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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
SUGARS. 
Diacodium Solidum, sive Tabulatum. 
College.| Take of white Poppy heads, 
meanly ripe, and newly gathered, twenty, 
steep them in three pounds of warm spring 
water, and the next day boil them until the 
virtue is out, then strain out the liquor, and 
with a sufficient quantity of good sugar, 
boil it according to art, that you may make 
it up into Lozenges. 
Culpeper. The virtues are the same with 
the common Diacodium, viz. to provoke 
sleep, and help thin rheums in the head, 
coughs, and roughness of the throat, and 
may easily be carried about in one’s pocket. 
Saccharum tabulatum simplez, et perlatum. 
Or Lozenges of Sugar both simple and 
pearled. 
College.] The first is made by pouring 
the sugar upon a marble, after a sufficient 
boiling in half its weight in Damask Rose 
Water: And the latter by adding to every 
pound of the former towards the latter end 
of the decoction, Pearls, prepared and 
bruised, half an ounce, with eight or ten 
leaves of gold. 
Culpeper.] It is naturally cooling, ap- 
propriated to the heart, it restores lost 
strength, takes away burning fevers, and 
false imaginations, (I mean that with 
Pearls, for that without Pearls is ridicu- 
lous) it hath the same vitrues Pearls have. 
Saccharum Tabulatum compositum. 
Or Lozenges of Sugar compound. 
College.| Take of choice Rhubarb four 
scruples, Agarick, Trochiscated, Corallins, 
burnt Hart’s-horn, Dittany of Crete, Worm- 
seed and Sorrel seed, of each a scruple, 
Cinnamon, Zedoary, Cloves, Saffron, of 
each half a scruple, white Sugar a pound, 
dissolved in four ounces of Wormwood 
_ Water, Wormwood Wine, an ounce, Cinna- 
_ mon Water a spoonful, with the forenamed 
2 make it into a —— 
to art. . 
Culpeper.| The title shews you the vir- 
tues of it. 
Saccharum Penidium, 
Or Sugar Penids 
College.| Are prepared of sugar dis- 
solved in spring water by a gentle fire, and 
the whites of Eggs diligently beaten, and 
clarified once, and again whilst it is boiling, 
then strain it and boil it gently again, till 
it rise up in great bubbles, and being chewed 
it stick not to your teeth, then pour it upon 
a marble, anointed with oil of Almonds, (let 
the bubbles first sink, after it is removed 
from the fire) bring back the outsides of it 
to the middle till it look like Larch rosin, 
then, your hands being rubbed with white 
starch, you may draw it into threads either 
short or long, thick or thin, and let it cool 
in what form you please. 
Culpeper.] I remember country people 
were wont to take them for coughs, and they 
are sometimes used in other compositions. 
Confectio de Thure. 
Or Confection of Frankincense. 
College.| Take Coriander seeds prepared 
half an ounce, Nutmegs, white Frankin- 
cense, of each three drams, Liquorice, 
Mastich,of each two drams, Cubebs, Hart’s- 
horn prepared, of each one dram, conserve 
of Red roses an ounce, white Sugar as much 
as is sufficient to make it into mean bits. 
Culpeper.] I cannot boast much of the 
rarity nor virtues of this receipt. 
Saccharum Rosatum. 
Or Sugar of Roses. 
College.] Take of red Rose eaves, the 
whites being cut off, and speedily dried in 
the sun an ounce, white Sugar a pound, melt 
the Sugar in Rose-water and juice of Roses 
of each two ounces which being consumed 
by degrees, put in the Rose leaves in pow- 
der, mix them, put it upon a marble, and 
make it into Lozenges according to art. 
Culpeper.| As for the virtues of this, it 
strengthens weak stomachs, weak hearts, 
ces weak —— restores mich, as are in 
