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A restorative Snail water

take a peck of garden snails wash them in
4 or 5 waters afterwards in small beer
pound their shells and all then take a quart
of earthwormes and scower them with salt
and chop them in pieces then take angellica
Egremony sallendine red burdock roote rose
mary wood sorrell the inner rind of a barberry
tree of each a handfull rue and baresfoot
of each half a handfull w drams of saffrom
5 ounces of harthorne fenegrik and
turmerick of each one ouce and 2 drams
of cloves steep all in a earthen vessell clos
stopt 24 hours in two gallons of strong
beer and a gallon and half of strong
white wine and then distill in a worme
of alembeek remember before you
distill it to steep your saffrom over
night in a quart of your white wine