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A true Receipt of Mr. Gaskins Cordiall pouder, with directions how to use it.

TAke the rags of pearle or seed pearle, of red Corrall, of Crabs Eyes, of Hawthorne, of white Amber, Ana a like••, quantity, being all severally beaten into fine pouder, and searced thorough a fine searce, then take so much of the tips or toes of the Crabs Cl••wes, as of all the rest of the pouder, for it is the maine agent of the work beat and cearse them as you do the rest of the pouders, then weigh them severally, and take so much of the tips or toes as of all the other fine pouder and mix them together, then make it up in balles with some jelly of Harts∣horne wherein you may infuse some Safron more or less as you desire to have them coloured, so let them lye untill they be drye and fully decoct▪ and then use them as you have occasion, if you can have the Crabs leggs before they be boild; it will be much better otherwise they may serve being boild, so that they be in season, which is in May or September, this pouder being finely shaven o•• scraped with a Knife, may be taken in a spoon∣ful of Dragon water or Carduus water ten grains at a time, wash∣ing it down with another spoonfull of the same water but for a yongue child two grains may suffice. It is good to prevent the small Pox, and to put forth a disease, it recovereth those that are fallen into a Consumption, if it be taken daily for a good time together, it is good and excellent in all violent and burn∣ing feavers, and against all sorts of poison, it serveth especially against the Pestilence of the Plague, it doth extirpate the ve∣nome of the infection, wherein no terra Lemnia sigillata, Beasors stone or Unicorns horn, though taken in a double quantity can match it, it helpeth quotidian tertian and double tertian Ague, but for the quartan it is not much commended, only it may comfort the spirits, and mitigate the fits, but in any other A∣gues, it is equall to any animal or vegetable medicine whats••∣ever,

it is good for the trembling or passion of the heart, it being taken in time it preserveth a man from all diseases and infections, and it worketh scarce with any sensible motion, for it neither provoketh nor giveth any offence at all to the heart, smel, taste, or stomach, it lasteth long▪ and decayeth not.

Flower of Sluphur as much as you can take upon a six pence at twice, and as much Benjamin as a pease, take them in a rere Egg, the Benjamine broken as small as pins-heads, take it first and last for a Cold.