half of Linden flower-flower-water half an ounce Make an Emulsion according to art which being edulcerate Rotalis manus Christi perlatis give it by spoonfuls Let the Nurse sometimes take the Conserves Syrup or water of Elder flowers or having taken the spirit juice or extract of the berries let her provoke smell that thereby her milk being clear of the sharper and more malignant serosities may be the more wholsom I knew an infant which being taken sometime with Epileptick fits each day with a great deal of crying and pain of belly did dung a yellowish greenish matter whom neither Clysters nor cleansing Linctussies did any good I counselled his mother seeing I saw her milk more serous and thin that she should twice or thrice a week take the rhob or juice of the Elder-berries mixt with burn'd Harts-horns and drink a draught of the water of the flowers above it and provoke her self to sweat in her bed or couch Which being done not only the Epileptick fits but also those painfull wringings of the childs belly did cease and by little and little the excrements came to their natural form The cure of those that are come to age In those that are come to age 't is first necessary above all things to purge the body well In the Spring time macerate the bark of the roots of Elder in the whey of Cows milk which being dulcerat with Sugar let him each morning take a hearty draught thereof Or Take the Polichrestick powder of the buds two scruples or one drachme Of recent Rob of the Elder well thickned with good Sugar as much as will make a bole Or take the prescribed bole dissolve it in the whey of Milk add thereto the Syrup made of Juice of the buds and berries ounce I. mix it prepare a draught But if the Patient be prone to vomit give him the oyl expressed out of the kernels The spirit of the flowers and berries of the Elder in and out of the Paroxysm is of great power but it may be made more efficacious thus R. Take of the middle bark of the Elder Of the roots of Poeonie of each six drachms Of dried Elder leaves and buds Of Lynden-tree flowers of each one handful Of Rew-seed two drach Of the Berries of herb Paris numb 20. Of Jews-ears numb 6. This being cut and pounded put as much of the spirit of the Elder thereon as will be a hand broad high above them and in a hot place and well stopped vessel macerate them eight daies distil them in glass vessels in B. M. till they be dry mix with them the distilled spirits the salt drawn out of its dregs and keep it for the Anti-Epileptick Spirit of the Elder Whereof give a whole or half spoonful to the Epileptick in the time of his Paroxisme afterwards using it every quarter of the Moon to dissipate the Epileptick corruption by sweating or insensible transpiration and to guard the brain With this same in the time of the fit rub the nostrils gums and pallat adding thereto a Grain or two of Castor Herein likewise excels the tincture and extract of Granorum Actes the preparation and using of which is set down in the 31 Chapter out of Quercetan Or Take of Granorum actes scrup 1. Of the berries of Herb Paris pulverised half a scrup Mix them and form pils thereof numb 15. or being dissolved in the Anti epileptick Spirit of the Eldergive them in the Paroxisme Mark by the way That the berries of herb Paris called by some Bear or Wolf grapes is held by some Matrons as a great secret against the Epilepsie and they give them ever in an unequal number as 3 5 7 or 9 in the water of Linden Tree flowers or of the roots of Squamaria which I my self have found effectual in some children Seeing these berries are mixt with some Antidotes especially with the Saxonian and half a drachm of the seeds of these berries as Matthiolus relates being given avail much against long sickness and Witchcraft it should not seem strange to any man that they much help in the Epilepsie if they consider seriously the maligne nature of the Epileptick vapor and its enmity with the brain Some affirm that the water of the flowers drawn up into the nose prevails much against the Epilepsie and Vertigo In the same affects the eyes and face are to be washed oft with this water Anoint gently in the fit it self the contracted members with the oyl of the flowers of the first description that thereby the Acrimony of the humors and vapors may be mitigate that the matter may be dissipate and the nerves comforted The oyl of the second and third description or the distilled oyl is much commended if the palmes of the hands and soles of the feet if the temples of the head and nape of the neck be anointed therewith Amulets There is likewise set down a singular Amulet made of the Elder growing on a Sallow If in the month of October a little before the full Moon you pluck a twig of the Elder and cut the cane that is betwixt two of its knees or knots in nine pieces and these pieces being bound in a piece of linnen be in a thred so hung about the neck that they touch the spoon of the heart or the sword-form'd Cartilage and that they may stay more firmly in that place they are to be bound thereon with a linnen or silken roller wrapt about the body till the thred break of it self The thred being broken and the roller removed the Amulet is not at all to be touched with bare hands but it ought to be taken hold on by some instrument and buried in a place that no body may touch it Petraeus Nosilog Harmon l. 1. dissert 6. Finkius Ench. Harm c. 5. The cause of which is not absolutely hid seeing the Elder and its grains help this disease These are the words of Petraeus in the mentioned place There are some that ascribe the same effect to the Bore tree growing on the Tylia or Linden tree seeing both by a peculiar property are anti-epileptick some hang a cross made of the Elder and Sallow mutually in wrapping one another about the childrens neck Petr. Loco Allegat Albeit there be some that deny all specifick operation to Amulets of the Elder growing on the Sallow and Linden tree and to all other Amulets Nevertheless their reasons are not of such weight that they satisfie the mind of a desirous learner 't is not impossible that so little a piece of the Elder bound to the skin should break the force of so stubborn a disease for though it do not draw out sensibly the vitious humors yet it may act against the morbifick cause and rout it some other way by alluring and some other way expugning those vitious humors and that malignant Miamse most noisom to the brain it having in little bulk great force which being or removed 't is likely the Epilepsie will cease though the
humors remain if they be not altogther corrupt which humors are to be purged according to the diversities of constitutions before you use such Amulets Read Sennert l. de Cons dissen Gal Chymic Whereas they object That in all these Amulets do not hold This will not prove that they are not indewed with an Anti-epileptick faculty otherwise many famous Medicaments should be called in question seeing many times they are disappointed of their actings in some subjects because it may be they are not used in fit quantity time or after due prepration or some other errours are committed which may hinder the best and most approved Medicine to take effect neither is it in the power alwaies of the Physician or Medicine that the diseased should be releived some times the evil excels the cunningest art CAP. V. Of the Apoplexie and Palsie AS preservative a against the Apoplexie and Palsie the Salt of the Elder is much commended if it be mixt with a third part of the volatile salt of Amber which volatile salt useth to stick to the neck of the retort in the distillation of the oyl of Amber and given in the time of the new Moon or full moon in a convenient liquor in the weight of a scruple or half a drachme The salt of the Elder must be first excellently Crystallized in the water of Sage as you know Amwald desires that three parts of the extract of black Hellebore be mixed with the Rob of Elder which he commends as a gallant specifick against the Apoplexie and all noysom affections of the brain The receit is set down in his Treatise Panacea Amwaldina fol. 23. Pulvis Tureonum Polychrestus doth not only purge the stomach and nearest vessel but likewise the brain from its gross pituite and serous humors whereof give a drachme thereof when it is needful in form of a Pill Oxymel Samb is likewise useful in these cold distempers of the brain whereof give oft in the water of Sage a little masted before purging at least two or three ounces for the cutting and preparing that gross matter The Spirit likewise distilled from the Berries is excellent if once a week or at least each quarter of the Moon a spoonful thereof mixt with crums of wheat bread and a little sugar for it consumes the phlegmatick humors and drieth and comforteth the brain and 't is taken in place of a simple Anti-epileptick as we have said in the former Chapter Or. You may prepare it new thus only for this affection in what quantity you please thus Take of Sage Marjoram Ivy Arthritica of each two drachmes Of Couslip flowers Conval Lilly flowers of each one drach and an half Of Rochet seed two drachmes Which all being cut and grosly pulverised are to be macerated in a sufficient quantity of the spirit of Elder and after eight daies to be distillid in B. M. till they be dry for the Apoplectick spirit of the Elder in a part of which Castoreum may be dissolved and oft times transcolate of which mixture a spoonful chiefly in the time of the Paroxisme should be instilled as the cause is of exigency and with the same rub the pallat nostrills crown of the head and nuke of the neck Two or three drops of the oyl of the second or third description or distilled being instilled in the ear or anoynted on the pallat after the manner the spirit is thought to help the rest Mark That those things we have now commended have chief place in that Apoplexie that proceeds from pituite or other gross humors and is familiar to old men but that which proceeds from depression of the scul or inflammation of the brain is to be cured by other Medicines that is not our part here to handle Of the Palsie But if the Apoplexie end in a Palsie of the sides or other members as it useth having observed those universals for the provision of whole body and brain 't is necessary oft in the week to provoke sweat Half an ounce of the Apoplectick Spirit of the Elder is useful here also two drachms of the rob of the berries in Sage water Or Of the extract of the Rohob of the Elder drach 5. and an half Antimony diaphoretick most white half a drachm Of which every morning give to the Paralitick they being exactly mixt 1 drachm in 2 or 3 ounces of the decoction of the root of the great Burdock and command him that being well lapped in his bed he swet for half an hour and that he may sweat more freely and fully you may mix with the potion half an ounce of the Apoplectick spirit of the Elder Topicks The enervat or hanging members are twice a day to be rubbed first with hard sharp clothes afterward with the spirit drawn out of the berries and inebriate with the essence of Cephalick herbs So those gross and viscid humors that trouble the nerves and compresse them and stop the passage of the animal spirits will be attenuate and dissipate and the stupified spirits will be raised and allured Nevertheless lest by these hot and much drying spirits the matter it self and nevres should be hardned you are to mix with the oyl of the infusion of the flowers of the Elder a third of the oyl drawn from the Kernels of its berries and this will attemperate the too too much exsiccating heat and nevertheless digest and consume the matter In this case likewise the decoction of the root of the Elder and Ebulus in simple water is much praised And seeing oft times the Palsie of the tongue and difficulty of speaking remains the tongue is oft times to be rub'd and humectated with a sponge dipped in the Apoplectick spirit of the Elder CAP. VI. Of Catarrhs IN this the Wine prepared of the flowers and berries is much commended because it excellently purgeth the body of that serous inundation of which after you have taken a little broth drink a cupfull in the morning The simple Powder of the buds of the Elder taking a scruple thereof in a soft egg or in some syrup or in a spoonful of the Oximel of the Elder in the Spring or Harvest for 14 daies each morning and fasting two hours at least after it doth mightily consume the Catarrhous matter Or instead of the Powder use the Conserve of the buds mixt with the third part of the Conserve of the flowers the Dose ounc s. If the body stand in need of greater evacuation exhibit once or twice the polichrestick powder of the buds The salt of the Elder by it self or mixt with the third part of the volatile salt of Ambre dose scrup 1. is esteemed likewise the spirit of the Elders salt taking weekly six drops thereof or more in broth made of flesh Also a spoonful or two of the spirit of the berries and flowers taken with crums of bread and sugar Concerning other things especially sweetning which is sometimes conducible to consume the matter in this disease read the precedent
