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Francis Smith medical recipe book, 1704

Page 141

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141 And dry ye shels with a moderate heat in an oven after ye bread is drawn likewise take bees and dry them so and beat them severally into pouder then take twice so much of ye bees pouder as the snails and mixt them well together keep it close covered in a glasse and when you use it, take as much of this pouder as will lie upon a sicpence and put it into a quarter of a pint of ye distilled water of bean flowers and drink it fasting and eat or drink nothing for two or three houres. A sirupe for ye pain in ye stomack take two handfulls of rue boil it in a quart of white wine venegar till it be half consumed so soon as it is throug cold strain it and put to every pint of the liquor a pound of loaf sugar and boile it till it come to a sirrupe when you use it take a good spoon full of
 
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