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An Excellent Drink for a Cough or
Hoarsness or Stuft Stomack my own. M:H

Take half a pint of Hysop water, half a pint of
horsehorn water, half a pint of pimpernele water
half a pint of Colts foot water, put to these one pound of
good loaf sugar finely beaten, and boil 'em well till
one pint be boiled away, Then slice in half a
score of slices of Elicampane root, and give ^it two or
three boils up afterwards, Then take it off and keep in
a glass or pott, and let the root keep in it at the
bottom of the glass This drink must be taken 3
times a day in the morning fasting at 4 o Clock in
the afternoon and at night when you go to bed 5 or
6 spoonfulls at a time Thus do for a month

{my mothers}

For Vapours or Fitts of the Mother

Take the liver lights, and heart of an Hare of a male
if possible, and bring in the blood, dry them in a Oven
in a pan afterwards beat it to powder. Then take the
like quantity of mother wort beaten to powder and
mingle it together Then take as much of the powder
as will lye on a small shilling or broad Six pence
Morning afternoon and night This use till the greif
is gone which will in a very short time by Gods
blessing- If the greif have been long settled It
may require another quantity more than the first
The powder must be taken in black Cherry water
about two spoonfulls