of the Elder it cleanseth and drieth up all pimples and pustles of the face Dispensatories affirm that the oyl of the infusion of the flowers mundifieth and makes clear the skin In Lentiginibus commonly called Freckles by signature a decoction of the flowers in water is commended for the flowers of the Elder are spotted Oswald Croll de signaturis Dioscorides teacheth that the juice anointed makes the hair black This will be a profitable experiment to those that endeavour to make their red hair black albeit the colour be more comely in many than ill favoured What we must allow to those old Ruffins that are ashamed of their white locks Galen hath taught hath taught us l. 1. de Compos Medicament secund Loc. c. 3. and this transcursorily occasioned by Dioscorides his words Take Elder roots cut very small adding a little of the seed of Staphis agriae made in a Lixive wherein wash the head that is full of scales lice The same decoction heals the Tineam or Favum in children if it be over strong and painful dilute it with the decoction of the flowers and leaves The pain is likewise mitigated by the anointing of the oyl of the infusion of the flowers if after washing it be anointed The oyl expressed out of the berries and kernels and mixt by stirring with a third part of Turpentine and anointed doth cure by drying and cleansing all ulcers of the head the whole Elder leaf after being applyed Oleum Saccharo sambucinum is likewise commodious CAP. XII Of the Diseases of the Mouth and Throat THe Common Women so soon as they suspect any Disease in the Throte of their young ones they steep the sponge of the Elder in their drink and when it is sweld they therewith carefully wipe away all the filth of the pallat gums and tongue The expressed juice of the leaves mixt with simple or Elder honey doth absterge and exsiccate egregiously all the ulcers of the gums and throat If therewith they be anointed by a pencil or if it be disolved in the water of the leaves and bark and gargarised therewith You shall add more vertue thereto in deterging in purifying if you mix a little of the salt of the Elder therewith or dissolve the said juice in a weaker Lixive and use it as a Gargarisme If the ulcers be more malignant and the product of the great Pox 't is necessary that twice or thrice a day you rub them with a sponge or pencil dipped in the spirit of Elder berries wherein a little of the flowers of Sulphur hath been dissolv'd and immediatly after wash them with the decoction of the leaves and besprinkling them with the small flower of the Elder pith The Tonsils being tumefied by a thin and saltish defluxion let them be gargarised with water or decoction of Elder flowers wherein a little Elder-hony hath been mixed for licking the Rhob of the Elder inspissated with Sugar is commodious which is our womens common and used Medicine you may use the syrup of the juice of the berries or infusion of the flowers or the hony of either Outwardly anoint them with the oyl of Elder flowers infusion which doth resolve it In the Squinancy having first used universals to the foresaid Gargarism add some leaves of Self-heal with one or two of the sponges of the Elder called by many Jews ear which is a sure experiment Lob. in Advers Novis stirp p. 434. The Linctus must be the former only add some pulverised Jews ears or make this Eclegme Take Jews-ears two or three let them sharpen an hour or two in a sufficient quantity of the water of Elder flowers then let them boyle lightly and them in a Marble Mortar and put them through a Setace add unto this Musilage as much as is needful of the Syrup of the juice of the flowers and sugar as will make a Linctus which you may oft use besides it opens the belly Outwardly apply an Anadyne Cataplasm which doth digest and resolve made of Elder leaves and Reddish stalks pounded and boyled in the oyl of the infusion of Elder flowers to the consistency of a Pulticle The Acetoses Syrup of the Elder dissolved in the decoction of Barley and given as a Julap when 't is necessary tempereth the heat of the blood and whole body See afterward the cure of the continued Fevers In spitting of blood Tragea granorum actes is profitable whereof we have made mention in the tenth Chapter which being taken in some convenient Syrup is to be used for a Linctus CAP. XIII Of Dyspnei and Asthma THat those things may be remov'd in these diseases and expectorat which are gathered through the proper imbecility of the Lungs use the water of the flowers in which a third part of Elder Oximel is dissolved and as Julap twice a day drink two or three ounces thereof it cuts the gross matter and facilitateth the expectoration thereof The same Oximel thickned with Sugar-candy and taken off a liquorice-stick like a Linctus and swallowed leasurely worketh well in expectoration The Syrup of the flowers of the Juice of the Berries and Buds c. are wholsome taken after the same manner The Bark of the Elder entreth that famous Oximel Helleborat of Gesner The spirit of the berries in a great Dispnoea is profitable half a spoonful or a spoonful thereof taken with sugar Use this following Asmalick or Pneumatick Spirit if you please Take of the middle Elder bark Liquorish well shaven six drachms Of the roots of Allacompaine of Florentine Ireos Of each two drachms Of the whole herb Erysimum two handful Of Fennel-seed half an ounce Being cut and shaked together infuse them in a sufficient quantity of the spirit of Granorum actes in which let them stand seven days every day twice stirring all together afterward let them be distilled in Bal. Mar. for the Pneumatick spirit of the Elder which in time of necessity is to be taken either by it self or dulcerat with a little sugar or the syrup of Violets Or with the same with Canary-sugar or of Madara prepare the oyl of the Elder-sugar as followeth Take of this Pneumatick spirit rectified as much as you will mix with it half the quantity of Sugar fire the spirit with a wax-candle or light paper stir it hither and thither with a knife till all turn to a thick and oily liquor and the flame cease of it self Use it as an Eclegme with a stick of Liquorice by it self or mix with an equal part of Elder Oximel it mightily moves expectoration c. 't is profitable to anoint the breast in the greatest difficulty of breathing with the oyl of Elder-flowers of the first description you may mix therewith some drops of the oyl of the flowers of the third description In suffocating Catars besides these abundantly declared it availeth much if in the time of the fit you put a sponge dipped in Elder-vinegar to the nose and therewith wet the crown of the head
bowels and vessels and both by urine and sweat dissipate the feverish matter See more in the 23 Chapter Before the Fit Internal Medicaments Those which are used before the Fit are of two sorts for some of them move vomit and the belly others provoke sweat When in time of the fit the matter tendeth upward which is known by the sudden straitness of the brest by the stretching of the Hypocondriac by nauciousness and propensity to vomit give him a spoonful or drachm and a half of the oyl pressed out of the berries kernels in warm Ale and by putting your finger in his throat hasten the vomit Joseph Quercetan in his 1 Book and 8 chapter of Dogmatick Pharmacy asserteth that this following decoction is excellent in intermitting fevers quotidan and quartan Take Elder-roots and bark of each ounce 1. of Asarium drachms 3. of good Cinnamon drachm 1 and an half boyl them in milk This decoction at one and the same time moves vomit and sedge Let it be taken at the beginning of the fit and reiterate if it be needful If the body be evacuate and nature encline to sweating before the fit use these following The Rob of Elder in greatness of a Walnut being mixed with half a drachm of the powder of the blessed Thistle and swallowed and drinking vinegar above it and afterwards two hours before the fit provoking sweat in bed is an usual Medicine Or make this mixture Take half a drachm of the extract of the rob of the Elder and half a scruple of the salt of the Elder mix them and form of them with the powder of Hearts-horn Pills which are to be taken in a spoonful of the syrup of the berries two hours before the fit give the half thereof to the younger and weaker complexions In Fevers less hot especially quartans two or three spoonfuls of the spirit of the Elder-berries given before the fit is commended There are some which dissolve this following powder in it before and they cannot praise enough this Medicine in more obstinate quartans especially if the day before the fit the stomach and other vessels nutritive be well purged by the oyl pressed out of the stones of the Elder-berries Take of Hearts-horn prepared without burning of the finest Antimony diaphoretick of each half a scruple let them be exactly powdered Neither is the heat of this spirit here to be feared seeing in the same fevers Galen and other famous Physicians prescribe Theriack Methridate Myrrh the spirit of Wine the water of Zedoary for a hard knot must have a hard wedg And experience proves that these Medicines being administred before the fit do not only stop the fierceness of the fit but likewise quite overthrow the fever which before would neither yield to preparing nor purging Medicines the reason is because the feverish matter at that time is more moveable and being prepared by nature it self more easily followeth the course of the Medicine Externals or Topicks This Topick is commended to be applied to the pulses Of Elder Lavender leaves of each half an handful of salt half as much They being pounded well incorporate them with the oyl of Elder that they may become a paste whereof apply one half to the wrist of the right hand and the other to the wrist of the left and bind them with a rowler wet in Elder-vinegar Foelix Plater in the second part of his Practice hath this Take of Elder