The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.

Sirrup of Horehound.

17 R. Of white fresh Horehound ℥ ii. Licoras, Po∣lipody of the Oake, Roote of Smallage, and Fennell, ana. ℥ ss. white Venus Haire, Hyssop, Origan, Garden Savorie, Calamint, Coltfoot ana. ʒ vi. Seed of Anise, and Cotton, ana. ℥ iii. Raisins of the Sunne stoned ℥ ii. fat Figges dry nu. x. boyle them in viii. lib. of Hydro∣mel delayed till the halfe be consumed; then straine it, and boyle the Iuyce into a Sirrup with Honey, lib. ii. and white Sugar lib. ii. season it with ℥ i. of the Pow∣der of the Roote of the Florentine Flower-de-luce. This Sirrup avayleth much in Ptisickes, Coughes, and all Diseases of the Breast and Liver; for it cutteth, attenuateth, and purgeth all grosse and slimy Flegme; and because it is composed of such a confused mixture of lenitive, and cutting simples, therefore in old inve∣terate Coughes and Ptisicks I usually prescribe, with good successe, a composition of this Sirrup, with others more moderate, as thus R. of Sirrup of Horehound, Maiden-haire, Coltsfoot, Hyssop, Violets, ana. ℥ i. min∣gle them, and take every morning and evening halfe a spoonefull, and as much when you feele the Cough ap∣proach, or the Flegme to rise.