Powder of pome- granate peels leaves

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Historical use wording: hard fwelllngs of the throat, and other places, called the king’s evil

Source: A new and compleat body of practical botanic physic, from the medicinal plants of the vegetable kingdom ... With useful observations and improvements, necessary regimen and diet, under all diseases by Baylis, Edward. nr 91010483 (1791), narrative-offset-196201.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• pome- granate peels leaves: of barley flower twelve ounces, powder of pome- granate peels, and myrtle berries, of each three ounces ; red wine s “ fufficient quantity, mix and

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: “ Take barley flower fixteeii “ ounces, white fait and honey, of each three ounces, white wine' “ vinegar a fufficient quantity, mix and form a cataplafm to be applied' to the parts affeffed.” He further remarks, “ the following prepa- “ ration is faid to be ufeful applied to the belly for all fluxes or loofe- “ nefs thereof : take of barley flower twelve ounces, powder of pome- granate peels, and myrtle berries, of each three ounces ; red wine s “ fufficient quantity, mix and boil to a confiflency.” That with the following mixture he has cured feveral pleurifies : “ Take of barley “ water twelve ounces, fyrup of corn popples three ounces, tin£lure of the fame flowers made with fpirlts of wine two ounces, mix them, “ and give three ounces for a dofe, twice or thrice a dayJ’* He alfo recommends the following bath : “ Take of the leaves of “ mallows, violets, beets, fumitory, and black hellebore, of each three handfuls ; barley four pounds, boll them in a fufficient quan- “ tity of water for a bath, till the barley breaks: the grain is to be “ boiled a confiderable time firffi, and then the herbs to be put in “ towards the end of the boiling.” He fays “ it is a veryeffe£lual thing “ againfl: fcurf, morphew, leprofy, fcab, itch, and other breakings “ out, being often ufed.” The fame author informs us, that the following emplafler Is faid'" “ to cure hard fwelllngs of the throat, and other places, called the king’s evil ; and that applied alfo, it is an admirable thing to c-ure ^ the gout : take barley flower two pounds, tar one pound, wax half a pound, oil olive a fufficient quantity, mix and boil to the coil- P flflence- A NEW AND COMPLETE SYSTEM io6" fiflience of a cerate, or foft emplafter.” He concludes his re^k marks with the following obfervations :

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