No 1 The Epulotick Ointment Ointment against Herpus Tetterous Ouzings ꝶ Calamine and Yallow Wax āā ℥iv Oil Olive ℥vi Mixt togeather for an Unguent This is Cooling and drying and are Ordered against a Herpus or Tetterous Ouzing of a Sharp Serum thro' the Skin but in many Cases such things are to be Used with Great Caution by Cooling too fast endangers Mortification Banyer No 2 Unguentum Pforicum Or the Ointment for the Itch Ointment against ye Itch ꝶ Hogs Lard tt iv Flowers of Sulpher & Sulpher Vive of āā ttss Cloves Powderd ℥iv mix all together into an Ointment. Breakings Out This is the Common Ointment in ye Itch and all Cutanious Foulnesses It hardly ever fails of Answering it end if Continued long enough by anointing every Night the Parts which Brake out and Wearing the same Linnen all the Time Two or 3 Weeks is as Little a Time as can be depended upon it smells rather Strong it would not be amiss if while this Unguent is Useing they Would drink ye Decoction Pforicum for which See No 24 Banyer No 3 Unguentum ad Scabiem or Ointment for the Itch Ung for Itch Scabs ꝶ of Ceruse ttss Lithrage of Gold ℥ij BurntAlum Mercury Sublimate aa ℥iss Venice Turpintine ttss Lard ttij make it into an Ointment. This Cures the most Obstinate Itch and all Sorts of Scabs or Cuticular Eruptions of the Body Banyer No 4 Unguent Calamine or Cerate Ointment for Burns or Scalds & Frettings Anodine & Digestive Take may Butter unsalted White Wax of āā ttiij Oil Olive ttiv. Calamine Clenced and Levigated 2℔:12oz Melt the Butter & Wax with the Oil then Stir in the Calamine till it is too hard to let it Settle there is no better Ung' than this for Burns or Scalds if mixt with Oint of Elder it Cures all Frettings and [Ulcers] is Anodyne and Digests Banyer No 5 Unguent ad Lepram or the Leprosie Ointment Ointment for Leprosy & Deformi of ye Skin ꝶ of the Itch Ointment tti Oil of Sulpher ℥i mix them together This is very sharp and will Scour off those Sordid Incrustations which Deform the Skin in a Leprosy but it is not to be depended on for a Cure by it Self Banyer No 6 Unguentum Emolliens or the Emolient Ointment Ointment for Bruises ꝶ Ointment of Marsh Mallows ℥iv Oil of Turpentine 1 Ounce Mixt Attenuats Warms Stagnant Matter This is directed to be rubd upon any Bruised part thas is Indurated by Obstructed humours because it Attenuates and Warms the Stagnant Matter and helps to breath it out thro' the pores of the Skin or Renders it fit to be taken into the Circulating Blood Banyer No 7 The Febrifuge Tincture Drops for Agues or Fever ꝶ Peruvian Bark in powder tti Nutmegs & Cloves Bruised āā ʒij Salt of Tarter ℥ss Rectified Spirits of Wine ttiv mix and make a Tincture according to Art this makes a Rich Strong Tincture Sarviceable so such as cannot take the Bark in Substance being given from 20 to 200 Drops in any Convenient Vehicle at the Discretion of the proscriber Once in 3 Hours a very good Receipt Banyer No 8 The Emmenagoge Tincte. Drops to open Obstructions of the Menses where Steel Medicines Fail In Nervous disorders & Hypochondri and in a Delireum & Rhuematism ꝶ Roots of Black Hellebore ℥iv pour upon it Rectify'd Spirits of Wine ℥xij let it Stand in a Warm place till the Tincture is well drawn out the Dose from 30 to 40 Drops This is a most Powerful Deobstruent in Mentrual Obstructions and will many times prevail where Chalybeats are Tried in Vain It is good Likewise in many Nervous disorders particular Hypochondriacal and even in an Obstinate Mania it is found good in Rhuematisms & Gouts by encourageing Diaphorosis to Breath out much of the offending humour it is joined with Elixer propertis and Mynsichts Elixer of Vitriol both āā Quantahp for Worms Greensickness and Hypo Banyers No 9 Bolus against a Loosness Fluxes in the Belly ꝶ powder of Rhubard ʒss Diascodium without [Hi??] Quantity Sufficient for a Bolus This is to be given in any Fluxes of the Belly To Ease the Bowels whn they have been over-worked by Strong Physick that require to be Stopped as oft as the Ungency of the Symtom requires but it is generally directed at Night going to Bed the Opiate Confines the Rhubarb for Immediate Opperation this is frequently Used to settle the Bowels when they have been over Worked by Strong Purges it is a good Restorative Banyer 10 The Diuretic Bole To make a Great discharge of Urine of Service in Asthmas & Dropsical Habits ꝶ Squils ℥i powder of Elecampane ℥ss Oil of Anniseeds ʒss Dose 1 Dram Twice a Day In Dropsycal and Asthmatic habits it is an Admirable thing It greatly Scower those Viscidities that Stuff the the Vessels and Hinders due Circulation and takes them of by the Kidneys its Use is to be Complied with for some Time and will Generally make such disorders give Way Banyer 11 Decoction Febrifuge. Decoction in Winter ꝶ Lignt Lignum Vita Chips and Cammomile Flowers āā ℥ij Spring or River Water 4 Pints Boyl till half is Wasted in the Straind Liquor Dissolve Salts of Wormwood ʒij mix Intermittants with Rhuematism when Bark will fail In Winter Intermittents attended with Rhuematic Pains I have long Tryed it with Success when the Bark has Failed Dose 3 Ounce every 3 Hours when the fits are off Banyer 12 Electuary for the Piles Electary For Piles and to keep the Body open ꝶ Lenitive Electuary ℥iss Flower of Brimstone 3 Drams Syrup of Violets a Sufficient Quantity for an Electuary... Dose the Quantity of a Nutmeg Night & Morning it keeps the Body Moderately Lax and eases the Piles Banyer 13 An Electuary for the Jaundice Jaundice ꝶ Castile Soap ℥iss Steel prepared ʒiij Syrup of the 5 Opening Roots a Sufficient Quantity for an Electuary Dose the Quantity of a Nutmeg Twice a Day After due Evacuations this hardley ever fails the mosst Obstinate Jaundic if it be Naucious put a few Drams of Oil of Wormwood or any other Aromatic Oil Banyer 14 An Oil for Burns Burns or Scalds ꝶ Sugar of Lead ℥ss Camphire ℥ss Linseed Oil ℥ij Oil of Eggs ℥i mix it for Use This will alway be found an Anodyne and safe Medicine in the most painful Burns Applied by the means of a Feather and where the Wound does not go deep in the Muscular Parts may be continued to ye end of the Cure but there is no better Remedy for the first Applications to all sorts of Burn in any Part Especially the face Banyer 15 Anodyne Pill Opiate for Catarrh defluction of Rhuem Tickling Coughs A purified Opium Grain i Extract of Saffron Grains iiij Mix them This is a pleasent and Safe Medicine called an Opiate and may be given in all Cases where such helps are required but its Principal Use is for Catarrhs & Such like defluctions as [cross out] Cause Tickling Cough it greatly helps by Breathing Sweats Banyer 16 Pills for Catarrh Pills opening to stop the defluction of the Rhuem on the glands ꝶ Pill Ruffi ℈i fine Opium Grain j mix them into Pills Take them at Night going to Bed. As the Anodyne Pill in No 15 just before described are