Volume 1

Experiments and observations upon oriental and other bezoar-stones, which prove them to be of no use in physick. Gascoin's powder, distinctly examin'd in its seven ingredients, censur'd and found imperfect : dedicated to the Royal Society to which is annex'd, a vindication of sugars against the charge of Dr. Willis, other physicians, and common prejudices dedicated to the ladies. Together with further discoveries and remarks / By Frederick Slare.

  • Slare, Frederick, 1646 or 1647-1727.
Date:
1715
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Credit: Experiments and observations upon oriental and other bezoar-stones, which prove them to be of no use in physick. Gascoin's powder, distinctly examin'd in its seven ingredients, censur'd and found imperfect : dedicated to the Royal Society to which is annex'd, a vindication of sugars against the charge of Dr. Willis, other physicians, and common prejudices dedicated to the ladies. Together with further discoveries and remarks / By Frederick Slare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ney; melt thefe together. Take a Spoonful* lukewarm, and let it pafs down yout t hroat foftly and gradually y you have here the fine healing Balm extracted out of all Flowers, and the Oil or Balfam of Butter; I have often us’d it, and given it others with Succefs. : I know this will not agree with forile nice fqueamifh Stomachs. Out of Honey may be made a fine light Mead, impregnated a with Herbs, which I have admin ifter’d in tabid Cafes, and where the Humors have been fharp and requir’d dulcifying. Receipts for Hy- dromels or Meads are to be found in all Di- fpenfaries of Medicines, in which Honey is the moft fovereign Ingredient : And I have Reafon to infer from good Experience, that Diet-drinks' may be-made with Honey more beneficial to our Bodies, than of thofe more chargeable Drugs , even Sarfa, China, and Sajfafras. 1 mu ft needs give Sugar much th e Preference to Honey for general Ufe; it is more palatable, better preferved, and of more general Ufe, and has made Honey lefs re-, garded. But it feerns ftrange that Honey which has for fo many Years been efteem’d of great Vertue in Medicine, Ihould of late meet with fuch Difgrace and Impeachment at the London Bar of Phyfick, as to be banifti’d out of the Recipe or Fellowfhip of Diafcor- dym$though but a Scruple or half a Dram of Honey for a common Dofe is to be found I 2 in