VI. The OYLE.
1. Take as much as you will of the fresh flowers beaten, put them in a Vessel of glass, pour on them a suffici∣ent quantity of clear Sallet Oyle, ma∣cerate them in the Sun, or some other
Anatomia sambuci, or, The anatomy of the elder cutting out of it plain, approved, and specific remedies for most and chiefest maladies : confirmed and cleared by reason, experience, and history / collected in Latine by Dr. Martin Blochwich ...
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- Anatomia sambuci, or, The anatomy of the elder cutting out of it plain, approved, and specific remedies for most and chiefest maladies : confirmed and cleared by reason, experience, and history / collected in Latine by Dr. Martin Blochwich ...
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- 1677.
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hot place for 15 dayes; then decoct it in a double vessel; strain the flowers, cast them away; put in fresh ones; proceed as you did before, reiterate your practice the third time, and ha∣ving strained it, keep it in a conveni∣ent vessel.
Mark, that those gross dregs of the flowers, and of all other things that are macerate in Oyle, and strained from it, is called of the Physicians, Stymma, which take notice of now, that you may remember it when 'tis mentioned hereafter.
2. The following Oyl of the flowers is commended of many.
Take a Cucurbite or Glass of mid∣dle capacity; fill a third part thereof with Elder flowers gathered in a clear pure day; put so much Malvatick Wine thereon, that the third part at least of the glass may remain empty; having stopped the mouth well, ex∣pose it to the Sun a fortnight: then putting the whole matter in a glaspot on a slow fire of Charcole, heat it a
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little; then strain it with great force into another clean vessel, above which within a little while you shall see a yellowish Oyl to swim, which by a funnel or separatory, you are to sepa∣rate from the rest of the liquor accor∣ding to art.
The liquor that remaineth will serve for the maceration of fresh flow∣ers, which you are to reiterate some∣times, and in divers vessels, seeing at one time you will get but little Oyl.
3. The Oyl is prepared by distil∣lation, after the manner Sennerte and others prepare the Oyl of Roman Cammomile flowers, and of other sweet smelling flowers; thus, Take the flowers of the Elder dryed betwixt two linen cloaths in the aire, being pulled in little pieces, put them in an earthen vessel, or large Cncurbite; to every pound of flowers add an ounce and half of common salt, and having a span high covered them with warm water, leave them in digestion ten dais, or
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more, after distill them in Vesica; and according to art separate the Oyl from the water.