424 MEDICAL REMAINS. 



Wine for the spirits. 



Take gold perfectly refined three ounces, quench it 

 six or seven times in good claret wine ; add of nitre 

 six grains for two draughts ; add of saffron prepared 

 three grains, of ambergrease four grains, pass it through 

 an hippocras bag, wherein there is a dram of cinnamon 

 gross beaten, or, to avoid the dimming of the colour, of 

 ginger. Take two spoonsful of this to a draught of 

 fresh claret wine. 



The preparing of saffron. 



Take six grains of saffron, steeped in half parts of 

 wine and rose water, and a quarter part vinegar : then 

 dry it in the sun. 



Wine against adverse melancholy, preserving the senses 

 and the reason. 



Take the roots of bugloss well scraped, and cleansed 

 from their inner pith, and cut them into small slices ; 

 steep them in wine of gold extinguished ut supra, and 

 add of nitre three grains, and drink it ut supra, mixed 

 with fresh wine : the roots must not continue steeped 

 above a quarter of an hour ; and they must be changed 

 thrice. 



Breakfast-preservative against the gout and rheums. 



To take once in the month at least, and for two days 

 together, one grain of castorei in my ordinary broth. 



The preparation of garlicL 



Take garlick four ounces, boil it upon a soft fire in 

 claret wine, for half an hour. Take it out and steep it 



