The Colledg] Take of the Juyce of Borrage, Bug∣loss, Bawm, Bistort, Tormentil, Scordium, Vervain, Sharp-pointed dock, Sorrel, Goats Rue, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, blew Bottle great and smal, Roses, Marigolds, Lem∣mons, Citrons, of each six ounces, Bnrnet: Sinksoyl, of each three ounces, white Wine Vineger one pound, Purslain seeds two ounces, Citron and Cardus seeds, of each half an ounce, Water Lilly flowers two ounces, the flowers of Borrage, Bugloss, Violets, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, of each one ounce, Diatrion Santalon six 〈◊〉〈◊〉; let all of them being rightly prepared, be infused three daies, then distilled in a glass still; to the distilled Liquor add earth of Lemnos Siletia, aud Sa∣mos, of each one ounce and an half, Pearls prepared with the juyce Citrons, three drachms, mix them, and keep them together.
Culpeper] A. No sooner had I translated their old Dispensatory (which should have been Authentick til dooms day in the afternoon had not I done it) to work go they and make another such a one as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and then the old one is thrown by like an old Alma∣nack out of 〈◊〉〈◊〉; some final alterations they have made in some medicines (of which this is one) not worth speaking of, yet wil they serve to vapor with, look here quoth they here's such a thing altered, here is a grain and an half put in, where there was but a grain before, the other is dangerous and destructive to the Common-wealth, and so care not a straw for defaming their predecessors; nay some of their own handy works, so they may but uphold their own inte∣rests and unconscionable domineering; thus they serve the poor people just as a Cat serves a Mouse; first play with them, and then eat them up.
A. It mightily cools the blood, and therefore pro∣fitable in Feavers, and al diseases proceeding of heat of blood it provokes sleep. You may take half an ounce at a time, or two drachms if the party be weak.