Take seed pearle, redd coral, crabs eyes harts horne white amber of
each a like quantity being all finely beaten and searcht, then take of
the powder of the black tips of crabs claws as much of all the rest of
the powders as finely beaten and searcht then mix all these very well
together & make it up into balls with jelly of harts horne, wherein
you must infuse a little saffron so leting them lye untill they be dry
which powder being finely scrap’d may be taken 10 grains in a spoonfull
of oraggons water washing it down with another Spoonfull of the same
water but to a young child seaven grains are sufficient.
The vertues are many as followeth, first to prevent Smallpox and put
for the disease it recovereth a Consumption if constantly taken a good
space. it is most excellent in all violent feavors burnings and against
all sorts of poyson it serveth to extirpate and master the venome of
ye pestilence when no bexra lemia Sigillata Beazers Stone or unicorns
home though taken in a double proportion can match or shew its Selfe
equivalent it is very good for the passions of the heart and for that
most Singular probatum it also helpeth ye quotidian & double tertian
agues the quartain I cannot much commend it for only it comforts the
spirits and mittigates the fits but for all other agues very good being
taken in time it preventeth a man from all diseases and infections and
continues their health and viggour working without any viollence to
nature and in agues without any sensible motion for it provoketh not to
purge or vomit nor give any offence at all to ye herb smell or stomach.