They have gotten many Greek names, almost as many as a Welshman.

 

Troches.

If any cavil at this name and think it hardly English, let them give a better and I shall be thankful. I know no other English name but will fall far below it. They have gotten many Greek names, almost as many as a Welshman; τροχουχοι, χοχλισνοι and αρτισνοι. The Latins, besides the Greek names, Trochisci, and Pastilli, and Placentulae.

Although a man may make them into what form he pleases, yet they are usually made into little flat thin cakes of a scruple or twenty grains in weight, plus minus. Some print images (as of serpents upon Troches of Vipers) upon them; some gild them with leaf-gold. Some do neither. 

They were first invented by the ancients, that powders being brought into this form may be kept pure the longer, for the virtues of the powders will soon exhale by intromission of the air, which the thick body of the troches resist. Also, such as are pectorial are the easier carried in one's pocket. 

Few of them are taken by themselves, but mixed with other compositions. 

Troches of Wormwood - Mesue. 

Take of Red Roses, Wormwood (it seems the College give the name Absinthium Ponticum with some other distinctions not here mentioned both to Roman and Common Wormwood), Annis, of each two drachms; Rhubarb, juice of Eupatorium or Maudlin, Asarabacca, the seeds of Smallage, Bitter Almonds, Indian Spikenard, Mastic, Indian Leaf or Mace, of each one drachm; juice of Succory, so much as is sufficient to make it into troches according to art.

They strengthen the stomach exceedingly, open obstructions or stoppings of the belly or bowels, strengthen digestion, open the passages of the liver, help the yellow jaundice, and consume watery superfluities of the body.

They are somewhat bitter, and seldom taken alone; if your palate affect bitter things, you may take a drachm of them in the morning. They cleanse the body of choler, but purge not, or not to any purpose.

Trochisci Alexiterii - Renodaeus.

Take of the roots of Gentian, Tormentil, Orris, Florentine, Zedoary, of each two drams; Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, of each half a dram; Angelica roots, three drachms; Coriander seeds prepared, Roses, of each one drachm; dried Citron pills, two drams. Beat them all into powder, and with juice of Liquoris softened in Hippocras, six ounces; make them into a soft paste, which you may form into either troches or small rolls, which you please.

It preserves and strengthens the heart exceedingly, helps fainting and failings of the vital spirits, resists poison and the pestilence, and is an excellent medicine for such to carry about them whose occasions are to travail in pestilential places and corrupt air. 

Only take a very small quantity, now and then.

Trochisci Aliptae Moschatae - Nich.

Take of pure Labdanum bruised, three ounces; Styrax Calamitis, an ounce and a half; Benzoin, an ounce; wood of Aloes, two drachms; Ambergris, one drachm; Camphire, half a drachm; Musk, half a scruple; Rosewater, so much as is sufficient to make it into troches.

It is singular good for such as are asthmatic and can hardly fetch their breath, as also for young children whose throat is so narrow that they can hardly swallow down their milk. 

A very little taken at a time is enough for a man's body, and too much for a poor man's purse. For young children, give them four or five grains at a time in a little breast milk.

Troches of Annis Seeds - Mesue.

Take of Annis seeds, the juice of Maudlin made thick, of each two drachms; the seeds of Dill, Spikenard, Mastic, Indian Leaf or Mace, the leaves of Wormwood, Asarabacca, Smallage, Bitter Almonds, of each half a drachm; Aloes, two drachms; juice of Wormwood, so much as is sufficient to make it into troches according to art.

They open obstructions of the liver, and that very gently, and therefore diseases coming thereof, helps quartan agues. 

You can scarce do amiss in taking them if they please but your palate. 

Trochici Bechici Albi, or Pectorial Rolls.

Take of White Sugar, a pound; White Sugar Candy; Penidies, of each four ounces; Liquoris, six drams; the roots of Orris; Florentine, half an ounce; White Starch, an ounce and a half; Mussilage of Gum Tragananth made with Rosewater, so much as is sufficient to make it into troches, three grains of Musk and four grains of Ambergris being added to it.

Also, you may make it into rolls which they commonly call pectorial rolls, and if you please you may make it without Musk and Ambergris. 

Trochisci Bechici Nigri - Rhasis.

Take of juice of Liquoris, White Sugar, of each ten drams; Gum Tragacanth, Sweet Almonds blanched, of each five drachms; Mussilage of Quinces, as much as is sufficient to make it into troches.

