operation that the Spirit of Vitriol hath, only it re∣frigerates more, and hath a greater diuretick force; in colouring any thing it is also the same, only it ex∣ceeds the Spirit. The operation of it chiefly con∣sists in cutting humors, in dissipating, mundifying, drying, contracting, and resisting putrefaction, and by its tartness it restrains thirst. Hence it is a most excellent Medicine in all Feavers, whether malig∣nant, pestilential, putrid, Hungarian, or Epidemical, which from a sulphureous, astral, and poisonous in∣fluence are caused and kindled in mens bodies, con∣taining in it a Bezoardick property, by which it often moves Sweat and Urine, and consumes all internal, fervid, noxious Vapors; it also purgeth and com∣forteth the Stomach by a natural heat, and helps it in Concoction; it stirs up the Appetite, takes away putrefaction, and the cause of a stinking Breath; it also kills the Worms, which are the effects of Pu∣trefaction and Crudity. It is also a most profitable Remedy for all Hepatick diseases, and for those who have their Faces painted with red Pustles, or are subject to a Diarrhoea. It is an useful Medicine in the Quincy, pestilential Pleurisie, Tumors of the Spleen, putrid Gonorrhoea, the Whites in Women, the Scur∣vy, and the like. The Dose is from four or six grains to eight or ten in Conserves, Electuaries, Syrups, Ju∣leps, or other convenient Liquors. In cold distem∣pers it is given mixt with Wine; but in Feavers in Barley-water. In Diarrhoea's and imperfections of the Liver, as also in a Gonorrhoea and Fluxes in Women it is given mixed with Conserve of red Ro∣ses, that it may become tart, and red like blood. But all they who are subject to Contraction and Con∣vulsion of the Nerves, and those who have dry Brains, or lean, spare Bodies; also those whose Sto∣machs