The London dispensatory, reduced to the practice of the London physicians wherein are contain'd the medicines, both Galenical and chymical, that are now in use ... / by John Pechey ...

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Title: The London dispensatory, reduced to the practice of the London physicians wherein are contain'd the medicines, both Galenical and chymical, that are now in use ... / by John Pechey ...
Author: Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
Publication: London :: Printed by F. Collins for J. Lawrence ...,; 1694.
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Syrup of Violets, in Latin, Syrupus Viola∣rum.

Take of fresh flowers of Violets cleansed one ••ound, of hot clear water two pints and an half, ••eep it close stopped in a new glass pot a day; ••hen press it out, in a quart of the liquor, dissolve in •• bath four pound of fine Sugar, take off the scum ••s it rises, and make a Syrup without boyling.

Virtues. It is a good cooling Syrup, and is pecto∣••al, and is used in fevers, and sometimes mixed with ••lysters.

Dose. Half an ounce of it may be taken inward∣••y at a time.