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and a half, Vinegar of Clove-gilliflowers, 
Juice of Lemons, of each one pound, and 
distilled in a glass still in Balneo Marie, 
after it is half distilled off, the residue may 
be strained through a linen cloath, and be 
reduced to the thickness of Honey, and 
called the Bezoartic extract. 
Culpeper.] Extracts have the same vir- 
tues with the waters they are made from, 
only the different form is to please the 
palates of such whose fancy loathes any 
one particular form. 
This Bezoar water strengthens the heart, 
arteries, and vital spirits: It provokes 
Sweat, and is exceeding good in pestilential 
fevers, in health it withstands melancholy 
and consumptions, and makes a merry, 
blithe, chearful creature. Of the extract you 
may take ten grains at a time, or somewhat 
more, if your body be not feverish, half 
@ spoonful of water is sufficient at a time, 
and that mixed with other cordials or medi- 
cines appropriated to the disease that 
troubles you. 
Aqua et Spiritus Lambricorum, magistralis. 
Or Water and Spirit of Earthworms. 
College.] Take of Earthworms well 
cleansed, three pound, Snail with shells 
on their backs cleansed, two gallons, beat 
them in a mortar, and put them into a con- 
venient vessel, adding stinging Nettles, 
Toots and all, six handfuls, wild Angelica, 
four handfuls, brank Ursine, seven hand- 
fuls, Agrimony, Bettony, of each three 
uls, Rue one handful, common Worm- 
Wood two handfuls, Rosemary flowers six 
Sunces, Dock roots ten ounces, the roots of 
Sorrel five ounces, Turmerick, the inner 
of Barberries, of each four ounces, 
Fenugreek seeds two ounces, Cloves three 
ounces, Hart’s-horn, Ivory in gross pow- 
der, of each four ounces, Saffron three 
drams, small spirits of Wine four gallons 
and a half, after twenty-four hours infu- 
son, distil them in an alembick, Let the four 
first pounds be reserved for spirit, the rest 
for water. 
Culpeper.] ’Tis a mess altogether, it 
may be they intended it for an universal 
medicine. 
Aqua Gentiane Composite. 
Or Gentian Water compound. 
College.] Take of Gentian roots sliced, 
one pound and a half, the leaves and 
flowers of Centaury the less, of each four 
ounces, steep them eight days in twelve 
pounds of white Wine, then distil them in 
an alembick. 
Culpeper.| It conduces to preservation 
from ill air, and pestilential fevers: it opens 
obstructions of the liver, and helps such as 
they say are liver-grown; it eases pains in 
the stomach, helps digestion, and eases such 
as have pains in their bones by ill lodging 
abroad in the cold, it provokes appetite, 
and is exceeding good for the yellow jaun- 
dice, as also for prickings or stitches in the 
sides: it provokes the menses, and expels 
both birth and placenta: it is naught for 
pregnant women. If there be no fever, you 
may take a spoonful by itself; if there be, - 
you may, if you please, mix it with some 
cooler medicine appropriated to the same 
use you would give it for. 
Aqua Gilbertii. 
Or Gilbert’s Water. 
College.| Take of Scabious, Burnet, 
Dragons, Bawm, Angelica, Pimpernel, 
with purple flowers, Tormentil, roots and 
all,-of each two handfuls, let all of them, 
being rightly gathered and prepared, be 
steeped in four gallons of Canary Wine, 
still off three gallons in an alembick, to 
which add three ounces of each of the 
cordial flowers, Clove-gilliflowers, six 
ounces, Saffron half an ounce, Turmerick ‘ 
two ounces, Galanga, Bazil seeds, of each _ 
one dram, Citron pills one ounce, the seed — 
of Citrons and Carduus, Cloves of each 
