4 EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSKS. 



Leather, and lay it upon the come, and it will take it 

 cleane away within 7 dayes space. 



" An other soueraigne Medecine for a Web in the eye. 

 — Take a good quantitie of snailes with their shells upon 

 them, and wash them very well, and then distill them in 

 a common Stillatorie; then take of the galles of Hares, 

 Red Currail, and Suger-candie, and mingle them toge- 

 ther with the said water, and then distill them againe; 

 then take the same water, and put it into a glasse or 

 viall, and when you will use it, take a drop thereof, and 

 put it into your eyes both morning and evening, and it 

 will help you/' 



Dr. Fulier, in his ' Pharmacopoeia/ recommends snails 

 in scorbutic affections, and gives the following recipe for 

 a consumption : — 



" Snail-water Pectoral. — Take snails beaten to a mash 

 with their shells 3 pound ; crum of white bread, new- 

 baked, 12 ounces; nutmeg, 6 drams; ground-ivy, 6 

 handfulls ; whey, 3 quarts ; distill it in a cold still, with- 

 out burning. If I would have this water not so abso- 

 lutely cold, I add brandy half a pint or a pint. This 

 water humects, dilutes, supplies, tempers, nourishes, 

 comforts, and therefore is highly conducive in hectic 

 consumptive emaciations." 



In Dr. John Quincy's ' Pharmacopoeia Officinalis, or 

 a complete English Dispensatory/ are the following : — 



" Decoctum Limacum, or decoction of snails. — Take 

 garden snails, cleansed from their shells, no. 12 ; red 

 cows' milk, new, two pounds ; boil to a pound ; and add 

 rose-water, an ounce ; sugar-candy, half-an-ounce. 



" It will be very difficult to boil this so long as to 

 waste one-half, because it will be apt both to run over 

 and burn to the bottom, and therefore must be stirred 



