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℞ Oil Olive lbij. Red Wine lbj. pulp of Coloquintida ℥ ij. boil to the consumption of the Wine; or for two or three hours, with a gentle fire, till the Oil has drawn forth all the virtue of the Colo∣quintida; then strain out by pres∣sing, and add Chymical Oils of
Aniseeds, Caraways, and Fennel-seeds, a. ʒ iij. mix, and keep it for Clysters.
The Dose is from ʒ j, ad ℥ ij. more or less, according as the occasion may require; being mixt with fat Broth, (and given Clyster-wise) it is an excellent thing against all Sleepy-Diseases, as the Apoplexy, Lethargy, and the like; it operates upon the spot, and with good success, in easing the most vehement pains and disorders of the Colick, chiefly those which proceed from a kind of glassy Phlegm in the Bowels; in which cases, lenitive Purges being only given, are ineffectual, and do no kind of good. For the Oil-olive in this Composition does admi∣rably allay and qualify the acrid and (as it were) venene quality of the Coloquintida; and so being thus prepared, it is not in the least hurtful or prejudi∣cial to the Intestines.