It quickens all the Senses, by increasing and comforting the Animal Spirits. It is good in all the Dissaffections of the Brain, Heart, Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Womb, and Nerves. All Diseases of the Womb it safely removes, and is good against Barrenness: it facilitates the Circulation of the Blood, opens Obstructions, and cures Quotidian, Tertian, and Quartan Agues. It is preva∣lent against the Plague, Palsey, Apoplexy, Falling-sickness, and Passions of the Womb; it pro∣vokes Sweat, Urine, and the Courses: it is indeed a power∣ful Medicine, and like a Panacaeae or All-heal, serving for all kinds of Diseases. Dose, à gut. x, ad xl.
10. The Wonderful Spirit.
℞ Simple or common Aqua∣fortis, or Spirit of Nitre not recti∣fied, Spirit of Vitriol, a. lbss. mix them well together, by shaking the Vessel.
It is a great Secret in curing the Colick, Quotidian, Tertian, and Quartan Fevers, the Gout, Sciatica, Contractions of the Si∣news and Muscles, and the Palsy, not only of any particular mem∣ber, but of the whole Body, being outwardly applied, & in∣wardly taken according to Art. There is nothing more powerful to ease all sorts of sharp and vehement Pains, whether hot or cold, which for their vehemency cause the Sick to faint, or die away; chiefly such as arise from the Colick, Stone, Pleurisie, and Gout; for that it qualifies and alleviates the intemperature of all the Parts, and abates the acrimony and pungency of the