The Cure of the Buboes and Carbuncles.
Apply to Buboes pestilential, and Carbuncles, a Plaster made of the meal of Elder-flowers and Hony, which is excellent in ripening these tumors.
Or take of the oyl more special,
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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- Blochwitz, Martin.
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- 1677.
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which just now was set down, Of crude Hony, of each half an ounce; of Salt Ammoniac drach. 1. of the Meal of the flowers and leaves of the Elder, of each as much as sufficeth, let them all be exactly wrought, till they become like a plaster.
Some apply the feces of the flowers macerated in oyl, and press it out, which they call Stymma.
Some rost Onions under the ashes, and pound them, and mix them with the Rob of the Elder, and apply them as a Cataplasm to the risings of the skin.
Amongst other vesiccatories, which is applied happily to these contuma∣cious lumps, the famous Sennert. re∣cites these following.
Take of Mustard-seed, of middle Elder-bark, equal parts, pound them with Vinegar in form of a Cataplasm which is to be spread on a white lin∣nen cloath.
Or,
- Take of the leaves of the Elder, of Burrage,
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- Of Mustard-seed,
- Of Rancide Nut-kernels, equal parts.
Let them be pounded and applied, having first anointed the place round about with Theriack.
The Apostume being open, and be∣come an ulcer, a linament made of hony and the juice of Elder-leaves is to be applied; which every day, twice a day, being put in with lint tents, it dighteth away the quittous, and mun∣difies the ulcer: the oyl pressed out of the berries kernels, and mixt with the third and fourth part of Turpen∣tine oyl, is much praised. See the rest in the Cure of Ulcers.