Pharmacopoeia Lemeriana contracta Lemery's Universal pharmacopoeia abridg'd, in a collection of recepe's and observations compar'd with the London and with Bates's dispensatories, and also with Charas's Royal pharmacy : to which are added some remedies recommended by the members of the French Royal Academy of Science, most collected out of the history of that society lately published by John Baptista du Hamel.

A strengthing Syrup.

℞. Choice Rhubarb slie'd 4 ounces, red Roses well pick'd and cleansed three ounces, white Tartar grosly powdered one ounce; let all infuse 24 hours in three quarts of steel'd water over hot embers, then boil it a little, which done, strain the liquor from the gross Ingredients; add 4 pound of Sugar, clari∣fie it with the white of an Egg, and boil it into a Syrup.

This Syrup is highly commended to strengthen the Stomach, and to repair the impair'd Tone of its Fibres. It is of good use in Diarrhoeas, Lienteries, and bloody Fluxes, in the over-flowing of the Menses, Whites, troublesome Gleets, &c. It is taken fasting alone, or mix'd with proper Decoctions from 1 to 2 ounces.

The Syrup of Coral is found fault with, because the vertue of the Coral, which wholly consists in its absorbing Acids, is so much impair'd by the sowre Juice of Berberries, that it can dull but few pec∣cant Acids in the body, the Pores where∣in it might sheath them, being already satiate. And most certainly to powder Coral very fine is the best way to prepare it for medicinal use.