The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Faithfully translated from the fourth edition. With useful notes on the materia medica and practical observations on the preparations both simple and compound ; To which are added, the prescriptions as well extemporaneous and officinal, in the use at the Royal Hospital / By W. Lewis.

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1748
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Faithfully translated from the fourth edition. With useful notes on the materia medica and practical observations on the preparations both simple and compound ; To which are added, the prescriptions as well extemporaneous and officinal, in the use at the Royal Hospital / By W. Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Caranna, the refin y. Cardamomum majusgreat¬ er cardamom ; the feed z. Cardamomum minus, lefj'er 'The [mail cardamoms, called cardamom 3 the feed a. jimply cardamoms in the jhops, C. B. Cardia- of the aromatic in it, refembling a mixture of cinnamon, ginger* and cloves. The white canella yields, upon being macerated and diftilled, an aromatic eflential oil, of a yellowifh colour, which fomewhat refembles in fmell the oil of cloves, and finks in water,. Canella is often ufed in the (hops for Winter’s bark, which it greatly refembles *, and to which it is not an ill fubftitute -j-. y Caranna, according to Geoffroy J, is a tenacious, refinous con¬ crete, while frelh dudtile like pitch, but hard and friable when it has been kept for any time, outwardly of an alh colour inclining to black, inwardly of an obfcure brown, or, according to Dale j|, of a pitch colour, of a bitterifh, refinous take, a little like myrrh, and of a fragrant fmell while burning. It is brought to us from New Spain, and other parts of America, in little maffes rolled up in leaves of flags. It fhould be chofen frefh, of a fragrant fmell, free from other reflns or impurities. Dale, Geoffroy, and fome other writers, agree in this defcription of caranna ; but I have never met with any which has come up to it: the forts which I have feen have rather refembled florax than myrrh, both in take and fmell, and appeared outwardly of a dark brownifh colour, and, upon breaking, of a brown with a call of red, variegated with irregular white ftreaks. z The greater cardamoms are brought to us from java, but are rarely to be found in our Ihops. Some fubftitute in their room grains of paradife ; others the true amomum. This fort of cardamom feed is angular, of a dark brown colour, an aromatic fmell, and a hot biting tafte, contained in oblong triangular pods, about an inch in length. a Lefler cardamoms are fmall, brown, angular feeds, of an arc- * Daleei pharm. p. 300. -j- Geoff, ubi fupra, p. 174. Miller, lotan. off. p. 105. % Ubi /up. p. 5 30. || Ubi/up, p. 324. C jiutitf