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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



cler, Cassia Lignea, Bdellum, Horchound, \ half an ounce, filings of steel prepared with 

 of each one scruple and fourteen grains, \ Vinegar twenty drams, let the Myrobalans 

 Cinnamon, Oppopanax. Castorium, long j be roasted with fresh butter, let therest, being 

 Birlhwort, the three sorts of Pepper, j powdered, be sprinkled with oil of sweet 

 Sagapen, Saffron, Parsley of each twodrams, Almonds, then add Musk one dram, and 

 Hellebore black and white, of each six \ with their treble weight in Honey, make it 

 grains, clarified Honey a pound and a half, ! into an electuary according to art. 

 mix them, and make of them an electuary j Culpeper.'] It helps the immoderate 

 according to art. Let the species be kept \ flowing of the menses in women, and the 

 dry in your shops. \ haemorrhoids in men, it helps weakness of 



Culpeper.'] It takes away by the roots | the stomach, and restores colour lost, it 

 daily evils coming of melancholy, falling- frees the body from crude humours, and 



sickness, vertigo, convulsions, megrim, 

 leprosies, and many other infirmities ; for 



strengthens the bladder, helps melancholy, 

 and rectifies the distempers of the spleen. 



or 



morning, 



my part I should be loth to lake it inwardly j You may take a dram in the 

 unless upon desperate occasions, or in \ two if your body be any thing strong, 

 clysters. It may well take away diseases \ Triphera sohttive. 



by the roots, if it takes away life and all. College.'] Take of Diacrydium, ten 



Hiera Diacolocynthidos. \ drams, Turbith, an ounce and an half, 



College.'] Take of Colocynthis, Agarick, 

 Germander, white Horehound, Stoechas, of 

 each ten drams, Opopanax, Saga pen, Parsley 



seeds, round Birthwort roots, white Pepper 

 of each five drams, Spikenard, Cinnamon, 

 Myrrh, Indian leaf or Mace, Saffron, of 



Cardamoms the less, Cloves, Cinnamon, 

 Honey, of each three drams, yellow San- 

 ders, Liquorice, sweet Fennel seeds, of each 

 half an ounce, Acorns, Schoenanth, of each 

 a dram, red Roses, Citron pills preserved, 

 of each three drams, Violets two drams, 



each four drams, bruise the Gums in a j Penids four ounces, white Sugar half a 



pound, Honey clarified in juice of Apples 

 one pound, make an electuary according to 



mortar, sift the rest, and with three pounds 

 of clarified honey, three ounces and five 



drams, make it into an electuary according | art. 



to art. 



Culpeper.'] It helps the falling-sickness, 

 madness, and the pain in the head called 

 Kephalalgia, pains in the breastand stomach 

 whether they come by sickness or bruises, 



Culpeper.] The Diacrydium and Tur- 



bith, are a couple of untoward purges, the 



rest are all cordials. 



Athanasia Mithridatis. Galen. 

 College.'] Take of Cinnamon, Cassia, 



pains in the loins or buck-bone, hardness of I Schoenanth, of each an ounce and an half, 

 womens breasts, putrefaction of meat in the i Saffron, Myrrh, of each one ounce, Costus, 



stomach, and sour belchines. It is but 



Spignel, (Meum,) 



used seldom and therefore hard to be gotten, ! perhaps they mean 



Triphera the greater. 



College.'] Take of Myrobalans, Chebs, 

 Bellericks, Inds and Emblicks, Nutmegs, 

 of each five drams, Water-cress seeds, 

 Asarabacca roots, Persian Origanum, or 

 cist, .L/ittany of Crete, black Pepper, Oli- 

 hauutu, Ammi, Ginger, Tamarisk, Indian 

 Nard, Squinanth, Cypress roots of each j 



Acorus, (Water-flag 

 See the root in the 



Catalogue of Simples,) Agarick, Scordium, 

 Carrots, Parsley, of each half an ounce, 

 white Pepper eleven grains, Honey so much 

 as is sufficient to make it into an electuary 

 according to art. 



Culpeper. ,] It prevails against poison, 

 and the bitings of venomous beasts, and 

 helps such whose meat putrifies in their 



