310 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Oxymel Sdlliticum compositits. ' infirmities, weaknesses, or failings thereof 



OrOxymelof Squills compound. 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 it 

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

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

 and with two pounds of Honey, Honey of: 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 i Poppies and black, when both of them are 

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



Culpeperf] This is good against the fall- ! Lettice, the flowers of Violets, of each one 

 ing-sickness, Megrim, Head-ache, Vertigo, i 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 j 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 | number, Lettice seeds, forty drams, of the 

 Indive, 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 watei 

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

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

 boilitwith the sugar to the consistence of; to 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. 1 to art. 



CiilpeperJ] It is a pretty cooling Syrup, j Culpeper.'] All these former Syrups of 

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

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

 it thickens flegm, cools the blood, and pro-^tion 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. Renpd. I 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-toot, two handfuls of Maiden-hair, j 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 j 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 Cheated their milk by exercise or strong liquor 

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

 boil it to the perfect consistence of a Syrup. 1 their young ones sleep. I would fain have 



Culpeper.] The composition is appro-) that fashion left off, therefore I forbear the 

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



