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its refrigeratory, or Worm, till the 
change of the taste shew the virtue to be 
drawn off; then let the oil (if any) be 
separated from the water acocrding to 
art. 
Into the number of these waters may be 
ascribed. 
The Tears of Vines, the liquor of the 
Birch-tree, May dew. 
- Culpeper.] That my country may receive 
the benefit’ of these waters, I shall first 
shew the temperatures, secondly, the vir- 
tues of the most usual and most easy to 
come by: If any should take exceptions 
that I mention not all, I answer first, I 
mention enough. Secondly, who ever 
makes this objection, they shew extreme 
ingratitude; for had I mentioned but only 
one. I had revealed more to them than ever 
the College intended they should know, or 
give me thanks for doing. 
The qualities and appropriation of the 
simple Distilled Waters. 
Simple distilled waters either cool or 
heat: such as cool, either cool the blood 
or choler. 
Waters cooling the blood. Lettice, Pur- 
slain, Water Lilies, Violets, Sorrel Endive, 
Succory, Fumitory. 
Waters cooling and repressing choleric 
humours, or vapours in the head. 
Nightshade, Lettice, Water Lilies, Plan- 
tain, Poppies, viz. The flowers both of 
white black and red Poppies, black Cheries. 
The breast and lungs. Violets, Poppies 
all three sorts, Colt’s-foot. 
In the heart. Sorrel, Quinces, Water 
Lilies, Roses, Violets, green or unripe 
Walnuts, 
In the stomach. Quinces, Roses, Violets, 
Nightshade, Houseleeks, or Sengreen, Let- 
tice, Purslain. 
In the liver. Endive, Succory, Night- 
shade, Purslain, Water Lilies. 
‘Th the reine ond Bader. Batve, Su: | ch 
cory, Winter Cherries, Plantain, Water 
Lilies, Strawberries, Houseleek, or Sen- 
green, black Cherries. 
In the womb. Endive, Succory, Lettice, 
Water Lilies, Purslain, Roses. 
Simple waters which are hot, concoct 
either flegm or melancholy. 
Waters concocting flegm in the head, are 
Bettony, Sage, Marjoram, Chamomel, 
Fennel, Calaminth, Rosemary-flowers, 
Primroses, Eye-bright. 
In the breast and lungs. Maiden-hair, 
Bettony, Hysop, Horehound, Carduus 
Benedictus, Scabious, Orris, or Flower-de- 
luces, Bawm, Self-heal, &c. 
In the heart. Bawm, Rosemary. 
In the stomach. Wormwood, Mints, 
Fennel, Chervil, Time, Mother of Time, 
Marigolds. 
In the liver. Wormwood, Centaury, 
Origanum, Marjoram, Maudlin, Costmary, 
Agrimony, Fennel. 
In the spleen. Water-cresses, Worm- 
wood, Calaminth. 
In the reins and bladder. Rocket, Nettles, 
Saxifrage, Pellitory of the Wall, Alicam- 
pane, Burnet. 
In the womb. Mugwort, Calaminth, 
Penny-royal, Savin, Mother of Time, 
Lovage. 
Waters concocting Melancholy in the head, 
are 
Hops, Fumitory. 
The breast. Bawm, Carduus Benedictus. 
The heart. Borrage, Bugloss, Bawm, 
Rosemary. 
The liver. Endive, Chicory, Hops. 
The spleen. Dodder, Hart’s-tongue, 
Tamarisk, Time. 
Having thus ended the appropriation, ‘chads 
I shall speak briefly of the virtues of dis- 
tilled waters. ae 
Lettice water cools the blood alban it ia 
secon for when it is dupe: it needs no 