given to Stop the Defluction of Rhuem on the Glands of the Throat and to encourage it to discharge by the Skin these are intended to divert in Astmas Catarrhs and such as are inclining to Consumptions it by stool and are very good for the purpose these are given to Astmatic Constitutions and such as are Inclining to Consumptions Banyer 17 The Catchectic Pills in Ill Habits of Body profus'd Sweats Lax Fibres occationed by long Intermittent Fevers ꝶ Peruvian Bark in fine Powder ℥i Steel Prepared with Sulpher ℥ss Balsam of Tolu & Crabs Eyes āā ʒij Balsam of Peru 40 Drops Extract of Gentians a Sufficient Quantity Make them into a Mass of Pills Dose ʒss Dram Twice a Day Long Intermittant Fevers are aft. to leave Profused Sweats and Lax Fibres throughout the Whole Constitution for the Cure of Which these Pills were Designd and very seldom fails the end Take them in a Glass of Bitter Wine or Spaw Water You must be Cautious not to Drink any thing Sower of any Sort during the Course of taking them it may Cause Disorders Banyer 18 Pill against a Dropsy ꝶ of the Lesser Cataputia ℥i Succotine Aloes ʒiss Balsam Tolu ʒij make it into Pills in 15 or 20 Drops of Spirits of Wine the Virtue of these Pills may be preserved a long Time in an Oily Bladder they will be found of Admirable Use in Obstinate Dropseys Especially with very Robust Constitutions where few things are found Effectually Strong enough the Dose 12 Grains & Not exceeding 25 Grains Banyer 19 Elixer for Windy Ruptures Windy Ruptures ꝶ Spirits of Salt Armoniack ʒij Oil of Juniper Berries 20 Drops Chymical Oil of Cloves 8 Drops Elixer Properties ʒiij Mix This was a prescription of a very Eminent Physician and very Successfully Used in the Cure of those disorders being either given to Children or Adults being given from 1 to 40 Drops in Sack or White Wine twice every day Banyer 20 Emplaisterm ad Hernium or a Plaster for Ruptures Rupture plaister a Good one A Strengtening Plaster ꝶ Black Rosin ℥ijss Venice Turpentine ℥iss Balaustin flowers & Dragons Blood finely Powder'd āā ʒiss Chymical Oyl of Carraway Seeds ʒx Mix and make into a Plaister Dr Frane Dedker gives vast Encomiums of this plaister & I myself have found this preferable to all other plaisters as what is called a Strengthner and Good in Ruptures Banyer 21 Emplastr Lumbare or Plaster for the Back A Plaster for Weakness in the Kidnies and good for ye Whites in Women ꝶ Diachylon Simple or de Minic ttss to which when Melted add the best Frankenanse ℥ij & of Bole Armoniack ℥iij Mix This Spread upon Leather pretty thick is to be Applyd to the small of the Back to be continued as long as it will Stick for Weakness in the Kidneys it does Great Sarvice and very good for the Whites in Women but to some it Occations such Intolerable Itching as to make it Difficult to keep on Banyer 22 Æthiopick Powder A powder to be taken for Braking out as Scabs Tatters Itch Laprocy &c ꝶ Æthiops Mineral prepared [crossed out] without fire ttss Crude Antimony tti make them into a fine Powder the Dose ʒss three times a day with a Draught of the Decoction Liberans See No This is an Admirable Remedy and of Great Efficacy in all Cutaneous Foulnesses as Scabs Itch Leprocy Herpes and the Like and especially if the Eruptions be Annointed with the Unguent Pforic that is the Ointment for the Itch See No 2 and the Patient be first Bled and Purged with Calomel Drinking the Aqua Librans Plentifully se No at the same Time Banyer 23 A Aqua Liverans A Decoction good where dryers are Necessary as where ye blood is Foul and full of Humors and wants Sweetening Good in a Diabetes ꝶ of the Shavings of Sassafras without the Bark ℥ij Lignum Guaiacum without the Bark ℥i Liquorice Roots 3 Ounces Coriander Seeds Bruised ʒvi Infuse them Cold in 1 Gallon of Lime Water for 2 or 3 Days This is very is very drying and therefore very good in all Cases that require Absorbants and Sweeteners Especially in all Veneral Affections after Salvation it will Assist much in the Itch and all Foulnesses which Lodge upon the Skin it is good in Diabetes it may be drank at discretion and Ought to be Used for some Time Banyer 24 Decoction Pforicum a Decoction against the Itch A Great Cleancer of the Blood good in a Scorbutick Habit ꝶ of the Leaves of Ragwort Fumitary of each 3 handfuls Liquorice Root ℥i Boyl them in 6 Pints of Water to 3 Pints and Drink 6 Ounce Twice a Day this is to be depended upon for a Good Cleaner of the Blood and Proper for all Scorbutick Habits but it is too Bitter to be Grateful to Most Persons (Banyers Dispensotary) 25 The Scorbutick Decoction A Decoction to be Used in a Dropsy after the humours are purged of and to prevent a Relapse and to Strengthen ye Stomach ꝶ of Common & Roman Wormwood of each 1 handful of Agrimony Carduus & the tops of the Lesser Centaury each 2 handfull of Gentian Root Sliced ℥i Horse Raddish ℥ij Boyl them in a Sufficient Quantity of Spring Water to 6 Pints to the Strained Liquor Infuse 1 Handful of Cammomile flowers for Use This is one of the Ingredients of the Decoctium Hydropicum In Dropsies it comes into Use after the Load of Humours have been forced of by Purges and the more Powerful Diureticks because it Confirm the Tone of the Fibres and prevents a Relapse it also fives such Strength to the Stomach to procure a good Appetite and helps Digestion Whereby so many Crude Humours are not Supplyd to the Blood to fill Symtoms of a Scury No 26 Infusio Paralytica or the Paralytick Infusion A Warm and Diuretic ꝶ Horse Redish Root Sliced thin an Mustard Seed Bruised āā ℥iv Infuse them in 4 Pints of Boiling Water for 24 Hours Strain for Use Infution for Parilitick and Rhuematic Disorders Drink half a Pint twice a Day this is not only Diuretic but much Warmer than some Medicines and therefore is not only Used to Cleanse a way by Urine [what] any thing that Lodges upon the Fibres so as to Spoil their Offices but also to give them a due Warmth which in paralytick Cases they are Destitute of it ought to be kept Close Stopped because it otherwise would by its Volatillity Spoil & Grow Vapid in Rhuematisms this is Used if the Limbs Swell with Pain it does Sarvice Banyer 27 Decoct Hydropicum or The Hydropick Diet Drink Dropsy ꝶ of the Paralytick Infusion see No 26 and the Scorbutick Decoction as No 25 of āā 1 Pint mix them for Use Good for Dropsy's the Dose 10 Ounces twice a Day Banyer 28 Pills for the Menses to Provoke or Female Pills Menses to Provoke ꝶ Pill Bennedict as made by the London or College Dispencetory ʒij make it into N B this is Pill Benedic is Bennits Pills in Dr Fullers Medicines 24 Pills the Females are to take One Pill over Night and 2 in the Morning a Day or Two before or at the Time their Menses should be upon them they must take them 1 at Night & 2 in the Morning until they Perform their Office they help the Obstructions of the Menses very much and is now the