AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 301 



as also in all inflammations whatsoever, j ounce, the leaves of Bawm, Scabious, 

 You may take a spoonful of it once in three : Devil's-bit, the flowers of both sorts ol 

 or four hours, or if you please take it with : Bugloss, and Rosemary, of each a handful 

 a Liquorice stick. I the seeds of Sorrel, Citrons, Fennel, Car 



Syrupus de Mec&nio, sive Diacodium. \ duus, Bazil, of each three drams, boil them 

 Or Syrup of Meconium, or Diacodium. tin four pounds of water till half be con- 

 College.~] Take of white Poppy heads jsumed, strain it, and add three pounds of 

 with their seeds, gathered a little after the 5 white sugar, juice of Bawm and Rose 



flowers are fallen off, and kept three days, ! 



Water, of each half a pound, boil them to 



eightounces, black Poppy heads (so ordered) j a Syrup, the which perfume with Cinnamon 

 six ounces, rain Water eight pounds, steep j and yellow Sanders, of each half an ounce 

 them twenty-four hours, then boil and press j Culpeper.~\ It is an excellent cordial, 

 them gently, boil it to three pounds, and j and strengthens the heart, breast, and 

 with twenty -four ounces of sugar boil it I stomach, it resists melancholy, revives the 

 into a Syrup according to art. j spirits, is given with good success in fevers, 



Syrupus de Meconio compositus. >it strengthens the memory, and relieves 



Or Syrup of Meconium compound. | languishing nature. You may take a spoon- 

 College.~\ Take of white and black j full of it at a time. 

 Poppy heads with their seeds, fifty drams, { Syrupus de Mentha. 



Maiden-hair fifteen drams, Jujubes thirty, | Or Syrup of Mints. 



the seeds of Lettice, forty drams, of Mai- ; CollegeJ] Take of the juices of Quinces 

 lows and Quinces tied up in a rag, a dram 5 sweet and between sweet and sour, the juice 



and a half, Liquorice five drains, water 

 :>ounds, 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. 



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 



Culpeper.l Meconium is nothing else butlsugai boil it into a Syrup according to art: 

 the juice of English Poppies boiled till it I perfume it not unless the Physicians com- 

 be thick : It prevails against dry coughs, Imand. 



phthisicks, hot and sharp gnawing rheums, j Culpeper.~] The Syrup is in quality bind- 

 and provokes sleep It is an usual fashion! ing, yet it comforts the stomach much, 

 for nurses when they have heated their milk ; helps digestion, stays vomiting, and is as 

 by exercise or strong liquor (no marvel then excellent a remedy against sour or offensive 

 if their children be fro ward) then run for j belchings, as any is in the Dispensatory. 

 Sj'rnp of Poppies, to make their young 5 Take a spoonful of it after meat. 



ones sleep. I would fain have that fashion ; 

 left, therefore I forbear the dose ; let ' 



Syrupus de Mucilaginibus. 

 Or Syrup of Mussilages. 



nurses keep their own bodies temperate, and j ColltgeJ] Take of the seeds of Marsh- 

 their children will sleep well enough, never \ mallows, Mallows, Quinces, of each an 

 fear. jounce, Gum Tragacanth three drams, let 



Syrupus Mehssophylli. \ these infuse six hours in warm Decoction of 



Or Syrup of Bawm. j Mallows, white Poppy seeds, and Winter 



College.] Take of the Bark of Bugloss ; Cherries, then press out the Mussilage to 

 roots, an ounce, the roots of white Dittany, i an ounce and an half, with which, and 

 Cinquefoil, Scorzonera, of each half an [three ounces of the aforesaid Decoction, 



