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Take four pounds of cloves bruised, half a pound of pimento or all-spice, and sixteen gallons of clean proof spirits; let it digest twelve hours in a gentle heat, and then draw of fifteen gallons with a pretty brisk fire.

Take four pounds of Winter bark, six ounces of pimento, a pound and a quarter of cloves, and sixteen gallons of clean proof spirits; digest and draw off as before. You may sweeten it to your palate, by dissolving in it double refined sugar.

Take of the leaves of water-cresses, garden and sea-scurvy-grass, and brook-lime, of each twenty handfuls; of pine tops, germander, horehound, and the lesser centaury, each sixteen handfuls; of the roots of briony and sharp pointed dock, each six pounds; of mustard seed one pound and an half; digest the whole in ten gallons of proof spirit, and two gallons of water, and draw off by a gentle fire. It is good against scorbutic disorders; as also in tremblings and disorders of the nerves.

Take the dried peels of citrons and oranges, nutmegs, cloves, and cinnamon, of each one pound; the roots of cypress, florentine orrice, calamus aromaticus, of each eight ounces; zedoary, galangal, and ginger, of each four ounces; the