Rue Marigolds and Nettle-leaves ana m. 1. let them be pounded with salt and vinegar and let them be applyed A double linnen cloth dipt in the spirit of Granorum actes is applyed with a great deal of comfort to the belly chiefly to the stomach before the fit in a quartan for seeing the fuel of the evil is setled in these places if it be not altogether routed by the application of this Epitheme yet it will be much weakned To take away the shaking and mitigate the chilness the back-bone is to be rubb'd with the same spirit being hot 2. Of continual and burning Fevers In continual and hot Tertian and burning Fevers where the heat is more intense and great drought tormenteth the Patient make this Julap R. Of Fountain or river-River-water lib. 3. of Elder-vinegar ounces 3. of the finest Sugar ounces 2. let them boyl together a little in a fit vessel unto which being warm add one drachm of Cinnamon in powder let them cool of themselves in a close vessel and strain them through Hyppocrates sleeve for a Julap Of which give the patient oft in the day it extinguisheth the feverish heat cuts the gross and tough matter cleanseth the thin and bilous unlocks obstructions it purgeth humors that offend through their convenient places and by its acceptable acidity it sharpneth the appetite and refresheth the strength This same is performed by the acetory syrup of the Elder described in the next Chapter which is to be dissolved in Barley-water till it come to the consistency of a Julap For example Take the sharp Elder-syrup ounc 3. simple Barley-water lib. 1. mixed or Oximel of the Elder ounc 2. clear Fountain-water lib. mix them give four ounces or more of this and such like at each time otherwise if you give less and only once or twice a day they rather encrease than diminish heat P. Egineta lib. 2. cap. 36. for as Charcole in a Smiths Forge being besprinkled with water burneth more ardently so the feverish heat is rather kindled than quenched by drinking sparingly That you may extinguish the intemperate heat and refresh the vanquisht strength instead of an Epithem apply to the pulses the Vinegar of Elder-flowers mixed with Rose-water and imbibed by double or treble linnen cloths To loose without danger in these fevers the bound belly the syrup of the juice of the berries is convenient of which dissolve two or three ounces in the water of Elder-flowers use it instead of a Julap and drink it for it gently looseth the belly and evacuateth the feverish matter CAP. XIX Of the Pest and Pestilential Fevers IN curing and preserving from the Plague great is the use of the Elder A little sponge being wet in Vinegar of the Elder and carried in a hollow globe made of Juniper-wood and smell it it mightily strengtheneth the spirits against the impression of the infectious contagion Red hot bricks being besprinkled with this Vinegar and a vapor raised it doth dissipate the contagious virulency so that it cannot insinuate it self in mens houses and cloths By what means it may be indued with an Antilemick force more efficacious shall appear by what I will now say Rob of the Elder and the extract prepared of it here are excellent The first whereof is named by many The Country-mans Theriack of which each week to swallow the bigness of a Walnut and drink above it its proper Vinegar and so to sweat in bed is a commonly received preservative This may be fitly used by those who are infected with the Plague
bread into powder whereof take a drachm alone or a half with as much nutmeg-powder Of which see the famous Sennert in the 10 Chapter of the Treatise of the Dissentery But a care must be taken that the belly be not over soon stopped but place must be left for the evacuating of sharp humors lest that befal which hapned to the Maid mentioned by the learned Fernel in lib. 6. cap. 9. Pathol. Therefore to purge the sharp humors and mitigate the cruel pain give two or three days before you use the Astrictive in the morning one ounce or one ounce and half of the syrup of Elder-flowers prepared by three infusions in three ounces of Barley-water or in the water of Elder-flowers You may with profit add to this one scruple or half a drachm of white Mechoacan subtilly pulverised for it gently purgeth and bindeth the belly After three days are past and we have used all necessary evacuations clangings and pain for the most part is ceased then we may more safely use our Tragea for it doth not only restrain the belly but together with this gives a contrary motion to these sharp and salt humors by little and little disposing them for sweat if it be taken twice a day morning and evening mixt after this manner yet with a fasting stomach R. Tragea Gran. Actes drach 1. The Spirit of the flowers of the Elder Gutt 35. They being well wrought together in a Marble Mortar pour on it by little and little The water of Tormentil-roots an ounce and half The Syrup of the juice of Plantain half an ounce Mix them and use them hot they will dissipate the malignity by sweating and evaporation and will bind the belly by stopping the flux of the humor The same things may be used in a Diarrhoea or white Flux 5. Of Constipation or Boundness THe leaves of the Elder are commended to those that are in health to open their womb by Egineta and Hippocrates in his second Book of Diet. This same is performed by the distilled water of the leaves and bark with which a third part of the syrup made of the infused flowers or of the juice of the berries or buds is to be mixed with it to make them of a more pleasant taste The same syrups being taken alone loosneth the belly or drink a draught of wine at your breakfast or in the morning having taken a little broth or take a drachm of the powder of the buds in Plum-broth or a soft rosted Egg Or use in the place of this the conserve of the buds The recent Rob of the Elder spread thick upon a slice of bread and eaten before other dishes is our Wives domestick Medicine which they use likewise in their Infants and Children whose bellies are stopt longer than ordinary for this Juice is most pleasant and familiar to children chiefly if in time of thickning of it you do add a little Sugar as hath been told VI. Of Hemmorhoides THere is nothing more excellent to ease the pain of the Hemmorhoides than a stove or fomentation made of the flowers of Elder and Verbasie or Hony-suckle in water or milk for in a short time it easeth the greatest pain I experimented this first in a Countrey Miller then in a City Baker which both did wonder at the sudden ease and have great quantity of the flowers in readiness beside them to use when necessity shall require The anointing with the oyl of the infused flowers mixed with a third part of Unguent Populeon is Anodine Or take of the infusion of Elder-flowers half an ounce Of Elder-kernels and Yeolks of Eggs of each two drachms Of white Wax enough making according to art an Unguent To stay the Hemmorhoides in a night a singular Cataplasm is made of Elder-leaves boiled in water to the consistency of a Poultice and mixed with Oyl-olive spread on a scarlet cloath and apply it warm to the Hemmorhoides being oft renewed through the whole night the Patient lying on his face is commended by Alexis in his Secrets By what means their flux is to be stopt is set down in the stopping of the Hemmorhoides in the nose and monthly terms and in stopping the blood in wounds Mark that for the falling of the Anus amongst other things the outmost bark of the Elder is commended by Mindererus cap. 7. M.M. CAP. XXIII Of the Obstructions of the Mesentery Liver Milt from whence proceed both the Jaundies and Scurvy TO hinder and cure the obstructions drink in the morning and the beginning of the repast a cup full of the wine of Elder-berries for some days and weeks for it cutteth the thick tartarous serous and bilous matter it cleanseth evacuateth and by opening obstructions and purifying the blood gives the body a more fresh colour especially if once at least of the week you mix with it a half or whole drachm according to the parties strength of the Polychrestick powder of the buds In these diseases this following powder is commended Take of the Elder-buds dried in the shade drach 2. Of Crystalline Elder-salt scrup 8. Of Wormwood scrup 4. Make of all a subtile powder and give a scruple or half a drachm thereof in broth in the morning for many days commanding him to fast four hours and use moderate exercise Those that are not pleased with the powder may form it into pils with the rob or juice of the berries drink broth above it A Lixive made of Elder-ashes prepared with wine or the water of the flowers powerfully unlocks obstructions and attenuateth and changeth bilous and tartarous humors Whence it is a profitable Medicine in the Jaundies some spoonfuls thereof being taken morning and evening dulcerat with sugar hony or Elder-hony Oximel Sambucinum taken in an ounce and half weight dissolved in the water or flowers of the bark is more meek and pleasant Or where the heat is greater and a Fever joyned an ounce and a half of the acetous syrup of the Elder dissolved and given at one dose Some commend four or six drops of the oyl of the flowers of the second description in a spoonful of the spirit or best water of the flowers give it twice a week and command moderate exercise In this case the spirit alone the rob and its extract are safe medicines For whilst the sink of the belly is emptied by the Polychrestick powder of the buds they provoke sweat by their penetrating vertues they unlock the obstructions and crammings of the Mesentery Liver Milt and Gall and cut and prepare the thickness of humors The yellow middle bark is commended by his signature for the yellow Jaundies by Crollius de Signaturis rerum 'T is therefore to be macerated in wine with two or three Jews ears of which strained drink a sound draught morning evening Or you must use the distilled water thereof or the syrup made of its juice For besides that they open the belly and evacuate hurtful humors the Medicines prepared of this bark
