Syrupus de Betonica Compositus. Pag. 52. In L. Book. O R, Syrup of Betony Compound.
The Colledg. Take of Betony three handfuls, Marsoram a hand∣ful and an half; Time, red Roses, of each a handful; Violets, Stoechas, Sage, of each half a handful; the seeds of Fennel, Annis, and Ammi, of each half an ouce; the roots of Peony, Polypodium, and Fennel, of each five drachms; boyl them in six pound of river water to three pound, strain it, and ad juyce of Betony two pound, Sugar three pound and an half, make it into a Syrup.
Culpeper. A. It helps diseases coming of cold, both in the head and stomach, as also such as come of wind, vertigoes, madness, it concocts melancholly, it pro∣vokes the terms in women, and so doth the Simple Syrup more than the Compound. The Compositi∣on was framed by the Augustan Physitians. Certain∣ly our Physitians have but shallow brains, that they are fain to trot as far as Ausberg in Germany to steal Receipts.