A Very Good Pectoral Drink for Consumptive Cough

Ingredients

• 2 ounces quitch-grass roots
• 1 ounce eringo-roots
• 2 drachms loris
• 1 ounce hartshorn
• 2 ounces stoned raisins
• 6 figs
• 1 spoonful pearl-barley
• 1 handful colts-foot
• 1 handful sage of Jerusalem
• 3 pints water
• 2 drachms sal-prunella
• 1 ounce syrup of violets

Directions

1. Boil the quitch-grass roots, eringo-roots, loris, hartshorn, stoned raisins, figs, pearl-barley, colts-foot, and sage of Jerusalem in 3 pints of water until a third is evaporated.

2. Strain the mixture and dissolve 2 drachms of sal-prunella and 1 ounce of syrup of violets in it.

3. Drink a quarter of a pint often when you cough or feel dry.