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Syrup of Elecampane.

Take Roots of Elecampane, Polypodium, Currants each 2 ounces; Liquorice half an ounce; Virginia Tobacco dry'd two drams; Colts-foot, spotted Lungwort, Savory, Calamint each 1 handful; boil then in simple Hydromel to 1 pint and a half; strain, and adding Sugar 1 pound and a half; make a Syrup.

It hath a great faculty at attenuating inciding, deterging gross, tough, viscid Phlegm; and opening the Lungs. 'Tis therefore convenient in a laborious, deep, pectoral Cough, shortness of Breath, Humoral Asthma, Empyema, etc.

Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710