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A Gargle with Vine leaves.

Take Vine leaves, Sage, female Fluellin, Cinquefoil, Bramble Buds, each half a handful; boil in Water 1 pint and half to 1 pint, to the strain'd add Alum 1 dram and half; Vinegar, Honey, each 2 ounces; boil again and skum it.

It most excellently refrigerates, washes, deterges, astringes, resists Putrefaction, cleanses out Filth, and purifies the Mouth, and merits place, as well in Fevers as in the Scurvy.

And here I take occasion to observe, that Alum, and like austere things, do in no wise (as some may think) shut up the Salivale Passages, of hinder the issuing out of Spittle; but the contrary (because they squeeze the Glands into less compass, as I noted in the Gargle of black Thorn) much promote the same, which may evidently appear to any one that minds Experience.

Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710