Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum, or, A treasury of physick with the most secret way of preparing remedies against all diseases : obtained by labour, confirmed by practice, and published out of good will to mankind : being a work of great use for the publick / written originally in Latine by ... Hadrianus à Mynsicht ...; and faithfully rendred into English by John Partridge ...

Syrupus Hydragogus, or a Water-purging Syrup.

Take German Flower-de-luce cleansed from its exterior bark, let it be well stamped and pressed, and the juyce pressed out put into a glass, and let it stand till it settle and grow clear of it self; then take of this Iuyce sixteen ounces, Cinamon water four ounces, Magistery of Gum of Peru an ounce. Let them infuse together in a Glass close stopt for twenty four hours, then pour it forth, and add to it sixteen ounces of white Sugar, spe∣cies Diarrhodon Abbatis, the best Rhubarb, of each half an ounce; red Sanders and roots of Alkanet, of each two drams. These being mixed must be tyed up in a

Cloth, and boiled with the Syrup to a just consi∣stence: And lastly, let the Syrup thus prepared be aromatized with Cloves, Cinamon, Mace, of each a dram; Gallia Moschata a scruple.

Virtue, Use, and Dose. It is a most glorious and Di∣vine Cathartick in the ill Habit of Body, and in Dro∣psies of all sorts, if from an ounce and a half to two ounces, more or less, according as the Belly is loose or bound, it be given twice or thrice in the week: For that Dropsie which cannot otherwise be cured by humane skill, is cured by this Syrup alone.