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 ...
Author
Blochwitz, Martin.
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London :: Printed for H. Brome ... and Tho. Sawbridge ...,
1677.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Botany, Medical.
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Hydroticks or Sudorificks.

If by these Catharticks the body be emptied well enough, then you may safely proceed to Sudorificks & Diureticks: For if we proceed other∣wise, the whole stream will be devol∣ved on the reins and ureters, where∣by

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the gathering together thereof grievous symptoms will arise.

The Rob of the Elder and its ex∣tract are Sudorificks. The first where∣of given in two drachms weight is commended by the Augustans for this purpose. The second is to be in as many scruples, dissolved in the wa∣ter and vinegar of Elder-flowers for one dose.

Or where the Liver is more cold, and the urine less red, give a spoonful or two of the spirit of the berries or tincture of the Elder, made thin with the water of the flowers, and sweet∣ned with the syrup of the juice of the berries. Then in bed or in a dry Bath provoke sweat.

The spirit of the flowers is more gentle, nevertheless it excellently provoketh sweat, and dryeth strong∣ly the water of the Hydropick per∣son, especially if it be well rectified.

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