Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: or, a body of medicines / Done into English out of Latin by the author ... with large additions.

  • Fuller, Thomas, 1654-1734
Date:
1740
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: or, a body of medicines / Done into English out of Latin by the author ... with large additions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s v/ Ounces ; let thefe fiand in a Glafs Bottle (well corked and tied over) in a Pot of hot Water 12 Hours; then having Jlrained the Liquor through a Flannel Bag, and fet it by to fettle, decant the cleary which with Sugar (boiled up to a Gan¬ dy height) half a Pound, make into a Syrupy without boiling. Give 2 Spoonfuls in a proper Vehicle; or fweeten Alexipharmac Juleps with it. C8e SBfjtte ©p?up- Take pure Fountain-Water 1 Quart; fine Su¬ gar 3 Pound; (and ficum it well) into a Syrup. Some, in the boiling up of Syrups that are to keep, add Honey to the Sugar; and fay ’twill help throwing off their Scum, preferve their Confidence, and keep them from candying. I ufe to appoint my Apothecary to keep this fimple Syrup always ready in his Shop; and that, not for any Medicinal Quality I expect from it, but partly (fince his cheap) to make up Eledtuary (of the Bark for Inftance) Maffes of Pills, Mixture of Juniper, and a Thoufand other Things, where I require nothing at all from the Syrup, but merely Confidence, or Sweetning. And partly, that the Colour of the Medicine may not be lpoiled, and on this Account It’s an Ingredient in the Balfamic Emulfion; and to indance in others, when I prefcribe Spirit of Harts-horn, or any other of that Volatile Salt kind to be mixed in a Julep, if I (hould order Syrup of Gilly-flowers hwould turn it nady black; if Syrup of Violets, green; if Syrup of Cowflips,