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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A linnen cloth dipt in the distilled water of the leaves and flowers of the Elder, and applied warm, wonderful∣ly asswages the pain, unlocks the pores, digests the matter, and streng∣thens the nervous parts.

That it may more penetrate, and where the colour and heat is greater you may add in equal quantity Elder-vinegar. Where the matter is colder, and the pain longer, you may dip the

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same clothes in such a liquor as this, and apply them hot.

  • Take of the spirit of Elder-berries, three ounces.
  • The spirit of the flowers, drach. 2.
  • Of Opium of Thebes, scruples two, mix them.

By its Narcotick vertue it mitiga∣teth the pains, and discusseth the more stubborn matter, and refresheth the members.

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