Magnacopia : a chemico-pharmaceutical library of useful and profitable information for the practitioner, chemist and druggist, surgeon-dentist, &c. &c. ; containing several hundred new forms, with comments and annotations on the pharmacopoeia, together with a variety of other information / by william Bateman.

  • Bateman, William.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Magnacopia : a chemico-pharmaceutical library of useful and profitable information for the practitioner, chemist and druggist, surgeon-dentist, &c. &c. ; containing several hundred new forms, with comments and annotations on the pharmacopoeia, together with a variety of other information / by william Bateman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIQUID CAYENNE. Take four ounces of finely powdered cayenne pepper, to which put equal parts of spirit of wine and water, to make a strong tincture; or, powdered cayenne pepper, four ounces ; powdered gum tragacanth, thirty grains; water, two ounces ; and sherry wine four ounces. Mixed together. Th is form of cay- enne may be made use of in preparing extem- poraneous sauce, as may also the crystallized. ZEST FOR GRAVIES. Take of powdered thyme, sweet marjoram* sage and savoury, of each two drachms, cay- enne in powder, half an ounce, angelica in powder, one drachm, and coriander seeds two drachms. To be well mixed together. Remark.—This zest is a great improve- ment upon Kitchener’s, and likely to become a decided favourite with the public.