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Recipe 116-119

Quarts of the strongest aqua vitae, stop it very close, but stir it twice a day for 4 Days put some saffron into it. you may take 4 or 5. spoonfuls at night & as many the next morning & fast two Hours after it, it will purge gently, it cures the Cholick in the stomach or Bowels & the bloody flux or gravel in the Kidneys, you may take it as a Dram if you find yourself not well, but not so large a dose, strain it, but as you use it till it has stood 3. or 4. weeks. 
The Duchess of Marlborough.
116. For the Cholick
Rhubarb & Juniper berries of each one ounce, Liquorish 1/2 an ounce, snake Root two Drams, Infuse all this in two Quarts of double anniseed water for 12. days, for a grown Person six spoonfuls & in proportion for younger
117. To cool the throat in the Small Pox
half a pint of Linseed Tea sweetened with sirrup of mulberrys & shake it up with the white of an Egg, now & then a spoonful.
118. To Cure Dropsy
Bryone Roots Steept in white wine
119. For the Bite of a Mad Dog
Let the patient be blooded at the arm nine or ten ounces. Take of the Herb called in Latin Lichen cinereus Terrestris in English Ash coloured Ground Liverwort, cleaned, dried and powdered, half an ounce: of black pepper powdered two Drams, mix these well together, and divide the Powder into four Doses, one of which must be taken every morning fasting, for four mornings successively, in half a Pint of Cow's milk warm: after these four Doses are taken the

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Quarts of the strongest aqua vitae, stop it very close, but stir it twice a day for 4 Days put some saffron into it. you may take 4 or 5. spoonfuls at night & as many the next morning & fast two Hours after it, it will purge gently, it cures the Cholick in the stomach or Bowels & the bloody flux or gravel in the Kidneys, you may take it as a Dram if you find yourself not well, but not so large a dose, strain it, but as you use it till it has stood 3. or 4. weeks. The Duchess of Marlborough. 116. For the Cholick Rhubarb & Juniper berries of each one ounce, Liquorish 1/2 an ounce, snake Root two Drams, Infuse all this in two Quarts of double anniseed water for 12. days, for a grown Person six spoonfuls & in proportion for younger 117. To cool the throat in the Small Pox half a pint of Linseed Tea sweetened with sirrup of mulberrys & shake it up with the white of an Egg, now & then a spoonful. 118. To Cure Dropsy Bryone Roots Steept in white wine 119. For the Bite of a Mad Dog Let the patient be blooded at the arm nine or ten ounces. Take of the Herb called in Latin Lichen cinereus Terrestris in English Ash coloured Ground Liverwort, cleaned, dried and powdered, half an ounce: of black pepper powdered two Drams, mix these well together, and divide the Powder into four Doses, one of which must be taken every morning fasting, for four mornings successively, in half a Pint of Cow's milk warm: after these four Doses are taken the