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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    Aqua Calcis, feu Benedifta. Lime-Water. Take a pound of Quick-lime, and a gallon of hot Spring-water; ftir them well together; afterwards fuffer the lime to fubfide, and pour off the clear liquor, which fhould be kept well flopp’d up from the air in a cafk. After the1 fame manner, a Lime-water is alfo made from calcined Oyfter-fhells, Cockie- fhells, &c. * Aqua Benedidla compofita. Take of the fhavings of the wood and Bark of Salfafras, two ounces; Nutmeg, three drams; fcraped Liquorice, one ounce; and of frefh Lime-water, two quarts: digefl them F 4 ‘ for * This is an excellent water for internal, as well as ex- ternal ufes ; it is not only approved of for inflammations, burns, cautaneous eruptions, the eryfipelas, old ulcers, gan¬ grenes, &c. but it is alfo famous for its virtues in catarrhs, the phthific, dropfy, diabetes, and particularly the fcitrvy in northern climates ; but how it comes to be eminently ferviceable in England, Holland, &c. againfl: fcurvy, and as remarkably detrimental in the fame diftemper in Italy, the fouthern parts of France, See, is what perplex’d fome eminent Members of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris; but is handfomely accounted for by the judicious Boerhaave, in hi$ New Method of Chemijlry, pag. 292, pRACT,