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Emplastrum Hystericum. Page 179. in the Latin Book.
The Colledg] Take of Bistort roots one pound, Wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, Nutmegs, Barbery Kernels, Rose seeds, of each one ounce, Cinnamon, Cloves, Squinanth, Camomel flowers, of each half an ounce, Frankinsence, Mastich, Alipta Moschata, Gallia Moschata, Styrax Calamitis, of each one dram, Mosch half a drachm, yellow Wax one pound and an half, Turpentine half a pound, Moschaleum four oun∣ces, Labdanum four pound, Ship-pitch three pound, let the Labdanum and Turpentine, be added to the pitch and Wax, being melted, then the Styrax, lastly the rest in pouder, and sisted, that they may be made in∣to a Plaister according to art.
Culpeper] A. I know not justly what they mean by that word [Anthera] in the Receipt, unless they mean the hairy threeds in the middle of the Rose, which usually Country People call (though faslv) Rose seeds: As I take it Apothecaries call them by an apish name Anthera Rosarum, of the Greek 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the flowers of Roses. But indeed Ancients, as Galen &c. gave the word Anthera to many Compound medicines that had no Roses at all in them: but I cannot stand to dispute the story here. The plaister being applied to the navil, is a means to withstand the fits of the mother in such wo∣men as are subject to them, by retaing the womb in its place.