Trochisci de Vipera ad Theriacum. Or Troches of Vipers, for Treacle.
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Culpeper, Nicholas
College.] Take of the flesh of Vipers, the skin, entrails, head, fat, and tail being taken away, boiled in water with Dill, and a little salt, eight ounces, white bread twice baked, grated and sifted, two ounces, make it into troches, your hands being anointed with Opobalsamum, or Oil of Nutmegs by expression, dry them upon a sieve turned the bottom upwards in an open place, often turning them till they are well dried, then put them in a glass or stone pot glazed, stopped close, they will keep a year, yet is it far better to make Treacle, not long after you have made them.
Culpeper.] They expel poison, and are excellently good, by a certain sympathetical virtue, for such as are bitten by an adder.