To make a [cordial] water good against any infectious disease, as the plague, pox, [measles], or pestilent burning [fever], and to remove any offensive or venomous matter from [the] heart or stomac[h] or used after a surfett, or in passion of [the] mother, and is generally good to strengthen nature, and for children in convulsion [fits] and in all causes whatsoever
Take of sage, [celandine], rosemary, rue, wormwood, mugwort, [roses], [pimpernel], [tarragon], scabious, agrimony, [lemon balm], [wood safe], [thistle], [bishopwort] flowers and leaves, [feverwort] tops and flowers, marigold flowers and leaves; of each of these one good handful, then take the root of [tormentil], [wild celery], [elecampane], peony, zedoary, [licorice] all [clean] scraped, of each of those half an ounce;
Let all the [herbs] be washed and shaken in a [linen] cloth until they be well dried and shredded altogether, and the [roots] sliced [thin] and mixed with the [herbs], then put them all to a gallon of [the] best white wine and let them [steep] together in a large [pot], close stopped, [two] days, and distill them together in an [ordinary] still, and not a limbic still, with a soft [fire] reserving about a pint of [the] first vining(?) by [itself] for [the] strongest, and a quart of [the] next vining(?) by [itself], and lastly a pint of the last and [weak]est by [itself] in several glasses, close stop and with a cork fast bind with a leather for your use;
Close [the] still 'round about in the joints with a paste made of rye meal, wine vinegar, and whites of eggs.
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