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They are made as the Powers of Peniroyal.
They quicken all the Senses, and so strengthen the Brain, and Memory in particular, that they preserve from the Vertigo, Sleepi∣ness, Apoplexy, Lethargy, and all cold Affects of the Head and Nerves. They wonderfully chear all the Spirits, Natural, Vital, and Animal; nor is any thing more efficacious against the infection of a Pestilential Air. They retard Old-age, because they conserve the radical and native heat. They are an admirable Ophthalmick, for they cure all sorts of Cloudi∣ness, Darkness, or Films, offend∣ing the Sight, by dissolving the viscous Humours which cause them. They are good to heal Fi∣stula's and Ulcers, whether con∣cave or eating, by cleansing them. They ease and take away the Head-ach, which arises sympathe∣tically from the evil disposition of the Stomach. They cure the Apoplexy, Epilepsy, Lethargy, Palsy, Convulsions, and Diseases of the Womb. Dose, à ʒj, ad ʒij. more or less, in some Cephalick or Neurotick Vehicle, morning and evening, for about 60 days.