Syrups.

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quor fcould become too thick, and the Syrup bcrendered ropy. P.

SYRUPUS rosje.

Rose-Syrup.

Take of the dried petals of the damaik Rofefeven ounces by weight.

Double-refined Sugar fix pounds.Boiling diftilled Water four pints.

Macerate the petals of the Rofe in waterfor twelve hours, and ftrain. Evaporate theftrained liquor to two pints and an half, andadd the fugar, that it may be made a Syrup.

REM

K.

This was, in the former Difpenfatory, direft-ed to be made with the decocYion left on diftilla-tion, — but there was danger of fome difagreeableimpregnation without great care. It is an agreea-ble and mild purgative for children, in the dofe ofhalf a fpoonful or a fpoonful, and has been direfted

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