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of thofe deco(5lions, which a pra(5litioner 

 in Portugal, who was in great repute 

 for curing venereal complaints by fuch 

 drinks, allowed the gentleman who gave 

 it to me to copy from his books, under 

 promife that he would not "difcover it 

 while he remained in that country: A*s 

 it agrees in the principal ingredients with 

 two other receipts which came from Lif- 

 bon through different channels, and were 

 both believed to be genuine, we have the 

 more reafon to believe it to be the true 

 receipt of, at leail, one kind of the de- 

 ■codions ufed there. It is as follows: 



R Rad.farfapariL fantah alb. at que ruh, 

 Jmguhrum ^lii. Glyceriz, et meT^erelJin- 



gulorum ^fi. Ugni Rhod'ii, guaiaci, et 

 fajfafrasjtngulorum !i. Antimoniicrudiixi' 



Mifce, et injunde in aq.fontanae bullient, 



lib. x.per boras 24,/?/ dein ccque ad lib. v. 



Colaturae capiat aeger a lib. h. ad lib. 



iv. quotidie, 



^ I make no doubt but that the phyfi- 

 cians at Lifbon have different receipts for 



prepa*- 



