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Pulvis Haly. * ti ve against it, and the pestilence, as one 



College.'] Take of white Poppy seeds I sha11 usua11 ^ read of- 

 ten drams, white Starch, Gum Arabic and \ Rosate Novelle. 

 Tragacanth, of each three drams, the seeds j CollegeJ] Take of red Roses, Liquorice, 

 of Purslain, Marsh-mallows, Mallows, of; of each one ounce, one dram, two scruples 

 each five drams, Cucumbers, Melons, land an half, Cinnamon two drams, two 

 Gourds, Citruls, Quinces of each seven j scruples, and two grains, Cloves, Indian 

 drams, Ivory, Liquorice, of each three j Spikenard, Ginger, Galanga, Nutmegs, 

 drams, Penids the weight of them all, make j Zedoary, Styrax, Calamitis, Cardamoms, 

 them into powder according to art. \ Parsley seeds, of each one scruple eight 



Culpeper.'] It is a gallant cool powder, 

 fit for all hot imperfections of the breast 

 and lungs, as consumptions, pleurisies, &c. 



grains, beat them into powder. 



Culpeper. ~] It quenches thirst, and stays 

 vomiting, and the author saith it helps hot 



Your best way is to make it into a soft ; and dry stomachs, as also heat and dryness 

 dectuary with Syrups of Violets, and take | of the heart, liver, and lungs, (yet is the 

 it as Diatragacanthum frigidum. j powder itself hot,) it strengthens the vital 



Leetificans. | spirits, takes away heart-qualms, it pro- 



College.'] Take the flowers of Clove-bazil, j *<>& sweat, and strengthens such as have 

 or the seeds thereof, Saffron, Zedoary, laboured under long chronical diseases. 

 Wood of Aloes, Cloves, Citron pills, Galanga, : You m *Y . take a ? r the electuary 

 Mace, Nutmegs, Styrax Calamitis, of each! e y eI 7 morning, if with clarified Honey yoa 

 two drams and an half, Ivory, Annis seeds, j P lcase to make ll lnto such a bod y- 

 Thyme, Epithimum, of each one dram, j Pulvus Thuraloes 



bone of a Stag's heart, Pearls, Camphire, \ College^ Take of Frankincense one 

 of each half a dram, leaves of Gold and j dram, Aloes half a dram, beat them into 

 Silver, of each half a scruple, make it into! powder, 

 powder according to art. Culpeper^] And when you have occa- 



Culpeper.~] It causes a merry heart, ajsion to use it, mix so much of it with the 

 good colour, helps digestion, and keeps? white of an egg, (beat the white of the egg 

 back old age. You may mix half a dram \ well first) as will make it of the thickness or 



age. ou may 



of it to take at one time, or less if you i 

 please, in any cordial Syrup, or cordial 



Honey, then dip the wool of a Hare in it, 

 and apply it to the sore or part that bleeds, 



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dectuary appropriated to the same uses. ! binding it on. 



Pulvis Saxonicus. \ Pulvis Hermidadylorum compositus. 



College:] Take of the roots of both sorts Or Powder of Hermodactils compound. 

 of AngeTtca,S wallow-wort, garden Valerian,! College.'] Take of men's bones burnt, 

 Polipodium of the Oak, Marsh-mallows, j Scammony, Hermodactils, Turbith, Sena, 

 Nettles, of each half an ounce, the bark of j Sugar, of each equal parts, beat them into 

 German Mezereon, two drams, twenty grains i powder. 



of herb True-love, the leaves of the same, 5 Pulvis Sena compositus major. 



roots and all, thirty six, the roots being { Or Powder of Sena the greater composition, 

 steeped in vinegar and dried, beat it all j College.'] Take of the seeds of Armis, 

 into powder. i Carraway, Fennel, Cummin, Spikenard, 



Culpeper.'] It seems to be as great an j Cinnamon, Galanga, of each half an ounce, 

 expeller of poison, and as great a preserva- 1 Liquorice, Cromwell, of each an ounce. 



