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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    Jhould be diflill'd in the beginning of the fer¬ mentation^ without flaying till it is finijh'd *. The Waters diftiltd from Baulm and Rue re¬ quire to be cohobatedy or drawn over again from the frejh plant, to give them a due ftrength. IV. If any drops of oil float upon thejiirface of the water, they mufl be carefully taken off Aqua Cmnamomi line vino. Cinnamon Water without fpirit. To a pound of Cinnamon add twelve pints of fpring-water, and let them fteep together for two days: then draw off the water till it ceafes to run milky Aqua Cinnamomi cum vino* Cinnamon Water with Jpirit. Infufe a pound of Cinnamon in a Gallon of French Brandy, and diftil off the water as the former j|. Aqua * For if the fermentation be once finifhM, the oily part of the plant is become inflammable fpirit. f Otherwife ellential oil might come to be given inftead of a fimple water ; this therefore renders the water purer, and fitter for immediate ufe: but then it will not keep fo long, nor prove fo flrong as if the oil were fuffer’d to re¬ main a-top. t It is judicioufly prefcrib’d by Dr. Fuller, to add an ounce of white fugar-candy to each pint of this water, in order to prevent the feparation of the ponderous oil; for want of which addition, or fomething like it, the fmall cinnamon-water of the fhops will not long keep good. || If this water be required exceedingly fine, clear, and well flavour’d, it fhould not be drawn below proof, as the Diftillers call it; or no lower, or more aqueous than pure brandy: but as here order’d, it feems defign’d to be drawn conft-