304 . THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Samphire, Maiden-hair, of each one hand-? and Cotton, of each three drams, boil them 

 ful, Winter Cherries, Jujubes, of each ten, j all (the roots being infused in white Wine 

 the seeds of Bazil, Bur, Parsley of Mace- i the day before) in a sufficient quantity of 

 donia, Hartworl, Carraway, Carrots, Grom- ; Wine and Water to eight ounces, strain it, 

 well, the bark of the root of Bay-tree, of j and adding four ounces of the Juice of 

 each two drams, Raisins of the sun stoned, ; Scabious, and tejn ounces of sugar, boil it 

 Liquorice, of each six drams, boil them in 1 to a Syrup, adding to it twenty drops of oil 

 twelve pounds of water to eight, strain it, j of sulphur. 



and with four pounds of sugar, and two I Culpeper.~] It is a cleansing Syrup ap- 

 pounds of honey, make it into a Syrup, I propriated to the breast and lungs, when 

 and perfume it with an ounce of Cinnamon, ; you perceive them oppressed by flegm, 

 and half an ounce of Nutmegs. j crudites, or stoppings, your remedy is to 



Culpeper.^ A tedious long medicine for ; take now and then a spoonful of this Syruj>, 

 the stone. jit is taken also with good success by such 



Surupus Regius, alias Jidapium Alexandrinum. \ as are itchy^ or scabby. 



Or Julep of Alexandria. Surupus de Scolopendno. 



College.'] Boil four pounds of Rose- j Or Syrup of Hart's-tongue. 



water, and one pound of white Sugar into i College.'] Take of Hart's-tongue three 

 a Julep. Julep of Roses is made with ! handf'uls, Polypodium of the Oak, the 

 Damask Rose water, in the very same j roots of both sorts of Bugloss, bark of the 

 manner. j roots of Capers and Tamerisk, of each two 



CulpeperJ] Two fine cooling drinks in jounces, Hops, Dodder, Maiden-hair, Bawm, 



the heat of summer. * of each two handfuls, boil them in nine 



Syrupus de Rosis siccis. \ pounds of Spring water to five, and strain 



Or Syrup of dried Roses. \ it, and with four pounds of white sugar, 



College.'] Make four pounds of spring | make it into a Syrup according to art. 

 water hot, in which infuse a pound of dried ! Culpeper.'] It helps the stoppings of 

 Roses, by some at a time, press them out ! melancholy, opens obstructions of the liver 

 and with two pounds of sugar, boil it into land spleen, and is profitable against splen- 

 a Syrup according to art. * etic evils, and therefore is a choice remedy 



Culpeper.'] Sy rup of dried Roses, strength- j for the disease which the vulgar call the 



ens the heart, comforts the spirits, binds i rickets, or liver-grown: A spoonful in a 



the body, helps fluxes, and corrosions, or J morning is a precious remedy for children 



gnawings of the bowels, it strengthens the 'troubled with that disease. Men that are 



stomach, and stays vomiting. You may j troubled with the spleen, which is known 



take an ounce at a time, before meat, if for { by pain and hardness in their left side, may 



fluxes ; after meat if for vomiting. j take three or four spoonfuls, they shall find 



Syrupus Scabiosce. \ this one receipt worth the price of the whole 



Or Syrup of Scabious. | book. 



College^] Take of the roots of Elecam- ; Sun/pus de Sfoechade. 



pane, and Polypodium of the Oak, of each t Syrup of Stcrchas 



two ounces, Raisins of the sun stoned an \ College.'] Take of Stocchas flowers four 

 ounce, Sebestens twenty, Colt's-foot, Lung- ! ounces, Rosemary flowers half an ounce, 

 wort, Savory, Calarninth, of each a hand- 1 Thyme, Calaminth, Origanum, of each an 

 ful and an half, Litmorice, Spanish Tobacco, jounce and an half, Sage, Bettony, of each 

 of each half an ounce, the seeds of Nettles 1 half an ounce, the seeds of Rue, Peony, and 



