This is a good Stomachic, and may also be used for making bitter Tinctures as that called Stoughton’s Drops.
CHAP. XV.
Of Plague Water.
There are several Receipts for making Plague Water; but the following are much the best.
Recipe for ten Gallons of Plague Water.
Take of the Roots of Masterwort and Butter-burr, of each one Pound and a Quarter, Virginia Snake-root and Zedoary, of each ten Ounces, Angelica-seeds and Bay-seeds of each fourteen Ounces, and of the Leaves of Scordium one Pound and a Half. Cut or bruise these Ingredients and put them into the Still, with twelve Gallons of clean Proof Spirit, and two Gallons of Water; digest the whole for twenty-four Hours, and draw off ten Gallons.
Or,
Take of the Leaves of Celandine, Rosemary, Rue, Sage, Roman Wormwood, Dragons Agrimony, Baum, Scordium, the lesser Centory, Carduus Benedictus, Betony, and Mint, of each twenty Handfuls; of dried Angelica-root, Zedoary and Gentian, of each ten Ounces, and of Virginia Snake-root five Ounces; digest these twenty-four Hours, in twelve Gallons of clean Proof Spirit, and two Gallons of Water; and then draw off ten Gallons as before.
Or,
Take of Rue, Rosemary, Baum, Carduus Benedictus, Scordium, Marigold-flowers, Dragons, Goat’s-rue, and Mint, of each ten Handfuls; Roots of Masterwort, Angelica, Butter-burr, and Peony, of each one Pound and a Quarter; and of Viper-grass ten Ounces; digest in twelve Gallons of Spirit, &c. as before.
Or,