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ounce and an half, Sage, Bettony, of each 
half an ounce, the seeds of Rue, Peony, and 
Fennel, of each three drams, spring water 
ten pounds, boil it till half be consumed, 
and with honey and sugar, of each two 
pounds, boil it into a Syrup, which perfume 
with Cinnamon, Ginger, and Calmus 
Aromaticus, of each two drams tied up in 
a rag. 
Syrupus de Symphyto. 
Or Syrup of Comfrey. 
College.| Take of roots and tops of 
Comfrey, the greater and lesser, of each 
three handfuls, red Roses, Bettony, Plan- 
tain, Burnet, Knot grass, Scabious, Colt’s 
foot, of each two handfuls, press the juice 
out of them all, being green and bruised, 
boil it, scum it, and strain it, add its weight 
of sugar to it that it may be made into a 
Syrup, according to art. 
Culpeper.| The Syrup is excellent for 
all inward wounds and bruises, excoria- 
tions, vomitings, spittings, or evacuation of 
blood, it unites broken bones, helps rup- 
tures, and stops the menses: You cannot err 
in taking of it. 
Syrupus Violarum. 
Or Syrup of Violets. 
College.| Take of Violet flowers fresh 
and picked, a pound, clear water made boil- 
ing hot, two pounds, shut them up close 
together into a new glazed pot, a whole 
day, then press them hard out, and in two 
pounds of the liquor dissolve four pounds 
and three ounces of white sugar, take away 
the scum, and so make it into a Syrup with- 
out boiling. Syrup of the juice of Violets, 
is made with its double weight of sugar, 
like the former. 
Culpeper.| This Syrup cools and mois- 
tens, and that very gently, it corrects the 
sharpness of choler, and gives ease in hot 
Vices of the breast, it quenches thirst in 
acute fevers, and resists the heat of the dis- 
ingly, cools the liver and heart, and resists 
putrefaction, pestilence, and poison. 
College.| Julep of Violets is made of 
the water of Violet flowers and sugar, like 
Julep of Roses. 
Culpeper.| It is cooling and pleasant. 
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PURGING SYRUPS. 
Syrupus de Cichorio cum Rhubarbaro. 
Or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb. 
College.]| Take of whole Barley, the 
roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Sparagus, 
of each two ounces, Succory, Dandelyon, 
Endive, smooth Sow-thistles, of each two 
handfuls, Lettuce, Liverwort, Fumitory, 
tops of Hops, of each one handful, Maiden- 
hair, white and black, Cetrachs, Liquorice, 
winter Cherries, Dodder, of each six drams, 
to boil these take sixteen pounds of spring 
water, strain the liquor, and boil in it six 
pounds of white sugar, adding towards the 
end six ounces of Rhubarb, six drams of 
Spikenard, bound up in a thin slack rag, 
the which crush often in boiling, and so 
make it into a Syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.| It cleanses the body of vene- 
mous humours, as boils, carbuncles, and the 
like; it prevails against pestilential fevers, 
it strengthens the heart and nutritive virtue, 
purges by stool and urine, it makes a man 
have a good stomach to his meat, and pro- 
vokes sleep. But by my author’s leave, 
I never accounted purges to be proper 
physic in pestilential fevers; this I believe, 
the Syrup cleanses the liver well, and is 
exceeding good for such as are troubled 
with hypocondriac melancholy. The strong © 
may take two ounces at a time, the weak, 
one, or you may mix an ounce of it with 
the Decoction of Senna. 
Syrupus de Epithymo. 
Or Syrup of Epithimum. — 
College.| Take of Epithimum twenty 
drams, Mirobalans, Citron, and Indian of 
