CAP. II.
Of Raving and Wakings.
THe same things are profitable here, that are set down in the remedy of the Cephalalgie; seeing it oft these riseth to forerun or accompany
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 ...
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- Blochwitz, Martin.
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- 1677.
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maladies, adding ever to these some grainsof Opium, or a little of the seed of white Poppy, to mitigate and al∣lay the furious and fiery spirits. For example, Take of the best water of Elder flowers 4 dr. of water Lillie and Rosewater of each 2 drach. of Thebaick Opium half a scrup. of Elder Vinegar to dissolve the Opium 6 scrup. mix them for an Epithenie, wherein a double or treble linnen cloth being wet, is to be applyed warm to the brows and crown of the head.
Or in place of the Opium, an ounce of the seeds of white Poppy; and by baking according to art, make an E∣mulsion, unto which you may fitly add the white of an egg well beaten.
If the belly be bound, dissolve of the Syrup or juice of the berries, and also of the infusion of the flowers of the Elder, ounc. 3, or 4. in the water of the flowers, and give it when the Pa∣tient is dry like a Julip; for it will not only open the belly, but sweetly quiet the spirits.
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When in Anno 1626. the Plague was raging in Haina, and many of the infected were troubled with head aches, ravings, and wakings; a wor∣thy man told me, he found no readier help to dissipate those venomous va∣pours, and bring sleep in his own and others bodies; then after the giving of several medicines, to bind their heads about with the flowers of the Elder.