Pill of Aqua Petasitidis composita leaves

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Source: The complete herbal to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs ... To which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy. To his wife by Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. n 83007664; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physitian. n 86817616; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. Key to physic. n 83007664; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. Last legacy. n 83007664; Galen. Method of physic. n 79059644 (1847), narrative-offset-1059777.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Aqua Petasitidis composita leaves: of the fresh roots - of Butter-bur bruised, one pound and a ! half, the roots of Angelica and Masterwort, \ of each half a pound,

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Or, compound water of Butter-bur. \ The College .] Take of the fresh roots - of Butter-bur bruised, one pound and a ! half, the roots of Angelica and Masterwort, \ of each half a pound, steep them in ten 1 pints of strong Ale, then distil them till j the change of the taste gives a testimony j that the strength is drawn out. j Culpeper .] This water is very effectual 1 being mixed with other convenient eor- \ dials, for such as have pestilential fevers : ; also a spoonful taken in the morning, may \ prove a good preservative in pestilential j times : it helps the fits of the mother, and \ such as are short winded, and being taken j inwardly, dries up the moisture of such \ sores as are hard to be cured. Aqua Raphani Composita. \ Or Compound water of Radishes. j The College .] Take of the leaves of both : sorts of Scurvjr-grass, of each six pound, \ having bruised them, press the juice out of \ them, with which mix of the juice of brook- ; lime, and Water-cresses, of each one pound \ and a half, of the best white wine, eight: pounds, twelve whole Lemons, pills and all, : fresh Briony roots four pound, the roots of wild j Radishes two pound.

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