Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates.

6. Anti-scorbutick Wine and Ale.

I was wont to prepare simple anti-scorbutick Wine of excellent use, after this manner in the Spring or Summer time. Take of the leaves of Scurvygrass gathered in a clear day as much as you please, being bruised and the Juice pressed forth, fill a Vessel of 3 or 4 Gallons with it, and putting thereto 1 or 2 spoonfuls of Yeast, let it stand to ferment for two days; then the Vessel being close shut let it be put into a Wine Cellar for 6 months, then the Liquor being clear and of colour like Spanish

Wine, draw it forth into Bottles and keep it for use: It may be kept good and incor∣rupt for many years, the dose ℥iij or iiij twice in a day.

Medicated Wines, of which may be taken 4, 3, or 2 ounces at medical hours daily, as also at Meals, are prepared after this manner: Take of Scurvygrass leaves m iiij, shavings of wild Radishes ℥iiij, of Winteran Bark ℥ss, of the outer rind of 4 Oranges and of as many Limons, and let them be put into a glass with 12 pints of White-wine, Rhenish, or thinner Spanish Wine: The Vessel being close shut up let it be kept in a cold place, and as often as you need, draw the Wine off clear.

It is a usual thing to prescribe for scorbutical persons, medicated Ale or Beer to be drunk constantly for their ordinary drink: Let Ale or Beer be prepared as much as will fill a 4 Gallon Vessel, and instead of Hops boyl therein of the tops of the Pine or the Firr-tree m iij, and after it hath fermented-in the Vessel, let there be put to it of the leaves of Scurvygrass m iij, of the roots of sharp pointed Docks prepared ℥iiij, the rinds of 4 Oranges, and after it hath stood 7 days drink of it.

These sort of medicated Ales may be prepared with other ingredients, according to the affection or temperament of the Patient, by which kind of Remedy the medici∣nal Particles altering the dyscrasie of the Blood, being continually carried into its Mass together with the Aliments many have found much benefit in taking away the cause of the Scurvy. But for as much as we have shewn the cause of this, even as the species of the Disease to be two fold, and that hitherto the Medicines proposed, respect only the saline sulphureous intemperature of the Blood: In the next place it behoves us to add scorbutick Medicines, which are convenient in the other, viz. in the sulphureous∣saline dyscrasie of the Blood.