The family dictionary, or, Houshold [sic] companion wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health ... directions for making oils, ointments, salves, ... chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales and other liquors and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers ... and parts of living creatures used in medicinal potions, ... likewise directions for cookery, ... also the way of making all sorts of perfumes ... together with the art of making all sorts of English wines, ... the mystery of pickling and keeping all sorts of pickles ... : to which is added as an appendix the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare ... : with the art of carving and many other useful matters / by J.H.

Specifick-Purge: Take raw Antimony, and Sal Amo∣niack powdered and mixed together, of each six ounces: sublime the combustible red Flowers, according to Art, and of them take four oun∣ces; of the best Nitre take eight ounces: let them ful∣minate in subliming Pots, and gather the Flower without wasting any of it; dulcifie the Flower with hot Water till there be on more saltness

remaining: upon this Pow∣der dried over a very gentle Fire, pour rectified Spirit of Wine four Fingers breadth a∣bove the Matter, put them all into an Alembick with a Receiver luted to it; then distil them at first with a gen∣tle Fire, increase it by degrees that the substance may come to a driness: expose the Pow∣der, being perfectly dried, to the Fire for the space of an Hour, and keep it for use in a close Box, or Gally-pot.

This remarkable Prepara∣tion of Antimony is sudori∣sick, powerfully provoking Sweat, pens the Belly gently, being taken at a distance from Meals, from twenty to thirty grains in some Conserve, in a Bolus, or dissolved in some agreeable Cordial-water.