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and to promote the menses, is made of a pound 

 and half of dry pennyroyal, a gallon of spi- 

 rit, and six quarts of wattr^ drawing off a 

 gallon. 



4. Anniseed water, wh>ch is good in the colic, 

 and is made with a pound of anniseed, a pound 

 of angelica seed, and two gallons of spirit, with 

 on^ gallon of water, distilling off two gallons. No 

 Jtiorc of these are necessary : but before I close 

 this article of distilling, I shall add the making 

 cf lavender water, spirit of lavender, and iluu- 

 garv water, which are preparations of the same 

 kind, and very casv. 



Lavender water, is made from a pound oi 

 ficsh lavender flowers, and a gallon of molosses 

 spi.ritj with two quarts of water ; five pints are to be 

 distilled off. Huiio-ary water is made of a pound 



nd half of rosemary tops with the fiowerSj a 

 tcalloo of spirit^ and a gallon of water^ distilling 

 oflf five pints : and to make the spirit of laven- 

 der, or palsy drops, mix three pints of lavender 

 v.ater, and one pint of Hungary water, and 

 add to this half an ounce of cinnamon, the 

 same Cjuantity of nutmegs, and three drams of 

 red sauTiders wood ; these are to stand together 

 iill the spirit is well coloured. 



This is all the family practitioner will need 

 with distilling : a short account, but sufficient. 



As for tinctures, which are a great article 

 with the apothecary and chemist, making a 

 rreat shew, and really Tery useful ; I WiTuId 

 have several of them kept, and tiiey are as 

 easily made as tlie waters, nay, more easily. 

 Molosses spirit is all that is uecessarj for this 

 purpose. 



It would be well to keep tinctures of atl 

 loots and barks, wUicb arc .«aid to be good dried 



