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 ...

CAP. XVI.

Of the affections of the Duggs.

SEeing the Duggs of women oft∣times, by reason of the sudden and abundant affluxion of blood, for the generating of milk, chiefly after their delivery, use to be inflamed; or as the blood is of thinner consistence, and hotter, use to have an Erysipelas, or Rose; the following receipts may sa∣fely and securely be applyed.

In Inflammations, the Caput mor∣tuum, or the cake of the flowers of the Elder with the red Vinegar thereof, in one Erysipelas, let it be bedewed with the distilled water of the leaves and flowers of the Elder, and so ap∣plied warm: For it digests and re∣solves that which hath flowed in, and

is compacted, and doth moderately by reason of the Vinegar repel the inflammation, & extinguish the heat of the blood. Anoint he hardened kernels of the dugs with the oyl of the infusion of Elder-flowers, and put the leaves of the Elder thereupon.

For the exulcerat, the lac aureum, or Golden-milk is most fitting, being made of the common or elder Lixive, and the oyl of the infused flowers and bark, mixed by hard shaking and stir∣ring together; in which linnen being dipt, and wrung afterward, is to be applied warm to the ulcers: 'Tis also profitable, for the more hasty and hap∣py perfecting of the cure, to blow on it the powder of Elder-leaves. So the ulcer, whatever it be, shall be clean∣sed, dryed and dighted; view these in their proper places.

I knew a woman, whereof I made 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 mode∣rately

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 ingeni∣ously to avoid all the exulceration which would have ensued.