Tincture of Ambar.
Reduce into animpalpable powder five or six oun∣ces of yellow Ambar, put it into a bolt head, pour up∣on it Spirit of wine, the height of four fingers, stop this bolt head with another, to make a double ves∣sel, and having exactly luted the junctures with a wet bladder, place it in digestion in hot sand, and leave it there five or six days, or until the Spirit of wine is sufficiently tinged with the Ambar colour; decant this Tincture, and put more spirit of wine to the matter, you must digest it as before, then hav∣ing separated the impregnation, mix it with the o∣ther, filtrate them, and distil from them in an alem∣bick with a very little fire, about half the Spirit of wine, which may serve you as before, keep the Tincture that you will find at the bottom of the alembick, in a viol well stopt.
Virtues. It is good for the Apoplexy, Palsy, Epi∣lepsy, and for Histerical women.
Dose. You may take from ten drops to a dram in some proper liquor.