℞ COmmon Wormwood, q.s. burn it, so as it may be presently brought into white ashes; of which with hot or boiling Water make a Lixivium: filter it, and put fresh Water upon the faeces, so long till the Water will come off unaltered in the taste: put all these solutions into a clean earthen Pan, and evaporate to driness; and if need be, you may purifie it by a second and third solution, filtration, and coagulation. The Essential Salt. It is prepared of green Wormwood, before it runs up to seed, bruising it, and boiling it in a good quantity of Water to one half: then straining out the de∣coction by strongly expressing it, which being clarified with whites of Eggs, is to be boiled to the thickness of new Honey, and put in a cold place to crystallize, and drying the Crystals for use.
The Fixed Salt incides, opens, cleanses, attenuates, and is Stoma∣tick, expels the Stone, provokes. Urine and Sweat, and is good against all sorzs of Fevers. Dose, à gr. x, ad ℈ j. The Essential Salt cleanses, and is a famous Stomatick and Sudorifick; it kills Worms, and removes Obstru∣ctions of the Spleen and Mesen∣tery, and allays the effervescence of Choler. Dose, à gr. x, ad ℈ j.