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wine, then draw out the spirit, and sweeten f being tyed up in a rag, be hung into the 

 it with sugar. \ aforementioned spirit. 



CulpeperJ] It comforts the heart, \ CulpeperJ\ I could wish the Apothecaries 

 cherishes the vital spirits, resists the pes- ; would desire to be certified by the College, 

 tilence, and all corrupt airs, which indeed j 1. "Whether the gallon of Lavender 

 are the natural causes of epidemical dis- j flowers must be filled by heap, or by strike, 

 eases, the sick may take a spoonful of it in i 2. Next, whether the flowers must be 

 any convenient cordial, and such as are in i pressed down in the measure or not. 3. 

 health, and have bodies either cold by How much must be drawn off in the first 

 nature, or cooled by age, may take as much $ distillation. 4. Where they should get 

 either in .the morning fasting, or a little { Orange leaves and flowers fresh gathered, 

 before meat. ! 5. What they mean by convenient diges- 



Spiritus Lavendula compositus Matthias. \ tion. 6. Where you shall find Borrage, 

 Or compound spirit of Lavender. Matthias. ! Bugloss, and Cowslips, flowering together, 



The College.] Take of Lavender flowers ; that so you may have them all fresh ac- 

 one gallon, to which pour three gallons of > cording to their prescript, the one flowering 

 the best spirits of wine, let them stand \ in the latter end of April, and beginning of 

 together in the sun six days, then distil \ May, the other in the end of June, and 

 them with an Alembick with this refrige- j beginning of July. 7. If they can make a 

 ratory. \ shift to make it, how, or which way the 



Take of the flowers of Sage, Rosemary, j virtues of it will countervail the one half of 

 and Bettony, of each one handful ; the i the charge and cost, to leave the pains and 

 flowers of Borrage, Bugloss, Lilies of the j trouble out. 

 Valley, Cowslips, of each two handfuls : ; Spiritus Castorii. 



let the flowers be newly and seasonably 5 Or Spirit of Castoreum. 



gathered, being infused in one gallon of j The College.] Take of fresh Castoreum 

 the best spirits of wine, and mingled with ! four ounces, Lavender flower an ounce, 

 the foregoing spirit of Lavender flowers, j the tops of Sage and Rosemary, of each 

 adding the leaves of Bawm, Feather-few, f half an ounce, Cinnamon six drams, Mace, 

 and Orange tree fresh gathered; the flowers I Cloves, of each two drachms, spirits of 

 of Stcechas and Orange tree, .Lay berries, > Wine rectified, six pounds, digest them 

 of each one ounce. After convenient diges- { in a phial filled only to the third part, close 

 tion distil it again, after which add Citron i stopped with cork and bladder in warm 

 pills the outward bark, Peony seed husked, { ashes for two days, then distilled in Balneo 

 of each six drams, cinnamon, Mace, j Marise, and the distilled water kept close 

 Nutmegs, Cardamoms, Cubebs, yellow i stopped. 



Sanders, of each half an ounce, Wood of \ Culpeper.~] By reason of its heat it is 

 Aloes one dram, the best Jujubes, the stones j no ways fit to be taken alone, but mixed 

 being taken out, half a pound, digest them ; with other convenient medicines appro- 

 six weeks, then strain it and filter it, and j priated to the diseases you would give it 

 add to it prepared Pearls two drams, ! for, it resists poison, and helps such as are 

 Emeralds prepared a scruple, Ambergrease, t bitten by venomous beasts : it causes 

 Musk, Saffron, of each half a scruple, \ speedy delivery to women in travail, and 

 red Roses dryed, red Sanders, of each half j casteth out the Placenta : it helps the fits of 

 an ounce, yellow Sanders, Citron Pills, 5 the mother, lethargies and convulsions, being 

 dryed, of each one dram. Let the species { mixed with white wine, and dropped into 



