Syrup of College

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Source: The complete herbal to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs ... To which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy. To his wife by Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. n 83007664; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physitian. n 86817616; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. Key to physic. n 83007664; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. Last legacy. n 83007664; Galen. Method of physic. n 79059644 (1847), narrative-offset-1132860.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• College: Borrage and Bugloss of each one pound \ and an half, Senna two ounces, Annis seeds : half an ounce, Saffron one dram, let the j Senna be steeped in the juices twenty-four; hours, and after a boil or two strain it, j and with two pounds of white sugar boil j it to a Syrup according to art, the saffron i being tied up in a rag, and often crushed \ in the boiling. \ Culpeser.] The Syrup is a cooling purge, and tends to

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Borrage and Bugloss of each one pound \ and an half, Senna two ounces, Annis seeds : half an ounce, Saffron one dram, let the j Senna be steeped in the juices twenty-four; hours, and after a boil or two strain it, j and with two pounds of white sugar boil j it to a Syrup according to art, the saffron i being tied up in a rag, and often crushed \ in the boiling. \ Culpeser.] The Syrup is a cooling purge, and tends to rectify the distempers of the blood, it purges choler and melancholy, and therefore must needs be effectual both in yellow and black jaundice, madness, scurf, leprosy, and scabs, it is very gentle. The dose is from one ounce to three, according as the body is in age and strength.

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