Both this and the former will melt in one's mouth, and in that manner to be used by such as are troubled with coughs, colds, hoarseness or want of voice; the former is most in use , but in my opinion the last is most effectual. 

You may take them at any time when the cough troubles you, and this convenience you shall find in troches more than in any other physick; you may carry them anywhether, in your pocket in a paper without spoiling, though you travail as far as the East Indies.

Troches of Barberries - Mesue.

Take of dried Barberries, juice of Liquoris, Spodium, Purslain seeds, of each three drachms; Red Roses, six drams; Indian Spikenard, Saffron, White Starch, Gum Tragacanth, of each one drachm; Citrul seeds, three drachms and a half; Camphire, half a dram. Make it up with Manna made soft with the juice of Barberries according to art. 

They wonderfullycool the heat of the liver, reins and bladder, breast and stomach, and stop looseness, cools the heat in fevers. They are very fit for bodies that are distempered with heat to carry about with them when they travail, they may take them at any time.

I suppose their mother wit will teach them that it is best to take them when the stomach is empty. I cannot write everything, neither if I did should I please everybody; I had as leave undertake (with the Sicilian Philosopher) to teach an ass to speak as to teach a dunce physick. 

Troches of Camphire - Mesue.

Take of Red Roses, four drachms; Spodium, Liquoris, of each two drachms; of the Four Greater Cold Seeds, Gum Tragacanth, Saffron, Gum Arabic, Indian Spikenard, of each one drachm; Yellow Sanders, two drachms and a half; wood of Aloes, Cardomoms the Greater, White Starch, Camphire, of each two scruples; White Sugar, Manna, of each three drachms; Mussilage, of the seeds of Fleawort (Psillium), made with Rosewater as much as is sufficient to make it into troches.

It is exceeding good in burning fevers, heat of blood and choler, together with hot distempers of the stomach and liver, and extreme thirst coming thereby; also, it is good against the yellow jaundice, ptisicks and hectic fevers.

You may use these as the former. 

Troches of Capers - Mesue.

Take of the bark of Caper roots, the seeds of Agnus Castus, of each six drams; Gum Amoniacum, Nigella seeds, Calaminth, Acorus, juice of Maudlin made thick, Bitter Almonds, the leaves of Rue, Round Birthwort roots, the seeds of Watercress, of each two drachms; Ceterach, roots of Cyperus, of each one drachm. Dissolve the Amoniacum in sharp vinegar, the mix the rest of the powders with it, that so they may be made up into troches.

They open stoppings of the liver and spleen, and help diseases thereof coming, as rickets, hypochondriac melancholy, etc. 

Men may take a drachm, children a scruple in the morning. You need not ask how children should take it; 'tis well if you can get them to take it anyhow. 

Trochisci Cypheos - Democrat.

Take of the pulp of Raisins of the Sun, Turpentine boiled, of each three ounces; Myrrh, Schoenanthus, of each one ounce and a half; Calamus, Aromaticus, nine drams; Cinnamon, half an ounce; Bdellium, Indian Spikenard, CAssia, Lignea, Cyperus, Juniper berries, of each three drachms; Aspalathus or Lignum Aloes, two drams and a half; Saffron, one drachm; clarified Honey, so much as is sufficient. Let the Myrrh and Bdellium be ground so long in a mortar with a little Wine till it be brought to the thickness of Honey; then, add the Honey with the pulp of Raisins last of all, all the rest beated into fine powder, and so make them into troches according to art. 

It is excellent good against inward ulcers in what part of the body, soever they be. It is chiefly used in compositions as Treacle and Mithridate. 

Trochisci Diarhodon - Mesue.

Take of the flowers of Red Roses, six drachms; Spikenard, wood of Aloes, of each two drachms; Liquoris, three drams; Spodium, one dram; Saffron, half a dram; Mastic, two drachms. Make them up into troches with White Wine according to art.

They wonderfully ease fevers coming of phlegm, as quotidian fevers, agues, epialos, etc., pains in the belly. 

Trochisci de Eupatorio - Mesue.

Take of Manna, the juice of Maudlin made think, of each an ounce; Red Roses, half an ounce; Spodium (that is, Burnt Ivory), three drams and a half; Indian Spikenard, three drachms; Rhubarb, Asarabacca, Annis seeds, of each two drams. With Dodder water, let them be made into troches; let the Manna be dissolved with the juice, then the rest of the powders sprinkled in by degrees. 

