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They may be taken m 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. 



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 

 Melafles 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 drain off the Spirit. 



The Lavender Water is thus made. Put a 

 Pound of frelh Lavender Flowers into a ftill with 

 a Gallon of Melafles Spirit, and draw off five 

 Pints. This is Lavender Water. 



Lavender Cotton.^ 



ABROTONUM FCEMINA. 



A Little fhrubby Plant, frequent wild in Italy, 



■*^ but with us kept in Gardens. It grows two 



Feet or more in Height, the Stem is whitifh : The 



Stalks growing from it, are tough and firm, of a 



whitilh Colour alfo, and very numerous; the 



Leaves are oblong, Gender, of a fquare Shape, and 



indented, they are alfo whitilh, and of a ftrong 



Smell. The Stalks which fupport the Flowers 



are long and naked ; they are round, of a greenifli 



Colour and each' has at its Top a fingle Flower, 



which is yellow and naked, and of the Bignefs of 



an Horfe-Bean. 



The Leaves are the Part ufed, they are beft frefh 

 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 Obflrucbions of the Liver. 



^ They 



