ion of the Sinews, helps the conception of Women if they be
Barren, it kills the Worms in the Belly and Stomach; it cures the cold
Dropsie, and helps the Stone in the Bladder, and in the Reins of the
back; it helps shortly the stinking breath, and whosoever useth this
Water morning and evening, (and not too often) it preserveth him in good
liking, and will make him seem young very long, and Comforteth nature
marvellously; with this water did Dr. _Stephens_ preserve his life, till
extream age would not let him go or stand and he continued five years,
when all the Physicians judged he would not live a year longer, nor did
he use any other Medicine but this, &c.

_A Plague Water to be taken one spoonful every four hours with one sweat
every time._

Take Scabious; Betony, Pimpernel, and Turmentine-roots, of each a pound,
steep these all night in three gallons of strong Beer, and distil them
all in a Limbeck, and when you use it, take a spoonful thereof every
four hours, and sweat well after it, draw two quarts of water, if your
Beer be strong, and mingle them both together.

_Poppy water._

Take four pound of the flower of Poppies well pickt and sifted, steep
them all night in three Gallons of Ale that is strong, and still it in a
Limbeck; you may draw two quarts, the one will be strong and the other
will be small, &c.

_A Water for a Consumption, or for a Brain that is weak._

Take Cream (or new milk) and Claret-wine, of each three pints of
Violet-flowers, Bugloss and Borage-flowers, of each a spoonful, Comfrey,
Knot-grass, and Plantane of these half a handful, three or four
Pome-waters sliced, a stick of Liquorish, some Pompion seeds and
strings; put to this a Cock that hath been chased and beaten before he
was killed, dress it as to boil, and parboil it until there be no blood
in it; then put them in a pot, and set them over your Limbeck, and the
soft fire; draw out a pottle of water, then put your water in a Pipkin
over a Charcoal fire, and boil it a while, dissolve therein six ounces
of white Sugar-candy, & two penny weight of Saffron: when it is cold
strain it into a glass, & let the Patient drink three or four spoonfuls
three or four times a day blood-warm; your Cock must be cut into small
pieces, & the bones broken, and in case the flowers and herbs are hard
to come by, a spoonful of their stilled waters are to be used.

_Another of the same._

Take a pottle of good Milk, one pint of Muscadi