Syrupus Rosaccus Solutivus cum Helleboro. Page 70. Or, Syrup of Roses Solutive with Hellebore.
The Colledg] Take of the bark of all the Myroba∣lans of each four ounces, bruise them grosly and steep them twenty four hours in twelve pound of the infusi∣on of Roses before spoken; Senna, Epithimum, Poly∣podium of the Oak, of each four ounces; Cloves an ounce, Citron seeds, Liquoris of each four ounces, thef 1.1 bark of black Hellebore roots six drachms; let the fourth part of the Liquor gently exhale, strain it, and with five pound of Sugar and sixteen drachms of Rhu∣barb tyed up in a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 rag, make it into a syrup ac∣cording to Art.
Culpeper] A. You must not boyl the black Helle∣bore at all, or but very little, if you do you had as good put none in; me thinks the Colledg should have had either more wit or honesty, than to have left Receipts so woodenly penned to posterity, or it may be they wrote as they say only to the Learned, or in plain English for their own ends, or to satisfie their covetousness, that a man must needs run to them eve∣ry time his finger akes.
A. The syrup rightly used, purgeth melancholly, resisleth madness. I wish the ignorant to let it alone, for fear it be too hard for them, and use them as coursly as the Colledg hath done.