Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:

How to make the Salsaperilla-drink, which is very good for those that are troubled with the Foul Disease, otherwise called Mor∣bus Gallicus, or the French Pox.

TAke 4 ounces of Salsaperilla, and let it soak in 10 pound of Water a whole night, then take the Salsaperilla out of the Water, and cut it into small pieces: then put the Salsaperilla so cut into the same Water

again, and take 1 ounce of China-roots, grate or cut them very small: take also 1 ounce of Licorish, beat it with an hammer, and cut it also into small pieces: then take 1 ounce of Anise-seed, and bruise it a little, and take 1 pound of Raisins of the Sun (the stones being taken out of them,) put altogether into the said 10 pound of Water, and put all into a large pot or Pipkin, which must be so large that the foresaid Commodities with the Wa∣ter do not fill the Pot above half full, lest it should run over in the boiling▪ keep the said pot close stop't, boiling some 8 or 10 hours together, untill half be boiled away: then put into it again as much Water as you conceive was boiled away, and let it boil for the space of 3 hours longer: then take it off from the fire, and put therein half an ounce of Sena, and drink thereof in the morning a good draught to go to stool, the rest of the drink when it's cold strain through a linnen cloth, and boil again the rest of the substance, as before, for the space of 8 hours with Fresh water, fresh Licorish, and Raisins of the Sun: half an hour before you take it off from the fire, put into it these Herbs following, viz. Fumiterie, Violet-leaves, Succory, Strawberry-leaves, Sorrell, of each a handfull; put these in∣to the pot and let them boil half an hour;

then take them off frō the fire, & strain them as before. This second drink you must use in the day time when you are a dry, bui you must close up your Stomack both after Din∣ner, and after Supper with the former drink. This is a soverain Medicine to cure the foul Disease, or French-Pox.