℞ Fine Aloes, Myrrh, both in pouder, English Saffron, a. ℥ j. of the Ʋniversal Spirit ℥ xij. mix: digest seven days, decant, and filter it for use.
It wonderfully comforts the Stomach and Bowels, causes an Appetite, and happily strength∣ens the Brain and all its functions: it is profitably used in malign and Hypochondriack Diseases, and in Diseases of the Womb; it pre∣serves from the Apoplexy and Falling-sickness; it is of mighty use in various kinds of Fevers; and a most noble Medicament for many Diseases, to open Ob∣structions of the Bowels, help the Pleurisy, Vertigo, and Headach: it is a wonderful Aperient or Opener; for which reason, in stoppage of the Terms, Palsy, Jaundies, and Dropsy, it does wonderful things. Dose, à ʒ ij, ad ʒ iv. more or less; as the na∣ture of the Disease, and consti∣tution of the Sick requires.