Volume 2

The method of physick, containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body, from the head to the foot. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantity, and names of each medicine / [Philip Barrough].

  • Barrough, Philip, active 1590
Date:
1639
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Credit: The method of physick, containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body, from the head to the foot. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantity, and names of each medicine / [Philip Barrough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘OF SYRU-PES. Lis. VITE 477 of roots, &c.require more preparation te the thaking of a firupe; for they muft be boyled twife, once by themfelvcs alinit to the confumption of the 3; fart:s after,when they have bene purified with ftrayning and (eething, they imufb-Be concoéted with the beft Sugar to a firupe otherwife they do foon corrdpr, ard become hoary and mouldy, GOR OO% i. Qi eOOPOGO? Sines _ The firupes that follow made ofifharipe-juyces are in force like to the for- mer, as the firupe of the tart juyce of Citrons,. the'firape of fharpe Pomegra- nates, the firupe de aurancijs,the firupe of Omphacio,that is;unripe grapes, the firupe of the yuyce of Sorrell. But peculiarly the firupe'of fharpe ‘Citrons-doth quench the heat of an Ague, and reftraineth ‘the corruption ‘and malady therof. The firupe of Pomegranats doth:corroborate the flomack, and the chiefe entiails of a man,as the {pleen,the liver,the lungs, &&c. itreftraineth vo- mitting and mitigateth {wounding, ‘The firupe de 4uranctjs doth more com: fort the heart,and is more pleafant. T he firupe de @mpbacio doth more quench The Girupe of Ribes is more (weet in taft,& more aftringent. The way or or- -dev'of making them allis alike, for in the juyce of every one of them purged, a little leffe Sugar muft be diflolved,and thete two putin a tinne vefell, “thutt be fet.on the fire'and boiled by litle and litle toa firupe, | : Oxyfaccharam fimplex. abate, todull, to corroborate or comfort, arid isgood againtt a ‘diverfe mixture of humors,and unftable agues arifing therof, Ri. Succi Adal puntct -acidi,that is foure Pomegranates, viij, Acett,3 iii. Sacchari albi @ pari,tb-j- ‘Boyle them to the thicknes of a firupe. . Tao ) etre! wees ks ab a va! Xyfaccharum hath the fame vertue that the foure fyrnpe hath, ‘but net itt like force, faving it excelleth to comfort and roborate, and therefore the ‘ute thereof is more {afer in difeafes chancingin Summer, and tender bodies, then of the fharpe'firupe. Left fo great variety of firupes fhould.be retained in vaine, T omit Oxy/accharum compofitum, Oximeli compofitum,and Oximeti Sylliticam,that is,made of ScyHa; for'when they are thought good to be ufed, the Phyfitions may makeand)prefcribe ‘them {peedily and fitly, @xp/acchari, 3 j.Sirupi majoris radicibus,%.ij.vel frupi adjanti, 3) 'Q. ta Te Oximel fimplex.. Cy fimplex doth extenuate groffe humouts;and doth {courte out flimy matter, ‘doth open‘old obftructions, doth expeltfrany the -cheft thicke mattery and is 00d againft 4/fbuma, that is,\ obftru@ions of the ‘lungs-with fieame, -whercof arifeth fhortnefle of wind, and-rebellions agues, Ry.cque purisfime,meliis optimi,ana ff,iij, Boyle them untill withthe exhaling halfe the warer be confumed,and then poure in of Acerigcerrimi, thatis, very tharp vineger ,fh.ij/ and let'them be beyled againe by evaporation to a meer confi. Réce. That which is made more liquidjhath aque purisimellp.j.melis optim, Z ittjeaceti,7.4, RB. Letchele be boyled by fomentine out eafily theit corruption. a E e¢3.. Oxymel