316 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



; Culpeper.] The title shews you the vir- 

 cTjr- AT?C jtues of it. 



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Saccharum Pemdium, 

 Diacodium Solidum, sive Tabitlatum. Or Sugar Penids 



College.'] Take of white Poppy heads, j College.] Are prepared of sugar dis- 

 meanly ripe, and newly gathered, twenty, j solved in spring water by a gentle fire, and 

 steep them in three pounds of warm spring! the whites of Eggs diligently beaten, and 

 water, and the next day boil them until the : clarified once, and again whilst it is boiling, 

 virtue is out, then strain out tlie liquor, and : then strain it and boil it gently again, til) 

 with a sufficient quantity of good sugar, lit rise up in great bubbles, and being chewed 

 boil it according to art, that you may make j it stick not to your teeth, then pour it upon 

 it up into Lozenges. |a marble, anointed with oil of Almonds, 



Culpeper. The virtues are the same with j (let the bubbles first sink, after it is removed 

 the common Diacodium, viz. to provoke j from the fire) bring back the outsides of it 

 sleep, and help thin rheums in the head, \to the middle till it look like Larch rosin, 

 coughs, and roughness of the throat, and | then, your hands being rubbed with white 

 may easily be carried about in one's pocket, j starch, you may draw it into threads eithej 

 Saccharum tabula turn simplex, etperlatum. \ short or long, thick or thin, and let it cool 



Or Lozenges of Sugar both simple and i in what form you please. 



pearled. Cutpcper.~\ I remember country people 



College^] The first is made by pouring ; were wont to take them for coughs, and they 

 the sugar upon a marble, after a sufficient! are sometimes used in other compositions, 

 boiling in half its weight in Damask Rose- ConfecHo de Thure. 



Water : And the latter by adding to every Or Confection of Frankincense, 



pound of the former towards the latter end j College.'] Take Coriander seeds prepared 

 of the decoction, Pearls, prepared and j half an ounce, Nutmegs, white Frankin- 

 bruised, half an ounce, with eight or ten i cense, of each three drams, Liquorice, 

 leaves of gold. j Mastich, of each two drams, Cubebs, Hart's- 



Culpcper.~] It is naturally cooling, ap- horn prepared, of each one dram, conserve 

 propriated to the heart, it restores lost | of Red roses an ounce, white Sugar as much 

 strength, takes away burning fevers } and j as is sufficient to make it into mean bits, 

 false imaginations, (I mean that with Pearls, \ Culpeper .] 1 cannot boast much of the 

 for that without Pearls is ridiculous) it hath \ rarity nor virtues of this receipt, 

 the same virtues Pearls have. Saccharum Rosatum. 



Saccharum Tabulatum compositum. Or Sugar of Roses. 



Or Lozenges of Sugar compound. ! College.'] Take of red Rose eaves, the 



College] Take of choice Rhubarb four -whites being cut off, and speedily dried in 

 scruples, Agarick Trochiscated, Corallins, > the sun an ounce, white Sugar a pound, 

 burnt Hart's-horn, Dittany of Crete, Worm- 1 melt the Sugar in Rose-water and juice <>( 

 seed and Sorrel seed, of each a scruple, j Roses of each two ounces which being con- 

 Cinnamon, Zedoary, Cloves, Saffron, of each : sumed by degrees, put in the Rose leaves in 

 half a scruple, white Sugar a pound, dis-i powder, mix them, put it upon a marble, 

 solved in four ounces of Wormwood Water, * and make it into Lozenges according to art 

 Wormwood Wine, an ounce, Cinnamon j Culpeper."] As for the virtues of this, it 

 Water a spoonful, with the fo renamed pow-i strengthens weak stomachs, weak nearts, 

 ders make it into Lozenges according to art. * and weak brains, restores such as are in 