Common Practice or what is most Commonly Used this was told me by Mr Porter Surgeon & Servt at Mr Bettisons in the Year 1765 may Drink Penneyroyal Tea with it 29 Decoctum Traumaticum or the Traumatick Decoction A good Pectoral in Distempers and decays of the Lungs ꝶ Ground Ivy called also Gill Scabious Colts Foot āā 2 handfuls Hysop 1 handful Elecampane Root ℥i Liquorice ℥iv Agrimony 4 handfuls Boyl them in a Sufficient Quantity of Common Water to 1 Gallon then Strain out for Use Dose 4 Ounces at Discretion This is a Good Pectoral and is Directed in all Distempers and Decays of the Lungs or any of the Viscera and is Used as common Drink Banyer 30 Lucatellus's Balsam A Balsam to be Used in Inward Ulcerations and Outwardly as a Digestive ꝶ Fine Oyl Olive Venice Turpentine āā ℥iv Yallow Wax ℥iss Melt them togeather add Dragons Blood in fine Pounder 4 Scruples mix into a Red Balsam This is much Better than what is Directed in the College Dispensetory though much Cheaper and easyer Made it is Used internally in all manner of Suspitions of Ulcerations and Externally as a Digestive Banyer This Used in St Thoms Hospital Inwardly and Outwardly Good for Piles Wounds on the Nerves Balsam of Sulper with Turpentine as is made in Bates Dispensitory is much Used in St Thom's Hospital both internally and in Dressings for the same Purpose, Being applyed to the most Painful Piles it Gives ease beyond any other Remedy either by it Self or mixt with Ointment Populien and for all Wounds of the Nerves & Tendonous Parts it is if Apply hot Excellent Banyer 31 The Balsamick Electuary An Electuary in Destempers of the Breast & Lung and Inward Bruises ꝶ [Lucall] Lucatellus's Balsam ℥iv Red Sugar Candy ℥ij Syrup of Balsam a Sufficient Quantity to make into an Electuary This is Given in Distempers of the lungs and Breast and in all Susspitions of Inward Ulcerations also upon any Accidental Bruises Dose the Quantity of a Nutmeg 2 or 3 Times a Day with a Draught of the Traumatick or Pectoral Decoction after each Dose Banyer The Traumatick Decoction Se No 29 32 Elect Bechic an Electuary for a Cough An Electary for a Common Catarrhal Cough a Good & Cheap One ꝶ Conserves of Red Roses ℥ij Olibanon and Mastick in fine Powder āā ℈ij Balsam of Peru 5 Drops Syrup of Diacodium as much as is Sufficient to make it into an Electuary the Thickness of Honey The whole Materia cannot afford a Better Medicine than this for the Purpose for which it is Prescribed I mean the Common Catarrhal Cough the Method of taking it is take a Large Spoon full at Night Going to Bed or any Time when the Cough is Troublesome Banyer 33 The Steel Electuary A Warming Invigourating Electary in ꝶ Consarves of Roman Wormwood tti Candyd Ginger ℥ij powder of Steel ttss Syrup of Steel Obstructions of the Menses & Decay'd Constitutions a Sufficient Quantity to make it into an Electuary this is orderd in a [Chlorofis] Cholorofis and in all Menstrual Obstructions Likewise in all Decays of Constitutions that have been Occationed by Accute Distempers or the Severity of Cure from some Chronick Cases it Greatly Warms the Blood, gives new life and Vigour to the juices Dose a Dram or Quanty of a Nutmeg 2 or 3 Times a Day Walking about or Exercise is of Sarvice (Banyer) 34 Electy Gonorrhœa ꝶ Pulp of Cassia fresh Drawn ʒij, Venice Turpentine ℥ij. Calomel, Crab Eyes, Salt purnelle, āā ʒi Volatile Salts of Amber ℈iv make them up into an Electuary with a Sufficient Quantity of femelius Syrup of Marsh Mallow... This is a Peculiar Good Medicine in a Recent Gonorh Especially is weak or of a thin Habit of Body (this is famous Dr Walls Receipt) Dose Quanty of a Nutmeg twice or thrice a Day 35 An Elexiterial Bole ꝶ Venice Treacle and the Alexiterial Powder āā ℈i Syrup of Cloves a Sufficient Quantity to Make into a Bole This is taken in order to compose and Breath a Person after Cutting off a Limb or any other Opperation that is Attended with Extreem Pain and threaten a Fever and is repeated as often as Occations require Drinking se No 36 36 The Alexiterial Powder ꝶ the Powder of Crabs Claws Red Coral White Amber āā ʒiv Crab Eyes ʒij Contrayerva Root & Angelica Root in Powder āā ʒi Bole Armoniack ʒij mix into a Powder Dose half a Dram every 6 Hours This is the Common Proscription in all Cases attended with a Fever and is Continued untill it Raises a Diaphoresis or Terminates the Distemper by any other Critical Discharge this is preferable to many other Powders for this same Purpose though not so Costly Banyer 37 Calomel Bole ꝶ Calomel well Levigated Conserves of Roses aa ℈i Mix into a Bole This is the Usual Bole for Salivation which is Repeated as the Symtom Requires It is also Taken over Night and to be carried off next Morning by a Common Purg it is good in Cases that Require brisk Puring the Calomel draws the Humours to it in the Night and the Purg in the Morning Carries them off so if Worked off with Physick it will not Salivate Banyer Mr Porter says it may be made into a Pill the Calomel as above mixed with a Small Quantity of Conserves of Roses or the Calomel may be mixed up with the White Powder of Gum Arabic and then it will be hard N B it is not so Apt to Loosen the Teeth in hard Pills as Soft Boles where the Calomel Sticks to the Mouth all Mercuril Physick as Calomel is of that Kind is apt to Loosen the Teeth the same Mr Porter Surgeon says Dr Barkams Pill was made for the Venerial Disease as No No 38 The Nephritick Electuary ꝶ of Electuary Lenitive ℥iij Venice Turpentine ℥i Cream of Tarter ʒij Mix them in to an Electuary Dose ʒi Twice a Day This Gently opens by Stool but is very forcing by Urine it is therefore order's in all Obstructions & Foulness of the Kidneys and Ureters and even in Gonerhœa's it is an Excellent Remedy and Principally Used in the Hospital for Such Purposes Banyer 39 An Anti-Rheumatick Electuary ꝶ Lenitive Electuary ℥iij Conserves of Hips ℥i Cinnabar of Antimony ʒvi [Crim] Cream of Tarter ℥i Vitriolated Tarter & Gum Guaiaccum of āā ʒij Powder of Jallap ʒss Dram and the Syrup of Roses Solution Sufficient Quantity for an Elecy. N B it is the Syrup of Roses Solutive to mix it up with Contrary Ingredient are so blended togeather in this Medicine as to make it Neutral as to heat and Cold Therefore is good in all Kinds of Rheumatisms and Old Aches or Pains .. take the Quantity of a Nutmeg Night & Morning till ... it Purges enough then to be laid a side for 2 or 3 days ... and then Repeat it as before till it Works again a very good prescripn says Banyer 40 The Stomach Elixir ꝶ Gum Benzoen ℥i Storax ʒvi Balsam Peru & Succotine Aloes āā ʒij ℈ij Red Myrrh Olibanon āā ʒij ℈ij Roots of Spanish Angelica & Tops of St Johns Wort āā ʒij ℈ij French Brandy ℥vi mix and make an Elixer According to Art In the first Infuse the Angelica Roots & St Johns Wort for 3 days in the Brandy afterwards put in all the Gums well Bruised lastly