Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1792
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Credit: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or grains of opium, we fliall pafsover this clafs of medicines very flightly. Japonic Confeclion. Take of Japan earth, three ounces ; tormentil root, nut- meg, olibanum, of each two ounces j opium diflblved in a fufficient quantity of Lifbon wine ; a drachm and a half j fimple fyrup and conferve of .rofes, of each fourteen ounces. Mix and make them into an electuary. This fupplies the place of the Diafcordium. The dofe of this electuary is from a fcruple to a drachm. CONSERVES AND PRESERVES. TpVERY Apothecary's fhop was formerly fo full of thefe preparations, that it might have palled for a confection- er's warehoufe. They pofTefs very few medicinal properties, and may rather be clafled among lweetmeats than medicines. They are fometimes, however, of ufe, for reducing into bolufes or pills fome of the more ponderous powders, as the preparations of iron, mercury, and tin. Conferves are compofitions of frefli vegetables and fugar, beaten together into an uniform mafs. In making thefe preparations, the leaves of vegetables muft be freed from their ftalks, the flowers from their cups, and the yellow part of orange-peel taken oft with a rafp. They are then to be pounded in a marble mortar, with a wooden peftle, into a fmooth mafs; after which, thrice their weight of fine fugar is commonly added by degrees, and the beating continued till they are uniformly mixed; but the conferve will be bet- ter if only twice its weight of fugar be added. Thofe who prepare large quantities of conferve generally reduce the vegetables to a pulp by the means of a miil, and afterwards beat them up with the fugar. Conferve of Red Rofes. Take a pound of red rofe buds, cleared of their heels; beat them well in a mortar, and, adding by degrees two pounds of double-refined fugar, in powder, make a con- ferve. After the fame manner are prepared the conferves of orange-peel, rofemary flowers, fea-wormwood, of the leaves of wood-forrel, &c. The conferve of rofes is one of the moft agreeable and ufeful preparations belonging to this clafs. A drachm or two