Round the fountain.

Date:
1909
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Round the fountain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE ADVANCE OF ALCHEMY. In Two ,Stages, Ancient. ?or to cure pc Scurup* Tayke of ye hayre of a redde-tayled hound, Eye of a ratte yt is three iceekes drown'd; Juice of ye hellehore pickt in June By a one-legged man in ye light of ye moone; Leaf of ye henbane, eare of a hat, Foote of a toade from a dead man's hatte; Halfe of an eartheworwe, tayle of a snayke Kill'd in ye darke with a greene elm stake: Seethe in a cauldron cleane and hrighte, Boyle for an hour on a Friday nighte. Stir with a stick from a churchyard yew Yt has beaten ye back of a three-toothed Jew. To be drunke a' midnighte with ye lefte hande; herein is eno' for xii persons. AND Modern. CDc PrzniPanzans2ki=Zut Reaction* Take lo ccs, of the serum of a Greenland whale, which has been harpooned by a Scotchman, and heat to