the Balsam of Peru then Set all in a Sand heat Strong Elixir which Given to the Quantity of 60 Drops in Warm Ale or Wine at Bed Time proves a powerful Medicine to Remove all Flatulent Pains from ye Stomach as also Hypochondriacal and Hysteriacal Disorders it is also esteemed a Good Vulnerary and Used frequently in the Cure of all fresh Green Wounds which Seldom fails of Curing at One or 2 Dressings Banyer 41 A plaister against Bruises ꝶ Simple Dyachylon Paracesus Plaister of āā ℥i Powder of fine Bole ʒi Powder of Gum Olibanum & Dragon Blood āā ʒss mix & make a Plaister This plaister will cure all Bruises of the flesh that are not too much swelld and Liable to be discussed or Repelled it is also an Excellent good Application to a Straind Joint or Fractur'd Bone in the Winter Season the famous Mr Dod the Surgeon was the Author of it (Banyer) 42 The Febrifuge Plaister ꝶ Peruvian Bark in fine Powder ℥i Venice Turpentine [in] Quantity Sufficient to make 5 Plaister on which Sprinkle Camphire ʒij these 5 Plaister are commonly applied to the Wrists Navels and on the Soles of the feet of Young Children they are Good in Intermitants where the Bark cannot be taken inwardly they should be Renewed every other Day (Banyer) 43 The [Rupt] Hysterick Plaister ꝶ straind Galbanum ʒiij Gum Ammoniac and Taccamahae both Straind āā ʒij Assa Fætida ʒi mix and make a plaister this is to be applied to the Navel of Women and is inferior to none Banyer 44 The Anti-Rhuematick Purging Infusion ꝶ of the Wood & Bark of Guacacum āā ℥i Being well Bruised Boild them in three pints of Spring Water to ℥xviij then Strain it off and in the [T] Strained Liquor put Sena Clean Pick't from the Stalks ℥i Liquorice Root Sliced ℥ss the Best Cinnamon Bruised ʒiij Infuse these for 6 Hours in a Vessel Close Stopped or Coverd in a Gentle Heat then Strain it off for 4 Doses This is an Admarable Purge in the Rheumatism which being given in Bed lying 2 or 3 Hours after Seldom fails of Raising a Plentiful Sweat and afterwards moving the Body 4 or 5 Times in Middling Constitutions but in a Strong Constitution 2 or 3 Drams of Syr of Buckthorn may be added (Banyer) 45 Plaister for a Ganglion ꝶ of Strained Galbanum ℥i Mercurius Dulcis ʒij Mix into a Plaister - this Seldom fails of Curing Ganglions and discussing old Glandulous Tumours that are without Inflamation Banyer 46 Stomach Draught ꝶ Barley Cinnamon Water ℥i Juice of Lemon ℥ss Salt of Wormwood ℈i mix for a Draught This is Given in Vomiting and is to be Repeated after each Vomiting but it is so Effectual as it Seldom requires much Repeating 47 Cordial Julep ꝶ Compound Scordium Water ℥viij Treacle Water & Plague Water āā ℥ij Syr of Cloves Sufficient Quantity to Sweeten it This is prescribed in all Kinds of feavours and is more Effecatious than the Juleps Used in Common Practice 3 or 4 Spoonfuls may be repeated every every 2 or 3 hours till some Cresis Appear and the Distemper abates 48 A Julep to be taken in a fever ꝶ Barley Water 3 Pints Treacle Water ℥vi Syrup of Juice of Lemmons ℥iv mix tinto a Julep This is Directed to be a Common diluter and is orderd to be Drank Liberally in all Inflamatory fevers (Banyer 49 The Pleuretick Infusion ꝶ Fresh Horse Dung ℥vi Penney Ryol Water ℥xij Treacle Water ℥iv Infuse them Warm to the Straind Liquor add Mithridate ʒij White Sugar Quantity Sufficient to Sweeten it Dose half a Pint twice a day This is a Good Medicine for the Purpose it is intended and will frequently Procure ease when no other means will take place if the Dose be Noisome may take less and Repeat it oftener it is orderd in Distempers of the Breast that are not True Pleurecys & does great Sarvice as in a [crossed out] Peripneumony and in Asthmas the Common Pectoral Drinks are not to be compair'd to it (says Banyer 50 A Saline Julep ꝶ Salt of Tartar prepared without Nitre ʒi fine Loaf Sugar ℥i Common or Pepper Minth Water & Barley Cinnamon Water āā ℥iv Sydenhims Liquid Laudanum 60 Drops Mix and make a Julep In Autumnal Irregular Intermittents Attended with enormous Vomiting and Loosenesses this is an Experienced and Approved Medicine and Seldom fails of Stopping both effectually Promoting Sleep and a Plentiful Sweat and either by these means entirely throw off the Fever or pave a Way for the Bark to be given with the greatest Success & Safety the Dose is 4 Spoonful to an Adult person & to be repeated ever 2 Hours so long as you se Occation 51 The Liquid Laudanum ꝶ Cloves Cinnamon Mace ʒss Salt of Tartar Grains 17 Opium ʒvij Infuse these in 1 Pint of Canary for 14 Days then Avapourate the Liquor so as to waste 1 third of it then then put it up for Use you must Strain it before you evaporate Dose 30 Drops 52 The Solid Laudanum ꝶ Opium Sliced thin ℥i Canary ℥iij Salt of Tarter Grains Xviij Dissolve them then Strain out the Liquor and a Vapourate it to the Consistance of Honey to which add Long Pepper Ginger each [ʒij] Grains 10 to 12 Volatile Salts of Hartshorn ℈iij Chymical oil of Aniseeds Cloves and Nutmegs āā ℈ss make into a Mass for Use Dose Grain 1 or 2 these are both Good Medicines and much Preferable to others (Banyer) 53 The Antiemetick Mixture ꝶ Fresh Juice of Lemons 6 Ounce Salt of Wormwood ʒij mix them togeather if this is not mixed in a Large Vessel & Great Care taken it will [it] be so Violent as to throw it over it is very Good for the Purposes it is Directed to take 3 or 4 Spoonful at a Time an Repeated after every ... Vomiting till it Stops (Banyer 54 Vulnerary Balsam ꝶ Oil of Juniper & Spirits of Turpentine āā One Quarter of a Pint Best Virginia Tobacco ℥iss infuse them a Week in a Gentle Heat this was a favourite Medicine with R R Bishop More not only to Cure Green Wounds but also Ulcers very Speedily most in about 24 Hours 55 Dietick Decoction ꝶ of Guacacum Wood & Bark āā tti Liquorice Root ℥xij Coriander Seed Bruised ℥ij Boil them is 6 Gallons of Spring Water to 4 Gallons But while it is Boiling add 2 Ounces of Mezereon Root This is Used [in] as an Ordinary Sweetener in any Course of Alteratives and Likewise for all Stuborn cutanious Erruptions and Scropulous Swellings Leprosy & Pockey Tetters it is owing to the Mezereon Root which he highly extols in these Distempers 56 Elder Oxymel ꝶ Flowers of Elder 1 handful Boyl them in 1 1/2 Pint of Water to the Strained Liquor add White Wine Vinager ℥iv Verjuice ℥vi the best Honey ttij Boyl up to the Consistance of Syrup This is given to help Expectoration and is very effectual to Break away the Obstructions of the Breast which Occations Asthma's & Cough's 57 The Diuretick Pill ꝶ Venice Soap ℥i Oil of Anniseed 32 drops Beat them into a Mass and make 10 Pills out of every Dram to be Rolled up with Powder of Crabs Eyes These are very Effecatious in all Obstructions of the Unary Passages and are also very detergant as to be of Great Sarvice in any foulness of the Viscera so they are not only