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CHAP. X. An Electuary that helpeth the Cough with great speed and ease.
THe Cough is caused of a Catarrous humour, and coldnesse of the stomack, and therefore if yee will help it, it were necessary to have a remedy that doth ripen the Catarre, and mollifie the stomack, and the order to make it is thus.
Take Enula Campana ℥. iiii. Marsh Mallowes ℥. xii. Quin∣ces ℥. xvi. But if yee cannot get Quinces, yee may take Mar∣malade ready made, and boil it in fair water with the said roots untill they be dry, then stamp them in a morter, and strein them through a streiner, then take for every pound of that matter two pound of white Hony, and boil them to∣gether, but boil them not too much: then take it from the fire, and put thereunto for every pound of the aforesaid mat∣ter ℈. i. of Saffron, and ʒ. i. of Cinamon, and ℥. ii. of Sul∣phur, and ℈. i. of Licorice, and then incorporate them well together, and aromatise it with musk and Rosewater, and this yee shall use morning and evening, for this is of so great ver∣tue, that it is to be wondred at, because the Mallowes doe mollifie, the Enula Campana doth warm, and causeth digesti∣on, and comforteth the Stomack: the Quinces are cordiall and warm, the Sulphur is a great drier, the which destroyeth the evill humours of the body, the Saffron comforteth the heart, the Cinamon is stomackall, the Licorice is mollificative, and digesteth the matter: so that of force this Electuary must help any kind of Cough, except it come of the Pox, for then it will doe small pleasure▪ as I have proved.