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For a Cough or Consumption

Take out of a Gravel Soil 30 garden Snails, & 20 earth Worms, wash
Them both, but the worms in pieces & bruise the Snails in he Shells.
put them into 3 pints of Spring water with one handful of Pearl
Barley, & let it boyl to a quart. then strain it off, & shred into it as
much canded Eringo-Root as will sweeten it as you likem, after ye
Eringo is put to it, it must be put over the fire till tis melted.
youare to take half a pint twice in a day with a coffee cup of New
Milk in each draught if milk does not agree with the Stomach
you are to put in stead of it, one Coffee cup of hot Water.

A Preservative against ye Pestilence

Take of Rue, Sage, Mint, Tosemary, wormwood, & Lavender
of each one handfull, infuse them in a Gallon of the best white
Wine Vinegar, put all into a stone Bottle closely cover'd & pasted;
set the Bottle thus closed upon warm Ashes for eight days, after
which Strain it tho' a flannell & put ye Liquor into the Bottles & to every quart put an ounce of Camphire then Cork
the bottles very close, & it will keep some years, with this prepara-
tion wash your mouth, rub your temples & yr Loins every day;
snuff a little up yr Nostrils when you go into the Air, & carry about you a Sponge dip't in the smae when you desire to refresh yr smell upon any occasion, especially when near to any Place or person infected

From a Physician in yr Duke of Berwicks Army in ye year
1721 we were told that four Malefactors, who used to rob the
Infect houses &c; had own'd at their Execution that they
Preserved themselves from the Contagion by this Medicine only