_Take dried figs one pound, tamarinds, cassia, french prunes, each half
a pound, sena leaves eight ounces, coriander seed four ounces, liquorice
root three ounces, double refined sugar two pounds and an half; reduce
the sena and coriander to a powder, and sift it through a sieve, boil
the figs, cassia, prunes, and liquorice into a pulp, and strain these
also, then mix the powder gradually amongst it, and make it, with the
help of the sugar, into an electuary._
This electuary is a gentle cathartic, keeping the body coolly open, and
therefore very useful in fevers, and weak constitutions when openness of
the body is required. The bigness of a large nutmeg is a dose, which may
occasionally be repeated.
K. _Turner’s Cerate_:
_Take olive oil a pint, yellow bees wax and prepared calamine stone, of
each half a pound; melt the wax and oil, and mix the calamine stone:
keep stirring till it is cool._
This is a healing cerate, very useful in scalds and burns; as also to
dress blisters with; likewise for the external dressing of sores, when
near healing, or to keep other dressings on.