Syrup of Lemons

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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-1208940.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Lemons: of Satyrion roots three Culpeper-] It is a great cordial and 1 ounces, Dates, bitter Almonds, Indian cool, exceeding good in acute fevers and !

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: They are all harm- j being beaten into very fine powder, let less, you may take the quantity of a nut- $ them be made into an electuary according meg of them at a time, before meat to help \ to art, with four times their weight in sugar, digestion and fluxes, after meat to stay 1 let it stand one month before you use it vomiting, in the morning for the rest. \ Culpeper l _ ] It provokes the menses, brings Confectio cle Hyacintho. i away both birth and after-birth, the dead College.'] Take of Jacinth, red Coral, j child, purges such as are not sufficiently Bole-amoniac, Earth of Lemnos, of each \ purged after travail, it provokes urine, half an ounce, the berries of Chernies, the ! breaks the stone in the bladder, helps the Roots of Tormentil and Dittany, the seeds \ stranguary, disury, iskury, &c. helps in- of Citrons, Sorrel, and Purslain, Saffron, j digestion, the cholic, opens any stoppings in Myrrh, red Roses exungulated, all the sorts \ the body, it heats the stomach, purges the of Sanders, bone of a Stag’s heart, Hart’s- j liver and spleen, consumes wind, stays horn, Ivory prepared, of each four scruples, \ vomiting, but let it not be taken by preg- Samphire, Emerald, Topaz, Pearls, raw j nant women, nor such people as have the Silk, leaves of Gold and Silver, of each two j hemorrhoids. The dose is from one dram scruples, Camphire, Musk, Ambergris, ofjtotwo drams, each five grains, with Syrup of Lemons \ Diasatyrion. make it into a confection according to art. \ College.'] Take of Satyrion roots three Culpeper-] It is a great cordial and 1 ounces, Dates, bitter Almonds, Indian cool, exceeding good in acute fevers and !

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