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fplrits, and greatly comforts the fight. By 

 putting a few drops with a bit of cotton up 

 the nodrils, it becomes a fovereign cepha- 

 lic, and cleanfes the brain of all fuperfiu- 

 ous cold and catarrhal humours. If a ta- 

 ble fpoonful is drank every third day, it 

 tends to preferve the body in vigour. It is 

 an excellent remedy againil: afthmatic com- 

 plaints,. and correds an offenfive breath. 



51. A Receipt to viahe the gemme Hungary^ 

 Water, ■ 



• Put into an akmbic a pound and a half 

 of frefh pickt Rofemary Flowers -, Penny- 

 royal and Marjoram Flow^ers, of eacji half 

 a pound ^ three quarts of good Coniac 

 Brandy ; liaving clofe flopped the mouth 

 of the alembic to prevent the Spirit from 

 evaporatiiig, bury it twenty-eight hours 

 in horfe-dung to diged:, and -then diltil off 

 the Spirit in a water-bath. 



C 6 A drachi>i 



