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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
Oxymel Scilliticum compositus. 
Or Oxymel of Squills compound. 
College.| Take of Origanum, dried 
Hyssop, Thyme, Lovage, Cardamoms the 
less, Stoechas, of each five drams, boil them 
in three pounds of Water to one, strain it 
and with two pounds of Honey, Honey of 
Raisins half a pound, juice of Briony five 
ounces, Vinegar of Squills a pound and a 
half, boil it, and scum it according to art. 
Culpeper.| This is good against the fall- 
ing-sickness, Megrim, Head-ache, Vertigo, 
or swimming in the head, and if these be 
occasioned by the stomach as many times 
they are, it helps the lungs obstructed by 
humour, and is good for women not well 
cleased after labour, it opens the passage 
of the womb. 
Syrup of Purslain. Mesue. 
College.| Take of the seeds of Purslain 
grossly bruised, half a pound, of the juice 
of Endive, boiled and clarified, two pounds, 
Sugar two pounds, Vinegar nine ounces, 
infuse the seeds in the juice of Endive 
twenty-four hours, afterwards boil it half 
away with a gentle fire, then strain it, and 
boil it with the sugar to the consistence of 
a Syrup, adding the Vinegar towards the 
latter end of the decoction. 
Culpeper.] It is a pretty cooling Syrup, 
fit for any hot disease incident to the 
stomach, reins, bladder, matrix, or liver; 
it thickens flegm, cools the blood, and pro- 
vokes sleep. You may take an ounce of it 
at a time when you have occasion. 
Compound Syrup of Colt’s-foot. Renod. 
College.| Take six handfuls of green 
Colt’s-foot, two handfuls of Maiden-hair, 
one handful of Hyssop, and two ounces of 
y Liquorice, boil them in four pints, either of 
rain or spring water till the fourth part be 
consumed, then strain it, and clarify it, to 
which add three pounds of white sugar, 
_ boil it to the perfect consistence of a Syrup. 
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infirmities, weaknesses, or failings thereof, 
as want of voice, difficulty of breathing, 
coughs, hoarseness, catharrs, &c. The way 
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of taking it is with a Liquorice-stick, or if | 
you please, you may add an ounce of it to | 
the Pectoral Decoction before mentioned. 
Syrup of Poppies, the lesser composition. 
College.] Take of the heads of white _ 
Poppies and black, when both of them are 
green, of each six ounces, the seeds of — 
Lettice, the flowers of Violets, of each one — 
ounce, boil them in eight pints of water till — 
the virtue is out of the heads; then strain © 
them, and with four pounds of sugar boil — 
the liquor to a Syrup. 
Syrup of Poppies, the greater composition. 
College.| Take of the heads of both | 
white and black Poppies, seeds and all, of 
each fifty drams, Maiden-hair, fifteen — 
drams, Liquorice, five drams, Jujubes, 
thirty by number, Lettice seeds, forty — 
drams, of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces | 
(tied up in a thin linen cloth), of each one — 
dram and an half, boil these in eight pints — 
of water till five pints be consumed, when — 
you have strained out the three pints re- — 
maining, add to them, Penids and white — 
sugar, of each a pound, boil them into a 
Syrup according to art. 
Culpeper]. All these former Syrups of © 
Poppies provoke sleep, but in that, I desire — 
they may be used with a great deal of cau- 
such as these are not | 
fit to be given in the beginning of fevers, — 
nor to such whose bodies are costive, yet to | 
such as are troubled with hot,sharp rheums, — 
you may safely give them: The last is ap- 
propriated to the lungs; It prevails against _ 
dry coughs, phthisicks, hot and sharp _ 
gnawing rheums, and provokes sleep. It is — 
an usual fashion for nurses when they have — 
tion and wariness: 
heated their milk by exercise or strong | 
liquor then run for Syrup of Poppies to — 
make their young ones sleep. I would fain 
have that fashion left off, therefore I for- | 