juice of the green middle-bark of the Elder of each one spoonful Take it in common water or thin Oximel ever after three or four days This purgeth the belly strongly For the tumors that are left about the knees feet c. lay to them the leaves of the great Bur-docks for they draw out the water The Polychrestick powder of the buds in a drachm given in white wine sweetned with Oximel of the Elder or syrup of the juice of the berries is commended in this disease Or Take of the Polychrestick powder of the buds four scruples Of Gum of Peru of Galingale of each half a scruple Make an exact mixt powder it is to be given in what liquor you please at two times to a patient that is not yet weak for it powerfully evacuateth serous humors If the form of powder displease you work it with the syrup of hony of Elder in form of Pills or with the Rob of Elder in form of a Bole. Hydroticks or Sudorificks If by these Catharticks the body be emptied well enough then you may safely proceed to Sudorificks Diureticks For if we proceed otherwise the whole stream will be devolved on the reins and ureters whereby the gathering together thereof grievous symptoms will arise The Rob of the Elder and its extract are Sudorificks The first whereof given in two drachms weight is commended by the Augustans for this purpose The second is to be in as many scruples dissolved in the water and vinegar of Elder-flowers for one dose Or where the Liver is more cold and the urine less red give a spoonful or two of the spirit of the berries or tincture of the Elder made thin with the water of the flowers and sweetned with the syrup of the juice of the berries Then in bed or in a dry Bath provoke sweat The spirit of the flowers is more gentle nevertheless it excellently provoketh sweat and dryeth strongly the water of the Hydropick person especially if it be well rectified Diureticks and which move Urine Besides those rehearsed these that follow are Diureticks The salt of the Elder with a third or equal part of the salt of Wormwood The dose from a scruple to half a drachm The spirit distilled from the salt powerfully moveth urine and drieth moisture six drops thereof are to be given in broth some days Where the bowels are more hot and the urine more red which is oft-times a deadly token in Hydropick persons instead of these give three or four ounces of the acetous syrup of the Elder dissolved in the water of the flowers and leaves of each half a pound whereof four or five ounces are to be drank before meat twice a day morning and evening The poor mans Euporist viz. A Lixive prepared of Elder and Juniper-ashes with one part of white wine and three parts of simple water or the distilled water of Elder-flowers whereof give a cup full twice a day to the Patient fasting and command moderate exercise for half an hour or longer if it be possible add to it a sufficient quantity of Sugar and Cinnamon to make it smell and taste more sweetly The Experiment of Emylia Countess of Isinburg And seeing we have made mention here of Diureticks I will not pass by this Receipt of the Countess by which alone she cured many poor people of the Hydropsie in which albeit much is to be attributed to the potion it self nevertheless I ascribe the chief effects of this happy Medicine to the wine prepared of the Elder-flowers and sponges which the Hydropick use in time of their cure therefore I have set down the whole course of the cure as it is faithfully communicated to all the true Sons of this noble Art by the famous Finck in the 26 Chapter of his Enchirid. Take of the old Acorns unshelled Of the old roots of Parsley Of white Oculi Cancrorum of each two scruples and an half Of Sugar Of Cinnamon of each one drachm All are to be subtily pulverised and searced Before the diseased person altogether lye down first let him moisten three shives of wheat-bread in strong wine may be it would not be beside the purpose if before in that wine he had macerated some Elder-flowers then presently let him sprinkle upon these shives 4 scruples down weight of that powder and at night before he go to bed let him eat it and go to bed and sleep above them Secondly on the day next following early in the morning let him eat as many shives of bread so prepared and fast one or two hours after Thirdly on the same day at night let him eat the same preparation eating and drinking nothing above it and so go to sleep In the mean time this diet is to be observed Let the diseased person abstain from fish swines-flesh herbs cheese cold water thin and superfluous drink Let him use wine prepared after this manner which I esteem to be the chief part of the cure Take of the whole dried umbels of Elder-flowers three Of Jews-ears exsiccate in a dry air two Of white wine two quarts or for the use of a middle-child one quart Let them stand all night in infusion and the patient may drink thereof at his pleasure but let him abstain from all other drink till the tumor be evanished Mark if the patient by this cure find not an evident alteration abating of the tumor he may after a fortnight renew the cure and without doubt by divine assistance he shall recover his former health Topicks Apply outwardly to the tumified parts a Cataplasm of the juice of the Elder incorporate with Goates-dung which hath an eminent vertue in digesting those salt waterish humors Or anoint the tumified parts with the oyl of the bark and leaves prescribed before in the second place unto which add this same dung to give it consistence The tincture drawn out of the rob and juice of the berries doth excellently discuss and dry if it be rubb'd on the belly and legs Or take a sufficient quantity of the leaves and bark boil them in a common Lixive wherewith foment the belly and tumified parts twice a day The vapour of which decoction held under the Hydropick legs draweth the serosity from thence and discusseth it by sweat it must be poured on hot bricks in a close vessel that the vapour may come to the heat Others bid the feet and legs only to be bathed in a decoction of the leaves wherein a handful or two of common salt hath been dissolved Note that the pith of the Elder being pressed with the finger doth pit as Hydropick feet do therefore the juice of the Elder and the distilled water of Jews-ears are profitable Crollius de signaturis rerum hither you may transfer the example of the Hydropick and gravelly clown as it is set down in the Chapter concerning the Stone who was cured by the use of the pith of the Elder 2. Of Anasarca or Leucophlegmatia IN Anasarca or Leucophlegmatia
little before and having anoynted his loynes with Elder-oyle he must go into a 〈◊〉 made of Pease-straw and Mallows the flowers of Elder and Cammomile afterward let him drink a spoonfull of this spirit in white-Wine and stay in the Bath till he avoid the Stone And to avoid swouning let him hold to his nose a sponge dipt in Elder-vinegar and let him moisten his pulses with this same vinegar or some cordial Epithem This Medicine hath its original from the experiments set down in the Dutch Matthiolus and is called a wonderfull Medicine by Muller in his Mysteries Medicinal Nevertheless this is to be preferred to that in respect of the vertues it hath from the pith or spirit of the Elder to break the stone A Stonebreak Essence or Extract He that pleaseth may prepare an excellent Essence or Extract against stony tartarous diseases as followeth Take of the Pith of the Elder one ounce Of the dryed Berries of the Elder Of recent Juniper-berries of each an ounce and half Of Liquorice mundified six drachmes The Pith and Liquorice are to be cut in small pieces and the berries grosly powdered being mixed let them be infused in a sufficient quantity of Elder spirit and let them stand in a hot place for a fortnight together stirring each day the glass and stopping the mouth thereof well that time being ended put them in a linnen bag and in a press press them strongly put the strained liquor in a Cucurbit and putting to the Alimbeck thereof distil that spirit in Balneo till that which remains in the bottom become as thick as hony having mixed before with it two drachms of the Magisterie or salt Ocular Cancror being mixed keep them in a glass vessel whereof give from a scruple to a drachm dissolved in a spoonful of that spirit that was distilled from them and in the water of Linaria distilled with Rhenish wine observing those things which were prescribed before in the administration of the stonebreak spirit of the Elder The salt of the Elder is commendable in salt tartarous diseases given alone or mixed with the former extract in a convenient liquor 8 or 6 grains of the spirit of salt doth cleanse these tartarous muddinesses Dysuria and Ischuria In the difficulty of making water and in the not making water at all these Medicines are excellent seeing these symptomes arise from a muddy and mucid humor or from a glewish toughness that obstructeth the urinal passages But chiefly the stonebreak extract of the Elder is good in this case whereof give a scruple in the water of the flowers of Vinaria and the diseased is to be fomented about the secrets with the decoction of the Radish and Vinaria Pliny saith that the stones being drank in two ounces weight move urine CAP. XXVI Of the Affections of the Womb. TO mollifie and open the secrets of a woman and cure the diseases about them it is affirmed by Dioscorides to be done by incession made of the Roots of Elder boyled in water 1. Of the stopping of the Monethly Terms MAny Medicines made of the Elder are to be used in the defect of the monethly Termes which for the most part proceeds from a gross bloud or tough humor closing or obstructing the orifices of the Histerick veins First then you are to use things which open the belly and disburthen it of that putrid filth give them therefore to drink the wine of the berries which looseneth the belly and maketh thin the bloud and grosse humors The distilled water of the middle-bark mixt with the purging water of the berries prepared as Quercetan directs serves for both ends The dose is three ounces with one ounce of the syrup of the berries bark or buds Which if you desire to be more Cathartick add to it half a drachm or as much as sufficeth of the Polychrestick powder of the buds The Elder-rob with the powder of the white Dittany or of Pimpinel is the womens Medicine Gabel Shover hath this Take of ripe Elder-berries Of Rosemary of each one handful Of Pimpinel-roots half an ounce Boyled in a quart of strong old Wine whereof drink a good draught warm each morning for three days before the time of their courses and let them fast two houres after The spirit of the berries is likewise usefull which by its subtility passes through the whole body and through the least vessels thereof cutting and attenuating the grosness of the humors it may be taken the same time before the courses use to flow The dose is a pretty spoonfull in Wine or some distilled water in place of the simple spirit you may take the Hysterick described hereafter in the same quantity and manner for his vertue is great in moving the courses The oyle of the second description is commendable if two or four drops thereof be added to these spirits In the Scyrrous disposition of the matrix where the cram'd humor is hardened into a Scyrrous closing the orifice of the veins and stopping the courses besides these Medicines you must make incessions of the leaves and root of the Elder boyled in water as Dioscorides commands Let there likewise be an oyntment made of the oyle of the infused flowers and leaves mixed with the fat of a hen This same fat dissolved in the decoction of the roots and leaves is to be injected into the womb 2. Of the flowing of the Courses TRagea granorum actes excelleth in stopping these whereof give half a drachm and as much Nutmeg in a soft egg or red Wind singed by the quenching of red hot gold in it Take of Tragea Granorum Actes half an ounce Of Nutmegs a little roasted Of the roots of Tormentil Of red Coral prepared with Rosewater of each two scruples Of Sugar-rosat in Tablets six drachmes Let them be mixed for a Tragea whereof take morning and evening two drachmes for a dose in the former liquors If the bloud be too serous and fluid that serousness is either to be purged gently by the belly or by weak Hydroticks by sweating whereof we have spoken largely in another place Gabel Shover hath this Give to the woman in the morning three spoonfuls of the best water of Elder-flowers and command her to fast three hours after 3. Of the Suffocation of the Matrix SEeing this most perillous Disease dependeth from a malignant and cold air exhaled from the womb and uterine vessels to the Midriff Heart and Brains the womb is to be purged of all malignant and putrid humors and the strength is to be corroborated Apply here those things which were set down in the stopping of the Courses both because these used not to be the least and seldomest cause of these malignant vapors and likewise because the Medicaments purge and dissipate these uterine filths gathered upon whatsoever occasion A half or whole spoonful of the spirit of the flowers or berries of the Elder greatly availeth here both out and in time of the fit for both powerfully discuss these
