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 cardamoms and cubebs, of each half an ounce; nutmegs, two ounces: cut and bruise these ingredients, and digest them four days in eleven gallons of proof spirit and two gallons of water; then draw off ten gallons, and sweeten with fine sugar. It is good in all nervous cases, palsies, epilepsies, and loss of memory.

Take the flowers of white lilies and Spanish jessamine, of each half a pound; orange, jonquil and pink flowers, of each four ounces; damask roses, one pound; let them all be fresh gathered, and immediately put into a glass alembic, with a gallon of clean proof spirit, and two quarts of water; place the alembic in Balneum Mariæ, and draw off till the faints begin to rise.