288 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



by mixing twelve ounces of Sugar candy, Heaves of Scordium four handfuls, old 

 with six ounces of red Rose-water, and four} Venice Treacle, Mithridates, of each eight 

 ounces of spirit of Cinnamon with it. ! ounces, Canary Wine twelve pounds, 



Culpeper.] I suppose this was invented i Vinegar six pounds, juice of Lemons two 

 for a cordial to strengthen the heart, to I pounds, digest them two days, either in 

 relieve languishing nature. It is exceed- j Horse-dung, or in a bath, the vessel being 

 ing dear. I forbear the dose, they that | close shut, then distil them in sand ; in the 

 have money enough to make it themselves, j distillation you may make a Theriacal ex- 

 canuot want time to study both the virtues \ traction. 



and dose : I would have gentlemen to be ! CulpeperJ] This water is exceeding good 



studious. ! in all fevers, especially pestilential; it 



Aqua cor dialis frigid a Saxeniee \ expels venomous humours by sweat ; it 



College^] Take of the juice of Borrage, ! strengthens the heart and vitals ; it is an 

 Bugloss, Bawm, Bistort, Tormentil, Scor- j admirable counter-poison, special good for 

 dium, Vervain, sharp-pointed Dock, Sorrel, j such as have the plague, or are poisoned, or 

 Goat's Rue, Mirrhis, Blue Bottle great and ; bitten by venomous beasts, and expels 

 small, Roses, Marigolds, Lemon, Citrons, j virulent humours from such as have the 

 of each three ounces, white Wine Vinegar \ venereal disease. If you desire to know 

 one pound, Purslain seeds two ounces, Imore virtues of it, see the virtues of Venice 

 Citron and Carduus seeds, of each half an | Treacle. The dose is from a spoonful to 

 ounce, Water Lily flowers two ounces, j an ounce. 



the flowers of Borrage, Bugloss, Violets, j Aqua Brionite composita. 



Clove-gilliflowers, of each one ounce, | Or Briony Water compound. 



Diatriou Sentalon six drams: let all of* College.] Take of the juice of Briony 

 them, being rightly prepared, be infused j roots, four pounds, the leaves of Rue and 

 three days, then distilled in a glass still : j Mugwort, of each two pounds, dry ed Savin 

 to the distilled Liquor add earth of Lemnos, i three handfuls, Featherfew, Nep, Penny- 

 Siletia, and Samos, of each one ounce and : royal, of each two handfuls, Bazil, Dittany, 

 an half, Pearls prepared with the juice of! of Crete, of each one handful and a half, 

 Citrons, three drams, mix them, and keep $ Orange pills four ounces, Myrrh two 

 them together. | ounces, Castoreum one ounce, Canary Wine 



Culpcper.~] It mightily cools the blood, j twelve pounds, digest them four days in a 



and therefore profitable in fevers, and all j convenient vessel, then still them in Balnto 



diseases proceeding of heat of blood; \\\ Maria: About the middle of the distilla- 



provokes sleep. You may take half an j tion strain it out, and make an Hysterical 



ounce at a time, or two drams if the party j extraction of the residue. 



be weak. Culpeper.'] A spoonful of it taken, 



Aqua Theriacalis. j eases the fits of the mother in women that 



Or Treacle Water. rhave them; it potently expels the after- 



College.] Take of the juice of green | birth, and clears the body of what a mid- 

 Walnuts, four pounds, the juice of Rue i wife by heedlessness or accident hath left 

 three pounds, juice of Carduus, Marigolds, ! behind ; it cleanses the womb exceedingly, 

 and Bawm, of each two pounds, green ; and for that I fancy it much, take not above 

 Petasitis roots one pound and a half, the i a tasterful at a time, and then in the mor- 

 roots of Burs one pound, Angelica and j ning fasting, for it is of a purging quality, 

 Master-wort, of each half a pound, the | and let pregnant women forbear it. 



