BUT because many of the Infected have a Loathing at Stomach, and an Inclination to vomit, in the same Manner as an Overload of Eating and Drinking occasions, Medicines in solid Forms suit best with such, as they are not so easily thrown up, and adhere better to the Sides of the Stomach: Of this Kind we have the following Composition, which at taking may be made into Boles of [a]ʒ] ij. each adding thereunto Salt of Carduus, or Wormwood [a]℈] j. or more or less according to the Exigency of Symptoms.
[a]℞] Elect. de ovo mineralis [a]℥] j. theriac. Androm. [a]℥] [a][ss.] pulu: serpentariæ virgin. [a]ʒ] v. cuchianellæ [a]ʒ] iij. croci pulveriz. [a]ʒ] [a][ss.] cum Syr. è succo melissophyll. vel citri, coagmentetur massa.
The famous Sir Theodore Mayerne’s
Electuarium de Ovo.
[a]℞] Ovum vulgariter ut in Pharmacopœia Londinensi præp. de quo sume, & sem. sinapios, vel eruca ana [a]℥] j. Antidoti Saxonicæ [a]℥] [a][ss.] lapidis prunellæ [a]ʒ] v. Antimonii diaphoret. fixissimi, & croci metallorum simul ustorum [a]ʒ] iij. pulv. scordii, rutæ, zedoariæ ana [a]ʒ] ij. [a][ss.] Theriacæ ven. veteris [a]℥] iv. Philonii Turneri [a]℈] vij. gr. ij. misce & cum spir. Theriac. [a]ʒ] iij. & mellis de spumati q. s. Piat Elect. molle, Dos. ad [a]℈] iv. vel [a]ʒ] ij. corroborand. adjiciendo corda, & jecinora vj. viperarum v. a. e. præp. But it is to be observed in this likewise, as in other Antidotes, that a long Fermentation of the Ingredients together in a Mass is very necessary, because by that Means they more intimately mix with one another.
BUT if the Body be too open, the Lapis Contrayerva is very suitable, and ’tis thus made:
[a]℞] Pulv. radic. contrayerva res. [a]℥] j. serpentariæ virgin. [a]ʒ] ij. [a][ss.] extract. radic. Angelicæ, tormentillæ ana [a]ʒ] ij. pulv. C. C. philosophicè calcin.
chelarum Cancrorum præp. pulv. Corall. rubr. ana [a]ʒ] j. [a][ss.] Antimonii Diaphoret. vel potius Diaphor. Jovis [a]ʒ] iij. cuchianellæ [a]ʒ] [a][ss.] croci [a]℈] j. (aliqui addurat lapid. bezoar. orien. [a]℈] ij.) ambræ grys. [a]℈] [a][ss.] cum gelatinâ spoliorum serpentum, vel C. C. fingantur globuli s. a. exiccandi, Dos. ad [a]℈] ij. vel [a]ʒ] j. è vehiculo idoneo, &c.
FOR the same Purpose also is the celebrated Orvietan thus compounded, and given [a]ʒ] ij. at a Dose.
[a]℞] Cardui bened. totius eupatorii mai. & min. ana [a]℥] [a][ss.] scordii, aristolochiæ utriusque ana [a]ʒ] v. viperinæ, h. e. echii, gentianæ, bacc. Junip. bistortæ ana [a]℥] j. bacc. lauri, tormentillæ, dictamni albi ana [a]℥] [a][ss.] carlinæ, angelicæ ana [a]℥] j. [a][ss.] rhabarb. imperatoriæ, scorzon. hispan. valerianæ ana [a]℥] [a][ss.] morsus diaboli, calami aromat. ana [a]℥] iv. Theriac. Androm. opt. [a]℥] iij. corda, & jecinora 12 viperarum, terantur terenda subtilissimè, & cum s. q. mellis despumati fiat Elect. per tres menses fermentand.
IT is to be observed, that these and the like Medicines, whether Galenical or Spagyrical, which cannot be prepared as soon as Asparagus can be boiled, ought to be always in Readiness.