Nine books of physick and chirurgery written by that great and learned physitian, Dr Sennertus. The first five being his Institutions of the whole body of physick: the other four of fevers and agues: with their differences, signs, and cures.

CHAP. XXI. Of Trochees.

TRochees, that is, Rolls and Cycliscoi & Artiscoi in Greek, that is, * 1.1 Pills or little round Balls are solid Medicines, cohering and consisting of convenient things, taken in a Li∣quour made commonly in the form of Lupine-seeds, their circumference sometimes round, sometimes with a corner, both of them smooth without-side, invented principally for that end, that Medicines reduced into Pouder may be kept the safer in this solid figure from the injuries of the air.

There are a sort of Trochees amongst the universal Medi∣cines, * 1.2 and such as are for all uses almost, and may be exhi∣bited according to the nature of the Medicines whereof they are compounded, and afford convenient matter for

many other compositions, for some purge, some open ob∣structions of the Liver and Spleen, others provoke Courses, others open the obstructions of the Reins, some mitigate heat, some are appointed for the Breast and Lungs, some strengthen the Brain, some stop Fluxes, and stench Bloud, some are exhibited externally, or that may repress humours that are flowing, or take away proud flesh, such like are Pills or Lozenges, of Polyidae and Andronis; or to cause sumes and suffumigations.

The materials whereof they are made, are Medicines of every sort, which being macerated in a convenient Liquour, or made into some mussellage are reduced into one mass, which are divided into many Lozenges and Pills, wherein for the most part some impression is made; they are made either by a gentle fire, or rather are dried in the shade, and kept for use; not onely Pouders and Species, but thickned Juices also, Conserves, Extracts, Fresh-flowers, Eclegmaes, and distilled Oyls, are made into Trochees.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Trochees.
• * 1.2

  The way of preparing them.