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 ...

The Cure of Children.

To Infants new-born, before you give them any thing to swallow, you may give them with great profit. a

spoonful of the syrup of the infusion of the flowers, or juice of the Elder∣berries, to evacuate that putrid, yel∣lowish, and sometime blackish water gathered in the stomach, and parts a∣bout, while the infant is in the mo∣thers belly.

For these Syrups do not only change and evacuate, but they also preserve from, and resist malignity.

Macerate a handful of Elder flow∣ers well dried in the wine, which the best sort use to wash their new-born babes in; for it consumes the humors gathered about the joynts, and com∣forts the members. This is also com∣mended, Take of the powder of the simple buds 1 drach. of the whitest Sugarcandie 1 drach. of the berries of herb Paris Number 6. pulverise them most subtilly, of which give half a scru∣ple for 9 days together, in the water of Elder flowers, or any other conveni∣ent liquor you please.

In the Paroxisme, the least spoon∣full of the spirit of the flowers given

with three or five of the seeds of Peo∣ny excorticat, is praised.

Or, of Peony excorticat 2 drach. of the best water of Elder-flowers one ounce and a half, of Linden flower∣water half an ounce.

Make an Emulsion according to art, which being edulcerate Rotalis manus Christi perlatis, give it by spoon∣fuls.

Let the Nurse sometimes take the Conserves, Syrup, or water of Elder flowers, or having taken the spirit, juice, or extract of the berries, let her provoke smell, that thereby her milk being clear of the sharper and more malignant serosities, may be the more wholsom.

I knew an infant, which being ta∣ken sometime with Epileptick fits, each day, with a great deal of crying, and pain of belly, did dung a yellow∣ish greenish matter; whom neither Clysters, nor cleansing Linctussies did any good. I counselled his mother, seeing I saw her milk more serous and

thin, that she should twice or thrice a week take the rhob, or juice of the El∣der-berries, mixt with burn'd Harts∣horns; and drink a draught of the water of the flowers above it, and pro∣voke her self to sweat in her bed, or couch: Which being done, not only the Epileptick fits, but also those pain∣full wringings of the childs belly did cease; and by little and little, the ex∣crements came to their natural form.