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consumptions, restores lost strength, stays | oriential Bezoar, of each half an ounce,fluxes, eases pains in the head, ears and j powder of the black tops of Crab ’s claws,eyes, helps spitting, vomiting, and urining j the weight of them all, beat them into pow-of blood ; it is a fine commodity for a man \ der, which may be made into balls with

in a consumption to carry about with him, j jelly, and the skins which our vipers have

and eat now and then a bit. ; cast off, warily dried and kept for use.

| Culpeper .] This is that powder they' " ] ordinarily call Gascoigns powder, there are

SPECIES, OR POWDERS. | divers receipts of it, of which this is none

\ or the worst, tour, or five, or six grams isAromaticum Caryophyllatum. 5 excellently good in a fever to betaken in any

College.] Take of Cloves seven drams, | cordial, for it cheers the heart and vitalMace, Zedoary, Galanga the less, yellowi spirits exceedingly, and makes them im-Sanders, Troches, Diarrhodon, Cinnamon , j pregnable.

wood of Aloes, Indian Spikenard, long j Species Cordiales Temperate.

Pepper, Cardamoms the less, of each a dram, \ College .] Take of wood of Aloes, Spodium

Red Roses four ounces, Gallia Moschata, | of each a dram, Cinnamon , Cloves , bone ofLiquorice , of each two drams, of Indian 1 a Stag ’s-heart, the roots of Angelica, Avens,leaf, Cubebs of each two scruples, beat them j and Toraaentil, of each a dram and an half,all diligently into powder. 1 Pearls prepared six drams, raw Silk toasted,

Culpeper.'] This powder strengthens the; both sorts of Coral of each two drams,heart and stomach, helps digestion, expels j Jacinth, Emerald, Samphire, of each half awind, stays vomiting, and cleanses tb« j dram, Saffron a scruple, the leaves of goldstomach of putrified humors. ' i and silver, of each ten, make them into

Aromaticum Rosatum. i powder according to art.

College .] Take of Red Roses exungu- * Culpeper .] It is a great cordial, a greatlated fifteen drams, Liquorice seven dranls, j strengthener of the heart, and brain,wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, of each ; Diacalaminthe Simple.

three drams, Cinnamon five drams, Cloves , 1 College.] Take of Mountain Calaminth,Mace, of each two drams and an half, Gum | Pennyroyal, Origanum, the seeds of Mace-Arabic and Tragacanth, of each eight fdonian Parsley, common Parsley, andscruples, Nutmegs , Cardamoms the less, j Hartwort, of each two drams, the seeds ofGalanga of each one dram, Indian Spike- \ Smallage , the tops of Thyme of each halfnard two scruples, make it into a powder to j an ounce, the seeds of Lovage , blackbe kept in a glass for use. 1 Pepper, of each an ounce, make them into

Culpeper.] It strengthens the brain, i powder according to art.heart and stomach, and all such internal | Culpeper.] It heats and comforts coldmembers as help towards decoction, it helps j bodies, cuts thick and gross flegm, provokesdigestion, consumes the watery excrements \ urine and the menses. I confess this differsof the bowels, strengthens such as are pined j something from Galen, but b belter for ouraway by reason of the violence of a disease, j bodies in my opinion than his. It expelsand restores such as are in consumption. x wind exceedingly, you may take half aRulms eon chelus Cancrorum compositus. ■: dram of the powder at a time. There isOr Powder of Crab’s claws compound, linothing surer than that all their powdersCollege.] Take of Pearls prepared, Ci*ab’s]d will keep better in Electuaries than theytyes, red Coral, white Amber, Hart’s-horn, ? will in powders, and into such a body, you