Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.

A Syrup for Cough, rheums, Catarres, and other like diseases.

Take Althaea leaves seven handfuls, stamp them in a mortar, then take a pot that will hold seven pints, boil in it these ••hings follow∣••ng▪

Liquerice two ounces, Sage, Rosemary, Cardu••s benedictus, figgs, raisins, barly flower, of each a handful succory leaves and roots, a handful; let all these boil one hour and a half, then let it cool so that you may strain it, then take the water, and put in two or three pounds of French Mallowes setting it to boil on the fire again three hours or more, then strain it as you did before, then take the decoction and set it on the fire with asmuch hony or little less, taking off the scum when it hath boiled a good space, ad•• to it one ounce, or as much as you wil•• of Cinnamon; Then take it immediately from the fire putting it forth and covering it close. This secret is so excellent that if a man use it in winter, warming it when he taketh it, it is not possible for him to be vexed with C••ugh, rh••um, Catarrhes, and like diseases.