Syrupus de Meconio Compositus. Page 59. in L. Book. Syrup of Meconium Compound.
The Colledg. Take of white and black Poppy heads with their seeds fifty drachms; maindenhair fifteen drachms; Jujubes thirty; the seeds of Lettice fourty drachms;
Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
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of Mallows and Quinces tied up in a rag a drachm and an half; Liquoris five drachms; Water eight pound; boyl it according to art, strain it, and to three pound of Decoction ad sugar and penids, of each a pound, make it into a syrup.
Culpeper. A. Meconium: The blush of which this Receipt carries in its frontispiece, is nothing else but the juyce of English Poppies boyled till it be thick: As I am of opinion that Opium is nothing else but the juyce ofg 1.1 Poppies growing in hotter Countries (and there∣fore in all reason is colder in quality;) and therefore (I speak purely of Meconium and Opium, not of these syrups) though they be no edg-tools, yet 'tis ill jesting with them.
A. All these former syrups of Poppies provoke sleep, but in that, I desire they may be used with a great deal of caution and wariness, such as these are, are not fit to be given in the beginning of Feavers, nor to such whose bodies are costive; ever remember my former Motto, Fools are not fit to make Physiti∣ans. Yet to such as are troubled with hot, sharp Rhewms, you may safely give them; and note this, the last, which is borrowed from Mesue is apropriated to the Lungues, whose own words (translation excep∣ted) of it are these, It prevails against dry Coughs, Phtisicks, hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms, and pro∣vokes sleep. It is an usual fashion for Nurses when they have heat their milk by exercise or strong liquor, (no marvel then if their children be froward) then run for syrup of Poppies to make their young ones sleep. I would fain have that fashion left, therefore I forbear the dose; let Nurses keep their own bodies 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and their children will sleep well enough, never fear.
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g 1.1
For such Opium as Authors talks of comes frō Utopia.