Syrup of Hellebore

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Source: The compleat chymical dispensatory, in five books : treating of all sorts of metals, precious stones, and minerals, of all vegetables and animals, and things that are taken from them, as musk, civet, #. How rightly to know them, and how they are to be used in physick; with their several doses ... Being very proper for all merchants, druggists, chirurgions, and apothecaries ... by Schröder, Johann, 1600-1664 (1669), paragraph-14542.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of all the Myrobalans tWQ ounces and half, powder them, and rub them in your hands with Oyl of Almonds, then infufe them a night in Fumitory-water twelve pound, then boil them to the confumption of the third part
• Flowers ot Borrage and Bug- lofs, each one part :
• Let them boil to five pint?, then add Senna two ounces and half, Epithy- mumtwo ounces; boil them again to three pints, add Sugar thirty<wo ounces :
• 7, Syrup of Hellebore contains of the Bark three parts, of Rhubarb eight parts, of Senna lixteen, of Polypody fixtecn
• Oxymel of Hellebore hath white Hellebore three parts, black Hellebore three parts, Efula two, Agarick two, T urbiih eight parts

Method as extracted

1. Take of all the Myrobalans tWQ ounces and half, powder them, and rub them in your hands with Oyl of Almonds, then infufe them a night in Fumitory-water twelve pound, then boil them to the confumption of the third part.
2. Add the Bark of black Hellebore prepared, Li- quorilb.
3. Let them boil to five pint?, then add Senna two ounces and half, Epithy- mumtwo ounces; boil them again to three pints, add Sugar thirty<wo ounces :
4. Boil all to a confiftcnce.

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