on the top of the precipitated matter which you muſt waſh away with Roſe-water. Then take that white gum being very well waſhed, and dry it (if you pleaſe you may powder it and ſo uſe it, for indeed it hath neither ſmell nor taſte, and purgeth without any offence, and may be given to children or to any that diſtaſt phyſick, in their milke or broth without any diſcerning of it, and indeed it doth purge without any manner of gripings. I was wont to make it up into pills with Oil of Cinamon or Cloves which gave it a gallant ſmell, and of which I gave a ſcruple which wrought moderately and without any manner of gripings) then diſſolve it again in Spirit of Wine being aromatized with what ſpices you pleaſe, and this keep.
This tincture is ſo pleaſant, ſo gentle, ſo noble a purgative that there is ſcarce the like in the world, for it purgeth without any offence, is taken without any nauſeating, and purgeth all manner of humours eſpecially choler, and melancholy, and is very Cordiall.
It may be given to thoſe that abhor any medicine, as to children or thoſe that are of a nauſeous ſtomack.
The doſe is from halfe a ſpoonfull to two or three.
Note it muſt be taken of it ſelf, for if it be put into any other Liquor the Scammony will precipitate and fall to the bottome.
After this manner you may prepare Jollap by extracting the gumme therefore, and then diſſolving it in Spirit of Wine.
By this meanes Jollap would not be ſo offenſive to the ſtomack, as uſually it is, for it is the gumme that is purgative, and the earthlineſſe that is ſo nauſeous.
Jollap being thus prepared is a moſt excellent medicine againſt all hydropick diſeaſes, for it purgeth water away without any nauſeouſneſſe or griping at all.
