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.

Another very good Diet-Drink against the Dropsie.

Take Polipode of the Oak six ounces, the Bark of Lignum vitae, three ounces, Sassafras four ounces, Sena six ounces, Aniseeds three ounces, Epithymum, Stechados, of each half an ounce, Raisins of the Sun stoned, half a pound, Hermodactyles three ounces; Agarick, Rhubarb, China root, of each half an ounce; Liquoras four ounces; put all these (being well bruised) into two Gallons of Ale, and six quarts of white wine; let them infuse all night, then boil it in a Vessel close covered for two hours and a half, then strain it being cold.

Let the Patient drink of this Liquor three times a day, half a pint at a time, viz. in the Morning early, and another draught an hour or two before dinner, and about four in the Af∣ternoon. Boil the remaining Ingredients in Ale as before, and drink of this second Liquor at meals, and at any other time, drinking no other Liquor but these two.

Let your Diet be of Roast-meat, of Mutton and Fowl, but not Veal, eating often Raisins of the Sun, with Biskets instead of a Supper.