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Juices, are thus used, is, Because thereby, 
First, They will keep the longer. Secondly, 
They will taste the better. 4. In boiling 
Syrups have a great care of their just con-. 
sistence, for if you boil them too much they 
will candy, if too little, they will sour. 5. 
All simple Syrups have the virtues of the 
simples they are made of, and are far more 
convenient for weak people, and delicate 
stomachs. 
Syrupus de Absinthio simplez. 
Or Syrup of Wormwood simple. 
The College.] Take of the clarified Juice 
of common Wormwood, clarified Sugar, of 
each four pounds, make it into a Syrup ac- 
cording to art. After the same manner, are 
prepared simple Syrups of Betony, 
Borrage, Bugloss, Carduus, Chamomel, 
Succory, Endive, Hedge-mustard, Straw- 
berries, Fumitory, Ground Ivy, St. John’s 
Wort, Hops, Mercury, Mousear, Plantain, 
Apples, Purslain, Raspberries, Sage, Sca- 
bious, Scordium, Houseleek, Colt’s-foot, 
Paul’s Bettony, and other Juices not sour. 
Culpeper.] See the simples, and then 
you may easily know both their virtues, and 
also that they are pleasanter and fitter for 
delicate stomachs when they are made into 
Syrups. 
Syrupus de Absinthio Compositus. 
Or Syrup of Wormwood compound. 
College.] Take of common Wormwood 
meanly dry, half a pound, red Roses two 
ounces, Indian Spikenard three drams, 
old white Wine, juice of Quinces, of each 
two pounds and an half, steep them a whole 
_ day in an earthen vessel, then boil them 
gently, and strain it, and by adding two 
pounds of sugar, boil it into a Syrup accord- 
ing to art. 
Culpeper.] Mesue is followed verbatim 
in this; and the receipt is appropriated to 
cold and flegmatic stomachs, and it is an 
admirable remedy for it, for it strengthens 
_ both stomach and liver, as also the instru- 
_Ments of concoction, a spoonful taken in 
the morning, is admirable for such as have 
a weak digestion, it provokes an appetite to 
one’s victuals, it prevails against the yellow 
jaundice, breaks wind, purges humours by 
urine. 
Syrupus de Acetosus simplez. 
Or Syrup of Vinegar simple. 
College.]| Take of clear Water four 
pounds, white Sugar five pounds, boil them 
in a glazed vessel over a gentle fire, scum- 
ming it till half the water be consumed, then 
by putting in two pounds of white Wine 
Vinegar by degrees, perfect the Syrup. 
Culpeper.| That is, only melt the Sugar 
with the Vinegar over the fire, scum it, but 
boil it not. 
Syrupus Acetosus simplicior. 
Or Syrup of Vinegar more simple. 
College.] Take of white Sugar five 
pounds, white Wine Vinegar two pounds, 
by melting it in a bath, make it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.| Of these two Syrups let every 
one use which he finds by experience to be 
best; the difference is but little. They 
both of them cut flegm, as also tough, hard 
viscous humours in the stomach; they cool 
the body, quench thirst, provoke urine, and 
prepare the stomach before the taking of a 
vomit. If you take it as a preparative for 
an emetic, take half an ounce of it when you 
go to bed the night before you intend it to 
operate, it will work the easier, but if for 
any of the foregoing occasions, take it with 
a liquorice stick. : 
Syrupus Acetosus compositus, 
Or Syrup of Vinegar compound. 
College.] Take of the roots of Smallage, — 
Fennel, Endive, of each three ounces, the — 
seeds of Annis, Smallage, Fennel, of each — 
one ounce, of Endive half an ounce, clear _ 
Water six pounds, boil it gently in an ~ 
earthen vessel till half the water be con- — 
sumed, then strain and clarify it, and with — 
half of white Wine Vinegar, boil it into 
