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consumptions, restores lost strength, stays \ oricntial Bezoar, of each half an ounce, 

 liuxes, eases pains in the head, ears and I powder of the black tops of Crab's claws, 

 eyes, helps spitting, vomiting, and urining the weight of them all, beat them into pow- 

 of blood ; it is a fine commodity for a man | der, which may be made into balls with 

 in a consumption to carry about with him, } jelly, and the skins which our vipers have 

 and eat now and then a bit. ; cast off, warily dried and kept for use. 



^^^__^ CulpeperJ] This is that powder they 



j ordinarily call Gctscoigns powder, there are 



SPECIES, OR POWDERS. } di . ve , rs receipts of it, of which this is none 



I or the worst, four, or five, or six grains is 



Aromaticum Caryophyllatum. \ excellently good in a fever to betaken in any 



College^] Take of Cloves seven drams, j cordial, for it cheers the heart and vital 

 Mace, Zedoary, Galanga the less, yellow | spirits exceedingly, and makes them im- 

 Sanders, Troches, Diarrhodon, Cinnamon, : pregnable. 



wood of Aloes, Indian Spikenard, long: Specie* Cordiales Teniperatte. 



Pepper, Cardamoms the less, of each a dram, | College.'] Take of wood of Aloes, Spodium 

 Red Roses four ounces, Gallia Moschata, | of each a dram, Cinnamon, Cloves, bone of 

 Liquorice, of each two drams, of Indian j a Stag's-heart, the roots of Angelica, A vens, 

 leaf, Cubebs of each two scruples, beat them j and Torrnentil, of each a dram and an half, 

 all diligently into powder. i Pearls prepared six drams, raw Silk toasted, 



Culpeper^\ This powder strengthens the ! both sorts of Coral of each two drams, 



heart and stomach, helps digestion, expels 

 wind, stays vomiting, and cleanses the 



Jacinth, Emerald, Samphire, of each half a 

 dram, Saffron a scruple, the leaves of gold 



stomach of putrified humors. 5 and silver, of each ten, make them into 



Aromaticum Rose/turn. \ powder according to art. 



College.'] Take of Red Roses exungu- j Citlpeper.'] It is a great cordial, a great 

 lated fifteen drams, Liquorice seven drams, I strengthener of the heart, and brain, 

 wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, of each ; Diacalaminthe Simple. 



three drams, Cinnamon five drams, Cloves,; College.] Take of Mountain Calaminth, 

 Mace, of each two drams and an half, Gum j Pennyroyal, Origanum, the seeds of Mace- 

 Arabic and Tragacanlh, of each eight \ donian Parsley, common Parsley, and 

 scruples, Nutmegs, Cardamoms the less, | Hartwort, of each two drams, the seeds of 

 Galanga of each one dram, Indian Spike- ! Smallage, the tops of Thyme of each half 

 nard two scruples, make it into a powder to i an ounce, the seeds of Lovage, black 

 be kept in a glass for use. Pepper, of each an ounce, make them into 



Culpeper.'] It strengthens the brain, | powder according to art. 

 heart and stomach, and all such internal ! Citlpeper.] It heats and comforts cold 

 members as help towards decoction, it helps j bodies, cuts thick and gross flegm, provokes 

 digestion, consumes the watery excrements I urine and the menses. I confess this differs 

 of the bowels, strengthens such as are pined j something from Galen, but is better for oui 

 away by reason of the violence of a disease, j bodies in my opinion than his. It expels 

 and restores such as are in consumption. 5 wind exceedingly, you may take half a 

 Pulvus ex chelim Cancrorum compositus. \ dram of the powder at a time. There is 



Or Powder of Crab's claws compound. \ nothing surer than that all their powders 



College^] Take of Pearls prepared, Crab's will keep better in Electuaries than they 

 eyes, red Coral, white Amber, Hart's-horn, ?Avill in powders, and into such a body, you 



