in pharmacy, the name of a medicine in which fenna is the principal ingredient.
The other ingredients are sugar-candy, cinnamon, lapis lazuli, silk, cloves, galanga minor, black pepper, nardus indica, seed of basilicum, flowers of cloves, cardamoms, saffron, ginger, zedoary, &c.
This electuary is taken against melancholy and spleen, and against diseases arising from an atrabilis.