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Syrup of College

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Related plant contextCarminative PreparationSyrup RouteInternal use Plant recordApium graveolens ↗

Carminative

A traditional action term for aromatic preparations associated with gas and digestive discomfort.

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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-1093580.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • College: of the roots of Smallage, pounds of sugar,

Method as extracted

  1. Mix according to the source passage: Syrupus Acetosus compositus. day in an earthen vessel, then boil them j Or Syrup of Vinegar compound, gently, and strain it, and by adding two \ College.] Take of the roots of Smallage, pounds of sugar, boil it into a Syrup accord- 1 Fennel, Endive, of each three ounces, the ing to art. ; seeds of Annis, Smallage, Fennel, of each Cidpeper.] Mesne is followed verbatim \ one ounce, of Endive half an ounce, clear in this; and the receipt is appropriated tojWatersix pounds, boil it gently in an earthen cold and flegmatic stomachs, and it is an; vessel till half the water be consumed, then admirable remedy for it, for it strengthens \ strain and clarify it, and with three pounds both stomach and liver, as also the instru- \ of Sugar, and a pound and a half of white ments of concoction, a spoonful taken in ;

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  1. 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 — 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 pPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-1093580.
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