of Sarvice in the Gravel & Stone but in the Jaundice & Asthma's in the most Obstinate Cases they are Orderd with the Greates Certainty & Success Doses 3 to 5 Pills 2 or 3 Times a Day the Patient Drinking Proper Deluters at the same Time (Banyer) 58 The Ecpractick Pill ꝶ Hiera Piera ℥i Salt of Steel ʒi Syrup of Steel a Sufficient Quantity to make them into Meddlings Pills take 6 or 7 Pills every Day These are directed in Gross Habits of Body that are Contracted either from Slothfulness of Life or Poor Gross Diet where the Stomach & Viscera begins to be Stuffed up with such Vescidities as Great Dropsys & Asthma's and many other Chronick Disease they Purg Gently and are particularly Good a Chlorosis and likewise likewise in Hypochondriacal Affections (Banyer 59 Pills agaist the Jaundice ꝶ of Turmerick Root Steel with Sulpher prepared āā ℥ij Pot Ashes ℥ss Syrup of the 5 Opening Roots a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a due consistance for Pills They are very Opening and not only of Sarvice in the Jaundice but in all Cases from Obstructions and Particularly they Opperate so Powerfull by Urine as to Carry all before them which Lodges in its Passages The whole Habit is likewise Cleansed by them & a Cachexy may by their Use be converted into a Sound Hale Constitution (Banyer) 3 Middling Pills are orderd for a Dose twice a Day 60 Pectoral Pills Coughs and Comsumptive Habits ꝶ Elicampane & Liquorice Root Powder'd āā ℥ss Powder of Saffron ʒi Balsam of Sulpher annisated a Sufficient Quantity to make into a Mass of Pills of Which 3 is a Dose twice a Day These are given in Ordnary Coughs in Consumptive Habits and in all Distempers of the Breast they are Both Cordial & Detergent whereby they not only Raise the Spirits but Cleanse the Vessels Promote Expectoration and ease the Breath (Banyer) No 61 Powder against Spitting Blood Blood Spitting ꝶ of Horse Hoofs Dried ℥ij Sugar of Roses ℥i make them togeather into a fine Powder the Doses is ʒss ever 6 Hours in any Convenient Vehicle (Banyer) 62 A Styptick Powder Blood to Stop ꝶ Roman Vitriol Calcind to a Whitness ℥ss Oil of Sulpher Prepared with the Bell ℥i mix and in a Sand heat Slowly evapourate till it comes to a Reddish Grey Powder which while Warm Levigate on a Porphyry Stone then put it into Bottles which keep Close Stopped this is an Excellant Styptick but is only Used Outwardly it Used to be Sold for [10/6?] Ounce 63 An Ointment for Carbuncles Carbuncles Pimples Ulcers to Digest ꝶ Bassilicon ℥ss Venice Turpentine ʒij Venice Treacle ʒi and with a little Crown Soap make into an Ointment this proves a Digestive in Carbuncles and the most Malignant Ulcers when other Medicines fail (Banyer) 64 Spts of Mindereri ꝶ any Quantity of the Volatile Alkaline Salts of Salt Ammoniac a Gradually Pour upon it Distilled Vinegar till the Effervescence Ceases Occationally Stirring the Mixture to promote the Action of the Vinegar on the Salts This Neutral Spirit has been for some Time held in Considerable esteem and Successfully employ'd as a Deobstruent and Diaphoretic and may be made Diuretic if Given in a large Quantity it Gently Loosens the Belly the Dose for Children is 10 or 15 Drops in Tea for Persons Grown up from 20 to 60 Drops in Tea or any other Proper Vehicle PS the Salt Armoniac above is the Sort as is put in Little Bottles for the Pocket and Used Occationlly to Smell on when Sick of fainty Mr Porter says Salts of hartshorn would do as Well Put ʒi of the Salts to half a Pint of the Distilld Vinegar or you may Use Good Varjuice instead of the Vinegar No 65 Elixir Paregoric Asthma ꝶ of Flower of Benzoine ʒss Opium Straind ʒss Camphire ℈i Essential Oil of Annisseeds Grains 15 Rectified Spirit of Wine 1 Pint Digest and Strain Tickling Coughs Chincough This Excellantly Allays the Tickling which Provokes frequent Coughing at the same time opens the breast and gives great Liberty to Breathing It is given to Children against the Chin-cough &C from 5 Drops to 20 Drops Grown Persons from 20 drops to 100 in Fole foot or Colts foot or Liquorice or Mallow Tea (Quincey new Dispency) No 66 Elixer Salutis ꝶ Sena ℥ij Choice Rhubarb ℥i Sweet Fennel Seeds ℥i Juniper Berries ℥i Guaicum Shaving ℥i French Brandy 3 Pints Digest for 4 days Strain of the Tincture then add 4 Ounce of Powderd Sugar Candy This is a Good Carminative and Cathartic good for them who are Used to Drink Spiritous Liquors this is much the same as Daffys Elixer but better (Quncey ne Dispency) 67 Antacid Lozenges Heart Burning Sower Belching and uneasiness at the Stomach ꝶ of Prepared Chalk the White Sort ʒiv Canded Ginger ʒiij Cinnamon ʒi fine Sugar dissolved in Water a Sufficient Quantity that is to say a thick Surrup and make it into Lozenges these are called heartburn Cakes These 1 or 2 Taken Corrects the Sower Belching and uneasiness of the Stomach (Qunceys new Dessy 68 Anthelmintic Sugar Cakes Worm Sugar Cakes for Children ꝶ of Powderd Tin ʒss Fine Sugar ℥ss Rose Water a Sufficient Quantity to make into small Cakes These are for Worms in Children Dose according to their Age Repeat them 3 or 4 Morning togeather then Give a Purge (Qunceys new Disspeny 69 Sugar Cakes Purging and for Worms Or ꝶ Scammony Grains 4 Mercurius Dulcis Grains 4 Fine Sugar ℥ss Rose Water a Sufficient Quantity to make into Small Cakes This if it Requires Repeating must be taken every other Morning for Worms in Children accord to their Age & Strength (Qunceys New Disspency 70 Nerve Troches For Headach Vertigo Swimmering in the head Paralytic & Nervous Disorders ꝶ of Compound Spirits of Lavender 60 drops Oil of Cinnamon 4 Drops Fine Sugar ℥i Oil of Rosemary 4 Drops Florence Orrice Root in Powder ʒij Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth as much as will Reduce them into a Mass which is to be formd into Troches half a Scruple each One of these Troches taken occationally and Suffered to dissolve in the Mouth and Swallow'd are Sarvicable to such as are Subject to the headach Vertigos Swimmering in the head and Paralytic and other Nervous disorders (Qunceys new Diss'y) 71 Styptic Water Bleeding of the Nose and Wounds ꝶ of Blue Vitriol ℥ss Alum ℥ss Water ℥iv Boyl them until the Salts are Dissolved then filter the Liquor then Add ℈i of the Oil of Vitriol or 15 Grains This was Recommended by Sydenham to Stop bleeding at the Nose & other Hæmorrhages for this Purpose dip Cloths or Lint into it and Apply to the Place 72 Mercurial Pills ꝶ of Crude Quick Silver ʒiss Hard Extract of Guaiacum ʒiss Essential Oil of Sassafrass 20 Drops Turpentine a Sufficient Quantity Grind the Quick Silver with the Turpentine till they are Perfectly well Incorporated then add the other Ingredients and Reduce the Whole into a Uniform Mass make them into 40 Pills Two 3 or more for a Dose 73 ꝶ Mercurius Dulcis ℈ss Soft Extract of Guaiacum ʒi Essential Oil of Sassafras 10 Drops mix make them