The Colledg] Take of the* 1.1 Leaves of Angelica eight ounces, of 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 ounces, of Bawm and Sage, of each sour ounces; Angelica seeds six ounces; sweet Fennel seeds nine ounces: Let the Herbs being dried and the seeds be grosly bruised, to which ad of the Species called Aromaticum Rosatum, and of the Species called Diamoschu Dulce, of each an ounce and an 〈◊〉〈◊〉; infuse them two daies in thirty two pints of Spanish Wine; then distil them with a gentle fire (according to that art which we never had) and with every pound mix two ounces of Sugar dissol∣ved in Rose water.
Let the three first pound be called by the name of Spi∣rit, the rest by the name of Water.
Culpeper] A This Receipt was far different from that Angelica water which they prescribed in their last Dispensatory; I could at first imagine no reason worth the quoting, unless it were done to make it dearer, as who should say, seeing the common people cannot be kept from knowing the vertues of what we have so long monopolized into our own hands, through the iniquity of the times in abolishing King∣ly Government, which was the only 〈◊〉〈◊〉 we had to lean upon; yet will we to work again, and leave ne∣ver a stone unturned that may uphold us in our pride and unconscionable domineering: and though we cannot write but it will be translated into such a lan∣guage as will be in the reach 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 brain, yet will we wind the business so high, that it shall be out of the reach of his purse; this I thought to be the plain English of it: yet afterward I found, that their former Dispensatory had a water called Cordial Wa∣ter, which here shouldered out, Angelica Water, and having got into its place, stole its name. Pray do but so much as tell what good it doth the vulgar for you to change the names of Medicines: I 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a Rat, a new trick to cheat the world.
A. The chief end of composing this Medicine, was to strengthen the heart, and 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, and therefore is very wholsom in pestilential times, and for such as walk in stinking airs.
I shall now quote you their former Receipt in 〈◊〉〈◊〉 former Dspensatory.