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sumed, strain it, and with two pounds of 
sugar make it into a Syrup. 
Culpeper.| It is a fine cooling Syrup, 
very available in coughs, hoarseness, and 
_ pleurisies, ulcers of the lungs and bladder, 
as also in all inflammations whatsoever. 
| You may take a spoonful of it once in three 
or four hours, or if you please take it with 
a Liquorice stick. 
Syrupus de Meconio, sive Diacodium,. 
Or Syrup of Meconium, or Diacodium. 
College.| Take of white Poppy heads 
with their seeds, gathered a little after the 
flowers are fallen off, and kept three days, 
eight ounces, black Poppy heads (so or- 
dered) six ounces, rain Water eight pounds, 
steep them twenty-four hours, then boil and 
press them gently, boil it to three pounds, 
and with twenty-four ounces of sugar boil 
it into a Syrup according to art. 
Syrupus de Meconio compositus. 
Or Syrup of Meconium compound. 
College.] Take of white and black 
Poppy heads with their seeds, fifty drams, 
Maiden-hair fifteen drams, Jujubes thirty, 
the seeds of Lettice, forty drams, of Mal- 
lows and Quinces tied up in a rag, a dram 
and a half, Liquorice five drams, water 
tight pounds, boil it according to art, strain 
it, and to three pounds of Decoction add 
Sugar and Penids, of each one pound, make 
— itinto a Syrup. 
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Culpeper. ] Meconium is nothing else but 
the juice of English Poppies boiled till it 
be thick: It prevails against dry coughs, 
phthisicks, hot and sharp gnawing rheums, 
and provokes sleep. It is an usual fashion 
for nurses when they have heated their milk 
by exercise or strong liquor (no marvel then 
if their children be froward) then run for 
Syrup of Poppies, to make their young 
Snes sleep. I would fain have that fashion 
left, therefore I forbear the dose; let 
nurses keep their own bodies temperate, and 
— children will sleep well enough, never 
] ounce, Gum Tragacanth three drams, 
Syrupus Melissophylli. 
Or Syrup of Bawm. 
College.] Take of the Bark of Bugloss 
roots, an ounce, the roots of white Dittany, 
Cinquefoil, Scorzonera, of each half an 
ounce, the leaves of Bawm, Scabious, 
Devil’s-bit, the flowers of both sorts of 
Bugloss, and Rosemary, of each a handful, 
the seeds of Sorrel, Citrons, Fennel, Car- 
duus, Bazil, of each three drams, boil them 
in four pounds of water till half be con- 
sumed, strain it, and add three pounds of 
white sugar, juice of Bawn and Rose 
Water, of each half a pound, boil them to 
a Syrup, the which perfume with Cinnamon 
and yellow Sanders, of each half an ounce. 
Culpeper.] It is an excellent cordial, 
and strengthens the heart, breast, and 
stomach, it resists melancholy, revives the 
spirits, is given with good success in fevers, 
it strengthens the memory, and relieves 
languishing nature. You may take a spoon- 
ful of it at a time. 
Syrupus de Mentha. 
Or Syrup of Mints. 
College.] Take of the juices of Quinces 
sweet and between sweet and sour, the juice 
of Pomegranates sweet, between sweet and 
sour, and sour, of each a pound and a half, 
dried Mints half a pound, red Roses two 
ounces, let them lie in steep one day, then 
boil it half away, and with four pounds of 
sugar boil it into a Syrup according to art: 
perfume it not unless the Physicians com- 
mand. 
Culpeper.| The Syrup is in quality bind- 
ing, yet it comforts the stomach much, helps 
digestion, stays vomiting, and is as excel- 
lent a remedy against sour or offensive — 
belchings, as any is in the Dispensatory. 
Take a spoonful of it after meat. 
Syrupus de Mucilaginibus. 
Or Syrup of Mussilages. _ 
College.] Take of the seeds of Ma 
mallows, Mallows, Quinces, of each an 
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