A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

7. Chalybeat Medicines also are usually profitable in this Disease, but because Country people cannot themselves make them, I am loath to insert them, one I will prescribe for them that can have an Apothecary to make it.

Take of unprepared filings of Steel six ounces, make it red hot in an iron ladle; and quench it in five or six ounces of white Wine: Do this thrice, then put to the wine of Wormwood Water, and of Scurvy-Grass-Water, each a pint, of Aqua Mirabilis two ounces (or instead of them all a quart of Compound Radish-wader) of Sugar six ounces, of Senna an ounce and half, of Cremor Tartary three drams, of Saffron a dram, of Cinnamon a dram, let it stand in a warm place three days, (oft shaking it) Take two ounces, four or five spoonfuls, fasting many weeks together, and walk or labour, after it.

Take of unprepared filings of Steel six ounces, make it red hot in an iron ladle; and quench it in five or six ounces of white Wine: Do this thrice, then put to the wine of Worwood Water, and of Scurvy-Grass-Water, each a pint, of Aqua Mirabilis two ounces (or instead of them all a quart of Compound Radish-wader) of Sugar six ounces, of Senna an ounce and half, of Cremor Tartary three drams, of Saffron a dram, of Cynamon a dram, let it stand in a warm place three days, (oft shaking it) Take two ounces, four or five spoonfuls, fasting many weeks together, and walk or labour, after it.

Or after sufficient purging fresh Succory Roots make into a Conserve, and taken with a little prepared Steel, for poor people that have obstructions, may do well, half an ounce of the Conserve with half a scruple of Steel.