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 ...

CAP. XXXIII.

Of Poysons.

Inflicted outwardly, or taken into the body.

IN the stinging of venemous beasts, the green leaves of the Elder being applyed, are praised, because they draw out the poyson, and dry the wound.

Dioscorides especially commends the same pounded leaves applyed to the bite of a mad dog.

George Amwald in his Panacea bids us dissolve Rob of the Elder in Vine∣gar and Wine, and rub therewith the stung or bitten place, and wash it therewith.

In the stinging of Wasps and Bees anoint the place with the oyle of the infused flowers▪ or with that which is prest out of the kernels of the berries, and put a leaf thereon; it mitigateth

the pain, and in a short time causeth the tumor to fall and evanish.

To stop the poyson of the Vipers bitings, besides these Topicks, Dios∣corides bids us boyle the roots of El∣der in Wine, and drink the Colature. He attributeth the same vertue to the berry drank in Wine.

'Tis better to use the Wine of the berries, to take two drachmes of the Rob; or as many scruples of the ex∣tract in the water of Elder-flowers, and provoke sweat.

In Philtrums, or those Potions wicked Whores use to give for love, or in other poysons taken inwardly nothing is better, then upon the suspi∣tion immediately to cast all up by vomit, that is in the stomach.

Give two ounces or three of the oyle of the infused flowers or bark of the Elder in warm Ale, and accelerate vomit.

Or, take an indifferent spoonful of the oyle pressed out of the kernels; give it in warme Ale: For by this

means all venom that is in the sto∣mach, is happily excluded, and the corrosive acrimony of the poyson is qualified; use it again, if it be needful.

Which being done, provoke sweat, that that which sticketh in the veins (for the more maligne the humor is, the more it penetrateth, and like fer∣ment, infecteth the whole bloud) must be evacuated by sweat.

Those things which were brought for the Plague, are profitable here: Rob simple, and Antilemick, their extracts, &c. of which give as much as is convenient to the age and strength of the patient, dissolved in the distilled water of Elder-flowers, of other con∣venient liquor. And seeing seldom the force of the poyson is daunted by once or twice; but rather under the subtile shew of a servant, as being o∣vercome, and obeying Natures com∣mand, by secret mines lurketh and worketh to overthrow the strength of Nature, and overcome it by little and little. Therefore the use of these

Alexitericks is not to be intermitted but to be continued, till all the poy∣son and maligne impressions that re∣main be extirpate out of the body. This mixture is profitable.

Take of the Conserve of Elder∣flowers, of the flowers of Burrage, as much as you will; mix them. Give half an ounce thereof daily, an hour or two before dinner. Drink a spoonful of the juice of the berries above it.

Give two drachmes every week of the Rob of the Elder, in the water of Elder-flowers, and provoke sweat in bed, or bath. After the sweat, the heat to be tempered with a spoonful or two of the sowre syrup of the El∣der.

This experiment is praised by many; Take of the middle Elder-bark, sub∣tilly shaven, and dry it lightly in the shadow, a little more then a handful; put on it three quarters of a pound of Goats milk, boyle it on a soft fire till the half be consumed; of whose Cola∣ture drink morning and evening.

They say that this doth absolutely out-rout all poyson given by whores and knaves, though it were given three years before. If it do not succeed at first, the patient is to use it often; and by divine assistance he shall ob∣tain the wished event.