Cordial of Rep SPIRIT OF LAVENDER

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Source: A new compendious dispensatory: or, a select body of the most useful, accurate, and elegant medicines, both officinal and extemporaneous, for the several disorders incident to the human body, to which ... is added ... a ... tables of diseases, with remedies by Ball, John, 1704?-1779 (1769), narrative-offset-88584.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Rep SPIRIT OF LAVENDER: Take a quart of the white fpirit of lavender ; half an ounce of logwood in grofs powder; cin- namon and mace, ef each two drams ; cochineal and faffron, of each a fcruple. Dizeft them together, and then ftrain out the fpirit for ufe. | All thefe fpirits are grateful, fragrant, cordial, and cephalic medicines: the frft of them, though confiderably the moft fimple, yet not without elegancy, is frequently rubbed on the

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Take a quart of the white fpirit of lavender ; half an ounce of logwood in grofs powder; cin- namon and mace, ef each two drams ; cochineal and faffron, of each a fcruple. Dizeft them together, and then ftrain out the fpirit for ufe. | All thefe fpirits are grateful, fragrant, cordial, and cephalic medicines: the frft of them, though confiderably the moft fimple, yet not without elegancy, is frequently rubbed on the temples, &c. under the notion of refrefhing and comfort- ing the nerves; and likewife taken internally, from a tea fpoonful to one dram or two, in any proper vehicle, The fecond, which is a tinged fpirit, is a very elegant grateful, cordial, nervous medicament 5 and is defervedly efteemed againft apoplexies, palfies, head-ach, palpitation of the heart, shes: ne{s 66 Spirituous Diftilled nefs of the nerves, &c.

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