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 ...

2. Of continual and burning Fevers.

In continual and hot Tertian and burning Fevers, where the heat is more intense, and great drought tor∣menteth the Patient, make this Ju∣lap.

R. Of Fountain or 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 pla∣ces, and by its acceptable acidity it

sharpneth the appetite, and refresh∣eth the strength.

This same is performed by the ace∣tory syrup of the Elder, described in the next Chapter, which is to be dis∣solved 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 di∣minish heat. P. Egineta lib. 2. cap. 36. for as Charcole in a Smiths Forge, be∣ing besprinkled with water, burneth more ardently; so the feverish heat is rather kindled than quenched by drinking sparingly.

That you may extinguish the in∣temperate heat, and refresh the van∣quisht strength, instead of an Epithem apply to the pulses the Vinegar of El∣der-flowers mixed with Rose-water,

and imbibed by double or treble lin∣nen 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 evacua∣teth the feverish matter.