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Francis Smith medical recipe book, 1704

Page 120

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120 be barren it kills ye worms in ye belly and stomach; it cures ye cold dropsie and helps ye stone in the bladder and in ye reins of ye back it helps shortly ye stinking breath and whosoever useth this water morning and evening (and not to 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 physicians judged he could not live a year longer nor did he use any other medicine but this.
 
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