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 ...

Rohob, and the Extract Antile∣mick of the Elder.

• R. Roots of Tormentillae,
• Buterdock,
• Of Pimpanels,
• Of Angelica,
• Leaves of Scordium,
• Berries of Juniper, of each half an ounce.

Macerate the roots 24 hours in Elder vinegar, afterwards dry them at lea∣sure, and being powdered by them∣selves, add the leaves of Scordium, and berries of Juniper, likewise in powder; mix them all together, and with the Vinegar that remained be∣sprinkle them, and work them most exactly with a pound of Rob Sambu∣ci, in form of an opiat: Of which give

to the infected person two drachms in a convenient liquor, to provoke sweat, and thrust out the poyson from his heart. Of which also besprinkled with the spirit of Elder, you may pre∣pare the extract that is set down in the second Section and first Chapter of this Book. The dose given to the infected is one scruple or drachm in convenient liquor.

The spirit of the Elder by it self is here very powerful, both in preser∣ving, a few drops thereof being taken with a little white bread in a morn∣ing, and likewise in the beginning of the disease, a spoonful or two being taken thereof before the feverish heat be powerful.

But that spirit is far more noble, which is drawn off by an Alimbeck in the preparation of the Antilemick extract; seeing from the volatile es∣sence of those Bezoartick simples it hath carried much with it. Or at least infufe those simples in the spirit of the Elder; & being macerated therein

for a few days, let it be strained, for the Antilimbeck spirit of the Elder, whose vertues in curing and preser∣ving cannot be praised enough.

By the same Alexitaries, and chief∣ly by the roots of Angelica and Juni∣per-berries, if the red Elder-vinegar of my description be impregnat with them, it becomes Antilemick Elder-vinegar; which is not only a vehicle to other Alexipharmacal Me∣dicaments, but moreover it may be taken by it self, when the intense heat and fever will not admit of the spirit, or other more hot medicines.

Some drops of the spirit of Elder∣salt given in the broth of flesh is a preservative.

Neither is it unwholsom, if once or twice a week in the morning, an hour or two before dinner, a cup full of the wine prepar'd of the berries be taken but remember to take before it a lit∣tle broth; for it loosneth the belly, hindreth putrefaction, and by reason of the Bezoartick vertue of the ber∣ries,

it preserveth the body from con∣tagion.

At supper drink a cup full of the wine prepared of the dried berries, which strengtheneth the stomach.