334 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



any part of the body, and very gentle, it too much ; you may take it in white wine, 

 may be given (an ounce, or half an ounce -and keep yourself warm. If you would 

 at a time, according to the strength of the \ have my opinion of it, I do not like it. 

 patient) in acute, or peracute diseases, for it j Confectio Hamech. 



gently loosens the belly, and adds strength, \ College^] Take of the bark of Citron, 

 it helps infirmities of the liver and spleen, | Myrobalans two ounces, Myrobalans, 

 gouts of all sorts, quotidian, tertian, andChebs and blacks, Violets, Colocynthis, 

 quartan agues, as also hrad-aches. It is j Polypodium of the Oak, of each one ounce 

 usually given in clysters. If you like to j and an half, Wormwood, Thyme, of each 

 take it inwardly, you may take an onnce at \ half an ounce, the seeds of Annis, and 



night going to bed ; in the morning drink 

 a draught of hot posset drink and go about 



Fennel, the flowers of red Roses of each 

 three drams, let all of them being bruised, 



your business. be infused one day in six pounds of Whey, 



Electuarium de Citro Solutivum. \ then boiled till half be consumed, rubbed 



Or Electuary of Citrons, solutive. I with your hands and pressed out : to the 

 College.'] Take of Citron pills preserved, ' decoction add juice of Fumitory, pulp of 

 conserves of the flowers of Violets and ; Prunes, and Raisins of the Sun, of each 

 Bugloss, Diatragacanthum frigidum, Dia-j half a pound, white Sugar, clarified Honey, 

 crydium, of each half an ounce, Turbith \ of each one pound, boil it to the thickness 

 five drams, Ginger half a dram, Sena six} of Honey, strewing in towards the end. 

 drarns, sweet Fennel seeds one dram, white iAgarick trochiscated, Sena of each two 

 sugar dissolved in Rose-water, and boiled \ ounces, Rhubarb one ounce and an half 



according to an, ten ounces, make a solid 

 electuary according to art. 



Culpeper.~\ Here are some things very 



Epithimum one ounce, Diacrydium six 

 drams, Cinnamon half an ounce, Ginger 

 two drams, the seeds of Fumitory and 



cordial, others purge violently, both put! Annis, Spikenard, of each one dram, make 

 together, make a composition no way pleas- j it into an electuary according to art. 

 ing to me; therefore I account it a pretty j Culpepfr.~] The receipt is chiefly appro- 

 receipt, good for nothing. ;priated a^ a purge for melancholy and salt 

 Electuarium Elescofk jtiegm, and diseases thence arising, as scabs, 



College^} Take of Diacrydiuin. Turbith, I itch, leprosies, cancers, infirmities of the 

 of each six drams, Cloves, Cinnamon, Gin- ; skin, it purges adust humours, and is good 

 ger, Myrobalans, Emblicks, Nutmegs, ; against madness, melancholy, forgetfulness, 

 Polypodium, of each two drams and an j vertigo. It purges very violently, and is 

 lialf, Sugar six ounces, clarified Honey ten j not safe given alone. I would advise the 

 ounces, make it into an electuary according | unskilful not to meddle with it inward-!y : 

 to art. j You may give half an ounce of it in clys- 



CulpeperJ] It purges choler and flegm, | ters, in melancholy diseases, which com- 

 :md wind from all parts of the body, helps j monly have astringency a constant coin- 

 pains of the joints and sides, the cholic, it'panion with them, 

 cleanses the reins and bladder, yet I advise | Electuarium Lenititmm. 



you not to take too much of it at a time, for ! Or Lenitive Electuary, 



it works prcity violently, let half an ounce! 4 College^] Take of Raisins of the Sun 

 be the most, for such whose bodies are; stoned, Polypodium of the Oak, Sena, of 

 strong, always remembering that you had 5 each two ounces, Mercury one handful and 

 better ten times take too little, than once an half, Jujubes, Sebestens, of each twen:y, 



