Bate.] If you distil Manna by a Cucurbit, with a gentle or slow Fire, you will have an in∣sipid Sudorifick Spirit. It is an admirable Sudorifick in Fevers, whether pestilential or common; producing e∣ven a sticking kind of Sweat. Dose to one spoonful.
Salmon.] § 1. That what comes off, will be insipid like Flegm is certain; but as to its Medicinal Virtues, I can say nothing by Experience; you are obliged to take them upon the Credit of our Learn∣ed Author. § 2. It is said to expel the Excrements of the last digestion; and that it has a peculiar Virtue to dis∣solve Sulphur, and to extract its yellow Tincture, which is not one of the least Reme∣dies for easing the Breast, and the Praecordia, when oppres∣sed; this Tincture being as a restoring Balsam, to reme∣dy the Distempers and Af∣fects of the Lungs, and to strengthen and preserve their Action, and may be given from gut. iij. ad xij. in prepa∣red or depurated Juyce of Ele∣campane, or Hyssop. §3. There is another insipid Spirit of Manna, thus prepared: ℞ Choice Manna lbij. pure Nitre lbj. put them both into a Hog's Bladder, tye it exactly up: hang the same by a string, in boiling Water, till the two Substances be well dissolved: this Liquor or Dissolution di∣stil in a Glass Cucurbit covered with its Head, and fitted with a Receiver: so will you have an insipid laxative Water, provoking Sweat copiously; Dose à ʒij. ad ʒvj. or ℥j. in Aqua Lactis Pectoralis, or Cardiaca, or other proper Ve∣hicle: it is good to bring forth those superfluous Sero∣sities, which many times breed Rh••umatisms, and Defluxi∣ons.