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Kernel, of each three drams, spring water 

 ten pounds, boil it till half be consumed, 

 and with honey and sugar, of each two 

 pounds, boil it into a Syrup, which perfume 

 with Cinnamon, Ginger, and Cairn us 

 Aromaticus, of each two drams tied up in 



rag. 



Syrupus de Sytnphyto. 

 Or Syrup of Comfrey. 



the water of Violet flowers and sugar, like 

 Julep of Roses. 



CulpeperJ] It is cooling and pleasant. 



PURGING SYRUPS. 



Syrupus de Cichorio cum Tthi/barbaro. 

 Or Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb. 



College.'] Take of roots and tops of j College^] Take of whole Barley, the 

 Comfrey, the greater and lesser, of each j roots of Smallage, Fennel, and Sparagus, 

 three handfuls, red Roses, Bettony, Plantain, j of each two ounces, Succory, Dandelyon, 

 Burnet, Knot grass, Scabious, Colt's foot, i Endive, smooth Sow-thistles, of each two 

 of each two handfuls, press the juice out of] handfuls, Lettuce, Liverwort, Fumitory, 

 them all, being green and bruised, boil it, j tops of Hops, of each one handful, Maiden- 

 scum it, an-d strain it, add its weight of j hair, white and black, Cetrachs, Liquorice, 

 sugar to it that it may be made into a Syrup, ] winter Cherries, Dodder, of each six drams, 

 according to art \ to boil these take sixteen pounds of spring 



Culpeper.~\ The Syrup is excellent for I water, strain the liquor, and boil in it six 

 all inward wounds and bruises, excoriations, ' pounds of white sugar, adding towards the 

 vomitings, spittings, or evacuation of blood, I end six ounces of Rhubarb, six dram? of 

 it unites broken bones, helps ruptures, and { Spikenard, bound up in a thin slack rag 

 stops the menses : You cannot err in taking \ the which crush^ often in boiling, and so 

 of it. | make it into a Syrup according to art. 



Syrupus Violarum. \ CulpeperJ] It clean ses the body of venem- 



Or Syrup of Violets. : ous humours, as boils, carbuncles, and the 



CollegeJ] Take of Violet flowers fresh ! h'ke ; it prevails against pestilential fevers, 

 and picked, a pound, clear water made \ it strengthens the heart and nutritive virtue, 

 boiling hot, two pounds, shut them up close ; purges by stool and urine, it makes a man 

 together into a new glazed pot, a whole j have a good stomach to his meat, and pro- 

 day, then press them hard out, and in two J vokes sleep. But by my author's leave, 

 pounds of the liquor dissolve four pounds j I never accounted purges to be proper 

 and three ounces of white sugar, take away j physic in pestilential fevers ; this I believe, 

 the scum, and so make it into a Syrup with- i the Syrup cleanses the liver well, and is 

 out, boiling. Syrup of the juice of Violets, 1 exceeding good for such as are troubled 

 is made with its double weight of sugar, like j with hypocondriac melancholy. The strong 

 the former. j may take two ounces at a time, the weak, 



Cidpeper.'] This Syrupcoolsandmoistens, \ one, or you may mix an ounce of it with 

 and that very gently, it corrects the sharp- j the Decoction of Senna. * 

 ness of cholcr, and gives ease in hot vices of j Syrupus de Epithymo. 



the breast, it quenches thirst in acute fevers, \ Or Syrup of Epithimum. 



and resist the heat of the disease ; it com- j College^] Take of Epithimum twenty 

 forts hot stomachs exceedingly, cools the | drams, Mirobalans, Citron, and Indian of 

 liver and heart, and resists putrefaction, 1 each fifteen drams, Emblicks, Belloricks, 

 restilence, and poison. [ Polypodium. Liquorice Agrick, Thytue, 



College] Julep of Violets is made of; Calaminth Btigloss, Stoechas of each six 



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