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 in great barrelles more than a thousand weight in a year, and vtter ye same at a lowe price for 3d. and 4d. a pound, to ye great hurt of Her Maiesties subjects and no small game to straungers purses."

(From Brunschwick's "Destillir," Strassburg, 1500.)

Reproduced (by permission) from "The Follies of Science," by H. Carrington Bolton (Pharmaceutical Review Publishing Co., Milwaukee, U.S.A.)

Mr. Piper also quoted at length from another pamphlet published in 1612 by R. Band (in a subsequent edition, R. Browne), who relates how the Master and Wardens of the Grocers' Company, having marked that "a filthy and unwholesome baggage composition" was being brought into this Realm as Tryacle of Genoa,