338 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



wild Parsnips, Navew, -Nigella, Peony the \ choice Honey eight pounds six ounces 

 male, Bazil, Hedge Mustard, (Irio) Treacle! These being all chosen and prepared wiUi 

 Mustard, Fennel, Bishop's-weed, of each j diligence and art, let them be made into an 

 two drams, the berries of Bay, Juniper, [electuary just as Treacle or Mithridate is. 

 and Ivy, Sarsaparilla, (or for want of it the j Culpeper.~] The title shews you the scope 

 double weight of Cubebs,) Cubebs, of each! of the author in compiling it, I believe it is 

 one dram and an half, the leaves of Scor- i excellent for those uses. The dose of this 

 dium, Germander, Chamepitys, Centaury | is from a scruple to four scruples, or a dram 

 the less, Stcechas, Celtic Spikenard, Gala-; and an half: It provokes sweating abun- 

 rninth, Rue, Mints, Belony, Vervain, jdanlly, and in this or any other sweating 

 Scabious, Carduus Benediclus, Bawm, ofj medicine, order your body thus : Take it in 

 each one dram and an half, Dittany of! bed, and cover yourself warm, in your 

 Crete three drams, Maijoram, St. John's ; sweating, drink posset-drink as hot as you 

 Wort, Schcenanlh, Horehoimd, Goats Rue, jean, if it be fora fever, boil Sorrel and red 

 Savin, Burnel, of each -two drams, Figs, { Sage in posset-drink, sweat an hour or two if 

 Walnuts, Fistic-nuts, of each three ounces, your strength will bear it, then the chamber 

 Ernblicks, Myrobalans half an ounce, the t being kept very warm, shift yourself all but 

 flowers of Violets, Borrage, Bugloss, Roses, \ your head, about which (your rap which 

 Lavender, Sage, Rosemary, of each four; you sweat in being kept on) wrap a hot 

 scruples, SaflroM tlireedrams, Cassia Lignea,j napkin, which will be a means lo repel the 

 ten drams, Cloves, Nutmegs, Mace, of each j. vapours back. This I hold the best method 

 two drams and an half, black Pepper, long | for sweating in levers and pestilences, in 

 Pepper, all the three sorts of Sanders, wood | which this electuary is very good. I am 

 of Aloes, of each one dram and an half, | very lolh lo leave out this medicine, which 

 Hart's-horn half an ounce, Unicorn's-horn, j if it were stretched out, and cut in thongs, 

 or in its stead, Bezoar stone, one dram, i would reach round the world, 

 bone in a Stag's heart, Ivory, Stag's pixxle, j Ref/uics. Nieholaus. 



Castoreum, of each four scruples, Earth of| Col/ege.~] Take of red Rose leaves, the 

 Lemnos three drams, Opium one dram and : whites being cutoff, blue Violets, of each 

 an half, Orient Pearls, Emeralds, Jacinth,! three drams, Opium of Thebes, dissolved 

 red Coral, of each one dram and an half, in Wine, the seeds of white Henbane, 

 Camphire two drams, Gum Arabic, Mastich, j Poppies white and black, the roots of Man- 

 Frankincense, Styrax, Turpentine, Saga- j drakes, the seeds of Endive, Purslain, garden 

 penum, Opopanax, Laserpitium, or Myrrh, j Lettuce, Psyllium, Spodium, Gum Traga- 

 of each two drams and an half, Musk, ! eanth, of each two scruples and five grains, 

 Ambergris, of each one dram, oil of Vitriol \ Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Ginger, of each a dram 

 naif an ounce, species cordiales temperatae, land an half. Sanders, yellow, white, and 

 Diamargariton, Diamoscu, Diambra, Elec-jred, of each a dram and an half, Sugar 

 tuarij de Gemmis, Troches of Camphire, ! tnree times their weight, dissolved in Roso- 

 of Squills, of each two drams and an half, ; water : mix them together, and make of 

 Troches of Vipers two ounces, the juice of | them an electuary according to art. 

 Sorrel, Sow Thistles, Scordium, Vipers Bug- i Culpeper^} I like not the receipt taken 

 loss, Borrage, Bawm, of each half a pound, i inwardly. 



Hypocistis two drams, of the best Treacle; Electitarium Regime Colwiicns. 



and Mithridate, of each six ounces, old | CollegeJ] Take of the seeds of Saxifrage 

 Wine three pounds, of the best Sugar, or* and Cromwell, juice of Liquorice, of each 



