf- 

 sufficient, make it into a mass according to ; ficient : or Syrup of the juice of the same, 

 art. I so much as is sufficient to make it into a 



Cttlp<'per.\ Both (his and the former are \ mass. 