into a Mass for 20 Pills the Dose from 1 Pill to 6 74 ꝶ Mercurius Dulcis ℈ss Camphire ʒss Soft Extract of Guaiacum as much as is Sufficient to make them into a Mass for 20 Pills Dose from One to Six 75 ꝶ Mercurius dulcis ℈ss Venice Turpentine a Sufficient Quantity to make into 5 Pills for 5 Doses 76 ꝶ of Calcin'd Mercury commonly called Pracipitate per fe: Grains Two Thebaic Extract Grains Two Balsam of Peru a Sufficient Quantity to make Two Pills for 2 Doses 77 ꝶ Mercurius Dulcis ℈ss Crude Antimony finely Levigated ʒi Balsam of Peru a Sufficient Quantity to make into a Mass for 10 Pills the Dose from 1 Pill to 3 Pills 78 ꝶ of Mercurius dulcis Grains 5 Precipitated Sulpher of Antimony 5 Grains Socotorine Aloes Grains 15 Balsam Syrup Quantity Sufficient for 5 Pills the Dose One Pill NB These 7 last Prescriptions are taken from Quinceys New Dispensatory the General Use of Mercurial Medicines are mention'd at Large in Dispy. the 7 last Compositions of Pills (Viz No 72: 73: 74 75: 76: 77 & 78) are the most Certain and Effecatious and the safest of all the Mercurials we have met with and take place in very Obstinate Cases whether Scrophulous Leprous or Venereal these are the Pills which some of the Empirics have held Secret the have done Cures which have in Vain been expected from other Medicines... The Method of Managing these Mercurial Medicines as Alteratives to the Greatest Advantage is to give in small Doses every Morning and Evening Rather Prolong the Time in Giving the Pills than increase the Dose, The Patient should Keep Warm and Drink of Warm Diaphoretic Liquors as Infusions of Sassafrass Decoction of the Woods or Simple or Compound Lime Water or the Like... (Nevertheless there has been many Great Cures been done by them as Venereal Cutaneous disorders without ever Observing such a Regimen but it is the best to take Care 79 Pill Roborantes or Strengthing Pills In a lax state of Fibres debilities of Nervous ꝶ Hard Extract of Peruvian Bark ʒi Salt of Steel ℈i Oil of Cinnamon 5 drops Balsam of Peru as much as will make them into a Mass for 20 Pills Take 4 Pills twice a Day System decays of Constitution Fluor Albus In a lax state of the Fibres debilitys of the Nervous System and some decays of Constitution this Composition is a most effectual Strengthener and Restoreative it sometimes takes place in Female Fluors and Inveterate Gleets of the other Sex which elude the force of common Remedies (Quncy New Dispeny) 80 Sperma ceti Pills Inward Bruises Women Injurd in Delivery Pleuricies Tickling Coughs ꝶ Sperma ceti ʒi White Sugar Candy in Powder ʒij Grind these well togeather till they are well mixed then Add Balsamic Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Mass of Pills Rub them all together with a Warm Pestle Dose 3 or 4 Midling sizd Pills 2 or 3 Times a Day These are good Vulnarys of Great Sarvice in Internal Bruises erosions of the Vicera Injuries caused by delivery pluricies Tickling Coughs &C (Qunceys Dy) 81 Purging Lozenges A Pleasent Purge for Children ꝶ Powder of Jallap ʒiij Scammony ʒij Calcined Hartshorn ℥ss fresh Organge Pills ʒiij Fine Sugar ℥viij: Roses Water as much as will form them into Lozenges or Small Cakes This Composition is a Useful & Agreable Purgative the Dose for Children is from ʒss to ʒi Grown up persons from ʒi to ʒv 82 Stomachic Troches ꝶ hard Extract of Peruvian Bark ʒi Oil of Cinnamon Oil Mint āā 10 drops Fine Sugar ℥iiij make them into Troches with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth These Troches are of Sarvice for Warming and Strengthening the Stomach expelling flatulencies and Promoting a good Digesting for these Purposes they are as affectual as any thing can be Contrived (Quency new Dispy) 83 Styptic Tincture ꝶ of Green Vitriol which is sometimes called Green Copperas Put in on a Fire Shovel and hold it over the Fire till it is Calcin'd into a Greyish White Stuff take of this ʒss and Put it to 1 Pint of French Brandy (such as has acquired a Yellow Colour in the Oak Cask) mix them well that the Spirits may grow Black then Pass it through a Strainer (this is Good for to Stop Bleeding outwardly or may take it Iwardly to half an Ounce in a Proper Vehicle Use from 20 Drops to half an Ounce if a Little Oak Saw dust was Steeped in ye Brandy it would make it more Dark the Styptic Tinctr of Helvetius is much ye same so is Eatons 84 Tincture Stomachica or Tincture for the Stomach ꝶ Raisins Stoned ℥iv Cinnamon ℥ss Carraway Seeds ʒij Lesser Cardamoms ʒij Clear from ye Husk Cochineal ʒij Proof Spirits 2 Pints Digest without Heat strain of the Tincture This is a moderately Warm Stomatic Tincture much pleasenter than Usquebaugh it may be taken with out any Vehicle from ℥ss to ℥i (Quinceys new Dissy) 85 Tinctura Succini or Tincture of Amber ꝶ of Yellow Amber ℥ss Rectifyd Spirits of Wine ℥v Oil of Tarter Per deliquim as much as is Sufficient to Reduce the Power'd Amber into a Paste which is to be gently exficcated then Power on the Spirits of Wine Digest in a Sand heat 6 or 8 days then Filture the Tincture This is an Elegant Preparation of Amber of a Grateful Balsamic Taste and fragrant Smell Boerhave Hoffman & others Strongly reccommend it in Dissorders Proceeding from a Lax State of the Solids and Dibility of the Nervous System in Suppressions or Stoppages of the Menstrual Discharge the Fluor Albus Seminal Gleets Rheumatick complaints and some kind of Epilepsies it is directed to be taken from 10 Drops to 100 in Canary or other Rich Wine 86 Simple Tincture of Valerian ꝶ Wild Valerian Root ℥iv Proof Spirits 2 Pints after due digestion Strain out the Tincture The Root should be Powdered it makes the Tincture of a Deep Colour & is Strong it is not so Powerful as the Root in Powder or made into a Bolus for Epileptic Dissorders the Dose is 1/2 Spoonfull to one or 2 Spoonful of the Tincture 87 Pills for Gonnerrhea ꝶ Pill exduobuss ʒij Resin of Jallap Grains 10 Powder of Scammony Grains 12 Calomel Prepar'd ʒi Syrup of Buckthorn a Sufficient Quantity to make the other Ingredients into 36 Pills Take One or Two every day Refrain from Drinking Malt Liquor and keep from Wet & Cold Weather Se No 88 (Porter 88 Electuary for Gonnerrhea ꝶ Lenitive Electuary ℥i Cream of Tarter ʒij Salt Prunella ʒij or Salt Petre will do Powder of Jallap ʒij Calomel Prepared ℈ij Gum Guaiaccum ʒi Balsam of Capebi ʒvi Syr of Violets a Sufficient Quantity to make them into an Electuary Take the Quantity of Nutmeg 2 or 3 Times a Week take it in a Morning if it Give above 2 or 3 Stools take less of it Drink Water Gruel this is Intended to Purg the Body Gently 2 Stool are enough Strong Physick is hurtful in those Cases over heats the Blood too much Observe the Pills No 87 is not to be took the Day as the Electuary is Taken but on other Days when the Electuary is not Used (Porter) 89 An Emulsion in Gonnerrhea's ꝶ Lime Water ʒiv Corrosive