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.

Syrup of Poppies, the greater Composition. Mesue.

The Colledg] Take of the heads of both white and black Poppies, seeds and all, of each fifty drachms, Maiden-hair fifteen drachms, Liquoris five drachms,

Jujubes thirty by number, Lettice seeds fourty drams; of the seeds of Mallows and Quinces (tied up in a thin linnen cloath) of each one drachm and an half, boyl these in eight pints of water till five pints be con∣sumed; when you have strained out the three pints remaining, ad to them, Penides and white Sugar of each a pound, boyl them into a Syrup according to art.

Culpeper.] 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 beginnings of Feavers, nor to such whole bodies are coslive; ever remember my former Motto, Fools are not fit to make Physitians. 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 apro∣priated to the Lungues, whose own words (transla∣tion excepted) of it are these, It prevails against dry Coughs, Phtisicks, hot and sharp gnawing Rhewms, and provokes sleep. It is an usual fashion for Nur∣ses when thcy 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 yong ones sleep. I would fain have that fashi∣on left, therefore I forbear the dose; let Nurses keep their own bodies temperate, and their children will sleep well enough, never scar.