Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...

7. The Oil against Worms.

℞ Oil-olive lbij. juices of Wormwood, Carduus benedictus, a. lbj. pulp of Coloquintida ℥ ij. Aloes (dissolved in Water) ℥ j. mix, and boil to the consumption of the Juices, and till the Oil has extracted all the virtue of the ingredients, then strain out by pressing: afterwards add Ox or Bulls Gall defecated ℥ xviij. Chy∣mical Oils of Anise, Cumin, and Fennel, a. ℥ ss. mix, and keep it for use.

This Oil, mixt with a sufficient quantity of Milk, or the Broth of a Wethers-head, and given as a Clyster, is an excellent thing to kill all sorts of Worms,

To Children of three, four, or five years old, you may give ab ℥ ss, ad ʒ vj. mixt with ℥ iv, or v. of Milk, for a Clyster: to those who are moderately strong, it may be given to ℥ j. such as are stronger, may re∣ceive it to ℥ j ss. and the strongest Bodies or Constitu∣tions, may have it exhibited to ℥ ij. This Oil is a most excellent Medicine for expel∣ling Worms, and to abate and ease Pains proceeding from a cold cause, from Crudities, Wind, and mucilaginous, tar∣tartarous, or viscous and lapi∣descent Humors; and to expel the fetid nastiness and putrid∣ness of the Humors: it is given also to rouse up such as are sick of a Coma, or afflicted with Sleepy Symptoms or Dis∣eases; and for the more effe∣ctual purging forth all sorts of Humors, without exciting too much heat; which is usual where the Hierae Diacolocynthi∣dos of Logadius and Pachius, with other things of like kind, are given.