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The great Palsey Water for an Apoplexy
Take of levander flowers stripd from the stalks and
fill therewith A larg Gallon glass & pour of good spirit
of wine or perfect Aqua=vitae distilled from all
fleagm then cerculate them for 6 weeks very close stop'd
& clad with A bladder, and soe nothing may breath
out, let them stand in A warme place then distill
them in Limbeck Stilled with his Collour then put
into the said water, of the flowers of sage rose=mary
bittany each 1/2 an handfull of the floers of burage
buglass, lillium convallium cowslips of each an
handfull steep these flowers in good Mamsey
Aqua=vitae or Spirit of wine every one in its season
till all may be had, then put also to them [disaefted]
Togather put also to them of Balm Motherwort
Spike flowers bay berryes the Leaves of Orange trees
if they can be had & there flowers of each an
Ounce cut all Small & put them in the Afforesaid
distill'd Wine or Mamsey put them togather and
Still them as before being stop'dthe space of 6 weeks
then put in this distill'd water [titter] pills dry'd
the yallow pills or Else of lemmon pills & piony
seeds hull'd each 6 drams Cinnamon, Nutmegs,
Mace, Cardamoms, Cubebs, Yallow Sanders each 1/2
an Ounce lignum Alloes one Dram make all
these into powders and put them into this distill'd abovesaid
Watter & put to them of [Jeiubes] new and good 1/2 A pound
the vessel with A double Bladder, let them digest 6
weeks, then strain this hard with A press & philtrate
your liquor, and put in this liquor prepar'd pearl 2 drams.
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Prepared [smazagdoes] A scruple Amber Grease musk
Saffron of each 1/2 A scruple red Roses dry'd and sweet
Smelling red Sanders and yallow each one ounce hang these
in A sarcenett bag in the water well cloased that nothing
breath out. This water is of exceeding vertue
In all Swoonings weakness of heart & decaying
of Spirit in all apoplexies, Palsies Epilepsies in all
points of the Joints comeing of cold all brusies
out ward by bathed & dipped cloths in itt & let to itt
Strengthens & comforts all animall vitall & naturall
Spirits & cleanseth the externall semes strenghtens the
Memory restoreth lost appetite, all weakness of the
Stomack both to be taken inwardly & bathed out
=wardly. Take of it A quarter of A spoonfull
Fasting an hour after it. It takes away
Giddy ness, helpeth the hearing maketh A pleasant
brith. Their can be not better remedies in palsies
Apoplexies, both to help in the fitt & to prevent.
If you take morneing and evening A quarter of A
spoonfull with Crums of bread & Sugar it helpeth
the lost speech, helpeth all cold dispositions of the
Liver & a begining Dropsy, helpeth all cold
diseases of the month in sume none can express
cold diseases sufficiently the vertues of this most
Incomperable water
Roles for Mrs. Ayscough
Take of chosen Liquors made into fine powder
one Dram and A half and the Lungs of A Fox
dryed and made into fine powder one Dram
of fine Sugar Candy.