The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.

A most excellent Diet Drink for the French Disease.

Take of good White Wine ten quarts, of good strong Beer as much, put there∣to of the Bark Guacum, two pound of Cene, one pound of Licoras scraped and heaten to powder, one pound of the root of Sassaparilla scraped and cut in pieces an inch long, and slit in the midst, one pound of Apples of Colliquintida, the kernels taken out; put all these things together into ordinary stone pots such as their mouthes may be so little, as may be stopped close with corks or dough, and being so stopped, boil them in such a Vessel, as they may be hanged in, and not touch the bottome in the boiling, and so let them be kept boiling continually without ceasing for the space of four and twenty hours from the time

they begin to boil, which you may do by having seething water ready in ano∣ther vessel, and being so well bruised, strain the liquor from the dregs, and put therein one ounce of pure Mithridatum, and so let the Patient drink so much as he can possible, and no other drink till he hath made an end of it, and let him not eat any bread but bisket made without salt, and every day a few Raisons of the Sun, and nothing else for the space of ten dayes; then if the Patient hath not drunk all this potion of drink, let him (if he be weak) eat of a Chicken roasted, or a rib of a neck of Mutton dry roasted once in four and twenty hours, until he hath made an end of this quantity of drink, the which being drank, the Cure (by Gods help) is perfectly wrought; This quantity of Drink hath been drunk in six dayes, and it hath done the Cure: after the Cure is done, in any case keep a good Dyet for a quarter of a year, and abstain from women, and over much drink.