Sublimate 1 Grain Put it into the Lime Water if the Lime Water be good it will sink to the Bottom in Fleaks of a Yallowish Colour then take Powder E Cerrussa Comp ℈ Nix them if they are put into a Morter and Worked well with a Pestle they will mix this Put into a Bottle for Use when Physick has been Used and there is a Little Pain about the Yard Dip some Rags of Linnen in this Emulsion and apply to the Place and let them Lye to the Place (Porter) 90 Cooling Saline Mixture ꝶ Sal Nitre or what is called Salt Petre ℥ss Put it into 1 Quart of Water and Dissolve the Salt Drink half a Pint or a Pint of this in a Day if it will agree upon the Stomach this will Cool the heat of the Urine in a Gonnerrhea and is taken in Time will Prevent them having the Clap this is very good when People any Time are Troubled with making Scalding Urine it is very good to Cool the Blood (says T. Porter) 91 Alkaline Infusion ꝶ Salt of Tarter ℥ss Saffron ʒss Liquorice Root ℥ij Water 3 Pints Let them stand in a Warm Place for 8 or 10 Hours then Strain out the Liquor for Use this Infusion is of Sarvice for Lentor or Viscidity of Blood and juices the Consiquence of Obstructed prespiration and often Times the Orgin of Inflammatory Distempers it Allenuates thick humours promotes Preparation it is to be taken warm and in little Quantities at a Time but frequently Repeat 92 Bitter Infusion ꝶ Carduus Leaves dryed ℥i Common Water ℥xii Spirituous Orang Pill Water ℥iv Digest them without heat for 6 Hours then filture the Liquor thro Paper this is an agreable light Bitter sits easyer upon the Stomach Parhaps than any other Medicine and would be of Great Sarvice where the Grosser Bitters would not Agree on the Stomach (Qunceys New Disspeny) 93 Antiphthifical Tea ꝶ of Avens Root ℥ij Male speedwell ℥iss Ground Ivy ℥iss Liquorice ℥i Sweet Fennel Seeds ʒiij These Ingredients are to be cut Small and Bruised and Well mixt together Take half an Ounce of these Ingredients and Infuse them in 5 or 6 Tea Cupful of Boiling Water for a few Minutes in Consumptive Cases Take 1 Tea Cupful every Hour Sweetend with a Tea Spoonful of Honey after the same Maner may be made Other Tea 94 Decoction of Jepan Earth ꝶ of Jepan earth ʒij Spirituous Cinnamon Water ℥ij Syrup of Quinces ℥ij Common Water 1 Pint Boil the Jepan in the Water untill 1 Part out of 4 be wasted then Suffer the Decoction to Settle then Pour of the Clear into a Pot or Bottle then put to the Spirits & Syrup this Decoction is a very agreable and Useful Medicine in all Kinds of Fluxes that are not critical or Symptomatic and in a weak Lax State of the Intestines a Spoonful or Two may be taken every Hour or oftener thus managed it Produces better Effects than Taken in Large Doses 95 Decoction Febrifuge ꝶ Cammomile Flowers dried ℥ij Salt of Tarter ʒij Water 3 Pints Boil the Water with the Cammomile flowers until 1 Pint is Wasted then Strain out the Decoction and Dissolve the Salt in it In a thick Vissid State of the Blood and juices and in Obstructions of the Abdominal Viscera a Quarter of of Pint taken 3 or 4 Times a Day has sometimes removed Intermittent fevers when the Barks had been Tried in Vain 96 Aperient Apozem ꝶ Rhubarb & Madder āā ʒiij Salt of Tarter ʒij Water 3 Pints Boil them together for One Hour Strain out the Liquor then add to the Liquor 3 Ounce of Syrup of Ginger This is a very Powerful Aperient and Attenuating Medicine and is of Great Sarvice in Teterical and Hydropic Cases the Dose is 3 Ounces which may be repeated 3 Times a Day (Quincey 97 Laxitive Whey ꝶ Steep Fresh Damask Rose buds ℥i in 2 Pints of Whey let them lye all Night to Steep This opens Gently by Stool it is held in Great Esteem by some its Action might be Quickened and its Taste made more agreable by adding a little Salt of Tarter to it. 98 Bitter Ale ꝶ Gentian Root ℥iv Lemmon Peel fresh ℥iv Long Pepper ℥i Ale 1 Gallon let them Steep together without heat this is an Agreable Bitter Stomach Ale much Superior to the Common Purl Sold in London (Quincey New Dispency) 99 Alexipharmac Juleps ꝶ of Simple Alexeterial Water ℥vi Spirituous Alexeterial Water two Ounce Syrup of Clove july flowers ʒij mix them this is to Accompany the Use of Alexepharmic Powders and Bolus's 100 Rx Camphire ʒi Fine Sugar ℥ss Vinegar 1 Pint let the Camphor be Ground first with a Little Rectified Spirits of Wine and afterwards with the Sugar till they are Perfectly mixt then Pour on the Vinegar Previously made Warm This is a Medicine of Considerable efficacy and frequently Produces notable effects without Assistance of any other; Camphor thus Combind with Vegetable Acids Proves Sarvicable in Cases where this Warm Drugg would be less Proper and at the same Time is more agreable to the Palate and Stomach (Quinceys new Dissy) 101 Julep of Camphor ꝶ of Camphor ʒi Double Refind Sugar ℥ss Boiling Water 1 Pint Grind the Camphor with a Little Rectified Spirits of Wine until it Grows Soft and after that Grind it with the Sugar till they are Quite well mixt then Power in the Water by little & little & keep them as Close as you can conveniently let it Cool and Strain it through a Strainer it Rather loses its Streng by the Exhaling & is apt to hing on the Strainer this is Good in Cases where Camphore is Proper the Dose 1 or 2 Spoonful 102 Lime Water the Common or Simp ꝶ Quick Lime tti Water 1 Gallon the Water Should be put to the Lime Gradually Stirring it about with a Wooden Stick or Ladle then when the Lime is well Settled Powr of the Clear Liquid and Put it in a Close Vessel and let it be set by in a Cool Place and it must not be kept too long it will loose its Virtue Lime Water is frequently made of Oyster Shells Calcind that is Burnt to a White Powder Lime Water has been found of Great Sarvice in Scrophulous and Scorbutic Complaints & in some kinds of Alvine Fluxes (that is Griping fluxes of the Bowels) Female Weaknesses and other disorders proceeding from a Laxity and Debility of the Solids Particularly in Corpulent and Phlegmatic habits Dose 1 Quarter of a Pint 3 or 4 Times a Day taken Inwardly It is Used outwardly to Wash foul Ulcers Remarks it is good in Chronick disorders but Generally Promotes Urine but for the most Part it is apt to bind the Belly and sometimes occations Troublesome Costiveness unless this effect is occationally Provided against by Using Proper Medicines now and then to Prevent it it is of good Sarvice of Debility & Laxity of the Viscera in General in those of the Urine & Seminal Vessels it is Particularly recommended Care must be had not to exhibit this Medicine too Liberally in Bilious that is Choloric Constitutions or where the Person is... Emaciated or Lean or the Appetite Weak or at the Time of any Critical or Periodical evacuation as at the Monthly Terms in Women or any Violent Looseness of the Bowells its chief Use is in Most Sluggish & Corpulant Habits it has been of Great Sarvice