Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page].

  • Page, John, 1699?-1779
Date:
1763
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Credit: Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sack. Shake them well together, and let them Hand two or three Days to fettle, and grow clear. Then pour it oh7 gently, to be quite fine. The full Dofe (half an Ounce) is for a Man, or Woman : But beft to begin with the half or two thirds; according to Age or Strength of Confti- tution. Observations. Common Glafs of Antimony, as fold at the Shops, though reckoned a very rough Medicine, is, I find, prefcribed in Difpenfatories from Two to Eight Grains: Theretore I (hall make the following Ob- fervations upon it. Firft, As I have made large Quantities of Glafs of Antimony, for Mr. Ward; fo I find a very effential Difference between what I made by the foregoing Procefs, and what 1 have bought in the Shops: Mine being of a brighter Red, much fofter, and not fo harfh and gritty in the Pulverifa- tion, and Levigation : Whence I imagine, that the Glafs of Antimony imported, is not prepared from pure Antimony, or not genuinely prepared. Secondly, I apprehend that, where it has been prefcribed, and given inwardly, it has only been powdered and lifted *, whereby it is not reduced to tJpe Hundredth Part- of the Finenefs to which it is brought by the aforefaid Levigation, if duly per¬ formed. It is well known to the Learned in Chy- pniflry, that, by trituration*, feveral rough Bo¬ dies may be rendered foft and fmooth: corrofive Mercury, by repeated Operations, is changed from a violent Poifon, to a fafe Medicine, frequently pre¬ fcribed, even for Children. I have found, by Ex¬ perience, that the Pill and Drop is a fafe and very efficacious Medicine, when prepared, as before directed. * See Quincy's Difpenfatory, on Trituration, Page 10, is. Ed. 1736.