The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… has it) above the rest, Deservedly has gain’d the Name of Best. Good in all cases, curing all Distempers; every Medicine being so Catholick , it pretends to nothing less than Universality: That indeed had not my Friend told me … Hay-stack he had in the Country , and order’d the Ashes to be brought to Town, from whence he propos’d to prepare a Medicine, call’d Sall-Graminis , which should infallibly Cure all Distempers in Horses , and be the rarest Medicine for Cows, Sheep, or Oxen , and all sorts of Creatures that feed upon Grass , that any Graisier or Farrier …
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