3G0 Directions for making of Syrups, Sfc. 



scurvy preserves ; these be they I can remember, if there be any 

 more, put them into the number. 



The way of preserving these, is not all one in authors, for 

 some are bitter, some are hot; such as are bitter, say authors, 

 must be soaked in warm water, oftentimes changing till their 

 bitter taste be fled : but I like not this way, and my reason is this, 

 because I doubt when their bitterness is gone, so is their virtue 

 also; I shall then prescribe one common way, namely, the same 

 •with the former, viz first boil tliem whole till they be soft, then 

 Inake a syrup with sugar and the liquor you boiled them in, and 

 keep the barks in the syrup. 



5. They are kept in glasses, or in glazed pots. 



6. The preserved flowers will keep a year, if you can forbear 

 «ating of them ; the root and barks much longer. 



7. This art was plainly and first invented for delicacy, yet came 

 afterward' to be of excellent use in physic : for, 



(1.) Hereby medicines are made pleasant for sick and squeamish 

 stomachs, which else would loath them. 



(2.) Hereby they are preserved from decaying a long time. 



CHAP. IX. Of Lohocks. : 



1. THAT which the Arabians call Lohocks and the Greeks 

 Eclegma, the Latins called Linctus, and in plain English signifies 

 nothing else but a thing to be licked up. 



2. Their first invention was to prevent and remedy afflictions of 

 the breast and lungs, to cleanse the lungs of phlegm, and make it 

 fit to be cast out. 



■ 3. They are in body thicker tiian a syrup, and not so thick as 

 an electuary. 



4. The manner of taking them is, often to take a little with 

 liquorice stick, and let it go down at leisure. 



I'hey are easily thus made : Make a decoction of pectoral 

 herbs, and the treatise will furnish you with enough, and when 

 you have strained it, with twice its weight of honey or sugar, 

 'boilit to a lohock ; if you are molestsd with much phlegm, ho- 

 ney is better than sugar ; and if you add a little vinegar to it, you 

 will do well ; if not, I hold sugar to be better than honey. 



6. It is kept in pots, and may be kept a year and longer. 



7- It is excellent for roughness of the wind-pipe, inflamma- 

 tions and ulcers of the lungs, difficulty of breathing, asthmas, 

 and distillations of humours. 



CHAP. X. Of Ointments. 



1. VARIOUS are the ways for making ointments, which au- 

 ^ors have left to posterity, which I shall omit, and quote one 

 which is easiest to be made, and therefore most beneficial to pco- 



