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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    Radices Scorzonerre. Symphiti majoris, &c» Cortices Aurantiorum. Cit riorum. Limonum, &c* The Roots of Comfrey. Eryngo, - Ellicampane. Satyrion. Vipers-grafs, &c. The Peels of Citrons. Oranges. Lemons, &c. Nutmegs and Ginger are brought to us rea~ dy preferved from India. All kinds of Fruit, Flowers and Seeds are likewife preferved, either by means of a Syrup, or crufting them over with Sugar: but the Confeftioner’s art can hardly be admitted a part of Pharmacy. Iron alfo is a fubjed of this operation* Mars Saccharatus, Candied Iron. Take any quantity of clean filings of Iron, unprepared ; throw them into a brafs kettle, hung over a very foft fire; and, by degrees, pour to them twice their own weight of Sugar, boil’d to the confiftence of candy: keep the kettle in conftant motion, fo as that the fi¬ lings may be crufted over with the Sugar; care