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Source: The plain English dispensatory; containing the natural history and medicinal virtues of the principal simples now in use. Also all the compositions in the three dispensatories of London, Edinburgh, and Dr. Fuller; the history of the incorporation of the College of Physicians of London: of the principal chymists; of the venereal disease; of the circulation of the blood; and other important subjects by Colborne, Robert, active 1753 (1753), paragraph-2911.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Boil the Reft with the Figs and Liquo¬ rice in two Quarts of Water till it is half boiled away, then ftrain and prefs it out ; afterwards, boil it away to the Weight of a Pound and a half, or a little lefs ; then add the Sugar to make a Syrup ; this Syrup mix gradually with the Pulps ; and laftly, Itir in the Powder
• Roots of Polypody of the Oak, two Ounces
• Water, three Quarts:
• Boil them to the Confumption of one half of the Liquor, adding, towards the End of the Boiling, of Sena-leaves, two Ounces, and Coriander-feeds, half an Ounce :

Method as extracted

1. Reduce the Sena witSf the Coriander- feeds to Powder, and feparate ten Ounces by the Sieve :
2. Boil the Reft with the Figs and Liquo¬ rice in two Quarts of Water till it is half boiled away, then ftrain and prefs it out ; afterwards, boil it away to the Weight of a Pound and a half, or a little lefs ; then add the Sugar to make a Syrup ; this Syrup mix gradually with the Pulps ; and laftly, Itir in the Powder.
3. Take Roots of Polypody of the Oak, two Ounces ;
4. Boil them to the Confumption of one half of the Liquor, adding, towards the End of the Boiling, of Sena-leaves, two Ounces, and Coriander-feeds, half an Ounce :
5. Strain, and prefs out the Decodlion, adding to it twa Pounds of Honey ; boil the Mixture to the Confidence of a thick Syrup -r The Plain Englifh Difpenfatory. zi$

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