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.

An Excellent purging Ale prescribed by D. Wright, with the Minium Plaister, for any Ach or swel∣ling.

Take two gallons of Wort not throughly boiled, and three handful of Dock-roots sliced, boil them therein till a pottle be consumed, then add thereto Liverwort, Endive, Succory, Fu∣mitory, Scabious, Agrimony, of each three handful, and boil them in the same Liquor till another pottle be exhausted; then when it is cold, strain it, and put this Liquor to three gallons of Wort boiled perfectly well; let them both be of one and the same temper when they are mixed; then hang therein in a Bag (with a Gad of new Steel) the following Ingredients: Dry Scurvigrass three days by the Fire, or in an

Oven upon Sieves, in a temperate heat, that it may dry leisurely; when it is reasonable dry, shred a pound of it, then take three ounces and a half of Sena, one ounce of Jalap, one ounce of Rhubarb, three ounces and a half of Garaway seeds, a handful of Orange peels, half a handful of Citron peels, half an ounce of Sassafras, and a dram of Nutmegs, slice what is to be sliced, and then bruise them to∣gether grosly, and hang (with the Gad of steel) in the Bag as aforesaid, adding to them two handful of wheat-bran; this for four gallons of Ale or Beer prepared according to the former direction.