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 ...

The Lithonthryptick Elder-spirit.

Take two ounces of the Elder-pith cut as is said: put thereon as much of the spirit of the berries well rectified as will cover it. Let them stand seven days in a hot place, in ves∣sels well closed, that nothing evapo∣rate. After pressing the pith, strain hard the spirit a few times: Put into the Colature some bruised Juniper-berries, viz. two ounces. Leave it likewise for two days in infusion, in a hot place, in a close vessel: After∣ward press it again, & strain it. Again infuse as much Juniper-berries into the colature, and leave it for three days in the infusion, and again press it, and strain it, and purifie it from all the feculent grounds, as much as you are able. And so you have the stone-break spirit of the Elder indued

with the essence of Elder-pith, and Juniper-berries; which you are to keep in a stopt close glass, whose use is excellent in breaking and expelling the stone, especially if it be used as followeth.

First, the nefritick person is to purge his belly with Polychrestick powder of the buds, or with the Cly∣ster prescribed a little before; and ha∣ving anoynted his loynes with Elder-oyle, he must go into a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 made of Pease-straw and Mallows▪ the flowers of Elder and Cammomile; afterward let him drink a spoonfull of this spirit in white-Wine, and stay in the Bath till he avoid the Stone. And to avoid swouning, let him hold to his nose a sponge dipt in Elder-vinegar, and let him moisten his pulses with this same vinegar, or some cordial Epithem.

This Medicine hath its original from the experiments set down in the Dutch Matthiolus, and is called a wonderfull Medicine by Muller in his Mysteries Medicinal. Neverthe∣less

this is to be preferred to that in respect of the vertues it hath from the pith, or spirit of the Elder, to break the stone.