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 rice and a few raisins of the sun stoned; let them simmer a quarter of an hour, and make it into a syrup with brown sugar-candy; boil it a little, and then put in four or five spoonfuls of snail water, and give it a second boil; when it is cold bottle it, and take a spoonful night and morning, with three drops of balsam of sulphur put into it.

Take maiden-hair, oak-lungs, and fresh moss, of each a handful; boil these in three pints of spring water till it comes to a quart; strain it out, and put to it six pennyworth of saffron tied up in a rag, adding thereto a pound of brown sugar-candy; boil the liquor up to a syrup, and when cold bottle it. Take a spoonful when the cough is troublesome.

Put an ounce of balsam of tolu into a quart of spring water, and boil them two hours; put in a pound of white sugar candy finely beat, and boil it half an hour longer; take out the balsam, strain the syrup twice through a flannel bag, and when it is cold bottle it. This syrup is also excellent for a cough: take a spoonful at night, and a little whenever your cough is troublesome.

Take a pound of fresh barley, put it in water, and when it boils throw the water away; so do a second water; put to the barley a third water, the quantity of six quarts, and boil it till one third is consumed; strain out the barley, and put to