SC - yet more worms

[Magdalena]

Ras has inspired me to type this up:
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The Queens Closet Opened
(1655)


The Admirable and Most Famous Snail Water

    Take a peck of garden shell snails, wash them well
in small beer, and put them in a hot oven till they
have done making noise, then take them out, and wipe
them well from the green froth that is upon them, and
bruise them shells and all in a stone Mortar, then take
a quart of earth worms, scower them with salt, slit
them & wash them well with water from their filth, and
in a stone Mortar beat them to pieces, then lay in the
bottom of your distilled pot Angelica two handfuls, and
two handfuls of Celandine upon them, to which put two
quarts of Rosemary flowers, Bears foot, Agrimony, red
Dock Roots, Bark of Barberries, Betony, Wood Sorrel, of
each two handfuls, Rue one handful; then lay the Snails
and worms on the top of the Herbs and Flowers, then
pour on 3 Gallons of the strongest Ale, and let it
stand all night, in the morning put on 3 ounces of
cloves beaten, six penniworth of beaten Saffron and on
top of the 6 ounces of shaved Harts-horn, then set on
the Limbeck, and close it with a paste, and so recieve
the water by pints, which will be nine in all.  The
first is the strongest, whereof take in the morning 2
spoonfuls in 4 spoonfuls of small Beer, and the like in
the afternoon; you must keep a good Diet and use
moderate excersize to warm the blood.
    This Water is good against all Obstructions
whatsoever.  It cureth a Consumption and Dropsie, the
stopping of the Stomach and Liver.  It may be distilled
with milk for weak people and children, with
Harts-tongue and Elecampance.