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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The enervat, or hanging members are twice a day to be rubbed, first with hard sharp clothes; afterward with the spirit drawn out of the berries, and inebriate with the essence of Cepha∣lick herbs. So those gross and viscid humors that trouble the nerves, and compresse them, and stop the passage of the animal spirits, will be attenuate, and dissipate, and the stupified spirits will be raised and allured.

Nevertheless, lest by these hot, and much drying spirits, the matter it self and nevres should be hardned, you are to mix with the oyl of the infusion of the flowers of the Elder a third of the oyl drawn from the Kernels of its berries, and this will attemperate the

too too much exsiccating heat, and ne∣vertheless digest and consume the matter. In this case likewise, the decoction of the root of the Elder and Ebulus in simple water is much praised.

And seeing oft times the Palsie of the tongue, and difficulty of speaking remains, the tongue is oft times to be rub'd, and humectated with a sponge, dipped in the Apoplectick spirit of the Elder.