Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the fourth edition of the Latin. By Peter Shaw.

Date:
1746
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the fourth edition of the Latin. By Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION VII. DECOCTIONS. Decodium album. White DecoBion. TAKE of calcined Hart’s-horn, an ounce; Spring-water, three pints ; boil them together till only a quart remains behind ; to which, without {training, add an ounce of • Cinnamon-water, made without Spirit, and two drams of white Sugar; and mix them to¬ gether. m . * * % Decodtum album compofitum. Compound White DecoBion. Take of burnt Hards-horn, fix drams; Crab’s-eyes, three drams; Roots of the greater Comfrey and Tormentil, of each two drams; Spring-water, three pints ; boil them toge¬ ther, fo that there may remain a quart of li¬ quor, when (trained thick; to which add an ounce of Cinnamon-water, made without