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 those that are come to age.

In those that are come to age 'tis first necessary above all things, to purge the body well.

In the Spring time macerate the bark of the roots of Elder in the whey of Cows milk, which being dulcerat with Sugar, let him each morning take a hearty draught thereof.

Or,

• Take the Polichrestick powder of the buds two scruples, or one drachme.

• Of recent Rob of the Elder, well thickned with good Sugar, as much as will make a bole.

Or take the prescribed bole; dis∣solve it in the whey of Milk, add thereto the Syrup made of Juice of the buds and berries, ounce I. mix it; prepare a draught: But if the Patient be prone to vomit, give him the oyl expressed out of the kernels.

The spirit of the flowers and berries of the Elder in, and out of the Paro∣xysm, is of great power; but it may be made more efficacious thus:

• R. Take of the middle bark of the Elder,
• Of the roots of Poeonie, of each six drachms,
• Of dried Elder leaves and buds,
• Of Lynden-tree flowers, of each one handful.
• Of Rew-seed two drach.
• Of the Berries of herb Paris, numb. 20.
• Of Jews-ears, numb. 6.

This being cut and pounded, put as

much of the spirit of the Elder there∣on, as will be a hand broad high above them, and in a hot place, and well stop∣ped vessel, macerate them eight daies; distil them in glass vessels in B. M. till they be dry; mix with them the di∣stilled spirits, the salt drawn out of its dregs, and keep it for the Anti-Epi∣leptick Spirit of the Elder.

Whereof give a whole, or half spoon∣ful to the Epileptick in the time of his Paroxisme; afterwards using it every quarter of the Moon, to dissi∣pate the Epileptick corruption by sweating; or insensible transpiration▪ and to guard the brain.

With this same, in the time of the fit, rub the nostrils, gums, and pallat, adding thereto a Grain or two of Castor.

Herein likewise excels the tincture and extract of Granorum Actes; the preparation and using of which is set down in the 31 Chapter out of Quer∣cetan.

Or,

• Take of Granorum actes scrup. 1.
• Of the berries of Herb Paris, pul∣verised, half a scrup.

Mix them, and form pils thereof, numb. 15. or being dissolved in the Anti epileptick Spirit of the Elder∣give them in the Paroxisme.

Mark by the way, That the berries of herb Paris, called by some Bear or Wolf grapes, is held by some Matrons, as a great secret against the Epilepsie: and they give them ever in an un∣equal number, as 3, 5, 7 or 9, in the water of Linden Tree flowers or of the roots of Squamaria; which I my self have found effectual in some chil∣dren. Seeing these berries are mixt with some Antidotes, especially with the Saxonian, and half a drachm of the seeds of these berries, as Matthiolus relates, being given, avail much a∣gainst long sickness, and Witchcraft, it should not seem strange to any man, that they much help in the Epilepsie, if they consider seriously the maligne

nature of the Epileptick vapor, and its enmity with the brain.

Some affirm, that the water of the flowers drawn up into the nose pre∣vails much against the Epilepsie and Vertigo. In the same affects the eyes and face are to be washed oft with this water.

Anoint gently, in the fit it self, the contracted members, with the oyl of the flowers of the first description, that thereby the Acrimony of the hu∣mors and vapors may be mitigate, that the matter may be dissipate, and the nerves comforted.

The oyl of the second and third description, or the distilled oyl, is much commended; if the palmes of the hands, and soles of the feet, if the temples of the head and nape of the neck be anointed therewith.