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{102}

{A Han}

An especiall water preservative
against the plague or any
Ague or ferver or suddaine
Sickness to keepe it from
the heart

Take sage faladine, head of grave worm
wood, Rosemary, Balme, pimpernell, Egre=
mony, grabine, dragons, Linenwort, Harts
tongue mugwort, cardmus, maydens Haire
of [] of those a handfull & take a pestle
ofthe head daffadolis, a quarter of an
ounce of [harmonhill] roots, a quarter of
gonihia, & a quarter of an ounce of
Angolica roots. When straynd & bruise
these roots a little & the aforesaid herbs
must be washt & shaken bout from
the water in a [] dry cloth, and
then shod them grossly, then put into
some straw or an thin vessel bring []
close and to let t stand 2 days &
2 nights, & then still them in an ordina
ry still, you must keepe the last running
by its self which will be smaller than the
rest, tho strong you must mix all to
gether ina great vessell, & when it is
mixt put it in little glasses & cover it
close, you must not wash the Dafadolis.

When you have use of it give 6 or 7
spoonsfull of it warmd to drink, for
a child-halfe so much will fevre, & let
them cover themselves warm to sweat, &
if it be for any sudden giddyness put
into a little treacle, if you use the

{smaller you make take 10 or 12 spoonfull at a time; & you must
always [] it from
the Ayrs in the warming of it, the best time to distill it is in the
latter end of May, for then all the herbs is ours to be had.}

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To make Citterne Water

{Lady Wilmot}
{A Man}

X
Take your Citerns and wipe them very clean with a wett course
Cloth, and dry stem againe very well another dry Cloth, then cutt
your Cittrons in long pieces, but touch not the meate, you may keepe yt
to make Syrrup which is a very cordiall thing. Pare of your yellowrind
of your pieces of Cittron very thinne and putt them into a ell glased
Galley pot and putt to them as much of the best Canary as will cover
the Rindes. So stopp Your pott very well that nothing may gett into
it. Them pare your pieces over againe as long as you can see any of
the Strengthof your Rinde left, & putt y into another Galley putt
by it Selfe and cover it with Sacke, and stopp it very close, & let it all
stand 24 houres then sett your glasse into Limbeck into a pott well
bodied with key, then putt in those parings and sacke which you did
pare last into the Limbeck, and so putt the yellow rindes & sack that it
may be uppermost in the Limbeck, then pourre in some more Sacke ac=
cording to your discretion, and sett on the Head of the Limbeck past it
up close, then fill your pott with warme water and make a soft Fire
under it, and let it heat by degrees, then make the glasses ready to re=
ceive your water in and putt some Amber Greece finely around, & an
Ounce of white Sugar Candy to every pinte and so lett your water
dropp upon it, and when your glasse is full change it & with your
Bodkin stirr the Sugar from the bottome of the glasse, and
cover it with single paper untill it be thorough Cold then stop it close.

In the like manner you may make Orange or Lemmon water.
I use to take to 5 great Cittrons three gallons of Sack, to a hundred
of Lemmons the like quantity, & to a hundred of Orange 4 gallons
if you please you may putt halfe white wine in stead of sacke.

The Great Palse Water also for the Apoplexie.

Take of Lavender Flowers stripped from their stalker and with them

{Sr H Finsh: Lady}
{A Han}