The friendly physician. A new treatise: containing rules, schemes, and particular instructions, how to select and furnish small chests with the most approved necessary medicines; and full directions how to apply them. To which are added many excellent receipts for particular disorders / [Francis Spilsbury].

  • Spilsbury, Francis
Date:
1773
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Credit: The friendly physician. A new treatise: containing rules, schemes, and particular instructions, how to select and furnish small chests with the most approved necessary medicines; and full directions how to apply them. To which are added many excellent receipts for particular disorders / [Francis Spilsbury]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t ( 46') dofe from twenty drops to fifty, or more, A fafe rnedicine. In order to furnifh thofe who may chufe ele¬ gant diiiillea Spirituous Waters, I recommend the following, >yhich may be kept in cornmon botdes, viz. SPIRITUOUS ALEXETERIAL WATER, Is tolerably pleafant, and is an Alexipharmic and Stomachic, fifed in Juleps, CARRAWAY W A TER. OR ANISEEQ COMPOUND. Are cordials In common ufe, good for the wind. SPIRITUOUS CINNAMON WATER, , Is an agreeable, grateful cordial water, it is a great aftringent, and good in fluxes. - N.B. It is' hard to get good Cinnamon Bark, as the Dutch frequently draw the oil out firft, before it comes over ; for this reafon I have often recommended the Caffia, for a Spirituous VWater, which, when good, makes an agreeable water. • AROMATIC WATER; ORA QJU A M I R A B I L I S. Take Cinnamon two ounces, frefh YeUow Rind of Lemons, and Angelica Seeds each one ounce, ' Mace