fire when they are a while fryed press out the leaves and bark put in fresh leaves and bark again fry them and express do so the third time 3. The Liniment or unguent which is set down in Matthiol super Diosc l. 4. c. 168. Take of the green bark of the Elder which is next the outward ash coloured rine being of an hearb colour lib. 1. of Oyl washed off in the water of Elder flowers lib. 2. let them warm a while together then strain and press them to this add of new well smelling wax of the juice of the twigs of the Elder ounce 4. then suffer them again to boil till the juice be consumed Take it then from the fire stirr and mix all together and at last add of liquid Varnish ounc 2. of white Frankincence beat to dust ounc 4. likewise add two whites of eggs first well beat mix all diligently and keep it in a clean vessel 4. Another Liniment wich the most happy Plater used to prepare Take of the middle bark of the Elder one ounce and half of the juice of its more tender leaves one drachme Linsed Oyl washed in the water of Elder flowers two ounces of Barrowgrease so washed onu 1. of good yellow wax one ounce and half of Frankincence one ounce boyl them in the water of the flowers of the Elder in a closed pot and when they are cold gather and keep the Oyntment that swims above Of all these we will speak in burning and other external affects The rest of the Medicines that are prepared of the parts of the Elder are copiously set down in the places that handle the diseases to which they are appropriate and there they are to be found CAP. V. Of the Salt and its Spirit I. The SALT SAlt is prepared not only of the flowers and leaves after the distillation of waters and expression of juice but of the bark and whole tree For all are to be dryed burned in a clear and open fire reduced to ashes of these ashes make a Lie with pure and clean water still pouring on firesh water till all the saltishnes be extracted boyle the Lie being filtrate in an earthen vessel on a soft fire till the water exhale and the salt be left which by a reiterate solution filtration and coagulaion is to be purified The most gallantway of purifying such like Salts by the means of the spirit or Oyl of common Salt is set down in the 19 Chapter of Finckius Enchirid. Hermet Some praise this process R. of the burned ashes of Elder and Sulphure equal parts being mixt calcine them with a reverberatory fire or in a Potters Furnace after extract a Lie with the water of the flowers of the Elder which being filtrate and boyled to a half on a slow fire is to be placed in a Celler that the salt may run in Christals II. The Spirit of the Salt of the Elder R. Of the Salt of the Elder lib. 1. of common Bole lib. 3. being well powdered and mixt together put them in well Luted Retort fit to it an ample Recipient and having closed the commissures add fier by degrees First there shall still a waterish liquor then the spirits shall follow augment the fire and keep it in the same degree lest the spirits remit so long till no more spirits flow and the recipient become clear the vessel being cold and the clay that luted them together being with a wet cloth for an hour together softened that the recipient may be separate without breaking the glasses you shall find the spirit of the Elders salt which is separate from its phlegme by distilling in Balneo The Lute for arming your glasses and luting them to their recipients is set down by Begwine l. c. 6. Tyrocin Chym. By Libavius l. 1. Epist 24. Epist Chymicarum and others Others use other ways of distilling the spirits of vegetable salts which the famous Senart mentions by the by Instit Medic. pag. 1215. but we may use all things we use in distilling the spirit of common salt of which see Sennert and Begwine l. 2. c. 6. Tyros Chymio and others SECT III. Shewing the practice of the ELDER and Medicines belonging thereto VVE have considered already the nature and qualities of the Elder and in a most short and clear way set down its Medicines It remains we briefly shew the practice thereof and how 't is a safe Medicine for most Diseases that follow our frailty and of other preparations specifick to each part We begin with the affections of the head CAP. I. Of Cephalalgia IN mitigating the pain of the head and removing the distempers thereof in women we use happily the Cake of the flowers of the Elder left in the Vesica after the distillation of the water it must not be burned which being dedewed with the vinegar of the flowers we apply it to the head and with the besprinkling of frech vineger renew it It rarifieth the skin and by digesting the vapors dispels them Some use rose cakes bedewed with the vinegar of the Elder which where the heat is more vehement the brain more sensible and more offended with the piercing smell is far better Or R. Take of recent Elder leaves two handfuls Of Rose and water Lillie flowers of each one handfull Being shorne and pounded poure on them a like quantity of Elder vinegar and the water distilled out of the flowers press out strongly the juice mix with it expressed two whites of eggs well beat in which dip a double linen cloth and apply it to the head oft in the day The water of the flowers mixt with the white of an egg and a littile vinegar is most comfortable in any Cephalalgia chiefly in a Feaverish being applyed to the brows temples and crown of the head The vinegar by it self is fitly used in the pain that proceeds or follows drunkenness Or draw out with the vinegar and distilled water of the flowers from the kernels of the Peach and bitter Almond amilky Emulsion wherein dip a linnen cloth and apply it oft to the brows and crown of the patient Pliny saith That the juice of the Elder helps the collections of the brain and especailly mitigateth the tunicle wherein it is next inwrapt This decoction is excellent to dispel the vapours of the brain and make one sleep soundly if the legs and arms be soundly rubbed therewith when you go to sleep Take six umbels of the Elder flowers when they are full of Anise umbles of Roman Camomile flowers one handful six Poppy-heads with their seed being put together beat them in rain water If the evil hath its fewel from the stomach matrix or other parts they are first to be remedied after that manner as is declared particularly in each part 'T is enough here to have touched this Topick CAP. II. Of Raving and Wakings THe same things are profitable here that are set down in the remedy of the Cephalalgie seeing it oft these riseth to forerun or
accompany maladies adding ever to these some grainsof Opium or a little of the seed of white Poppy to mitigate and allay the furious and fiery spirits For example Take of the best water of Elder flowers 4 dr of water Lillie and Rosewater of each 2 drach of Thebaick Opium half a scrup of Elder Vinegar to dissolve the Opium 6 scrup mix them for an Epithenie wherein a double or treble linnen cloth being wet is to be applyed warm to the brows and crown of the head Or in place of the Opium an ounce of the seeds of white Poppy and by baking according to art make an Emulsion unto which you may fitly add the white of an egg well beaten If the belly be bound dissolve of the Syrup or juice of the berries and also of the infusion of the flowers of the Elder ounc 3 or 4. in the water of the flowers and give it when the Patient is dry like a Julip for it will not only open the belly but sweetly quiet the spirits When in Anno 1626. the Plague was raging in Haina and many of the infected were troubled with head aches ravings and wakings a worthy man told me he found no readier help to dissipate those venomous vapours and bring sleep in his own and others bodies then after the giving of several medicines to bind their heads about with the flowers of the Elder CAP. III. Of Melancholy and chiefly Hypocondriack and flatulent IN Hypocondriack Melancholy 't is profitable first of all if the diseased be prone to vomit to provoke it by the Oyl of the infusion of the flowers and bark of the Elder lest by preparing and purging Medicines those crude and excrementitious humors which oft are gathered in the stomach be carried to the more principal parts of the body and augment the obstructions Or give of the syrup made of the sap of the buds and berries an ounce br 1. s. with some grains of the extract of Scammonie and 3 guts of the Oyl of Elder flowers distilled in the distilled water of the flowers thereof Or use the Clyster that is described in the 22 cap. following After this the Wine which is drawn out of the berries and flowers is not of meanest worth for it opens obstructions cuts gross humors and by little and little thrusts them to the dore Moreover it refresheth the vital and animal spirits Drink a cup full thereof each morning for a month taking before a spoonful or two of fresh broth or a saft egg That it may work more safely you may each week mix with the use of these once or twice the manyfold working powder of the buds of the Elder wich is thus prepared Take of Elder buds dried in the shade half an ounce Of Elder Kernels Trochiscated Of Sennie leaves Of Christallised Elder salt of each three drachmes Of the extract of Scammonie two drachmes Of Galengale of Macer of each half a drachme Being all subtilly pulverised distill upon them Of the Oyl of Cloves Of Fennicle of each six drops Of Cinnomon Of Carvi of each three drops Let them be mixt exactly in a Marble Morter for a Powder whose dose is from a scruple to a drachme The Trochiscation or preparation of the seeds or kernels of Elder is thus Take one ounce of the lesser Esula prepared as is known in infusion in Vinegar and grosly pulverised Infund it in the Spanish Wine of Peter Simons lib. 5. let them macerate 8 days in the Sun or in winter in the chimny corner the mouth of the glass being well stopped after strain them through gray paper and purifie them Take the clean Arillas of the Elder berries dry them pulverise them and with a sufficient quantity of the infusion of Esula make them in paste dry it being dryed bedew them with the same infusion and again work it into paste of which from your Trochisces dry them and keep them for your use And because those excrementitious humours lurking about the stomach and vicine places and much troubling both the Physician and Patient in all Hypocondriack Diseases are more easily evacuate by vomit then purge you may use commodiously the oyl of the kernels of the Elder prepar'd by bedewing them with the infusion of Antimony as as hath been shewn in the second Section a little after drinking warm water vomit is pvovoked and that obstructions may be sooner dissolv'd and the matter drawn out of the Meseraick veins into the intestines besides these internal things use this fotus Take of the bar of Elder Roots ounce 1. s Of well dried Elder flowers M. 3. Make a decoction in equal parts of Wine and Water and that it may penetrate the more add as much as you think fit of the Vinegar of the Elder in which fomentation dip a sponge and therewith foment the whole belly but chiefly the left Hypochondre See the other hereafter in the 23 Chapter of the Misenteries obstruction For the altering of the bloud and spirrits in the true and in the Hypocondriac Melancholy after generals the syrup of the juice of the berres and infusion of the flowers of Elder