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with two pounds of white sugar, adding 
towards the end four ounces of Syrup of 
Roses. 
Culpeper.] It cleanses choler and melan- 
choly very gently, and therefore fit for 
children, old people, and weak bodies. You 
may add an ounce of it to the Decoction of 
Epithimum or to the Decoction of Senna. 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus. 
Or Syrup of Roses solutive. 
College.] Take of Spring Water boiling 
hot four pounds, Damask Rose leaves 
| fresh, as many as the water will contain, 
_ let them remain twelve hours in infusion, 
_ close stopped, then press them out and put 
in fresh Rose leaves, do so nine times in the 
same liquor, encreasing the quantity of the 
Roses as the liquor encreases, which will be 
) almost by the third part every time: 
| Take six parts of this liquor, and’with four 
_ parts of white sugar, boil it to a Syrup 
_ according to art. 
Culpeper.] It loosens the belly, and 
gently brings out choler and flegm, but 
leaves a binding quality behind it. 
Syrupus e succo Rosarum. 
Or Syrup of the Juice of Roses. 
College.] It is prepared without steep- 
ing, only with the juice of Damask Roses 
Pressed out, and clarified, and an equal 
Proportion of sugar added to it. 
Culpeper.] This is like the other. 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Agarico. 
Or Syrup of Roses solutive with Agarick. 
College.] Take of Agarick cut thin an 
Cunce, Ginger two drams, Sal. Gem. one 
dram, Polipodium bruised two ounces, 
sprinkle them with white Wine and steep 
them two days over warm ashes, in a pound 
and ari half of the infusion of Damask 
S prescribed before, and with one 
Pound of sugar boil it into a Syrup accord- 
ing to art. 
Culpeper.] It purges ae from the | 4 
provokes the menses, purges the stomach 
and liver, and provokes urine. 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutious cum Helleboro. 
Or Syrup of Roses solutive with Hellebore. 
College.| Take of the bark of all the 
Myrobalans, of each four ounces, bruise 
them grossly, and steep them twenty four 
hours in twelve pounds of the infusion of 
Roses before spoken, Senna, Epithimum, 
Polypodium of the Oak, of each four ounces, 
Cloves an ounce, Citron seeds, Liquorice, 
of each four ounces, the bark of black 
Hellebore roots six drams, let the fourth 
part of the liquor gently exhale, strain it, 
and with five pounds of sugar, and sixteen 
drams of Rhubarb tied up in a linen rag, 
make it into a Syrup according to art. 
Culpeper.| The Syrup rightly used, 
purges melancholy, resists madness. 
Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus cum Senna. 
Or Syrup of Roses solutive with Senna. 
College.]| Take of Senna six ounces, 
Caraway, and sweet Fennel seeds, of each 
three drams, sprinkle them with white 
Wine, and infuse them two days in three — 
pounds of the infusion of Roses aforesaid, 
then strain it, and with two pounds of sugar 
boil it into a Syrup. - 
Culpeper.] It urges the body of choler 
and melancholy, and expels the relics a 
disease hath left behind it; the dose is from 
one ounce to two, you may take it in a De- 
coction of Senna, it leaves a binding quality 
behind it. 
Syrupus de spina Cervina. 
Or Syrup of Purging Thorn. a 
College.] Take of the berries of Purging _ 
Thorn, gathered in September, as many as 
you will, bruise them in a stone mortar, Pe eee 
press out the juice, let the fourth part of it | 
evaporate away in a bath, then to two 
pounds of it, add sixteen ounces of white 
late relieves the senses appressed by it, | seeds i 
