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as also in all inflammations whatsoever. 

 You may take a spoonful of it once in three 

 or four hours, or if you please take it with 

 a Liquorice slick. 



Syrupus de Meconio, sive Diacodium. 

 Or Syrup of Meconium, or Diacodium. 



College.] Take of white Poppy heads 

 with their seeds, gathered a little after the 

 flowers are fallen off, and kept three days, 

 eightounces, black Poppy heads (so ordered) 

 six ounces, rain Water eight pounds, steep 

 them twenty-four hours, then boil and press 

 them gently, boil it to three pounds, and 

 with twenty -four ounces of sugar boil it 

 into a Syrup according to art. 



Syrupus de Meconio compositus. 

 Or Syrup of Meconium compound. 



College.'] Take of white and black 

 Poppy heads with their seeds, fifty drams, 

 Maiden-hair fifteen drams, Jujubes thirty, 

 the seeds of Lettice, forty drams, of Mal- 

 lows and Quinces tied up in a rag, a dram 

 and a half, Liquorice five drams, water 

 eight pounds, boil it according to art, strain 

 it, and to three pounds of Decoction add 

 Sugar and Penids, of each one pound, make 

 it into a Syrup. 



CulpeperJ] Meconium is nothing else but 

 the juice of English Poppies boiled till it 

 be thick : It prevails against dry coughs, 

 phthisicks, hot and sharp gnawing rheums, 

 and provokes sleep It is an usual fashion 

 for nurses when they have heated their milk 

 by exercise or strong liquor (no marvel then 

 if their children be froward) then run for 

 Syrup of Poppies, to make their young 

 ones sleep. I would fain have that fashion 

 left, therefore I forbear the dose; Jet 

 nurses keep their own bodies temperate, and 

 their children will sleep well enough, never 

 fear. 



Syrupus Melissophylli. 

 Or Syrup of Bawm. 



College.] Take of the Bark of Bugloss 

 roots, an ounce, the roots of white Dittany, 

 Cinquefoil, Scorzonera, of each half an 



ounce, the leaves of Bawm, Scabious, 

 Devil's-bit, the flowers of both sorts of 

 Bugloss, and Rosemary, of each a handful, 

 the seeds of Sorrel, Citrons, Fennel, Car- 

 duus, Bazil, of each three drams, boil them 

 in four pounds of water till half be con- 

 jsumed, strain it, and add three pounds of 

 (white sugar, juice of Bawm and Rose 

 Water, of each half a pound, boil them to 

 a Syrup, the which perflime with Cinnamon 

 and yellow Sanders, of each half an ounce 

 Culpeper.~] It is an excellent cordial, 

 and strengthens the heart, breast, and 

 stomach, it resists melancholy, revives the 

 spirits, is given with good success in fevers, 

 it strengthens the memory, and relieves 

 , languishing nature. You may take a spoon- 

 full of it at a time. 



Syrupus de Mentha. 

 Or Syrup of Mints. 



College."] Take of the juices of Quinces 

 sweet and between sweet and sour, the juice 

 of Pomegranates sweet, between sweet and 

 sour, and sour, of each a pound and a half, 

 dried Mints half a pound, red Roses two 

 ounces, let them lie in steep one day, then 

 \ boil it half away, and with four pounds of 

 jsugai boil it into a Syrup according to art: 

 I perfume it not unless the Physicians com- 

 mand. 



Culpeper.~] The Syrup is in quality bind- 

 ing, yet it comforts the stomach much, 

 \ helps digestion, stays vomiting, and is as 

 excellent a remedy against sour or offensive 

 belchings, as any is in the Dispensatory. 

 Take a spoonful of it after meat. 

 Syrupus de Mucilaginibus. 

 Or Syrup of Mussilages. 

 College.'] Take of the seeds of Marsh- 

 | mallows, Mallows, Quinces, of each an 

 i ounce, Gum Tragacanth three drams, let 

 | these infuse six hours in warm Decoction of 

 | Mallows, white Poppy seeds, and Winter 

 5 Cherries, then press out the Mussilage to 

 ian ounce and an half, with which, and 

 i three ounces of the aforesaid Decoction, 