Obstructions or stoppings, and swelling above nature both of the liver and spleen are cured by the inward taking of these troches, and diseases thereof coming, as yellow and black jaundice, the beginning of dropsies, etc. 

Take them as troches of Wormwood.

Trochisci de Gallia Moschata - Mesue.

Take of wood of Aloes, five drams; Ambergris, three drams; Musk, one dram. With a sufficient quantity of Mussilage of Gum Tragacanth made in Rosewater, make them into troches according to art, and dry them in the shadow. 

They strengthen the brain and heart, and by consequence both vital and animal spirit, and cause a sweet breath. 

They are of an extreme price, therefore I pass by the dose.

Trochisci Gordonii.

Take of the Four Greater and the Four Lesser Cold Seeds cleansed, the seeds of White Poppies, Mallows, Cotton, Purslain, Quinces, Myrtles, Gum Tragacanth and Arabic, Pine Nuts, Fistick Nuts, Sugar Candy, Penidies, Liquoris, French Barley, Mussilage of Fleawort (Psyllium), Sweet Almonds, of each an ounce; Bole Aremnick, Dragon's Blood, Spodium, Roses, Myrrh, of each two ounces. Let them, being beaten into powder, be made in troches with Hydromol (viz. Water and Honey).

They are held to be very good in ulcers of the bladder, and all other inward ulcers whatsoever, and ease fevers coming thereby, being of a fine cooling, slippery, heating nature. 

You may mix half a dram of them with syrup of Marshmallow, or any other syrup or water appropriated to these uses. They ease the pains of the stone much. 

Trochisci Hedicroi - Adromacus, out of Galen.

Take of Herb Mastic (Marum), Asarabacca, Marjoram, Aspalathus or Yellow Sanders, of each two drams; Schoenanth, Calamus, Aromaticus, Valerian, Xtlobalsamum or wood of Loes, Opobalsamum or Oil of Nutmegs by expression, Cinnamon, Costus, of each three drachms; Myrrh, Indian Leaf or Mace, Indian Spikenard, Saffron, Cassia, Lignea, of each six drachms; Amomus or Cardamoms the Smaller, an ounce and a half; Mastic, a drachm; Spanish Wine, so much as is sufficient. First, let the Saffron, being in powder, be diligently ground with the Wine; let then the Myrrh and Mastic both in fine powder be added, then the Opobalsamum, and last of all the rest of the powders, and so made up into troches and dried in the shadow. 

They are very seldom or never used but in other compositions, yet naturally they heat cold stomachs, help digestion, strengthen the heart and brain. 

Trochisci Hysterici - Renodaeus.

Take of Asafoetida, Galbanum, of each two drachms and a half; Myrrh, two drachms; Castorium, a dram and a half; Asarabacca, Birthwort, Savin, Featherfew, Nep, of each one drachm; Dittany, half a drachm. Either with juice of Rue or decoction of the same, make it into Troches according to art. 

These troches are applied to the feminine gender; help fits of the mother, expel both birth and afterbirth, cleanse women after labour, and expel the relics of a careless midwife. Search what other compositions are appropriated to the same purpose - you may find them in the Table at the latter end of the Book - and then you may add half a drachm of this to them. 

Trochisci de Lacca - Mesue.

Take of Gum Lacca cleansed, the juice of Liquoris, Maudlin, Wormwood, and Barberries, all made thick; Rhubarb, Long Birthwort, Costus, Asarabacca, Bitter Almonds, Madder, Annis, Smallage, Schoenanth, of each a drachm. With the decoction of Birthwort or Schoenanth, or the juice of Maudlin or Wormwood, make them into troches according to art.

It helps stoppings of the liver and spleen, and fevers thence coming; it expels wind, purges by urine, and resists dropsies.

The dose is between half a dram and a dram, according to the age and strength of the patient. 

Troches of Terra Lemnia - Mesue, according to Fernelius.

Take of Dragon's Blood, Gum Arabic torrefied, Troches of Ramich, Red Roses, the seeds of Roses, White Starch torrefied, Spodium, Acacia, Hypocystis, Lapis, Haematitis, Baullaustines (Pomegranate flowers), Bole Armenick, Terra Lemnia, Red Coral, AMber, of each two drams; Pearls, Gum Tragacanth, Black Poppy seeds, of each a drachm and a half; Purslain seeds a little torrefied, Hart's Horn burnt, Frankincense, Cypress Nuts, Saffron, of each two drachms. Either with juice or water of Plantain, make it into troches according to art. 

