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 ...
Author
Blochwitz, Martin.
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London :: Printed for H. Brome ... and Tho. Sawbridge ...,
1677.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Botany, Medical.
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Of the Phthisis.

In preserving and curing the Phthi∣sis,

Page 88

besides other things, the decocti∣on for the wild cough, being taken by spoonfuls, and by little & little swal∣lowed, is used with success, seeing it proceeds from the ulcer of the Lungs, which requires detersion, exsiccation, and consolidation; and the leaves and flowers of the Elder mixed with a lit∣tle sugar or honey, work these effects; they think to satisfy all the indicati∣ons by this decoction. But I had rather in this case, instead of simple sugar & hony, use tabled sugar-roset, or hony∣roset strained, and mix a scruple, or half a drachm of this following pow∣der, chiefly were much arterious blood with the spittle is cast up. Take of Tragea Gran. actes drach. 1. of Jews ears dryed in a Furnace. Oculo∣rum Cancri praep. an. drach. and half, Saffron Oriental, scrup. 1. sugari ro∣sat. tabled, drach. 2. being all pulveris∣ed well, mix them together exactly; in the mean time you are to have an eye to the prime cause of this ulcer, whose knowledge is to be found else∣where.

Page 89

George Amwald in his Panacea, p. 29. commends the unction of the oyl of Elder-flowers in a Phthisis.

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