Cache-Control: public, max-age=1024000 Pharmacopoeia Extemporanea: The Potion called Sancta

The Potion called Sancta.

Take powdered Gum of Guaiacum 1 drum and half; dissolve, and subigate it with the Yolk of an Egg; add Cinnamon water half an ounce; Fumitory water 1 ounce and half; Syrup of Roses solutive half an ounce, mix.

After the same manner may Potions be prepared of any sort of Rosins.

This is said to be a prevailing Specific against Gouty and flying vagous Pains. It purgeth pretty strongly and roughly, mostly by Stool, though sometimes by Vomit.

Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710