They may be taken in the Form of Tea The 
famous Spirit of Lavender called-Palfy Drops, and _ 
the fweet Lavender Water are made with them. 
The Spirit of Lavender called Palfy Drops is thus 
made beft. eee eS a. : 
Put into a fmall Still a Pound of Lavender 
Flowers, and five Ounces of the tender Tops of 
Rofemary, put to them five Quarts of common 
Melaffes Spirit, and a Quart of Water: Diftil off 
three Quarts, put to this Cinnamon and Nutmegs, 
of each three Quarters of an Ounce, red Sanders 
Wood half an Ounce, let thefe ftand together a 
Week, and then ftrain off the Spirit. 
The Lavender Water is thus made. Put a 
Pound of freth Lavender Flowers into a ftill with 
a Gallon of Melaffes Spirit, and draw off five 
Pints. This is Lavender Water. 
LAVEND E R Corton. 
ABROTONUM FEMINA. 
Little fhrubby Plant, frequent wild in Jtaly, 
but with us kept in Gardens. It growstwo _ 
Feet or more in Height, the Stem is whitifh: The © 
Stalks growing from it, are tough and firm, of a 
-whitifh Colour alfo, and very numerous; — 
Leaves are oblong, flender, of a fquare Shape, and 
indented, they are alfo whitifh, and of a {trong 
Smell. The Stalks which fupport the Flowers 
are long and naked ; they are round, of a “sae 
- Colour and each has at its Top a fingle Flower, 
which is yellow and naked, and of the Bignefs of 
* an Horfe-Bean. 2 
© The Leaves are the Part ufed, they are beft freth 
gathered. They are to be given infufed in Water . 
againft Worms, they are a difagreeable Medicine, 
_ but a very efficacious one. They alfo promote 
the Menfes, and open Obftructions of the pe 
Ses oi They 
