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The Complete

cardamoms and cubebs, of each half an ounce; nutmegs, two ounces: cut and bruise these ingredients, and digest them four days in eleven gallons of proof spirit and two gallons of water; then draw off ten gallons, and sweeten with fine sugar. It is good in all nervous cases, palsies, epilepsies, and loss of memory.


To make a Gallon of Bouquet Water.

Take the flowers of white lilies and Spanish jessamine, of each half a pound; orange, jonquil and pink flowers, of each four ounces; damask roses, one pound; let them all be fresh gathered, and immediately put into a glass alembic, with a gallon of clean proof spirit, and two quarts of water; place the alembic in Balneum Mariæ, and draw off till the faints begin to rise.


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