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 ...

An Uporist.

Apply then here either the juice alone, put in, being nevertheless wrung out with a little Wine or U∣rine; and afterward lay upon it the pounded leaves like a Plaster; which is a Country-remedy.

Or make this Liniament;

• Take of Elder vulnerary Balsam, one drachm,
• Of the Leaves of the Elder subtilly pulverised, one drachm.
• Of Verdegrease, two scruples,
• Of Elder-salt, one scruple.

Mix all together exactly for a Linia∣ment; of which daily you are to put some in with Tents in impure and Fi∣stulous ulcers, and a convenient Pla∣ster

above it. Injections and washings of deep and putrid ulcers, when need requireth, are to be made of the leave sand bark; which do excellently cleanse and hinder corruption. Apply them before you make a new bind∣ing, that the filth cleansed, and washed by the former Medicine, may be together with them washed out.

In those Ulcers which cast out that icor, which Paracelsus calls Synovia; the Vulnerary Balsam chiefly avai∣leth, being hot put in; seeing it drieth moderately, and keepeth the sub∣stance of the wounded part tempe∣rate. You may sprinkle afterwards above it the Powder of the dried Pith and Jews-ears, which are much praised by many.

Gabel Shover hath this R. of Elder-Pith drachms two, of Orenge-Pills scruple half; mix them for a Powder, which are either to be sprinkled in, or to be taken with a fasting stomach in a morning.

The same man taketh as many El∣der-flowers

as is needful; he fryeth them in butter and applyeth them twice or thrice.

Or, instead of a Vulnerary potion in these and other Ulcers over-flow∣ed; he giveth daily a drachm, or a drachm and half of following pow∣der in warm buttered Ale.

• Take of Elder pith three ounces,
• Of dryed Jews-ears,
• Of prepared Oculi Cancrorum; of each two ounces,
• Of Orenge-pills,
• Of Citron Pills,
• Of Nutmegs, of each one scruple.

Make a subtil Powder of all.

In dilating of Wounds and Ulcers, and in keeping Issues open, the Pith of the Elder is convenient: For while that sponge-like substance drinks in the humors, it is dilated, and so dis∣tendeth the lips of the Wounds and Ulcers.