The Edinburgh new dispensatory. Containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, the natural, pharmaceutical, and medical history, of the different substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions / By Andrew Duncan. Including translations ... of the new ed. of the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia ... 1805, etc.

  • Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832.
Date:
1806
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Credit: The Edinburgh new dispensatory. Containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica; or, the natural, pharmaceutical, and medical history, of the different substances employed in medicine. III. The pharmaceutical preparations and compositions / By Andrew Duncan. Including translations ... of the new ed. of the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia ... 1805, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sweet marjoram, Syrian herb-maftich. Lavender, of each, dried, one ounce. Reduce them together to powder, which is to be kept in a clofed phial. Ed. Take of The leaves of afarabacca, three parts. marjoram, Flowers of lavender, of each one part. Rub them together to powder. They are both agreeable and efficacious errhines, and fuperior to moll of thofe ufually fold under the name of herb fnuff. They are often employed with great advantage in cafes of obftinate headach, and of ophthalmias refilling other modes of cure. Taken under the form of fnuff to the extent of five or fix grains at bed- time, they will operate the fucceeding day as a powerful er- rhine, inducing frequent fneezing, and likewife a copious dit- charge from the nofe. It is, however, neceffary, during their operation, to avoid expofure to cold, PULVIS CHELARUM CANCRI COMPOSITUS. Loud, Compound Powder of Crabs Claws. Take of Crabs claws, prepared, one pound ; Chalk, Red coral, each, prepared, three ounces. Mix them. The invention of this formula mull be aferibed foleiy to the unphilofophical idea, that the fum of the powers of medicines was increafed by mixing them together; for the prefent powder is a mixture of three varieties of carbonate of lime, which, notwith- ftanding the immenfe differences of their prices, do not differ in their effe£ls. Off. prep.—Pulv. contrayerv. comp. Loud. Confcftio aromat. Land. PULVIS CARBONATIS CALCIS COMPOSITUS; olim Pulyis Cretaceus. Edin. Compound Powder of Carbonate of Lime, formerly Chalh Powder Take of Prepared carbonate of lime, four ounces ; Nutmeg, half a drachm ;