_Take of Conserve of_ Wood-Sorrel _four Ounces_; Confectio Liberans, _and_ Mithridate, _of each half an Ounce; Salt of_ Wormwood _two Drams; Confection of_ Hyacinth _one Dram_; Tormentil _Roots, and fine_ Bole, _of each half a Dram; Pestilential_ Vinegar _half an Ounce; mix all with Syrup of_ Citron; _Take as much as a Nutmeg, Night and Morning_.
For the Poorer Sort, that Medicine of the Ancients, may be proper, _viz._
_Take of_ Rue _two handfuls_, Figs _and_ Walnut-Kernels, _of each twenty four, common Salt half an Ounce; Which beat all together in a Mortar, till it be well mix'd; Take of it as much as a Nutmeg every Morning and Night_.
This Medicine may be several ways advanc'd, by adding some _Alexipharmacal_ Remedies to it, as by putting Salt of _Wormwood_, instead of common Salt, and by adding an Ounce of _Venice Treacle_, to the whole Composition.
For those that cannot take an _Electuary_, these _Tablets_ may be proper to eat, about one Dram at a time, two or three times a day.
_Take of the Roots of_ Virginian-Snakeweed, Zedoary, Contrayerva, Species Liberans, _of each two Drams_; Camphire _two Drams; mix all finely pouder'd, then dissolve eight Ounces of fine Sugar in Pestilential_ Vinegar; _Boyl it Candy high, and adding the Pouder to it, make all into Lozenges_.
For some that are of a hotter Constitution, and a high Sanguine Temper, it may be proper to take every Morning a spoonful of Pestilential _Vinegar_ in a little _Carduus_ water, or plain _Wallnut_ water; or else drink a draught of _Posset-Drink_, made with a Spoonful of that _Vinegar_.
Let the =Pestilential Vinegar= be made thus.
_Take of the Roots of_ Angelica, Butter-Burr, Tormentil, Elecampane, _of each half an Ounce_, Virginian-Snakeweed, _choice_ Zedoary, Contrayerva, _of each three Drams; Leaves of_ Scordium, Rue, Goats-Rue, _of each one handful_; Marigold Flowers, Clove-gilloflowers, _of each half a handful; Seeds of_ Citron _and_ Carduus, _of each two Drams; Cut and bruise these, and put them in a Glass-Bottle, with three Pints of the best_ Vinegar, _to digest for ten days_.
When the Stomach, by frequent taking of one sort of =Antidote=, begins to loath it: In such Cases the use of it may be changed into some other: And if the Stomach withal should be ill, and defective, in Appetite and Digestion; let the Party take every Morning, ten or twelve Drops of =Elixir Proprietatis=, in plain _Wormwood_ Water, or else in _Wormwood_ Wine.