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Francis Smith medical recipe book, 1704
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For the Stone of Gravel Take and dry the roots of red nettles make them into powder and drink a spoonful of the powder in a draught of white wine something warm and it will break the Stone though it be never so great with speed use it every day untill ye stone and Gravel be all broken and Consumed. A thing of small price and Great virtue A drink to purge the Body of when yt have the Scurvey Tak 2 Quarts of running water a pint of Rhenish wine for a young body for an old body take a Quart. Set it on ye fire put into it three or four slices of horse Radish a great handful of water
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For the Stone of Gravel Take and dry the roots of red nettles make them into powder and drink a spoonful of the powder in a draught of white wine something warm and it will break the Stone though it be never so great with speed use it every day untill ye stone and Gravel be all broken and Consumed. A thing of small price and Great virtue A drink to purge the Body of when yt have the Scurvey Tak 2 Quarts of running water a pint of Rhenish wine for a young body for an old body take a Quart. Set it on ye fire put into it three or four slices of horse Radish a great handful of water
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