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snails in scorbutic affections, and gives the following 

 recipe for a consumption : 



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

 with their shells, three pounds ; crum of white bread, 

 newly baked, twelve ounces ; nutmeg, six drams ; 

 ground- ivy, six handfuls; whey, three quarts; distill 

 it in a cold still, without burning. If I would have this 

 water not so absolutely 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, number twelve; 

 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 

 all the while ; this quantity is ordered to be drank 

 every morning, and is a noble restorative in consump- 

 tions, especially for young people." 



" Decoctum Antiphthisicum, a Decoction against Con- 

 sumptions. Take ox-eye daisy flowers, dried, a handful; 

 snails, washed clean, numb, three; candied eryngo-root, 

 half an ounce ; pearl-barley, two ounces ; boil in spring- 

 water from a pound to half a pound, and then strainf or use. 



" This brings a supply of such soft and inoffensive 

 nourishment, as gives no trouble to a weak constitution, 

 and therefore is of service in consumptions, hectic 

 fevers, etc., etc. The patient must drink four ounces of 

 this warm, with an equal quantity of milk, twice a day." 



