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 ...

SECT. XV. Of Lohochs or Eclegma's. (Book 15)

Lohoch Rosatum, or a Lohoch of Roses.

TAke Conserve of Roses tinctured with Spirit of Sulphur four ounces, Lohoch of Coltsfoot roots prepared with Sugar two ounces, species Diar∣rhodon Abbatis an ounce, Lac Sulphuris half an ounce, red Oriental Bole prepared, juyce of Liquorish extracted, of each two drams; Oriental Saffron prepared a dram, flowers of Benjamin, Cardamoms the less, Mace, of each half a dram; Balsam of Sulphur prepared with Oyl of Aniseeds a scruple, true Oyl of Roses four grains. Mix

them, and with our simple Pectoral Syrup make a Lohoch.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It helps those who are trou∣bled with continual Coughs, Hoarsness, Pleurisies, &c. It brings offensive matter from the Lungs with ease, and effectually heals purulent Exulcerations as well of the Breast as Lungs, and takes away the ill smell thence proceeding. It also helps those who spit blood. The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut taken often.

Lohoch Violatum, or Lohoch of Violets.

Take fresh Conserve of Violets tinged with our Elixir of Sulphur four ounces, Lohoch sanum & expert. two oun∣ces, species of Diamargariton frigid. Diaireos simple, of each half an ounce; compound flowers of Sulphur, Ex∣tract of Liquorish roots, of each three drams; Oriental Saffron prepared, Styrax Calamit. of each a scruple; Oyl of Hyssop and Benjamin, of each four grains. Mix them, and with our compound Pectoral Syrup make a Pectoral Lohoch.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. This Medicine is experi∣mented in the Cough, Asthma, Phthisick, difficulty of breathing and straitness of the Breast, and in other diseases of the Breast and Lungs. The dose is the same as before.

Lohoch Pectorale, or a Pectoral Lohoch.

Take both our simple and compound pectoral Syrups, of each two ounces; Lohoch of Coltsfoot roots, of sanum & expertum, of each an ounce; Manus Christi with Ani∣seeds prepared six drams, species Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce, green Ginger, of each three drams. Mix them, and make a Pectoral Lohoch according to Art.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is a certain Medicine for a Cough and Hoarsness coming of cold or thick Flegm

contained in the Thorax and Lungs. It is a present Remedy for all distempers of the Breast, difficulty of Breathing, Pleurisie, pain of the Ribs, &c. The dose is the quantity of a Nutmeg often in the day.

Lohoch seu Diacodium Crocatum, or a Lohoch or Diacodium with Saffron.

Take of the heads and seeds of white Poppy twenty one, sweet Bean cods, the seeds being cast away, roots of Liquorish, of each three ounces; seeds of Bombace, Marsh mallows and Quinces, Myrtle-berries, of each half an ounce; fat Figs, Dates and Sebestens, of each eleven; flowers of great red Mallows, Violets and Hearts-ease, of each two drams. Boil them in a sufficient quantity of Fountain-water according to Art. Then take of this Decoction being strained two pound, Sugar Candy rosated, Penids, of each half a pound. Make of all a thick Syrup: Then toward the end of the Prepara∣tion add Syrup of the juyce of wild Poppies, Iujubes, of each two ounces; Extract of Saffron half a dram. Mix them, and over a gentle fire let them boil to the consistence of Honey, which aromatize with a scru∣ple of Gallia Moschata.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is a great Secret in all hot, thin, sharp, and salt Defluxions and Destillations from the Head upon the Thorax and rough Artery, which cause continual Coughs and Watchings: For it lenifies the roughness of the Throat, and matu∣rates the Spittle, by making it thick and glutinous, and fit to expectorate. It allays thirst, mitigates heat, and procures sleep: Also by cooling and moist∣ning it roborates the Spirits, repairs strength, and preserves the native heat. Moreover it cannot be expressed how profitable it is for those who are affli∣cted with the Colick, Stone, and Gravel, Pleurisie Gout, &c. It is also good for the over-great excre∣tion

and evacuation of the Blood and Terms; nay 'tis of good use in burning Feavers, Fluxes of the Belly, Dysenteries, &c. which are caused by a sharp and cholerick matter. The dose is from a dram to two, three or four.

Lohoch Antiphthisicum, or a Lohoch for the Con∣sumption or wasting of the Lungs.

Take of our Diacodium crocatum four ounces, Lo∣hoch sanum & expertum and de pulmone Vulpis, of each two ounces; our white, red and citrine pectoral Rotula's, of each an ounce; our simple and compound pectoral Sy∣rups, of each six drams; green Ginger half an ounce, species Diarrhodon Abbatis, Diamargariton frigid. of each two drams. Mix them, and with an Emulsion made of white Poppy seeds, and the water of Calves Lungs an ounce and a half, over a gentle sire boil it to the consistence of a Lohoch.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is of great efficacy and power in the Phthilick, Asthma, Cough, Pleurisie, Catarrh, Hoarsness, and other vices of the Thorax and Lungs: It extenuates those humors that are hard to be spit forth, and induceth sleep. The dose is the quantity of a Hazel-nut often in the day.