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Electuarium Passulatum. Page 117. in the Latin Book.
The Colledg] Take of fresh Polypodium roots, three ounces; fresh Marsh-Mallow roots, Senna, of each two ounces, Annis seeds two drachms, steep them all in a glazed Vessel in a sufficient quantity of spring water, boyl them according to art; strain it and with Pulp of Raisons of the Sun half a pound, white Sugar, Manna, of each four ounces; boyl it to the thickness of a Cydoniate, and renew it four times a yeer.
Culpeper] A. The Colledg are so mysterious in this Receipt, a man can hardly give directions how to make it, for they give only incertainties.
A. You had best, first boyl the Roots in three pints of water to a quart, then put in the Senna, and seeds, boyl it to a pint and an half, then strain it and ad the rest; the Manna will melt of it self as well as the Sugar, indeed you had best dissolve the Manna by it self in some of the Decoction, and so strain it because of its dross.
A. It gently purgeth both choller and melancholly, clenseth the reins and bladder, and therefore is good for the stone and gravel in the kidnies. I leave out the dose till the Colledg have learned wit enough to make the Receipt plainer.