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To make compound Gentian water.

Take 12 Ounces of Gentian roots Sliced : flowers & leaves
of Century of each 2 ounces of let the Century be cutt & infuse
all 8 dayes in 6 pints of white wine, & then distill
itt in A Limbeck.
This Gentian water is only the ground of the following medicine.

{RS}
Species Fieræ dram ij
Species Aromatic: Rosat. scruple ij
Rubarb. dram j
Gentianæ composit ℔ ijs

[Infundantur p dies] 9. when it is settled pour it off
& keep that which is clear for your vse takeing thereof in
morneing fasting 2 good Spoonfulles in 8 or 10
Spoonfull of wormewood wine & fast 3 houres after
itt, & you need not tye your Self to any other Physicall
rules either in diet or Exercise take this for 20
mornings togather or longer if you find it needfull.

For the Dropsie, or for swelling of the belly
by reason of winde

Take one Ounce of Scena Leaves, 1/2 an ounce of rubarb sliced
1/2 A handfull of century & wormewood tops of each 1/2 an
handfull dried put all these into A quart of white wine
Steep'd or infused cold 24 hours, then Strain it of & take
the 4^th part of A dose, & when you take add to every dose 15 graines
of tartar vitriolated, & one Ounce of Sirrup of buckshorne
take this 4 dayes together unless it work too much
then intermitt A day or 2 = the Sirrup & tartar put not
in till you take itt, & Stir it up and mingle it very well
just as you take itt.

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Pills for the Stone or Gravill

Take chio turpentine one Ounce wash it in Parsely water
then add to the turpintine made into fine powder 2 dram
of crabs eyes, Amber one Dram, Saffron half A
A dram double refined Sugar, as much as will make
it into A mass for pills then keep itt in A pot & when
you haue occasion to make vse of it, by haueing
any inclication to the Stone or troubled with sharp-
=ness or stoping of water, take 3 or 4 or 5 pills
att night goeing to bed, for 3 or 4 nights togather
or as long as you haue cause you cannot take them too
often, for they both help & prevent the Stone Bowl
them well in Liquorish powder when you take them if they
giue A stool or 2 the next which they very Seldome
doe, but when they doe, it is soe much the better,
you need not keep house, nor observe any diet with them
but what is vsuall, I never found soe much good in
in any thing that ever I took for the Stone, & all that
I haue giuen them to haue assured me of the Same.

The stone drink is to be had at the Rainbow near the Temple.

For the Bowells stoping & loosness

Take one pound of fresh butter clarified 3 time's
after which put in A pugill of red rose leaves &
1/2 as much of pomgrante flowers & take it glisterwise

For the Stone

Take sea Lettice dry it to powder & take as much
as will lye on A 6 pence in white wine.

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