If you will have it with Opium (says Mesue), you may add two drams of the composition. And indeed, in external applications if any inflammation or fever be, I think it better with Opium than without. 

It was invented to stop blood in any part of the body, and for it 'tis excellent. Well then, for the bloody flux take half a dram of them inwardly (being beaten into powder) in Red Wine every morning; for spitting of blood, use it in like manner in Plantain water. For pissing of blood, inject it into the bladder; for bleeding at the nose, either snuff up or anoint your forehead with it mixed with oil. For the immoderate flowing of the terms, inject it up the womb with a syringe, but first mix it with Plantain water; for the haemorrhoids, or wounds, apply it into the place bleeding. 

Troches of Myrrh - Rhasis.

Take of Myrrh, three drams; the flower of Lupins, five drams; the leaves of Rue, Horse Mint, Pennyroyal, the seeds of Cumin, the roots of Madder, Asafoetida, Sagapenum, Opopanax, of each two drams. Dissolve the gums in Vinegar of Squills, and with juice of Mugwort make it up into troches. 

They provoke the terms in women, and that with great ease to such as have them come down with pain. 

Take a dram of them beaten into powder in a spoonful or two of syrup of Mugwort, or any other composition tending to the same purpose, which the Table at the latter end will direct you.

Trochisci Polyidae Sphragis - Andromacus, out of Galen.

Take of Pomegranate flowers (Balanstins), twelve drams; Alum, three drams; Frankincense, Myrrh, of each half an ounce; Copperas, two drams; Bull's Gall, six drachms; Aloes, an ounce; austere Wine, so much as is sufficient to make it into Troches according to art. 

They are very good, being outwardly applied both in green wounds and ulcers. 

I fancy them not. 

Pastilli Adronis - Galen.

Take of Pomegranate flowers, ten drams; Copperas, twelve drachms; unripe Galls, Birthwort, Frankincense, of each an ounce; Alum, Myrrh, of each half an ounce; Misy (it may be they mean White Copperas), two drams. With eighteen ounces of austere Wine, make it into troches according to art. 

This also is appropriated to wounds, ulcers and fistulas; it clears the ears, and represses all excrescences of flesh, cleanses the filth of the bones. 

Trochisci Musae - Galen.

Take of Alum, Aloes, Copperas, Myrrh, of each six drams; Cocromagna, Saffron, of each three drachms; Pomegranate flowers, half an ounce; Wine and Honey, of each so much as is sufficient to make it up into troches according to art.

Their use is the same with the former. 

Crocomagna of Damocrates - Galen.

Take of Saffron, a hundred drachms; Red Roses, Myrrh, of each fifty drachms; White Starch, Gum (I think they mean Gum Arabic), of each thirty drachms; Wine, so much as is sufficient to make it into troches.

It is very expulsive, heats and strengthens the heart and stomach. 

Troches of Wood of Aloes.

Take of wood of Aloes, Red Roses, of each two drachms; Mastic, Cinnamon, Cloves, Indian Spikenard, Nutmegs, Cardamoms Greater and Lesser, Cubebs, Gallia Moschata, Parsnips, Citron peel, Mace, of each a drachm and a half; Ambergris, Musk, of each half a scruple. With Honey and Raisins, make them into troches. 

It strengthens the heart, stomach and liver; takes away heart qualms, faintings and stinking breath, and resists the dropsy. 

The rich may take half a dram in the morning. 

Trochisci Ramich - Mesue.

Take of the juice of Sorrell, sixteen ounces; Red Rose leaves, an ounce; Myrtle berries, two ounces. Boil them a little together, and strain them; add to the decoction Galls well beaten, three ounces; boil them a little, then put in these following things in fine powder: take of Red Roses, an ounce; Yellow Sanders, ten drams; Gum Arabick, an ounce and a half; Sumach, Spodium, of each an ounce; Myrtle berries, four ounces; wood of Aloes, Cloves, Mace, Nutmegs, of each half an ounce; Sour Grapes, seven drams. Mix them all together, and let them dry upon a stone, and grind them again into powder, and make them into small troches with one dram of Camphire, and so much Rosewater as is sufficient, and perfume them with fifteen grains of Musk. 

They strengthen the stomach, heart and liver, as also the bowels; they help the cholic and fluxes of blood, as also bleeding at the nose if you snuff up but the powder of them, disburden the body of salt, fretting, choleric humours.

You may carry them about you, and take them at your pleasure. 

