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An Excelent powder to make one sweat & take away pains & good for Agues, & ye Bloody flux
Take Cardus pimpernell Tormentill Betony Scabaus dragon Angelico scordium of each one handfull gathered in fair weather not washed but wiped wth a Cloth brush bruse ym & steep ym 24 howers in 3 pints of white wine then take one pound of Bolearmenak beaten & sersed as fine as powder or flower then strain in as much wine from from ye herbs as will moiesten it to be thick & smooth & as it dryes strain in more wine & stir it often as it dryes in ye sun then strain ye herbs hard yt ther be no wine left in them, & wn all yt is in & it is a thick dough take half an ounce of saferon dryed to powder very fine & 4 ounces of metheradate mix alltogether & make it up in little balles & let ym dry in ye Sun & keep ym close & dry for use, wn you use them scrap it & take it in a glase of warme salt sack or burnt wine or warme ale & lye to sweat, you may take as much as will lye upon a shilling

A Snaile watter good for a Consumption
Take 3 galonds of snailes put ym in a paile of watter & a good quantity of [Isope] & finill to purge ym & a handfull of salt, & wn they have purged as much as they will take ym out of ye watter & stamp ym shells & all to peices yn put to ym 3 pints if stropings of red Cowes wilke of nutmeg Cloves & ginger ye weight of a shilling & of mace 2 shillings of raisons of ye Sun stoned half a pound of blue figes ye best yt can be got & blew curands shred smal of each half a pound of yarow 2 good handfulls hartstoung liverwort sparagras Scabious Egremony hysop & speir mint one great handfull beat ye Spices & shread ye herbs very small mingle alltogether & distill ym in a cold still close leaded let ye watter drop on whit Sugar Candy
You must take a large wine glass full of this watter at a tyme in ye morning & at 4 in ye after noon & an hower before bed tyme

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