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 in a mortar, and put them into the still, with ten gallons and an half of proof spirits, and two gallons of water: draw off with a gentle fire till the faints begin to rise, and sweeten with fine sugar. It is good in cholics, nauseas of the stomach and gripings of the bowels.

Take of orange flowers fresh gathered, two pounds; coriander seed, three ounces; nutmegs, half an ounce: bruise the nutmegs and coriander seed, and put them together with the orange flowers, into an alembic, with a gallon of proof spirit, and two quarts of water: draw off the liquor with a gentle fire, till the faints begin to rise, and sweeten with fine sugar.

Take the outer rind of eight large florentine citrons; half an ounce of cinnamon bruised; and a gallon of rectified spirit: distil to a dryness in Balneum Mariæ: then dissolve two pounds of sugar in a quart of water, and mix it with the distilled liquor, and run it through the filtrating bag, which will render it bright and fine.

Take the yellow rind of six bergamots, half an ounce of cinnamon, and two drachms of cloves; bruise the spices, and digest the whole six days in a gallon of rectified spirit; and then add a drachm of saffron, and let the whole stand six days