measure.

_Tincture of Clove._--(No. 415.)

Cloves bruised, three ounces, apothecaries' weight.
Brandy, one quart.

Let it steep ten days: strain it through a flannel sieve.

_Obs._--Excellent to flavour "bishop," or "mulled wine."

_Essence of Cinnamon._--(No. 416.)

Strongest rectified spirit of wine, two ounces.
Oil of Cinnamon, one drachm, apothecaries' measure.

_Tincture of Cinnamon._--(No. 416*.)

This exhilarating cordial is made by pouring a bottle of genuine cognac
(No. 471,) on three ounces of bruised cinnamon (cassia will not do).

This restorative was more in vogue formerly than it is now: a
tea-spoonful of it, and a lump of sugar, in a glass of good sherry or
Madeira, with the yelk of an egg beat up in it, was called "_balsamum
vitae_."

"_Cur moriatur homo, qui sumit de cinnamomo?_"--"Cinnamon is verie
comfortable to the stomacke, and the principall partes of the
bodie."

"_Ventriculum, jecur, lienem, cerebrum, nervosque juvat et
roborat._"--"I reckon it a great treasure for a student to have by
him in his closet, to take now and then a spoonful."--COGAN'S
_Haven of Health_, 4to. 1584, p. 111.

_Obs._--Two tea-spoonfuls in a wine-glass of water, are a present and
pleasant remedy in nervous languors, and in relaxations of the bowels:
in the latter case, five drops of laudanum may be added to each dose.

_Essence of Marjoram._--(No. 417.)

Strongest rectified spirit, two ounces.
Oil of origanum, one drachm, apothecaries' measure.

_Vegetable Essences._--(No. 417*.)

The flavour of the various sweet and savoury herbs may be obtained by
combining their essential oils with rectified spirit of wine, in the
proportion of one drachm of the former to two ounces of the latter, or
by picking the leaves, and laying them for a couple of hours in a warm
place to dry, and then filling a large-mouthed bottle with them, and
pouring on them wine, brandy, proof spirit, or vinegar, and letting them
steep for fourteen days.

_Soup-herb[277-*] Spirit._--(No. 420.)

Of lemon-thyme,
Winter savoury,
Sweet marjoram,
Sweet basil,--half an ounce of each.
Lemon-peel grated, two drachms.
Eschalots, the same.
Celery-seed, a drachm, avoirdupois weight.

Prepare them as directed in No. 461; and infuse them in a pint of
brandy, or proof spirit, for ten days: they may also be infused in wine
or vinegar, but neither extract the flavour of