Take of clarified honey, 3 lbs.
vinegar of squills, 2 pints.
Boil them in a glass vessel, with a slow fire, to the
thickness of a syrup.
Oxymel of squills is an useful _aperient, detergent, and
expectorant_, and of great service in _humoral asthmas_,
_coughs_, and other disorders where _thick phlegm_ abounds.
It is given in doses of two or three drachms, along with some
aromatic water, as that of cinnamon, to prevent the great
nausea which it would otherwise be apt to excite. In large
doses it proves _emetic_.