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 ...

5. Powers of Cloves.

℞ Oil of Cloves ℥ j. Tincture of Salt of Cloves made with Spi∣rit of Cloves lbij. mix, and digest. Or thus: ℞ Oil of Cloves, Spirit of Sal Armoniack, a. ℥ j. Spirit of Cloves lbij. mix, and draw off the Powers by distillation. Or thus: ℞ Of the Oil ℥ j. Tincture of Salt of Tartar lbij. mix, and digest, for use.

They comfort all the members, chiefly the Stomach, Heart, Brain, and Bowels; by conserving and augmenting their heat. They mightily help the Liver and Spleen, and restore their lost functions. They are of wonder∣ful efficacy in easing the Pains of the Teeth of what kind soever; for that being of a caustick vir∣tue, they immediately smite as it were the Nerve at the bottom of the Tooth, and master the sharp humor: and for the same reason they cure all sorts of Ul∣cers; for they, by their own

proper Salt in like manner burn∣ing, dissolve and annihilate the burning and caustick Salt of the Ulcer, and both are changed into another substance; and then Na∣ture, by her own Balsamick pro∣perty induces the cicatrice. They are a choice Medicine in Swoon∣ing fits, for they chear the Heart, and strengthen it, and remove all such things there-from, which may any ways hurt it. There is nothing more powerful to pre∣serve from the malignity of a pestilent Air; because they strengthen all the principal members, so as to make them able to resist any poisonous or pestilential impurity. Dose, à ʒ j, ad ʒ ij. in Wine, Broth, or other Vehicle.