Troches of Roses - Mesue.

Take of Red Roses, half an ounce; wood of Aloes, two drams; Mastic, a dram and a half; Roman Wormwood, Cinnamon, Indian Spikenard, Cassia, Lignea, Schoenanth, of each one drachm; old Wine, and decoction of the Five Opening Roots, so much as is sufficient to make it into troches according to art. 

They help pains in the stomach and ill digestion, the illiac passion, hectic fevers and dropsies in the beginning, and cause a good colour. 

Use them like the former. 

Troches of Squills - Galen.

Take a Squill, gathered about the beginning of July, of a mean bigness, white and full, the outward peel and that hard part to which the little roots stick. Being taken away, wrap it up in paste and roast it in an oven till the paste be dry and the Squill tender, which you may know by searching it with a skewer or bodkin; then, take it out and beat it in a mortar, and mix with it of the powder of a White Orobus (a kind of Vetch), or instead thereof Red Cicers, eight ounces to each pound of Sqills. Make it into troches of the weight weight of two drams a piece; dry them in the upper part of the house, looking towards the south, often turning of them till they be dry. Keep them in a pewter or glass vessel, not in lead.

Troches of Spodium - Mesue.

Take of Red Roses, twelve drams; Spodium, ten drachms; Sorrel seeds, six drachms; Purslain seeds, Coriander seeds prepared, pulp of Sumach, of each two drams and a half; White Starch, Balaustins, Barberries, of each two drams; Gum Arabick torrefied, a dram and a half. With the juice of Grapes, make them into troches.

They are of a fine cooling, binding nature, excellent in fevers coming of choler, especially if they be accompanied with a looseness. They also quench thirst.

Troches os Sanders - Mesue.

Take of the three sorts of Sanders, of each an ounce; the seeds of Cucumbers, Gourds, Citruls, Purslain, Spodium, of each half an ounce; Roses, seven drams; juice of Barberries, six drachms; Bole Armenick, four drachms; Camphire, one drachm. With Purslain water, make it into troches. 

The virtues are the same with the former, both of them harmless. 

Troches of Vipers - Andromacus, out of Galen. 

Take of the flesh of Vipers, the skin, bowels and fat, head and tail being taken away, boiled with Dill and a little salt, eight ounces; the crumbs of pure White Bread, two ounces. Make them into troches with the broth in which the Vipers were boiled, if you need liquor, and anoint them with Opobalsamum or Oil of Nutmegs by expression, and dried in the shadow, in an open place, fifteen days or something longer, often turning them till they be well dried, then lay them up in a glass or stone vessel glazed, so may they be kept (close stopped) a whole year.

Yet it is better to make Treacle so soon as you have them.

They which will keep them longer, let them wipe of the dust which usually sticks to them, which in time will eat them through. So may you keep them three years. 

Trochisci Viticis, sive Agni Casti - Renodaeus. 

Take of the seeds of Agnus Castus, Roses, Lettuce, Balaustins, of each a dram; Ivory, Amber, of each a dram and a half; Bole Armenick washed in the water of Knot Grass, two drams; Plantain seed, four scruples; Sassafras, two scruples. With Mussilage of Quince seeds made with the water of Water Lily flowers, make them into troches according to art.

Trochisci Albi - Rhasis.

Take of Ceruss washed in Rosewater, ten drachms; Sarcocolla, three drams; White Starch, two drachms; Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, of each one drachm; Camphire, Opium, of each half a dram. Let them be made up into troches, with milk according to art. Also, if you please you may make them without Opium.

They are cool without Opium, but cooler with it, as also very drying, and are used in injections in ulcers in the yard, and the running of the reins, etc.

Troches of Winter Cherries - Mesue.

Take of the berries of Winter Cherries, three drachms; the seeds of Melons, Cucumbers, Citruls, Gourds, of each three drachms and a half; Gum Arabick, Tragacanth, Olibanum, Dragon's Blood, Pine Nuts, Bitter Almonds, White Poppy seeds, White Starch, juice of Liquoris, Bole Armenick, of each six drachms; the seeds of Smallage and Henbane, Amber, Earth of Lemnos, Opium, of each two drams. With juice of the berries of fresh Winter Cherries, or else with their decoction make them up into troches according to art. Also, you may prepare them without Opium.

They potently provoke urine and break the stone. Mix them with other medicines of that nature, half a drachm at a time, or a drachm if age permits.

Trochisci de Carahe - Mesue.

