Syrupus Rosaceus solutivus. Or Syrup of Roses solutive.
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Culpeper, Nicholas
College.] Take of Spring Water boiling hot four pounds, Damask Rose leaves fresh, as many as the water will contain; let them remain twelve hours in infusion, close stopped; then press them out and put in fresh Rose leaves; do so nine times in the same liquor, encreasing the quantity of the Roses as the liquor encreases, which will be almost by the third part every time: Take six parts of this liquor, and with four parts of white sugar, boil it to a Syrup according to art.
Culpeper.] It loosens the belly, and gently brings out choler and flegm, but leaves a binding quality behind it.