is praised of each of which in the morning fasting every day let the Patient take oun 1. in the water of the flowers of Burrage You are likewise to take a care that the belly be kept open which is to be done by the Syrup and the Clyster mentioned in the 2 cap. In the Paroxisme of your Hypocondriac Melancholy give a spoonful of the spirit of the flowers of Elder in a draught of Malmsey for it dissipateth the ascending vapours and strengtheneth the spirits CAP. IV. Of the Epilepsie AS this is a grievous and a disease much to be lamented so I may say it expects its most specifick cure almost from the Elder The Cure of Children To Infants new-born before you give them any thing to swallow you may give them with great profit a spoonful of the syrup of the infusion of the flowers or juice of the Elder-berries to evacuate that putrid yellowish and sometime blackish water gathered in the stomach and parts about while the infant is in the mothers belly For these Syrups do not only change and evacuate but they also preserve from and resist malignity Macerate a handful of Elder flowers well dried in the wine which the best sort use to wash their new-born babes in for it consumes the humors gathered about the joynts and comforts the members This is also commended Take of the powder of the simple buds 1 drach of the whitest Sugarcandie 1 drach of the berries of herb Paris Number 6. pulverise them most subtilly of which give half a scruple for 9 days together in the water of Elder flowers or any other convenient liquor you please In the Paroxisme the least spoonfull of the spirit of the flowers given with three or five of the seeds of Peony excorticat is praised Or of Peony excorticat 2 drach of the best water of Elder-flowers one ounce and a
mention in the fourth chapter which oft being taken with the Rose in her paps who having taken the Rob of the Elder and provoked sweat moderately in her bed useth to apply no other Medicine to the diseased part but a knot of red fine linnen wherein Elder-flowers are sewed so ingeniously to avoid all the exulceration which would have ensued CAP. XVII Of Swouning and Faintness THe Vinegar of Elder-flowers imbib'd in a sponge recovers those as it were from death that are subject to swounings and faintings upon every the lightest cause or occasion for it excellently refresheth the spirits for which Physicians highly prize it being mixt with other cordial Epithemes In this alone dip linnen cloths and apply them to the pulses of the temples of the wrists near the ankles Or make this Epitheme where-with the face and the palms of the hands are to be washed Take of the water of the flowers of the Elder 3 ounces Of Incarnation Roses 2 ounces Of the Vinegar of Elder-flowers half an ounce The Vinegar of red Berries two dra mix them Tragea Granorrum actes made after this manner is much commended Take of the Tragea of the grains of the Elder Of choice Cinnamon of each one drach Of Cloves Galangale of the flowers of the Elder without the stalks of of each one scruple Of Sugar Rosat of Anthosat tablets of each two drachms and an half Make all into a fine powder of which give to the diseased half a drachm in Wine or some other convenient Liquor How Women that faint by reason of the matrical diseases are to be helped by the Medicines of Elder I have set down in the 26 chap. CAP. XVIII Of Fevers in general And 1. Of intermitting Fevers THe common people as soon as they find the first touch of a Fever they take the Rob of the Elder in the Vinegar spirit or water of the flowers thereof and so in their beds being well covered with cloths dispose themselves for sweating which the Physicians do not disapprove seeing experience proves that Fevers by these are many times prevented and dissipated This seems to be the most probable reason thereof That that putrid filthiness is by this means discussed without delay and the body rarified which if it had been left longer in the body without doubt would have daily encreased the corruption given vigor to the Fever as is learnedly discoursed by the famous Sennert in his Treatise of fevers But have a care that this be only done in the beginnings of fevers and in such bodies as are not full of the rubbish of corrupt humors otherwise 't is more safe and sound to open the parts and passages of the whole body by Emetick and Cathartick Medicines Emeticks and Catharticks The purified Oyl expressed out of the kernels of the berries is commended in strong and lusty bodies 1 dra or a drac and half thereof being taken in the broth of flesh for it gently moveth vomit and loosneth the belly not without a singular good temper of the body For the same use the juice expressed out of the bark of the roots are commended being taken in the same or a greater quantity Bernhard Gordon in his Treatise of preserving mans life biddeth us take so much as the half of an egg shell will contain Concerning the Wine made of the infusion of the bark of Elder roots which provoketh vomit and emptieth the belly of corrupt humors read the 28 Chapter The Oyl made of the infus'd flowers and bark of the Elder being drank from one ounce to three provoketh vomit and purgeth the belly the same alone or in a decoction may be given in a Clyster The Polychâ—est powder of Elder buds doth not only purge both the biles but also phlegm and serous humors whereof drink in hot and tertian feavers in whey but in cold and quartanes in Wine a scruple or a drachm or 4 scrules as the strength of the diseased will admit Or let pils of Tragachanth be fomented with this or some syrup or musilage so that above them the mentioned liquor be drank In young ones the syrup of the juice of the berries of the buds or bark c. suffice The commons praise this Take a cup full of Goats milk whey which holds about four ounces macerate therein half an ounce of the middle bark of the Elder dried in the shadow being strongly prest out drink it warm in the morning In which a few things are to be observed That the commons are fully perswaded and call experience to witness that if those middle barks be pulled downward from the Tree it emptieth the body of evil humors by purge if they be pulled upward it worketh by vomit The truth of which as I dare not call in question seeing I know the same thing is asserted of Assarum by some Physicians if notwithstanding it be free for me to give my opinion without prejudice to others and the truth I believe we ought rather to ascribe the effect to the constitution and peculiar property of the receivers or to the nature of present humor I will say nothing now of the imagination whereby the receivers perswade themselves the Medicine will work downward or upward which they endevour to help by sundry waies by motion compression of the belly suppositors thrusting their fingers in their throats and so forth Nevertheless I will not deny that the bark and whole Elder also hath divers vertues in purging the noxious matter by divers places nevertheless I doubt that these are rather to be ascribed to the divers pulling it off the Tree then to these causes mentioned and other more weighty which I leave to the serious consideration of the learned and proceed That the stalks and leaves of the hearbs being boyled doth purge phlegm is manifest out of Dioscorides to which nevertheless the sprigs or sprouts are preferred if in the Spring time in which they are to be found they be macerated a little in hot water and prepared with oyl and vinegar and be eaten sparingly before supper in place of a sallet for they gently loose the belly unlock the obstructions of the Mesentery and being frequently eaten deliver and preserve from contumacious feavers Instead of these the Conserve of buds mixed with the Conserve of the flowers is profitable of which take daily an ounce half an hour before supper in the water of the bark Cutting Medicines In such feavers which are lengthened from the cramming of the Meseraick veins and from the grosness and toughness of the humor Oxymel Sambucinum dissolved in the distilled water of the flowers or barly water and daily on the intermitting daies drank an hour or two before supper is commended The Crystallized salt of the Elder taken from half a scruple to a whole is profitable also six drops of the spirit of the same taken in the broth or flesh for all these do powerfully open obstructions and cut asunder the grosness and toughness of the humor they cleanse the
stiff this Disease is and how miserably it tormenteth the patient is known even to children notwithstanding it expects ease if not full cure which sometimes is done by the Medicines of our Elder And seeing nothing is more able to preserve than that great encrease of serous humors being hindred those that are sprung be evacuated Seeing from these if not only yet most commonly Arthritick pains have their beginning as experience can testifie These Medicines therefore that follow are convenient Viz. The wine of the berries of which he is to drink a cup full oft in the week in the morning or in the beginning of dinner But that is of most force which we have set down in the 24 Chapter out of Quercetan The water distilled out of the succulent bark in the Autumn or Spring is oft to be drank Let it be sweetned with the third part of the syrup of the berries or buds the dose is four ounces That it may purge more forcibly mix therewith a half or whole drachm according to the Patients strength of the Polychrestick powder of the Buds Vomits are good to preserve from this disease if it be provoked once a moneth by those that are used to it In cure of the Arthritick chiefly of the Sciatick or Gout seeing vomit doth revel and derive by the upper parts it performs more than any downward purge Therefore you are to reiterate it two days and more if the evil persevere The oyl pressed out of the kernels of the berries and half a drachm thereof taken in the broth of Ale doth excel in this disease The oyl of the infused flowers or bark is good the dose is one or two ounces in warm water You shall repress the Arthritick assaults if you once or twice in the moneth sweat having first purged the body For the serous matter gathered in the body is easily discussed by sweat and as soon as natural or artificial sweat appears there is great hopes of safety See Hildanus Centor 5. observ 3. Give then of the Rob of the Elder two drachms with a scruple of Harts-horn prepared or half a drachm or two scruples of the extract Granorum actes or one spoonful or two of the spirit of the berries or flowers This is uporist of some The Roots of the Elder or Walnut half an ounce Of the pulverised Kernels drachm 1. Let them macerate for a night in white wine whose Colature being a little sweetened with Sugar is to be given in the morning in bed to provoke sweat If it be given a little before the fit it disappoints it In the Spring-time the buds prepared with oyl vinegar and salt and frequently being eaten before supper being mixed with other Sallets is commendable for they gently purge the belly and purifie the blood from serosity The powder of the buds dried in the shadow is good for preventing of Gouts and all Arthritick Diseases whereof take in the Spring-time or Harvest for a whole month together in the morning half a scruple in a soft egg with a little salt Or take the Conserve of the buds alone or mixed with the Conserve of the flowers in equal parts The dose is the bigness of a Walnut or Chesnut morning and evening before meat Drink above it some of the water of the flowers sweetned with