Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.

A very good drink against the scurvy,

Take yellow Dock roots finely sliced, Hors∣radish roots bruised small, of each a pound and a half, Succory roots their piths taken ••ut four ounces, Egrimony and fun••itory of each four handfuls, water cresses six handfuls, Scurvy grass a peck, ginger bruised one ounce▪ Nutmegs one ounce and half, Anniseeds and ••assafras r••ots of each one ounce, wash and pick and dry the herbs with a clothe, stamp them altogether in a stone Mortar, and wring ••ut the juice and put the Herbs after they are ••trayned with the r••st of the simples into a ••ag made of bowtel clothe, and hang them in •• Vessel of five gallons of new ale, and put in the ju••ce that was strained out of the Herbs, ••nd let it stand four or five dayes, and then drink every morning fasting and every even∣••ng half a pinte at a time, and if the party please let him make new drink thereof some ••ime in the day.