I could tell Mr. Printer - if I dare be so bold - that he had more Tongue than Wit.

 

Dipenidion - Nich.

Take of Penidies, two ounces; Pinenuts, Sweet Almonds blanched, White Poppy seeds, of each three drams and one scruple; Cinnamon, Cloves, Ginger, juice of Liquoris, Gum Tragacanth and Arabic, White Starch, the Four Greater Cold Seeds husked, of each one dram and a half; Camphire, seven grains; White Sugar, so much as is sufficient.

Make it into a powder, and with Syrup of Violets you may make it up in form of an electuary.

I could tell Mr. Printer - if I dare be so bold - that he had more tongue than wit, when he made that Apology at the latter end of the College's masterpiece; for at the last sentence of this receipt, here are certain words left out, and amongst them the principal verb, which how gross an error it is, I leave to the consideration of every scholar who is able to translate a piece of Latin into English.

It helps the vices of the breast, coughs, colds, hoarseness, and consumptions of the lungs, as also such as spit matter.

You may mix it with any pectorial syrup and take it with a liquoris stick, if you fancy the powder best; but if the electuary, you may take a drachm of it upon a knife's point at any time when the cough comes. 

Diarhodon Abattis - Nicholaus.

Take of White and Red Sanders, of each two drachms and a half; Gum Tragacanth and Arabic, Spodium, of each two scruples; Afarabacca, Mastic, Indian Spikenard, Cardamoms, Liquoris, Saffron, wood of Aloes, Cloves, Gallia Moscata, Annis seeds and Sweet Fennel seeds, Cinnamon, Rhubarb, the seeds of Basil, the stones of Barberries, the seeds of Endive, Purslain, Gourds, Cucumbers, Citruls, Melons and White Poppies, of each a scruple; Pearls, bones of a Stag's Heart, of each half a scruple; Sugar Candy, Red Roses, of each an ounce and three drams; Camphire, seven grains; Musk, four grains.

Beat them all into a powder; also, with eight times their weight in sugar dissolved in Rosewater, you may form it into an electuary. 

It cools the violent heat of the heart and stomach, as also of the liver, lungs and spleen; easeth pains in the body, and most infirmities coming to the body by reason of heat. 

The dose of the powder is half a dram and two ounces of the electuary.

Dispoliticum - Galen.

Take of Cumin seeds prepared, Long Pepper, dried Rue, of each one ounce; Salt Nitre, half an ounce.

Beat them into powder.

It is an admirable remedy for such whose meat is putrified in their stomachs; it helps cold stomachs, cold belchings and windy. 

You may take half a drachm after meat, either in a spoonful of Muscatel or in a Syrup of Myrtles or Quinces, or any cordial water whose effects is the same. The directions at the beginning of the Book shall instruct you in all such cases. 

Species Electuarii Diatragacanthi Frigidi - Nicholaus.

Take of Gum Arabic, one ounce and two drachms; Gum Tragacanth, two ounces; White Starch, half an ounce; Liquoris, the seeds of Melons, White Poppies, Citruls, Cucumbers, Gourds, of each two drachms; Penidies, three ounces; Camphire, half a scruple.

Beat them into powder according to art. Also, you may take an electuary of them with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Violets; but have a care of what was told you before of the seeds (quoth the College).

If you please to put in the cold seeds - which the Reverend College appoints to be left out till the powder come to be used, and then 'tis impossible to put them in, as I showed you before - and so make it up into an electuary.

Then, I can tell you what the virtues are. It helps the faults of the breast and lungs coming of heat and dryness; it helps consumptions, leanness, inflammations of the sides, pleurisies etc., hot and dry coughs, roughness of the tongue and jaws.

But how to make ought of the receipt as the College have ordered it, belongs to another Oedipus and not to me. It is your best way to make the electuary very moist, and take now and then a little of it with a Liquoris stick. 

Species Electuarii Diatrion Piperion - Galeni.

Take of the three sorts of Pepper*, of each six drachms and fifteen grains; Annis seeds, Thyme, Ginger, of each one drachm.

* Viz. Long, White and Black.

Beat them into powder, and with sugar dissolved in Rosemary flower water, or honey - as the case shall require - it may be made into an electuary.

It heats the stomach and expels wind. 

Half a drachm in powder, or two drachms in electuary if age and strength permit; if not, half so much is a sufficient dose, to be taken before meat if to heat the stomach and help digestion, after meat if to expel wind. 

Species Electuarii Diatrion Santalor - Nicholaus.

Take of the three sorts of Sanders*, Red Roses, Sugar Candy, of each three drachms; Rhubarb, Spodium, juice of Liquoris, Puslain seeds, of each two drachms and fifteen grains; White Starch, Gum Arabic and Tragacanth, the seeds of Melons, Cucumbers, Citruls, Gourds, Endive, of each a drachm and a half; Camphire, a scruple.

* viz. Red, White and Yellow. 

Beat them all into powder, and with eight times their weight in sugar dissolved in Rosewater, you may make it into an electuary. 

It is very profitable against the heat of the stomach and liver; besides it wonderfully helps such as have the yellow jaundice and consumptions of the lungs.

You may safely take a drachm of the powder, or two drachms of the electuary in the morning fasting.

Pulvis Haly.

Take of White Poppy seeds, ten drachms; Gum Arabic, White Starch, Tragacanth, of each three drachms; the seeds of Purslain, Marsh Mallows, Mallows, of each five drachms; the seeds of Cucumbers, Melons, Gourds, Citruls, Quinces, of each seven drachms; Spodium, Liquoris, of each three drachms; Penidies, the weight of them all.

Beat them into a powder.

It is a gallant cool powder, fit for all hot imperfections of the breast and lungs, as consumptions, pleurisies etc.

Your best way is to make it into a soft electuary with Syrup of Violets, and take it as Diatragacanthum Frigidum.

Latificans - ascribed to Galen.

Take of the flowers of Clove Basil*, or else the seeds thereof, Saffron, Zedoary, wood of Aloes, Cloves, Citron peel, Galanga, Mace, Nutmegs, Styrex, Calamitis, of each two drachms and a half; shavings of Ivory, Annis seeds, Thyme, Epithimum, of each one drachm; Bone of a Stag's Heart, Pearls, Camphire, Ambergris, Musk, of each a drachm; leaves of Gold and Silver, of each half a scruple.

* I take that to be the greatest sort of Basil, called once before Ocinum Citratum, and here Caryophilatum, Citron or Clove Basil.

Beat them into powder according to art, and so keep them diligently for your use.

It causes a merry heart, a good colour, helps digestion, and keeps back old age.

You may mix half a drachm of it to take at one time, or less if you please, in any cordial syrup or cordial electuary appropriated to the same used. See Directions.