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To Make Snayle Water.
(2)
Take a good peck of garden Snayles in their shells
& wash them in a great bowle of beere, then make
your Chimney hearth very clean & pour out halfe
a bushell of Charcoales and set them on fire, & when
they are throughly kindled, then with a fire shovell
make a great hole in the mid'st of them & pour the
Snayles & scatter some fire of y r quick coales amongst
them, & soe let them rest till they haue done makeing
a noise, And then you must take them forth, and
with a knife and course cloth pick ^ & wipe them m
from the ashes & coles & the green froth that is upon
them. Then in a stone Mortar bruise them shells &
all, take alsoe a quart of earth worms, & scoure them
with water very well divers times over, then wash them
well from their filth, then put them into a Stone Mortar
& beat them well to pieces, then take a clean Iron pot upon
up which sett y r Limbeck or Still, then take 2 handfulls
of Sallendine & lay in the bottome of y r pott & 2 hand=
fulls of Angelica must be Laid upon that; then put
in a Quart or two of rosmary flowers also bearsfoot
Agrimony Reddock roots, Barke of Barbary trees, wood
Sorrill, Bittony, of each of them two handfulls, halfe
a handfull of Rue of fenegrick & Tumricke of each
an ounce well beaten, then lay y r Snayles & wormes
upon the top of all these hearbs and flowers.
3)
Then pour in three gall
your pott & lett it Stand all night or longer if y u please
in the place where y u means to make y r fire under it
In the morninge y u must put in three ounces of Cloves
beaten to powder, Six pen y waight of Saffron dry'd to powder
Harts horne fyled six ounces, y u must not stirr it after
y u have put in the Hartshorne for it must be uppermost
then Sett your limbeck & Close it with Rye dough & make
a very Soft fire under it & recieve y r water by pints the
first is strongest the next weaker & weaker, but the weakest
is usefull, the Smallest if need be may be helped with puting
in one Spoonefull of the strongest to 4 of the Smallest, It is
to be used two Spoonefulls of the strongest to 4 of Ale or Beer
or with wine, & of the snailes as much of Ale or beer or of
wine, This water is by experience good for the yellow
Jaundise & for all griefes comeinge from the obstructions
of the Liver helps the Consumption, it must be taken in
the morning & two houres before meate in the after=
noone with Some moderate Stirrings of the body
after the takinge of it &c
Aqua Mirabilis
(3)
Take of the seeds of Cardimum, Cubebes, Gallingall,
Mellelot floweres, Cloves, Mace, Nutmeggs Ginger of each
one dramme, beinge made into powder putt them into
3 pints of white wine & one pint of aquae vite, a pint of
the Juice of Sallendine put all these into a glass Still and
soe lett them incorporate all night, in the morning distill it
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