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CuipcperJ] Extracts have the same vir-jone pound and a half, the leaves and 

 tues with the waters they are made from, ; flowers of Centaury the less, of each four 

 only the different form is to please the jounces, steep them eight days in twelve 

 palates of such whose fancy loathes any one ; pounds of white Wine, then distil them in 

 particular form 



This Bezoar water strengthens the heart, 

 arteries, and vital spirits: It provokes sweat, 



an alembick. 



Culpeper.~] It conduces to preservation 

 from ill air, and pestilential fevers : it opens 



and is exceeding good in pestilential fevers, ; obstructions of the liver, and helps such as 

 in health it withstands melancholy and ! they say are liver-grown ; it eases pains in 

 consumptions, and makes a merry, blithe, I the stomach, helps digestion, and eases such 

 chearful creature. Of the extract you may \ as have pains in their bones by ill lodging 

 lake ten grains at a time, or somewhat j abroad in the cold, it provokes appetite, 

 more, if your body be not feverish, half $ and is exceeding good for the yellow jaun- 

 a spoonful of water is sufficient at a time, j dice, as also for prickings or stitches in the 

 and that mixed with other cordials or medi- sides : it provokes the menses, and expels 

 cines appropriated to the disease that trou- both birth and placenta : it is naught for 



bles you. 

 Aqua el Spiritus Lambricorum, magistrate. 



pregnant women. If there be no fever, you 

 may take a spoonful by itself; if there be, 



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Or Water and Spirit of Earthworms, j you may, if you please, mix it with some 

 College.'] Take of Eaith worms well j cooler medicine appropriated to the same 

 cleansed, three pound, Snails, with shells j use you would give it for. 

 on their backs cleansed, two gallons, beat* Aqua Gilbertii. 



them in a mortar, and put them into a con- 

 venient vessel, adding stinging Nettles, 

 roots and all, six handfuls, wild Angelica, 

 four handfuls, brank Ursine, seven hand- 

 fuls, Agrimony, Bettony, of each three 



Or Gilbert's Water. 

 College.'] Take of Scabious, Burnet, 

 Dragons, Bawm, Angelica, Pimpernel, 

 with purple flowers, Tormentil, roots and 

 all, of each two handfuls, let all of them, 



handfuls, Rue one handful, common Worm- j being rightly gathered and prepared, be 

 wood two handfuls, Rosemary flowers six | steeped in four gallons of Canary Wine, 

 ounces, Dock roots ten ounces, the roots of j still off three gallons in an alembick, to 

 Sorrel five ounces, Turmerick, the inner I which add three ounces of each of the 

 bark of Barberries, of each four ounces, 1 cordial flowers, Clove-gilliflowers six 

 Fenugreek seeds two ounces, Cloves three j ounces, Saffron half an ounce, Turmerick 

 ounces, Hart's-horn, Ivory in gross pow- Itwo ounces, Galanga, Bazil seeds, of each 

 dor, of each four ounces, Saffron three (one dram, Citron pills one ounce, the seed 



drams, small spirits of Wine four gallons! 

 and a half, after twenty-four hours infusion, ; 



of Citrons and Carduus, Cloves of each 

 five ounces, Hart's-horn four ounces, steep 



distil them in an alembick. Let the four I them twenty four hours and then distil 

 first pounds be reserved for spirit, the rest I them \uBalneo Maria: to the distilled water 

 for water. J add Pearls prepared, an ounce and a half, 



Culpeper.~] Tis a mess altogether, it \ red Coral, Crabs eyes, white Amber, of each 

 may be they intended it for an universal | two drams, Crabs claws, six drams, Bezoar, 

 medicine. j Ambergrease, of each two scruples, steep 



Aqua Gentianee compositte. |them six weeks in the sun, in a vessel well 



Or Gentian Water compound. j stopped, often shaking it, then filter it, (you 



College.'] Take of Gentain roots sliced,* may keep the powders for Spicord. temp.) 



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