Decoction of College juice

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Historical use wording: the falling-sickness

Source: The complete herbal to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs ... To which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy. To his wife by Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. n 83007664; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physitian. n 86817616; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. Key to physic. n 83007664; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. Last legacy. n 83007664; Galen. Method of physic. n 79059644 (1847), narrative-offset-1206182.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• College juice: of the flesh of Quinces red Roses, Gum Tragacanth, Cinnamon, of \ cut and boiled in fair water to a thickness, each two scruples, Sanders white and red, \ eight pounds, white sugar six pounds,

Method as extracted

1. Boil according to the source passage: Diacorallion. \ i Peony is an herb of the sun , the roots of College .] Take of Coral white and red, jit cure the falling-sickness. Bole-amoniac, Dragon's-blood, of each one \ Diacydonium simple. dram, Pearls half a dram, Wood of Aloes, j College .] Take of the flesh of Quinces red Roses, Gum Tragacanth, Cinnamon, of \ cut and boiled in fair water to a thickness, each two scruples, Sanders white and red, \ eight pounds, white sugar six pounds, boil of each one scruple, with four times its j it to it just thickness, weight in sugar dissolved in small Cinna- 1 Diacydonium mth Species mon Water, make it into an electuary, \ College .] Take of the juice of Quinces, according to art. * Sugar, of each two pounds, white Wine Culpeper .] It comforts and strengthens \ Vinegar half a pound, added at the end of the heart exceedingly, and restores such as \ the decoction, it being gently boiled, and the are in consumptions, it is cooling, therefore l scum taken away, add Ginger two ounces, good in hectic fevers, very binding, and j white Pepper ten drams and two scruples, AN D ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED 327 bruise them grossly, and boil it again to the ^ Antidotum Haw a go gum. thickness of Honey. i College .] Take of Lupines husked two Diacydonium compound , Magisterial. 5 drams, black Pepper five scruples and six College.] Take of white Sugar six pounds, i grains, Liquorice four scruples, long Birth- Spring Water four pounds, clarify them j wort, Mugwort, Cassia Lignea, Macedonian well with the white of an egg, scumming ;

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