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 ...

Topicks.

In a more universal, filthy, and con∣tinuing Scab, Tetter or Psora, &c. prepare this sort of Bath.

• Take of recent Elder-leaves, ten hand∣fuls,
• Six whole Umbels of the flowers,
• Of quick-sulphure, two ounces,
• Of crude-Allum, one ounce.

Boyle it in a sufficient quantity of rainwater, unto which afterward add a sixth part of the Lixive. Let the diseased every day sit once in a Bath, to provoke sweat, not neglecting in the mean time the former internals. Or where only the hands or feet are scabby, the same decoction; but in less quantity is to be prepared; wherein daily the feet and hands are to be washed; yet nevertheless you may add other things, as the roots of Sorrel, and Alacampain.

After the Bath, the exulcerate and clift places are to be anoynted, to mi∣tigate their pain, with the oyle of the infufed flowers; to which you may give a more drying and healing ver∣tue to the leaves of the Elder, subtil∣ly pulverised till it come to the con∣sistence of a Liniament.

Or, use the Liniament of Matthio∣lus, or Plater. Or this:

• Take of the oyle of the infused flowers and bark of the Elder, of each 3 drachms,
• Of washed Ceruse, one drachm, or four scruples,
• Of Wax, enough.

Make thereof a Liniament.

Those black, round, and about very red pustles, which break forth fre∣quently in the feet, chiefly of women, are oft to be washed with the water of the leaves, and mitigated with the foresaid unctions.

Mark, There was a Bakers wife in Heyna, which could not go out of dores by reason of the abundance of those Pustles, and was greatly disqui∣eted by their heat, having premised what was fitting, she used for a Topick milk, wherein the flowers were mace∣rated, in which, clothes being dipped, were applyed warm with great ease. Where the heat and redness is more intense, instead of simple milk, take

sowre or Butter-milk.

Only sweating by taking the rob of the Elder sometimes doth cure the simple Herpes by the abstersive and siccative quality.

In this the oyl pressed out of the kernels of the berries reduced in form of a Liniament with Sugar of Saturn, is much praised by some: If it be an∣ointed on the pustles, after they are opened with a needle, and cleansed from the matter, putting thereon a green leaf of the Elder, or one dried in the shadow. In an eating Herpes, having purged, sweat, and breathed a vein, this Cataplasm is commended, wherewith she-Montebanks have gained largely.

Pound in an Earthen Vessel, with a woodden Pestle, the green leaves of the Elder, adding to them in the time of pounding a little Elder-vinegar, af∣ter that manner that women make sawces of the Watercress, Sorril, and such like: Mix with this pounded and succulent matter one part of the ashes

of Elder-leaves, and two parts of the powder of the leaves, that it may be∣come like a paste or thick Cataplasm. Add to it, that it may stick the bet∣ter, a little Turpentine dissolved with the yeolk of an Egg; apply it twice a day to the ulcerous places, being first wiped with clean linnen.

Neither is this a mere new inventi∣on, for John de Vigo in the first part an 7^th. book of his Chirurg. saith, That Elder-leaves pounded with Hel∣lebore and Oximel Scillitick, doth cure Ringworms, Itches, and Scabs.