Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum, or, A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases : obtained by labour, confirmed by practice, and published out of good will to mankind : being a work of great use for the publick / written originally in Latine by ... Hadrianus à Mynsicht ...; and faithfully rendred into English by John Partridge ...

Electuarium Stomachicum, or an Electuary for the Stomach.

Take sweet Almonds eight ounces, aromatical Reed, white Ginger and Grains of Paradise, of each an ounce; Water-mint, Zedoary, Iuniper-berries, roots of Burnet, of each six drams; of Avens, Tormentil, Elicampane and Water-flag, of each half an ounce; the lesser Ga∣langal, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves, elect Mastich, long Pepper, Cinamon and Cummin seeds, of each two drams. All being pulverized, mix them, and with a suffi∣cient quantity of Sugar dissolved in our Aqua stoma∣chali, make an Electuary; to which add of our Eli∣xir of Vitriol a sufficient quantity to make it tart, or you may use it without if you please.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It roborates the Stomach by heat, corrects its softness, and helps its imbecillity. It helps Concoction, and raiseth a dejected Appetite. It comforts the lower Venter, and all the instru∣ments of nutrition. It is almost a peculiar Remedy for all cold Distempers; but it is especially found

to dry the superfluous humidities of the Stomach. The dose by it self, is morning, noon, and night the quantity of a Nutmeg, drinking after it three or four spoonfuls of Spanish Wine, or an ounce of our Sto∣machical water.