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 ...

1. Of the stopping of the Monethly Terms.

MAny Medicines made of the El∣der are to be used in the defect of the monethly Termes; which for the most part proceeds from a gross bloud, or tough humor, closing or ob∣structing the orifices of the Histerick veins.

First then you are to use things which open the belly, and disburthen it of that putrid filth; give them there∣fore

to drink the wine of the berries, which looseneth the belly, and ma∣keth thin the bloud and grosse hu∣mors.

The distilled water of the middle∣bark, mixt with the purging water of the berries, prepared as Quercetan di∣rects, serves for both ends: The dose is three ounces, with one ounce of the syrup of the berries, bark, or buds.

Which if you desire to be more Cathartick, add to it half a drachm, or as much as sufficeth, of the Poly∣chrestick powder of the buds.

The Elder-rob, with the powder of the white Dittany, or of Pimpinel, is the womens Medicine. Gabel Shover hath this:

• Take of ripe Elder-berries,
• Of Rosemary, of each one handful,
• Of Pimpinel-roots, half an ounce,

Boyled in a quart of strong old Wine; whereof drink a good draught warm each morning for three days, be∣fore the time of their courses, and

let them fast two houres after.

The spirit of the berries is likewise usefull, which by its subtility passes through the whole body, and through the least vessels thereof, cutting and attenuating the grosness of the hu∣mors; it may be taken the same time before the courses use to flow: The dose is a pretty spoonfull in Wine, or some distilled water; in place of the simple spirit, you may take the Hy∣sterick described hereafter in the same quantity and manner; for his vertue is great, in moving the courses.

The oyle of the second description is commendable, if two or four drops thereof be added to these spirits.

In the Scyrrous disposition of the matrix, where the cram'd humor is hardened into a Scyrrous, closing the orifice of the veins, and stopping the courses, besides these Medicines you must make incessions of the leaves and root of the Elder boyled in water, as Dioscorides commands.

Let there likewise be an oyntment

made of the oyle of the infused flowers and leaves, mixed with the fat of a hen. This same fat dissolved in the decoction of the roots and lea∣ves is to be injected into the womb.