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pound, mix them together, that so you may \ Lohoch Scilliticum. 



make a Lohoch of them. Or Lohoch of Squils. 



Culpeper.] The medicine is so binding! College.] Take three drams of a Squil 

 that it is better let alone than taken, unless ! baked in paste, Orris Roots two drams, 

 in inward bruises when men spit blood, then i Hyssop, Hore-hound, of each one dram, 

 may safely take a little of it. i Saffron, Myrrh, of each half a dram, Honey 



Lohoch e Pulmone Vulpis. \ two ounces and an half > bruise the 



Or Lohoch of Fox Lungs. 

 College] Take of Fox Lungs rightly 



after it is baked, in a stone mortar, and after 

 it hath boiled a walm ortwo with the Honey, 



College.] lake oi *ox lAmgs ngntiy put in the rest of the th i ngs in powder, 

 prepared, juice of Liquorice, Maiden-hair, } diligently stirring it, and make it into a 

 Anms-seeds, sweet Fennel seeds, of each { Lohoch accordi ng to art. 

 equal parts, Sugar dissolved in Cdt's-foot, \ Eclegma of Squils. Mesue. 



and Scabious Water, and boiled into a| College.-] Take of the juice of Squils 

 Syrup, three times their weight; the rest! and Honey, both of them clarified, of car}, 

 being in fine powder, let them be put to it| two pounc j s , boil them together according 

 and strongly stirred together, that it may be j to art to the cons i stence o f Honey. 

 made into a Lohoch according to art. Culptterti For the virtues of it see Vine- 



Culpeper.-} It cleanses and unites ulcers | gar O f.$ qu n 8j anc i Qximel of Squils, only 

 in the lungs and breast, and is a present \ this is more mi | dj and not so harsh to the 

 remeuy in phthisicks. j throat} because it hath no Vinegar in it, and 



Lohoch samim et Expertum. 

 Or a sound and well experienced Lohoch. 



therefore is far more fitting for dsthmaes, 

 and such as are troubled with difficulty of 



College.-] Take of dried Hyssop and I breathing, it cuts and carries away humours 

 Calaminth, of each half an ounce, Jujubes, : from the breast, be they thick or thin, and 

 Sebestens, the stones being taken out, fifteen i wonderfully helps indigestion of victuals, 

 Raisins of the Sun stoned, fat Figs, Dates, j and eases pains in the breast, and for this, 

 of each two ounces, Linseed, Fenugreek i I quote the authority of Galen. 

 seed, of each five drams, Maiden-hair one ; Lohoch of Coleworts. Gordonius. 

 handful, Annis-seeds, sweet Fennel seeds, \ College.] Take one pound of the juice 

 Orris Roots cut, Liquorice, Cinnamon, of j of Coleworts, clarified Saffron three drams, 

 each an ounce, boil them according to art \ clarified Honey, and Sugar, of each half a 

 in four pounds of clear water till half be j pound, make of them a Lohoch according 

 consumed, and with two pounds of Penids j to art. 



boil it into a Syrup, afterwards cut and \ Culpeper.-] It helps hoarseness, and loss 

 bruise very small Pine-nuts five drams, sweet of voice, eases surfeitsand head-ache coining 



drunkenness, and opens obstructions of 

 the liver and spleen, and therefore is good 

 for that disease in children called the rickets 



Almonds blanched, Liquorice, Gum Tra- 

 gacanth and Arabick, white Starch of each 

 three drams, let these be put into the Syrup 

 when it is off the fire, and stir it about 

 swiftly with a wooden pestle till it look white. 



Culpeper.] It succors the breast, lungs, j PRESERVED ROOTS, STALKS, 

 throat, oppressed by cold ,t restores thej BARKS, FLOWERS, FRUITS, 

 voice lost by reason ot cod, ard attenuates > 



thick and gross humours in the breast and* College.] Take of Erin go Roots as many 

 lungs. as you will, cleanse them without and within. 



