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

 it with svigar. j aforementioned spirit. 



CulpeperJ] It comforts the heart, j 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 1. Whether the gallon of Lavender 

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

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

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

 health, and have bodies either cold by 5 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 j 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 j 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 j in the latter end of April, and beginning of 

 together in the sun six days, then distil j 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 ; 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 j Or Spirit of Castoreum. 



gathered, being infused in one gallon of j The ColleJ\ Take of fresh Castoreum 

 the best spirits of wine, and mingled with I 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 drains, Mace, 

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

 of Stoechas and Orange tree, ay berries, 1 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, : Mariae, and the distilled water kept close. 

 Nutmegs, Cardamoms, Cubebs, yellow i stopped. 



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

 Aloes one dram, the best Jujubes, the stones i 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 i priated to the/ diseases you would give it 

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

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

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

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

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

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



