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EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSKS. 
Leather^ and lay it upon the corne^ and it will take it 
clean e away within 7 dayes space. 
An other soueraigne Medecme for a Web in the eye. 
— Take a good quantitie of snailes with their shells upon 
them, and wash them very well, and then distill them in 
a common Stillatorie; then take of the galles of Hares, 
E-ed Currall, and Suger-candie, and mingle them toge- 
ther with the said water, and then distill them againe; 
then take the same water, and put it into a glasse or 
viall, and when you will use it, take a drop thereof, and 
put it into your eyes both morning and evening, and it 
will help you.^^ 
Dr. Fuller, in his ^Pharmacopoeia,^ recommends snails 
in scorbutic affections, and gives the following recipe for 
a consumption : — 
Snail-water Pectoral. — Take snails beaten to a mash 
with their shells 3 pound ; crum of white bread, new- 
baked, 12 ounces; nutmeg, 6 drams; ground-ivy, 6 
handfulls ; whey, 3 quarts ; distill it in a cold still, with- 
out burning. If I would have this water not so abso- 
lutely 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, no, 12 ; 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 
