Another Drink.
TAke all the aforesaid Ingredients, in the same manner prepared and stamped: Then take a clean Vessel, and fill it with Beer, then put the Ingredients in a bag, and
A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman.
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- A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman.
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- Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.
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- 1682.
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- Alchemy.
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"A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy as also rare and unheard-of medicines, menstruums and alkahests : with the true secret of volatilizing the fixt salt of tartar / collected and experimented by the honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt., Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother ; hitherto kept secret since his decease, but now published for the good and benefit of the publick by George Hartman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35968.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.
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hang it in the Beer; ℥j. of the Ingredients is sufficient for a quart of Beer. Either of these Drinks is only in case the Patient can∣not bear the use of the Garlick Broth, which alone will dispatch the Cure much the soon∣er; and this course of the Garlick Broth is for all Obstructions, and superfluity of Cold, raw Humours, clogging the Brain, or any other part, as well as for the Dropsie. To strengthen and secure the Liver, use the fol∣lowing Electuary. Take of Powder of Turmerick a sufficient quantity, make an Electuary of it with Sugar, and to every Ounce of it add three drops of Oyl of An∣niseed, made by distillation; and if you put a little Amber-grease to it, it will be the more strengthening. Take of this Electuary two or three times a day the quantity of a Hasle-nut; take not above ℥j. in a day.
Besides this, to strengthen the Stomach, use the following Stomacher: Take Worm-wood, Marjoram, Rosemary, Rue, ana one handful; Cloves, Cinamon, Mace, ana ℥j. bruise these Spices, and mix them with the Herbs; of these make a Stomacher, and ap∣ply it: And you may likewise anomt your Stomach, and region of the Liver with Oyl of Nutmegs and Oyl of Roses.
I heard Sir K. D. say, that after twelve or thirteen days, the Patient begun to Piss in
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great abundance, and so stinking, noisom, roping matter, that the Nurse which emptied the Pots, was hardly able to endure the stink and noisomness of it. And he con∣tinued the diet till he was perfectly Cured.