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 ...

4. Of the Dissentery.

IN the Dissentery, which is a blou∣dy and painful emptying of the bel∣ly. Oswald Crollius, from their signi∣ture, commends the Elder-berries; of which the Chymists, but chiefly Quercetan, in lib. 1. cap. 2. of his Dog∣matick Pharmacy, describes this Ta∣geam, communicated to him by D. VVolfius, Professor in the University of Marpurg, so often mentioned and commended by me in this Treatise.

Press the juice out of the Elder-ber∣ries when they are ripe, which is in Autumn; of which Juice and Rye-flower make paste, work it well, and thereof make little Cakes, which in a Oven are to be baked to the hard∣ness

of Bisket, that they may be redu∣ced to a subtile powder; which pow∣der is again to be imbibed in the juice and made in paste, baked and pulve∣rised as before. And this is to be done the third time.

At last, all being done, reduce it a∣gain to a subtile powder, it will keep long, and is a hid specifick against a Dissentery. Take a drachm of this, and as much of the powder of a Nut∣meg, incorporate them well with a soft rosted egg, and sup it up.

This is called Tragea granorum A∣ctes, that is, a powder of the grains of Elder. And thus far Quercetan.

Others prepare it thus: Take Rie∣bread hot out of the Oven, moisten it with the juice of Elder-berries, and bake it again in the Oven; being dry again, moysten it with the juice of Elder-berries, and do so four or five times; then reduce this bread into powder, whereof take a drachm alone or a half, with as much nutmeg-pow∣der. Of which see the famous Sen∣nert.

in the 10 Chapter of the Trea∣tise of the Dissentery. But a care must be taken that the belly be not over soon stopped, but place must be left for the evacuating of sharp hu∣mors, lest that befal which hapned to the Maid mentioned by the learned Fernel. in lib. 6. cap. 9. Pathol.

Therefore to purge the sharp hu∣mors, and mitigate the cruel pain, give two or three days before you use the Astrictive, in the morning, one ounce or one ounce and half of the syrup of Elder-flowers, prepared by three infusions in three ounces of Bar∣ley-water, or in the water of Elder-flowers. You may with profit add to this one scruple or half a drachm of white Mechoacan subtilly pulveri∣sed; for it gently purgeth and bind∣eth the belly.

After three days are past, and we have used all necessary evacuations, & clangings, and pain for the most part is ceased, then we may more safely use our Tragea; for it doth not only

restrain the belly; but together with this gives a contrary motion to these sharp and salt humors, by little and little disposing them for sweat, if it be taken twice a day, morning and evening, mixt after this manner, yet with a fasting stomach.

• R. Tragea Gran. Actes, drach. 1.
• The Spirit of the flowers of the El∣der Gutt. 35.

They being well wrought together in a Marble Mortar, pour on it by little and little;

• The water of Tormentil-roots an ounce and half.
• The Syrup of the juice of Plantain half an ounce.

Mix them and use them hot, they will dissipate the malignity by sweating and evaporation, and will bind the belly by stopping the flux of the hu∣mor.

The same things may be used in a Diarrhoea or white Flux.