Tincture of gold, and coral, citron-pills,
Your elicampane root, myrobalanes— ...
Burnt silk and amber; you have muscadel good in the house.—
I doubt we shall not get
Some English saffron, half a dram would serve;
Your sixteen cloves, a little musk, dried mints,
Bugloss, and barley-meal.”
On the divergence of opinions among physicians:—
“One would have a cataplasm of spices,
Another a flayed ape clapped to his breast,