Phylonium Romanum. Page 107. in the Latin Book.
The Colledg] Take of white Pepper, White Hen∣bane seeds of each five drachms, Opium two drachms and an halfe, Cassia Lignea a drachm and an halfe, the seeds of Smallage a drachm, Parsly of Macedonia, Fennel, Carrots of Creet of each two scruples and five grains, Saffron a scruple and an half, Indian Spick∣nard, Pellitory of Spain, Zedoary, fisteen grains, Cinnamon a drachm and an halfe, Euphorbium prepa∣red, Mirrh, Castorium, of each a drachm, with their trebble waight in clarified Honey, make it into an Electuary.
Culpeper] A. It is a most exquisite thing to ease vehement and deadly pains in what part of the body soever they be, whether internal or external: that vehemency of pain will bring a feaver, and a feaver, death, no man well in his wits will deny; therefore in such diseases which cause vehemency of pain, as Chollicks, the Stone, Strangury &c. this may be given (ordered by the discretion of an able brain, for it conduceth little to the cure) to mitigate the ex∣tremity of pain, until convenient remedy may be had: (as men pump water out before they can stop the hole in a leaking vessel.) As for other vertues which Au∣thors say this Electuary hath, I shall pass them by, resting confident that other remedies may be found out for them in this Book, as effectual, and less dan∣gerous; and because the former Electuary is not much unlike to this in some particulars, take the same caution in that also. I would not have the vul∣gar meddle with this, nor the former.