The Edinburgh new dispensatory : with explanatory, critical, and practical observations on each : together with the addition of those formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias, which are held in highest esteem in other parts of Europe ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched by the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimony, of mercury, &c. ; and copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis.
- Lewis, William, 1708-1781.
- Date:
- MDCCXCI [1791]
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Credit: The Edinburgh new dispensatory : with explanatory, critical, and practical observations on each : together with the addition of those formulae, from the best foreign pharmacopoeias, which are held in highest esteem in other parts of Europe ; the whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations, and enriched by the latest discoveries in natural history, chemistry, and medicine ; with new tables of elective attractions, of antimony, of mercury, &c. ; and copperplates of the most convenient furnaces, and principal pharmaceutical instruments ; being an improvement upon the New dispensatory of Dr. Lewis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![taken to ten grains and upwards, it never fails to produce a mild dia- phorefis, without at all heating or giving any uneafinefs ; that on the contrary, it eafes pain, raifes the fpirits, and that after the fweat breaks out the patient ufually falls into a rcfrefhing deep; that he ne- ver met with any hylterical perfon, how averfe foever to perfumes, but could take it in the form of a bolus, without inconvenience. To this paper is annexed an account of fome farther extraordinary effectsof mufk obferved by another gentleman. Re- peated experience has fince confirm- ed its efficacy in thefe diforJers. The dole has fometimes been in- creafed, particularly in coiwulfive diforders, to the quantity of a fcru- ple or half a dram every three or four hours, with two or three fpoon- fulsof the mufk julep between. The julep is the only officinal preparation of it. It is combined with opium in tetanus, and with mercury in ra- bies canina. It is not improbable, that we are often difappointed of the good ef- fects which this medicine might produce, from the mufk with which the lhops are fupplied being previ- adulterated. MYROBALANI. Myrobalans, dried fruits brought from theEaft-Indies; their outward part freed from the l'lone. Five kinds of myrobalans were formerly directed as officinals: all of them are fnppofed to be the pro- duce of the fame tree, but its bota- nical defcription is not yet afcer- tained. All the myrobalans have alow de- gree of purgative virtue. They have alfo an aftringent quality, difcover- able by the tafte, from their ufc a- mong the Indians for tanning lea- ther, and from their ftriking a black colour with chalybeate folutions: in *33 confequence of this, they are fuppo- fed to ftrengthen the bowels after theiroperation as a cathartic is over. Nevcrthelefs their purgative virtue is fo inconfiderable, that practition- ers have for a long time laid them entirely afidc with that intention; and the college of Edinburgh, as well as that of London, has now rejected them from the catalogue of officinal fimples. MYRBHA [Lond.Ed.] Cum- vii re fin a. Myrrh ; gum refin. Myrrh is a concrete gummy re- finous juice brought from the Eaft Indies, in glebes or drops, of various colours and magnitudes. The beft fort is of a brown or reddifh yel- low colour, fomewhat tranfparent; of a lightly pungent, bitter tafte, with an aromatic flavour, though not fufficient to prevent its proving naufeous to the palate ; and a ftrong, not difagrecable fmell. The medical effects of this aromatic bitter are to warm and ftrengthen the vifecra : it frequently occafions a mild dia- phorcfis, and promotes the fluid fe- cretions in general. Hence it proves ferviceable in languid cafes, difeafes arifing from a fimple inactivity, thofe female dif- orders which proceed from a cold, mucous, fluggiih indifpolition of the humours, fupprefiions of the uterine difcharges, cachectic diforders, and where the lungs and thorax are op- prefTed by vifcid phlegm. Myrrh is likewife fnppofed in a peculiar man- ner to refill putrefaction in all parts of the body ; and in this light ftands recommended in malignant, putrid, and peltilential fevers, and in the fmall-pox; in which laft it is faid to accelerate the eruption. The prefent practice does not feem to expect any peculiar virtue from myrrh ; and it is now perhaps lefs employed than formerly. Some late writers](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21136580_0249.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
