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 ...

Decoctum Senae, or a Decoction of Sena.

Take elect Sena three drams, acid Tartar a dram,

Fumitory water warm four ounces. Let them infuse all night, and in the morning let them boil a little, yet so, as that the Tartar may be throughly dissolved, and in the strained Liquor, while it is warm, dissolve of the best Manna six drams. Again strain it, and then add Cinamon water a dram, Elaeosaccharum of Ci∣trons ten grains. Mix them, and make a purging draught for one dose to be given warm.

Virtue and Use. It is a good Purge for the whole Body; for it opens the obstructions of all the Bowels, and mundifies the blood. But in the first place it purgeth Choler both black and yellow, and Flegm also. It cleanseth and strengthens the Head, Brain, Heart, Lungs, Liver, Spleen, and all the Senses of the Body, and carrieth off all that offends them: It retardes Age, increaseth Youth. Moreover it is an excellent Medicine in all chronical, tartarous, and melancholy diseases, as the Epilepsie, Dotage, Deli∣ria's, Heach-ach, Gout, Elephantiasis, Scabs, Pustles, Itch, and all other vices of the Skin. It is also pro∣fitably given to Women with Child and to Children and Men of all ages; for it purgeth modestly with∣out any molestation: But for Children and young Patients half, or a third part of it, is sufficient.