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 ...

Purges and Vomits.

In delicate bodies and children, the water distilled from the succulent bark, by two cohobies, and sweetned with a little syrup of the juice of the

berries, doth work this effect, being given in a few spoonfuls. Also the sy∣rup of the berries juice, being given alone, from an ounce to an ounce and half.

In those of riper age, give the purging water made according to Quercetans descripton, from two oun∣ces to three, with an ounce of the syrup of the buds or bark.

Or use twice or thrice the Polychre∣stick Powder of the Buds in Whey.

Or incorporate it with the Conserve of the flowers for a bole; or reduce it into the form of a pill, with the syrup of them, or such like; for it is a good Medicine to purge the body from salt and feculent humors.

Or take a cupful of Whey, macerate in that, half or a whole ounce of the middle bark of the Elder; the Cola∣ture being strained in the morning, let it be drank warm. The wine of the in∣fusion of the bark and root of the El∣der, subtilly grated, is good to pro∣voke vomit, and empty the belly of

evil humors; it doth this when they have infused together for a night. These are the words of Vigo in his Chirurg. part. 1. lib. 7.

Or take a drachm of the oyle pres∣sed out of the berries kernels, more or less, according to the strength of the patient; give it in a cup of luke-warm Ale.

It were likewise profitable for the Scabby, if they made a Sallet of those young buds, who in the beginning of the Spring, together with those out∣breakings and pustles of the skin, by the singular favour of Nature, as con∣temperanious, doe bud forth; being first macerated a little in hot water, with oyle, salt, and vinegar; and sometimes eaten, it purgeth the belly, and freeth the bloud from salt and serous humors.