Syrupus de Absinthio Compositus. 49. in the Lat. B. OR Syrup of Wormwood, Compound.
The Colledg. Take of common Wormwood meanly dry, half a pound, red Roses two ounces, Indian Spicknard three drachms, old white Wine, Juyce of Quinces, of each two pound and an half; steep them a whol day in an earthen vessel, then boyl them gently, and strain it, and by adding two pound of Sugar boyl it into a Syrup according to art.
Culpeper. A. Mesue is followed verbatim in this; and the Re∣ceipt is apropriated to cold and flegmatick stomachs, and in my opinion 'tis an admirable remedy for it, for it strengthens both stomach and liver, as also the instruments of concoction; a spoonful taken in the morning, is admirable for such as have a weak dige∣stion, it provokes an appetite to ones victuals, it prevails against the yellow Jaundice, breaks wind, purgeth humors by urin. It was Roman Wormwood before, and so Mesue hath it, and our Colledg is as well able to correct Mesue as the Pigmies were to beat Hercules.