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 menstrual obstructions, and in abundance of other female complaints: it is also good against convulsions in children, and of service in all nervous complaints in either sex.

Take fifteen pounds of the dried leaves of pennyroyal, ten gallons of proof spirits, and two gallons of water; draw off ten gallons with a gentle fire. It is a good carminative, of use in cholics and gripings of the bowel; also in plurisies and the jaundice; it is of known efficacy in promoting the menses and other disorders of the female sex.

Take of fresh camomile flowers, four pounds; dill seed, two pounds and an half; leaves of balm, origany, and thyme, of each one pound; seeds of anise and fennel, of each six ounces; cummin seed, four ounces; the peels of oranges and citrons, eight ounces; juniper and bay berries, of each six ounces; cinnamon, eight ounces; mace, four ounces: bruise and digest these ingredients in eleven gallons of proof spirit, and two gallons of water; then draw off ten gallons, and sweeten it with fine sugar. It is good in the cholic and gripings of the bowels, and to remove sickness and nauseas from the stomach.

Take the yellow rinds of five cedrats, a gallon of fine proof spirit, and two quarts of water; gest