A RECOMMENDATION of that High and most Noble Medicine, The Essential Spirit of Scurvey Grass Compound; The INVENTION and Preparation of the Sieur de Vernantes, a German born, Graduated in Physick in those famous Universities, Montpelier and Padua in Italy, sometime Professor thereof in Leyden in Holland, and chief Chymist and Physician to that great Lover of Learning and Art, Arch-Duke LEOPOLD; Communicated by him to Hen. Clarke Chymist and Apo­thecary of London: And by him now Prepared and publickly Vended for those who are at this day troubled with that most miserable and Reigning Disease the SCURVEY.

WHILST the Scurvey was yet but a stranger in this Nation; whilst it Visited only some sorts of People, as Sea-faring Persons, the Inhabi­tants of the Sea-Coasts, and those whose inconvenient ways of living made them subject to it; whilst the Symptoms were yet more tolerable and con­fin'd, the Signes plain and apparent, and Physicians not puzled to find out variety of Medicines to Cure it: It was then that this Noble Herb call'd Cochlearia, or Spoonwort, from its Shape and Figure; Changed its Name, and was call'd Scurvey-Grass, from a peculiar and specifick Quality which was found in it to Cure this Disease which the People used diversly according to their necessity or fancy. But no Preparation of it was found so commodious and useful as the Spirits drawn from this Herb, which proved to be of the greatest benefit of any then found out. But when the Scurvey begun to spread it self abroad, when it began to Rage, and seize all sorts of People in all places, with violent, malignant and even deadly Symptoms, that neither these Spirits, nor any ordinary Medicine could check its fierceness, much less Cure it. It was then that the Physicians Wisdom and Skill appeared, in finding out Medicines more active and effectual, and such as might totally vanquish and subdue this dangerous and deadly Foe to Mankind; And when the Single Spirit of Scurvey-Grass was found too weak to do this great bu­siness it was by the great care of the Physician enriched and strengthned, by the Addition of many more powerful and specifick Materials, and was made the only sufficient Remedy to make a perfect Cure of this malignant and Reigning Dis­ease, call'd, The Scurvey. This is that Noble Spirit, which from the Hand of this great Artist above mentioned, I do offer to all who at this day suffer under the Scurvey, be the symptoms greater or less. And in truth, Reader, you may herein rest secure of the most safe and certain Remedy in the World; which (as it is the highest Antidote against the Scurvey, so it) is a most excellent Medicine [Page] [...] It Cures the Dropsey even to a wonder, it opens all Ob­structions whatsoever, it gives wonderful Relief to the Stomach, quickning the dull Appetite, and helps the Digestion and Concoction of the Victuals: It helps Virgins, who through stoppings have lost their colour, and restores the lost Complexion; It expelleth Wind, suppresseth Vapours, helps the Pain and dulness of the Head, ex­hales all Catarrhs and Rheums, helps Rheumatism and Gout, and also Pains in the Joynts, Griping in the Guts. And to be short, it clenseth and sweetens the whole Mass of the Blood, and suffers no matter to reside therein, from whence Diseases may arise; And preserves the Body in entire and perfect Health, to those who use it constantly and with Temperance; It is to be taken in some good Liquors, such are Beer, Ale, VVine, Mum, or the like. But not in Coffee, Tea, or such Drinks as are taken so hot, for the Spirit being fine and subtil, the purer part of it va­nisheth in the stream before it can be drank off; It is equally useful at all seasons of the year; for though the Spring and Fall are the usual times for Medicine, yet these Spirits are no less beneficial at other times; for as in the VVinter they warm the stomach, and give the blood a brisk motion, so in the Summer they keep in the Spirits and natural Heat, which are apt to suffer by the Heat of the VVea­ther, especially upon the least Exercise. A larger Account of this, as also of the Golden Laxaeive Spirit, and its use, shall be given in the Printed Papers of Di­rections given with each Bottle. Price 1 s- Seal'd with my Seal at Armes: being the Three Swords in Fess. Are sold by

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