a little of the juice of the berries Topicks A linnen cloth dipt in the distilled water of the leaves and flowers of the Elder and applied warm wonderfully asswages the pain unlocks the pores digests the matter and strengthens the nervous parts That it may more penetrate and where the colour and heat is greater you may add in equal quantity Elder-vinegar Where the matter is colder and the pain longer you may dip the same clothes in such a liquor as this and apply them hot Take of the spirit of Elder-berries three ounces The spirit of the flowers drach 2. Of Opium of Thebes scruples two mix them By its Narcotick vertue it mitigateth the pains and discusseth the more stubborn matter and refresheth the members The Goutish Anodine Water Quercetan in the first book and seventh chapter sets down this Podagrick water Take of the green leaves and flowers of Elder of each lib. 1. more or less as you please to make it greater or less quantity pound them and macerate them well in B. M. then distill them in a Glass or Copper vessel till they be dry with this water forment the pained place twice a day yea you may use it constantly in that Gout which proceeds from hot humors So far he The Oyle wherein the roots of the Elder or Ebulus and the leaves or fine extract from them hath been boyled chiefly the oyle of the Dwarf-Elder-seed from which the seeds of the greater differ little is much praised here It is prepared thus beat the ripe and clean seeds in a paste boyle it in water and gather the scum thereof put it in a long Glass in a warm place for three or four daies till the oyle which is greenish go to the bottom the same oyle pressed out of the seeds is most powerfull These are the words of Plater in the second part of his practice Or take oyle of infused Elder-flowers ounces two and of it pressed out of the kernels half an ounce Being mixt apply them warm to the grieved place Dioscorides affirms that the recent leaves applyed with the fat of a Goat or Bull doth help the Goutish I know a man that whensoever he is troubled with the Gout useth only this unction He taketh new Cream of Milk and he mixeth with it the Powder made into fine meal of the and leaves of the Elder till it acquire the consistence of a Poultice or Cataplasme which being spread on a linnen cloth he applyeth it hot to the diseased part and from this easie and simple Medicine he exspects and experiences with happy successe great ease Gabel Shover amongst others hath this Take the water of the Elder and the spirit of Wine of each ounces 2 mix them and apply clothes moystened therein Some take two ounces of elder-Elder-water and one of aqua vite and mix them The same man much commendeth in pains of the joynts and other cold defluctions from which the resolution and Palsie of the joynts do proceed this Take a good quantity of Elder-pith a quarter of a pint of Rhenish-Wine and as much of your own urine being mixed boyle them in a new pot till half be consumed Then anoynt the grieved place with the spirit of Wine and rub it well in Afterward apply a woollen-cloth hot dipt in the former decoction And when it is dry dipt it and apply it again And this is to be done before you go to bed Some praise this that follows in Arthritick Diseases chiefly which are hot A Mucilaginous Andonyne Liquor R. Of quick Snails newly taken whole out of their shelly cottages Of Elder-berries dried in the Oven and pulverized and of common salt of each as
the Products of Pesants yet are more safe and effectual for out bodies and diseases then the most renowned Exoticks For Nature with a plentiful Horn hath provided each Climate proper Medicines This being considered by the ingenious it will not only press upon them a thankful remembrance of the Author for gathering but of you also for procuring the Translation of these Experiments This Translation owes you its Life and lies prostrate at your feet to be exposed or cherished If it please you 't is all the Translator desires if not 't is all he could do in these rough and rugged hils where even the common elements are barbarous But he knows you are ready to entertain any foundling of his though full of deformities thereby to encourage him for better births Wherefore he beseecheth you will take this Paper-indeavor as a fragment of the great duty he owes you till he be able in more worthy expressions to declare himself SIR Your sincere Clyent C. de IRYNGIO At the Camp in Athol June 30. 1651 THE INDEX OF THE ANATOMY of the ELDER Sect. I. OF the names kinds form place qualities of the Elder page 1 Sect. II. Of the Medicines made of the Elder 10 Chap. 1. Of the Medicines of the Berries 11 1. The Rhob Tincture Extract ib. 2. The Wines 13 3. Spirits and Waters 14 4. Syrups and Trageas 16 5. The oyle pressed from the stones ib. Chap. 2. Of the Medicines of the flowers 1. Conserves p. 18 2. Syrups and Honey ib. 3. Water and Spirits 19 4. Vinegar and Oxymel 21 5. Wines 22 6. Oyles by Infusion Distillation 23 Chap. 3. Of the Medicine of the buds 26 1. Powders ib. 2. Conserves ib. 3. Syrups 27 Chap. 4. Of the Leaves middle-bark roots Jews-ears c. 28 1. Waters ib. 2. Syrups 29 3. Oyles and Liniaments ib. Chap. 5. Of the Salt and its Spirit 32 Sect. III. Shewing the practice and use of the Elder Medicaments 35 Chap. 1. Of the Cephalalgia page 36 2. Of ravings and wakings 38 3. Hypocondriack Melancholy 40 4. Of the Epilepsie 45 5. Of the Apoplexie and Palsie 56 6. Of Catharres 61 7. Of the Toothach 63 8. The diseases of the eyes 66 9. The dregs of ears and hearing 70 10. Of the nose and smelling ib. 11. Of the face and head 74 12. Of the mouth and throat 76 13. Of Dispnea and Astmate 79 14. Of the host and hoarsnesse 82 15. Of the plurisie and pthisis 85 16. Of the diseases of the dugs 89 17. Of swouning and faintnesse 91 18 Of Feavers and 1. Of intermitting 93 2. Of continued and burning 104 19. Of the pest and pestilential feavers 106 20. Of the small-pox and measles 118 21. Of the diseases of the stomach 120 22. Of the Diseases of the Intestines of the Collick 125 Worms 128 Leienterie and Coeliack Fluxes 130 Dyssentery 131 Constipation of the belly 135 Hemorrhoides 136 23 Of the obstructions of the Mesentery Liver Lien from whence proceed both the Jaundies and Scurvie 138 24. Of the Hydropsie 144 1. Ascites ib. 2. Anasarca 158 3. Tympany 161 25. Of the stone in the Reins of the Dysury and Iscury 163 26. Of the diseases of the Matrix 170 Retention of Flowers ib. Fluxion 173 Suffocation of the Matrix 174 27. Of Arthritical Diseases 183 28. Of the scab and its kinds 192 29. Of the Erysipelas or Rose 201 30. Of Inflammations Oedemas and Schirrous Tumors 208 31. Of Wounds Ulcers and Contusions 211 32. Of burning and congelation 219 33. Of poyson outwardly and inwardly 224 Medicines set down in the Practice 1. An Amulet Epileptick Sect. 3. Cap. 4. For the Rose 29 2. A Balsam vulnerary 31 3. A Bath for the scab 28 4. A Cataplasm for a spreading Herpes ib. 5. A decoction for host and hearsnesse 14 6. A decoction against Philtres and other poyson 33 7. The Experiment of Countess Emylia 24 8. Extract Granor. Actes Quer. 26 Lithontribon 25 Antilemick 19 9. Lac aureum 29 10. A liquor of Snails and Elder-kernels which is Anodine 27 11. Oyle topick in the Plague 19 12. Oyle of Elder-sugar 13 13. Misture uterine 26 14. Powder Traumattick 31 15. Polychrestick of the buds 3 16. Rob Antimelick of the Elder 19 17. A specifick in the Rose The Spirits of the Elder 24 18. Apoplectick 5 19. Bezoartick 19 29. Epileptick 4 21. Hysterick 26 22. Lythonthriptick 25 23. Pneumatick 13 24. Stomachick 21 25. The syrup acetous of the Elder 19 26. Sugar candid of the Elder 14 27. Tragea Granorum Actes 22 28. Trochiscation of Elder-stones 3 29. A water Anodine c. 27 30. A water-purge of the berries 24 31. The Wine of the berries of Quercetan ib. Mundus regitur opinionibus OF THE ANATOMY OF THE Elder or Boor Tree SECT 1. Of the Name Kinds Form Place and Quality of the ELDER TREE SEeing the Elder is a Tree most known even to the rudest of the Commons it seems a matter not worth the pains to describe it in many words Nevertheless lest in this respect our Treatise should seem lame some things are to be prefaced out of the ancient and Modern Botanicks I. The Name 'T is called by Dioscorides and other Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it is a lover of brinks and shadowy banks as is thought by Pena and Lobel in their Advers of Plants p. 434. which name Theophrastus Paracelsus hath retain'd in whose and the modern Chymist-writing you will find frequent mention of Granorum Actes and of Medicines prepared of them 'T is called of the Latins Sambucus or by others chiefly of Q. Serenus as witnesseth Hugh Frida Val. l. 2. de tuend san c. 26. Sabucus from the likeness the musical Instrument called Sabuc or Sambuck hath with its hollow and pith-emptied rods Pena and Lob in the place before cited Whence till this day 't is called by the Spaniards Sabuco or Sabugo by the Germans Holunder or by contraction Holder albeit there be some which imagine 't is from the many vertues thereof called Holder as it were deduced from Hulder Or Hulderich but in this we will not contend with any The Italian names it Sambuco the French Susier Suyn and Susau the Bohemians Bez the English the Elder tree the Scots Boor tree or Bore tree the Low Dutch Ulier See Tabernomontanus Herbal part 3. sect 1. c. 62. II. The Kinds Matthiolus and others speak of four kinds thereof The Domestick the Mountain the Water Elder and the Little Elder or Danwort whereof the first and last are most commended in Medicine by Physicians who herein follow Dioscord viz. the Elder tree properly so called and the Ebulus called the less Dwarf or low Elder But because both these kinds as we will hear anon out of Dioscorides differ little or not at all one from the other in vertue I will describe here the Domestik or Elder tree properly so called by which you may easily judge what is to be thought of the Ebulus III. The Form
