in pharmacy, a syrup prepared from poppy heads. It is also called the syrupus de meconio. As it is of consequence that all the circumstances in the directions directions for compounding this medicine, be exactly followed, we here give the method of preparing it from the London Dispensatory. Take of the heads of dried white poppies without their seeds, three pounds and a half; of water, six gallons. Slice the heads, and boil them in the water, often stirring them that they may not burn, till about a third only of the liquor is left, which will be almost all imbibed by the poppy heads: then take all from the fire, and press the liquor strongly out from the heads; in the next place, boil the liquor by itself, to about two quarts, and strain it while hot, first through a sieve, and then through a thin flannel: set it by for a night, that what drosses have passed the strainers, may subside; next morning pour off the clear liquor, and boil it with six pounds of double refined sugar, till the whole comes to the weight of nine pounds, or a little more, that it may become a syrup of a just consistence. This syrup partakes of all the virtues of the poppy.