Take of Amber, six drachms; Burnt Hart's Horn, Gum Arabick torrefied, Red Coral burnt, Gum Tragacanth, Acacia Hypocistis, Balaustins, Mastic, Gum Lacca washed, Black Poppy seeds torrefied, of each two drams; Frankincense, Saffron, Opium, of each one dram and a half; Mussilage of the seeds of Fleawort (Psyllium), so much as is sufficient to make it up into troches. 

They were invented to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body, the terms in women, the haemorrhoids or piles; they also help ulcers in the breast and lungs.

The dose is from ten grains to a scruple.

Trochisci Diarcorallion - Galen.

Take of Bole Armenick, Red Coral, of each an ounce; Balaustins, Terra Lemnia, White Starch, of each half an ounce; Hypocystis, the seeds of Henbane, Opium, of each two drachms; juice of Plantain, so much as is sufficient to make them into troches according to art. 

They also stop blood, help the bloody flux, stop the terms, and are a great help to such whose stomach loath their victuals.

I fancy them not.

Trochisci Diaspermaton Galeni.

Take of the seeds of Smallage and Bishop's Weed, of each half an ounce; Opium, Cassia, Lignea, of each two drachms. With rainwater, make it into troches according to art. 

These also bind, ease pain, help the pleurisy. 

Hemoproici Pastilli - Galen.

Take of White Starch, Balaustins, Earth of Samos, juice of Hypocystis, Gum (if it be not Gum Arabic, I know not what it is), Saffron, Opium, of each two drams. With juice of Plantain, make them into troches according to art.

The operation of this is like the former.

Sief de Plumbo - Mesue.

Take of Lead burnt and washed, Brass burnt, Antimony, Tutty washed, Gum Arabick and Tragacanth, of each an ounce; Opium, half a drachm. With a sufficient quantity of rainwater, make them up into troches.

It fills up and cures ulcers in the eyes.

Trochisci de Succino - Galen.

Take of Illyiric, Orris, Amber, Mastic, Saffron, of each two drachms; Opium, five drachms. With Mussilage made of the seeds of Fleawort (Psyllium), make it into troches according to art.

They cool, bind and strengthen the stomach, and provoke sleep. 

Sief of Frankincense - Rhasis.

Take of Lapis Calaminaris (I think they mean that by Cadmia), Pompholix, Frankincense, of each then drams; Ceruss, forty drachms; Gum Arabick, Opium, of each six drachms; Rainwater, so much as is sufficient to make it into balls according to art.

Sief is a general term which the Arabians give to all medicines appropriated to the eyes, of which this is one, and a good one to dry up rheums there. 

Agrick Trochiscated - Mesue.

Take of choice Agrick, four ounces. With infusion of Ginger made in Wine, make it into troches.

Troches of Agrick.

Take of choice Agrick, three ounces; Sal. Gem., six drachms; Ginger, two drachms. With Oxymel Simplex, so much as is sufficient, make it into troches according to art.

The virtues of both these are the same with Agrick, only it may be more safely given this way than the other; they cleanse the brain of phlegm, and the stomach of tough, viscous humours.

The dose is one drachm at one time.

Trochisci Alhandal - Mesue.

Take of Colocynthis cleansed from the seeds, ten ounces; cut them small with a pair of shears and rub them a little with an ounce of Oil of Roses, then make them (first beat them into powder) into troches with Mussilage made with Gum Arabic and Tragacanth, and Bdellium, of each six drams. Then, stop them four days in Rosewater, dry them in the shadow, then beat them into powder again, and with Mussilage, as you had before, make them again into toches.

They purge phlegm violently, but may more safely be given than the Colocynthis itself.

Let the vulgar not meddle with them.

Troches of Rhubarb - Mesue.

Take of Rhubarb, ten drachms; the juice of Maudlin made thick, Bitter Almonds, of each half an ounce; Roses, three drams; Indian Spikenard, Wormwood, the seeds of Annis and Smallage, the roots of Madder, and Asarabacca, of each a drachm. Make them into troches according to art, either with Succory water or juice of Maudlin clarified.

They gently cleanse the liver, help the yellow jaundice and other diseases coming of choler and stoppage of the liver.

Troches of Violets Solutive - Mesue.

Take of Violets meanly dried, six drams; Turbith, half an ounce; juice of Liquoris, Scammony, Manna, of each two drams. Make them into troches with Syrup of Violets.

They purge phlegm very violently.