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 Conclusion.

THese things, Courteous and kind Reader, I thought fit to set down of the Elder, and the use thereof, and Medicines. Those Dishes which may be prepared of the flowers and ber∣ries, at that time, when they are to be had in great abundance green: for the preventing of many diseases; see∣ing they are well known to Cooks by daily experience. To what diseases they agree, is known by what is said. If there occur any thing here which doth not please you, it is your part fa∣vourably to construct it, and to with∣hold the censure, till you try all things more exactly in the infallible ballance of reason and experience.

I leave, for praise▪ nor crave; For praise enough I have; If not contemned by thee, Courteous Reader, I be.

If those things that are omitted, obscure, or not rightly delivered, be by thy more pollisht judgment added, illustrated and corrected, thou shalt deserve infinite favours from me, and all those honorers of Medicine and Nature: For nothing can be more happy then to know much; and we are to learn, that we way know. Nei∣ther at any time was there any of such qualified reason, but things, age, and use will afford-him some new objects, some new observations: So that what thou thoughtst thou knewst, thou un∣knowst; and despisest that upon thy tryal, which thou didst most trust. For there was never any thing more unrighteous then an unjust man, which holds and believes nothing right, but what he fathers.

Farewel, and what ere thou art, fa∣vour these endeavors; and together with me in this wonderful and unex∣haustible variety of things, devoutly admire, and piously worship, the un∣searchable depths of Divine Wisdom and Goodness.