3JO THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Oxwncl Scilliticum compositus. infirmities, weaknesses, or failings thereof, 



Or Oxymel of Squills compound. j as want of voice, difficulty of breathing, 



College.] Take of Origanum, dried j coughs, hoarseness, catharrs, &c. The way 

 Hyssop, Thyme, Lovage, Cardamoms the $ of taking it is with a Liquorice-stick, or if 

 less, Stoechas, of each five drams, boil them jyou please, you may add an ounce of it to 

 in three pounds of Water to one, strain it \ the Pectoral Decoction before mentioned, 

 and with two pounds of Honey, Honey of j Syrup of Poppies, the lesser composition. 

 Raisins half a pound, juice of Briony five \ College.] Take of the heads of white 

 ounces, Vinegar of Squills a pound and a | Poppies and black, when both of them are 

 half, boil it, and scum it according to art. 5 green, of each six ounces, the seeds of 



CulpeperJ] This is good against the fall- ? Lettice, the flowers of Violets, of each one 

 ing-sickness, Megrim, Head-ache, Vertigo, \ ounce, boil them in eight pints of water till 

 or swimming in the head, and if these be! the virtue is out of the heads; then strain 

 occasioned by the stomach as many times! them, and with four pounds of sugar boil 

 they are, it helps the lungs obstructed by j the liquor to a Syrup, 

 humour, and is good for women not well| Syrup of Poppies, the greater composition. 

 cleansed after labour, it opens the passage \ College.'] Take of the heads of both 

 of the womb. \ white and black Poppies, seeds and all, of 



Syrup of Purslain. Mesue. \ each fifty drams, Maiden-hair, fifteen drains, 



College.'] Take of the seeds of Purslain \ Liquorice, five drams, Jujubes, thirty by 



Grossly bruised, half a pound, of the juice of j number, Lettice seeds, forty drams, of the 

 kidive, boiled and clarified, two pounds, j seeds of Mallows and Quinces, (tied up in 

 Sugar two pounds, Vinegar nine ounces, | a thin linen cloth) of each one dram and 

 infuse the seeds in the juice of Endive | an half, boil these in eight pints of water 

 twenty-four hours, afterwards boil it half j till five pints be consumed, when you have 

 away with a gentle fire, then strain it, and | strained out the three pints remaining, add 

 boil it with the sugar to the consistence ofito them, Penids and white sugar, of each 

 a Syrup, adding the Vinegar towards the! a pound, boil them into a Syrup according 

 latter end of the decoction. I to art. 



CtdpeperJ] It is a pretty cooling Syrup, i CulpeperJ] All these former Syrups of 

 fit for any hot disease incident to the j Poppies provoke sleep, but in that, I desire 

 stomach, reins, bladder, matrix, or liver ; j they may be used with a great deal of cau- 

 it thickens flegm, cools the blood, and pro-jtion and wariness: such as these are not 

 vokes sleep. You may take an ounce of it -fit to be given in the beginning of fevers, 

 at a time when you have occasion. | nor to such whose bodies are costive, yet to 



Compound Syrup of Colt's-foot. Renod. j such as are troubled with hot, sharp rheums, 

 College.'] Take six handfuls of green j you may safely give them : The last is ap- 

 Colt's-tbot, two handfuls of Maiden-hair, i propriated to the lungs ; It prevails against 

 one handful of Hyssop, and two ounces of j dry coughs, phthisicks, hot and sharp gnaw- 

 Liquorice, boil them in four pints, either of | ing rheums, and provokes sleep. It is an 

 rain or spring water till the fourth part be i usual fashion for nurses when they have 

 consumed, then strain it, and clarify it, to! heated their milk by exercise or strong liquor 

 which add three pounds of white sugar, 5 then run for Syrup of Poppies to make 

 boil it to the perfect consistence of a Syrup, j their young ones sleep. I would fain have 

 CulpeperJ] The composition is appro- j that fashion left off, therefore I forbear the 

 priated to the lungs, and therefore helps the \ dose : Let nurses keep their own bodies 



