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Show V HERE'S A ROYAL PRESCRIPTION. What Queen Bess Always Took When m4 She Had a Cold. "You havo a cold eh?" said tho physician. "Well, suppose I give you tho same prescription that Queen Elizabeth used?" He took down an ancient folio. "B- "Dr. William Bulloyn's prescription for a cold, which Queen Elizabeth used all her life, was this." he said. "Take Mutmeggs, the root cftlled dornlke, which tho apothecaries have; setwall, gatangall, mastlke, long pepper, pep-per, the bark of pomecltrone of melon, of sage, hazel, marjoram, dill, split-nard, split-nard, wood of aloes, cubebe, cardtimon (called raynes of paradise), laveAder, penlroyalls, the bono of a hart's Heart grated, cut and stamped, and beat your spices grossly in a mortar. Put in ambergrice and muck, of each half a dram. Distil this in a simple aqua vltae, made with a strong ale, In a serpentine. To tell tho virtue of this water against cold, phlegme, dropsy, heaviness of mind, coming of melancholy, melan-choly, I cannot well at present, for it is too great." Stray Stories. |