liquid extract of Granorum Actes You shall find another extract taken out of Quercetan in the third Section and 26 Chapter II. WINES Take the Elder Berries cleaned of their stalks beat them in a stone mortar or earthen vessel with a wooden pestle till all the Kernels be well bruised with this succulent matter fill the 8 10 or 12 part of a little barrel as you will have it of more or less efficacy fill up the rest with Must or new Wine that they may work together Some boyle equal parts of this succulent matter and Must together till the consumption of a third part of the whole on a slow fire then straining it through a thin linnen cloth they put it as is said in a greater quantity into a Barrel put Must thereon and so suffer them to work Quercetans receipt thereof is set down in seat 3. cap. 24. This is an excellent way R. Of Elder Berries well dried in an Oven lib. 1. Cinnamon the strongest and sharpest unc 3. Caryophill Aromatic ounc 1. and an half Being all grosly pulverised sow them loosly in a knot put them in a vessel that holds twelve English quarts or thereabouts fill up the rest with the best and most fragrant white Wine and place it a fortnight or above in a Wine Cellar which is to be used in time of repast for t is an excellent stomachical drink most delicious in colour taste and smell III. The Spirit and Water Take the ripe berries express the juice at least break them together and let them stand in a wood vessel till they begin to ferment and that they may work the sooner some add a little of the yiest of beer or wine some add none but keep the same process D. Finck keeps in the extracting of the Spirit of black sweet Cherries Enchiridii c. 6. After the fermentation let them be distilled in a Vesica and rectified acording to Art The rectification is best accomplished first in a Vesica and then in Balneo where in place of a Concurbit use a long-necked Viol then the most spiritous part will de abstracted the phlegm beating again the sides of the Viol will again fall down Others prepare it thus Take the ripe berries of the Elder dryed in the weak heat of an oven being pulverised grosly with a third part of Barley meal with them being well mixed put them in an Oken Barrel and put boyling water on them in which some hops have been before macerated stop the Vessel close and suffer them to ferment some four or five days To hasten the fermentation and digestion add some dreggs of Wine or Beer as we have said before distill and rectifie it But the first way is preferred deservedly by most as more simple and pure The Purging water as it is extracted by Quercetan and others out of the berries is set down sect 3. c. 24. IV. The Syrup and Tragea The Syrup is thus prepared Take of the juice extracted from the new gathered ripe berries and clarified lib. 1. Sugar clarified lib. 1. boyl it a little on a soft fire in a double Vessel or in Bal. Mar. to the consistency of a liquid Syrup You shall find the Tragea Granorum Actes or the Tragea of the Bore-tree-berries set down in the 22 cap. of the third sect V. Oyle drawn out of the Stones or Kernels Take the grains or stones of these berries left in the cloth after the juice is strained from them wash them well and dry them in the aire bedew them with odoriferous white-Wine and then in a press strongly squeeze out the oyle of them as you do out of the seeds of the flaxes or line rocked Poppy or Henbane and such like that being purified by residency keep it for your use in a glass for 't is an excellent Vomitive and a good Balsam in externals The Dose to take it inwardly is a drachme or a drachme and a half in hot ale or some other convenient liquor This Oyl may be more Hematick and Cathartick if instead of the Wine the Kernels be bedewed with Malago wherein Crocus metallorum hath been infused and then Oyl expressed out of them which in the same dose will be much more effectual CAP. II. Of the Medicines made of the Flowers of the Elder 1. CONSERVES TAke the fresh flowers pull them in little pieces and to each ounce of them add two ounces of the whitest Sugar incorporate them well together in a Marble Morter with a woodden pestle Expose it afterward in a Glass or earthen Vessel to the Sun for some dayes it being thus prepared reserve it for your use II. The SYRUP and HONEY Take of the recent Flowers lib. 1. let them macerate 12 hours in lib. 6. of warm fountain water having exprest and strained the liquor put in again recent flowers yea do it the third time Add four ounces of the whitest Sugar to each five ounces of the liquor that is last strained boyle them up to a Syrup according to art But if in place of the Sugar you add the same quantity of Honey and boyle it to a fitting consistence you have Mel Sambucinum which is commended by some III. The WATER and SPIRITS There is sundry wayes of distilling Waters from Herbs and Flowers set downe by Wecker Euonimus Quercetan and others this is the easiest Takes as many of the Flowers of the Elder as you list put a sufficient quantity of warm water thereon let them marcerate a night and then distill them per Vesicam That which distilleth first is excellent the next is worse beware then thou urge them not too much poure the water on fresh flowers distil them the second time yea reiterate it the third time so you shall have water fit for the uses set down afterward in the practice for that which is extant in the Apothecaries shops is nothing but meer phlegm not worthy the name of distilled water No wonder then the sick so seldom find the wished and expected fruits therof If from a part of this water in a long necked Viol in a soft Balnean heat you extract the more spirituous part in quantity about the twelfth part thereof you will have a most fragrant and penetrating Spirit Or prepare the Spirit as Quercetan hath set down in lib. 1. Pharm Dogm restitut cap. 7. and D. Sennertus way Inst. Med. lib. 5. part 3. sect 3. cap. 5. is it not much different The Cake which remains in the Vesica after the distillation of the water called of the Chymists Caput Mortuum is not to be thrown away but to be reserved for the uses set down in the Practice IV. The VINEGAR and OXIMEL Pour upon the fresh or half withered flowers of the Elder the Vinegar of white Wine let them stand in a close stopped glass Vessel in the Sun or some other hot place that the Vinegar more exactly may draw out the vertue of the flowers let the flowers remain in the Vinegar till it have drawn out fully
ounce for a dose dissolved in two or three ounces of Barley-water Or make this powder Take of Tragea Granorum Actes ounces 2. Oculi Cancrorum prepared dr 1. Sugar rosat intablets Sugar perlat half an ounce mix them Of which give a drachm in two spoonfuls of the syrup which we now commended CAP. XXII Of the diseases of the Intestines 1. Of the Colick BEcause besides a bare distemper a pituitous humor a vitrious or flatulent useth oft to be the cause of the Colick therefore their encrease are to be cut off Wine prepared of the berries or flowers work this effect leasurely Likewise the water of the bark and roots mixt with a third part of the syrup of the juice of the buds and infusion of the flowers which wonderfully mitigate pain whereof take oft an hour before meat for preserving you four ounces Or where nature is more strong give a half or whole drachm of the Polychrestick powder of the buds in the syrup of the flowers made thin with Wine To dissipate wind mitigate pain and loosen the bound belly use this Clyster Take of Elder-leaves two handfuls Of Elder-flowers and Cammomile-Roman-flowers of each an handful Of the stones of Elder-berries dryed drach 2. Being cut and pounded boil them in pure wine or wine of the Elder till the Colature come into eight ounces add The oyl of the infused flowers three ounces Of Elder-hony two ounces The Yeolk of one Egg mix them and make a Clyster apply it hot The spirit of the berries is of great vertue here because it dissipateth not only in the stomach but in the intestines also all mescusness of pituite and other viscid humors By its great diaphoretick vertue it dissipateth all thin and serous humors in the intestines it warmeth by its penetrating heat the intrails made cold by drink air c. and so taken both inwardly and anointed it stilleth the huge pains that arise thence I know a Church-man who by this spirit in a short time dissipateth the Collick which is familiar to him and upon the least occasion bred In place of this use the spirit of the flowers well purified from its phlegm c. The distilled oyl of Elder-flowers imbibed in silk and applied to the navel with a ventose is a most gentle paregorick Whereof also give four drops in a spoonful of the spirit of flowers or berries The spirit of Elder-salt given in the water of the flowers or in broth in the quantity of six or seven or eight drops by his cleansing and dissipating vertue preserving from the Collick But if you perceive by the thirst intense heat and constitution of the patient that these pains arise from the abundance of hot and sharp boylous humors or some other hot cause you are to use these things which I have set down in the former Chapter in the heat of the stomach unto which add the syrup of Elder-flowers which is either to be taken alone or made thin with the best stilled water of Elder-flowers II. Of Worms THe Chrystaline Salt of the Elder preserveth and freeth from worms It robs them of their nourishment kills them and purgeth them out The dose is from half a scruple to half a drach or two scrup For those of riper years which are troubled with worms you are to prepare in the Spring-time a dish made of Elder-buds delivered from their bitter naucious taste by the effusion of boyling water with oyl salt and vinegar which is to be used as a sallet before supper For the oyl closeth the breathing places of the worms and maketh the belly slippery Salt and vinegar cleanse cut and kill the worms The Elder-buds do loosen the belly purge the worms and thrust forth their fuel That this sallet may be more pleasant you may add some tender leaves of sorrel which likewise resist worms At other times the powder of the buds taken in the morning for a few days a scruple at once in broth is commendable Give to more delicate persons frequently a spoonful of the syrup of the juice of the buds with which mix half a scruple of prepared Hearts-horn Some press out the juice of the recent leaves and mix it with honey or honey-roset and give it sometimes before other meat and by this means kill and purge out worms Where the stomach and intestines are furred and filled with a greater quantity of tenacious putrid pituit mucilage give twice or thrice the Polichrestick powder of the buds in their syrup 3. Of Lienterick and Celiaick Fluxes ALbeit at the first sight the Elder seem not fit for fluxes notwithstanding in Lienteries Celiaick fluxes where the meat and drink are either in that form in which they were received or else half concocted and not much altered voided out of the body sooner than was fitting by reason of the weakness of the retentive faculty of the stomach and intestines proceeding for the most part from a cold and humid distemper the spirit of Granorum Actes both simple and stomatical is used with a great deal of profit Therefore a spoonful or two of it is oft to be given with Rie or Wheat-bread or being imbibed in a double linnen cloth applyed to the stomach or abdomen Moreover Tragea granorum actes the cordial powder prepared of it is profitable whereof give twice a day viz. morning and evening before meat a drachm in three or four spoonfuls of generous wine For drink in time of meat you may use wine prepared of Elder-berries dried Cinnamon and Cloves 4. Of the Dissentery IN the Dissentery which is a bloudy and painful emptying of the belly Oswald Crollius from their signiture commends the Elder-berries of which the Chymists but chiefly Quercetan in lib. 1. cap. 2. of his Dogmatick Pharmacy describes this Tageam communicated to him by D. VVolfius Professor in the University of Marpurg so often mentioned and commended by me in this Treatise Press the juice out of the Elder-berries when they are ripe which is in Autumn of which Juice and Rye-flower make paste work it well and thereof make little Cakes which in a Oven are to be baked to the hardness of Bisket that they may be reduced to a subtile powder which powder is again to be imbibed in the juice and made in paste baked and pulverised as before And this is to be done the third time At last all being done reduce it again to a subtile powder it will keep long and is a hid specifick against a Dissentery Take a drachm of this and as much of the powder of a Nutmeg incorporate them well with a soft rosted egg and sup it up This is called Tragea granorum Actes that is a powder of the grains of Elder And thus far Quercetan Others prepare it thus Take Rie-bread hot out of the Oven moisten it with the juice of Elder-berries and bake it again in the Oven being dry again moysten it with the juice of Elder-berries and do so four or five times then reduce this