The true preserver and restorer of health being a choice collection of select and experienced remedies for all distempers incident to men, women, and children : selected from and experienced by the most famous physicians and chyrurgeons in Europe : together with Excellent directions for cookery ... : with the description of an ingenious and useful engin for dressing of meat and for distilling th[e] choicest cordial waters with-out wood coals, candle or oyl : published for the publick good / by G. Hartman.

A Drink very good for the Head and Eye-sight.

Take Bittony, Eyebright, Agrimony and Plantane, of each two handfuls; Ground-Ivy, three handfuls; shred them and stamp them, then boyl them In six Gallons of strong Wort fot three quarters of an hour; then strain it through a Seive, and let it cool, and throw the herbs away; when it is fit put Yest to it, and put it up into a Runlet, and when it hath done working, close it up, and after seaven days, broach it, and drink of it at all times when you are thirsty: When it is half spent make more, and use it for two months together in the Spring, or in the Summer.