filter thro' Paper: (that which remains in the Paper, is the Glass of Antimony, which dry, and keep for other uses:) the filtred liquor evaporate in a Glass to perfect driness; and dry it with a strong heat, then put it up into a Glass, which stop close, and keep it for use.
It purges both upwards and downwards, chiefly Phlegmatick and Cholerick Humors, and it works much more gently and safely than Crocus of Metals, or Glass of Antimony; it is a most powerful Emetick in all long continued and stubborn Dis∣eases: it is good against Melan∣choly, Madness, Phrenzy, Dotage, long continued Pains of the Head, Vertigo, Epilepsy, Apople∣xy, Difficulty of Hearing, Noise and Ringing in the Ears, Short∣ness of Memory, Loathing of Meat, Inflammation of the Sto∣mach and Sides, the yellow Jaun∣dies, Dropsy, Tertian Agues, Quartan Agues, and other chronick, continual, putrid, and acute Fevers; poysonous Draughts, Pleurisies, and all other Diseases of the Body pro∣ceeding from Choler or Melan∣choly. It prevails also against a malign Bloody-flux, which is generally mortal in a Plague-time; as also against the Calen∣ture, or Hungarian Fever. Dose, à gr. ij, ad vj. but to strong consti∣tutions, and in some proper Vehicle. Here is to be noted, when the Sick begins to vomit, they are to drink either Posset∣drink, or Broth made of flesh, (as Mutton or Veal) which is to be often repeated, that the Vomiting may be performed