Take 3 pound and a half of flour a pound of butter melt’d in a pint of
milk a quart of yest half a pound of Sugar mixt into the milk butter &
yest half an ounce of cloves and mace a quarter of an ounce of carraway
seeds a little salt and put all this into the flour and mix it up into
a pretty stiff paste then weigh them into 4 ounces a piece & rowle them
into wigs & bake them upon paper or tin plates butter’d.
522. _Pills for Vapours of Spleen & Fits of ye Mother to Suppress and
cure them._
Take castor, saffron, Gallbanum orsephetita and make them into fine
powder of each half an ounce, half an ounce of methridate added in
which well mix your powder with as much oyle of amber as will make it
into pills of the largest size (or half an ounce of the powder) as the
receipt exprest and then as much oyle of amber as will make it up in
pills and of them one large or 2 middle size when you find the fits
comeing keeping y^r selfe fasting an hour before & an hour after but if
followed with ye fits then take one of them being of ye largest size
morning afternoon and last at night if you drink anything after them
let it be a little hystericall water.