Syrup of Owlets

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Source: The dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London: [translated] with some notes relating to manner of composition, and remarks on the changes made in most of the officinal medicines, from their first prescribers down to the present practice by Quincy, John, -1722 (1727), paragraph-517.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• of frefh Violet Flowers clean picked one Pound, and pour upon them two Pints and an half of hot Water :
• Cover them down clofe in a new earthen glafed Pot for a whole Day, and then fqueeze out the Liquor with a Prefs ; and to every Pint of it put two Pounds of fine Sugar, which diffolve in a Bath-Heat ; and take off what Scum arifes during its Continuance over the Fire. £e This hath heretofore been a Syrup in mighty « Efteem :

Method as extracted

1. Take of frefh Violet Flowers clean picked one Pound, and pour upon them two Pints and an half of hot Water :
2. Cover them down clofe in a new earthen glafed Pot for a whole Day, and then fqueeze out the Liquor with a Prefs ; and to every Pint of it put two Pounds of fine Sugar, which diffolve in a Bath-Heat ; and take off what Scum arifes during its Continuance over the Fire. £e This hath heretofore been a Syrup in mighty « Efteem :

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