To Make Snaile Water

"Take a peck of garden snails, and wash them in a great bowl of beer & make your chimney very cleane and pour out half a bushell of charcole & set them on fire, and when they are throughly kindled, then with a shovel make a great hole in the middest of some fire among them and let them bee in the fire as long as you hear them make a noise, then take them out, and with a knife & course cloth, pick & wipe away all the green froth from them very clean, then in a stone morter bruise them shells and all, take alsoe a quart of earth worms, scil them & scour them with salt, then make your pot very cleane, upon which you purpose to set your stil, take two handfulls of green angelico, and 2 handfuls of Saladine, and lay them in the bottome of the stil, and put in upon them your snailes & wormes, then put in a quart of rosemary flowers, alsoe of egremony, barefoot, red dock, sorril, of bettony, of all these things two handfuls of each also two handfulls of sheep dung & goose dung, 2 handfuls of rice half a handfull, of wood soot, and of the bark of barberry tree, of woodbine well dried & poundred the weight of sixpence, and turmerick one ounce, of saffron the weight of sixpence, then pour in three gallons of stronge ale, and cover the pot close and let it stand a day or two, one night at least in the place where you mean to put the fire under it in that morning before you put fire to it, put to it one ounce of cloves beaten to powder three ounces, of harthorne six ounces, you must not stire it after you have put in harthorne least it goe to the bottome, then set on the stil or limbeck & make it fast with rye past, and soe receave the water in pints, the first water is strongest, and must be receaved by itself, the last is smal, and must be mingled with the strongest, when it is used, it must be given to the patient fasting in the morninge, who must walk two houres after it and not sleep upon it, or it may be given between meales, the strongest with four spoonfuls of ale berry, or with white wine and the smallest must be taken as beer. It is good for all obstructions which causeth a consuption or dropsie, it is good against wind or stoppinge of the stomack and liver, and all paines in the head, it is good against the plague, the jaundiss, it comforteth the heart, and assisteth nature much, it preserveth youth, it prolongeth life, and defendeth from sicknesse and killeth all manner of wormes in the body, it cureth bad digestion, and good it is also for youg and old, it helpeth nature and stringthneth the stomack, it causeth an apetite by means of sweat, if it be followed with good digestion, alsoe it is good for many other infirmities. you may make two sorts stronger or weaker which of that runs of by itself, the later by itself and stilld put it into a wide mouth glass & stop it close & take of prepared pearls driede well and red & yallow sanders of each a scruple, of red rose leaves small & thin sliced of each an ounce, put all these in a bagg & hang it in the water for six weeks & cover it close with a double blader that none of the strenght goeth out, and afterward pour it off and put it in glass & keep it for yo:r use. &c."