in Disolving the Stone Lime Water made of Oyster Shells has Double the Power of that made Wth Lime 103 Lime Water Compound ꝶ Liquorice ℥i Sassafras Bark ℥ss Simple Lime Water as No 102 Six Pints Macerate without Heat for 2 days then Strain out the Liquor keep it Close Stopd 104 ꝶ of Guaiacum Wood shaved [℥viij] ttss Liquorice ℥i Sassafrass Bark ℥ss Coriander Seeds ʒiij Simple Lime Water as (No 102) 6 Pints Macerate without Heat for 2 days then Strain out the Liquor This Water has been used in the Hospitals under the Title of (Aqua Liberans) in all these Additions it Takes off the ill Flavour of the Lime Water and Sutes the Palate and Stomach Better and makes the Lime Water of more force (it is good for Cutanious Disorders and foulness of the Blood & Juices Take 1 Quarter of a Pint 3 or 4 Times a Day for some Time keeping moderately Warm during the Use se the Caution in No 102 105 Tincture Rosarum or Tincture of Roses ꝶ Red Rose Buds clear'd from the White heels ℥ss Strong Spirits (called Oyl) Oil of Vitriol ℈i Boiling Water 2 Pints & a half Double Refined Sugar Water with ℥iss first Mingle the Boiling Water with the Spirits of Vitriol in a Well Glazed earthen Vessel or Glass when the liquor is Cold Strain it & add the Sugar (Se No 106) 106 Tincture of Roses ꝶ Red Roses Cleard from the Heels ℥i Spirits of Vitriol ʒi Boiling Water 4 Pints White Sugar ℥iv Mix the Spirits of Vitriol with the Water then Infuse the Roses for 4 Hours then Filture the Tincture & add to it the Sugar it would be best to make it in a Glass or Stone Vessel the Vitriol is apt to Fetch the Glazing off from earthen Pots This is a Beautiful Red Tincture and makes a Grateful Julep in all Coolers & Subastringants it is well Suted for Drinking after Bolus's and Electuary of the Bark & makes a good Gargle (Quncey) 107 Tincture of Mint ꝶ of Simple Spearmint Water 1 Pint Spearmint Leaves Dried ℥i let these Steep togeather in a Close Vessel for 4 Hours or 6 then Strain the Tincture This has the Powers of the Mint very much and makes a Rich Tincture (Quncey 108 Vinegar of Roses ꝶ Red Roses Dryed and Clipt from the white Heels [℥?] Strong Vinegar half a Pint expose these to the [Sun] Warm Sun in a [Vessessel] Vessel for 40 Days then Strain out this is Use for Embrocating the Head that is Bathing the head with and does Sarvice in some kind of head Ach's (Quincey) 109 Alkaline Aloes Wine ꝶ any Fixed Salt ℥ij Succatine Alloes & Myrrh āā ʒi Salt Armoniac Purified ʒiss Mountain Wine half a Pint Macerate without heat for a Week or longer then filter the Wine thro' Paper This is the Elixer Proprietatis Helmont ij and is a Very good One, Helmont and others of an Opiniuon that this Use in a Proper Way would Prolong Life to the Last Limits it Opens Obstruction and Promotes evacuation by Almost all the Emuctories I dose of One 2 or 3 drams it will Increase the Uriny Secration if the Patient is kept Moderately Warm it Generally Proves Deaphoratic or Sudorific in Large Doses it Loosens the Belly 110 Tinctura Aromatica Aromatic Tincture from Quincey... ꝶ Cinnamon ʒi Lesser Cardamom Seeds freed from the Husks ʒss Long Pepper & Ginger ℈i Proof Spirits of Wine 1/4 [half] a Pint digest without heat then Strain out the Tincture This is a very Warm Aromatic too much to be given without dilution a Tea Spoonful or two may be taken in Wine or any other Convenient Vehicle in Languors & Weakness in the Stomach flatulencys and other Complaints it is of Sarvice 111 Tincture of Castor from Quincey & London Dispy ꝶ of Russia Castor Powderd ʒij Proof Spirits 1 Quarter of a Pint Digest for 10 days without heat & Strain out for a Tincture From Edinboro Dispency ꝶ of Russia Castor ʒiij Rectified Spirits of Wine One Quarter of a Pint Digest them in a Gentle heat for 4 days then Strain out the Liquor it has been Observed that in making these two Tincture that when it has not been set in a Warm place to Digest that it has not been so Strong But observe again that it is much Finer & has the finest Parts of the Castor and Rectify'd Spirits of Wine it is not so apt to get the Drops and Filth out of the Castor as Proof Spirits Tincture of Castor is of Sarvice in Nervous & Hysterick Disorders dose Dose from 20 to 40 Drops or more 112 Tincture Cardimums ꝶ of Lessor Cardamums seeds Husked ℥i Proof Spirits 1 Quarter of a Pint digest without Heat Strain the Tincture the Dose a Spoonfull or two it is a Pleasent Warm Cordial taken along with any Proper Vehicle such as Baum Tea &C 113 Tincture of Cinnamon ꝶ Cinnamon ℥iss Proof Spirits 1 Pint Digest without Heat & Strain the Tincture this is more Astringant than the Common Dishld Cinnamon Water it is Aromatic & a Good Cordial 114 Simple Tincture of Peruvian Bark ꝶ Peruvian Bark ʒi Proof half a Pint Digest & Strain the Dose [the] from a Tea Spoonful to an Ounce 115 Compound Tincture of Peruvian Bark ꝶ of Peruvian Bark in Powder ℥i Vengina Snake Root ℈ij Gentian ℈ij French Brandy almost 3 Quarters of a Pint let them Stand for 4 or 5 day then filture the Tincture these Substances having Joined the Bark promotes its Efficay in the Cure of Intermittants and not unfrequently are Absolutely Necessary In some ill Habits Particularly where the Juices are Sluggish and Tenacious the Vicera and Abdomanal Glands obstructed the Bark by itself proves unsuccessful if not injurious whilest given in Conjunction with Corobarants Stomatics & deobstruants it Rarely fails of due Effect Gentian and Snake Root are among the the best additions for this purpose to which is often joined Chalybeate 116 Medicines Tincture Saffron ꝶ English Saffron ʒi French Brandy ℥iss after digestion for three days Strain the Tincture of Use it is a good Alexipharmic 117 Fetid Tincture Assa fætida ℥ss Rectify'd Spirits of Wine One Quarter of a Pint digest and Strain it has the Virtues of the Asafadita it may be given from 10 to 60 drops it has been of Great Use for some Time 118 Tincture of Fuliginis or Tincture of Soot ꝶ of Wood Soot ℥ss Assafeotada ʒij Proof Spirits half a Pint digest & Strain it may be maid with Proof Spirits this Tincture is commended by Fuller in Hysteric Disorders likewise Epilepsies and Nervous disorders 119 Tincture of Guaiacum Volatile from Quincey ꝶ of Gum Guaiacum ℥ss Spirits Volatile Aromat Commonly Calld Salvolatily ℥iv or ℥v digest without heat in a Vessel Close Stopd aferwards pass it through a Strainer this is a very elegant Tincture a Tea Spoonful taken in some Cold Tea 2 or 3 Times a day is of Great Sarvice in Rhuematisms and has done several Cures it must not be took in any thing Warm it will Run into Lumps if you do 120 Tincture of Jallap from Londn Dispy ꝶ of Jallap Root ℥ij Proof Spirits 1 Quarter of a Pint after [Pint] proper digesting Strain off the Tincture Tis a Useful Tincture a Mild Purgative the Spirits Prevents its Griping it may be taken by itself from ʒi to ℥ss it is usually mixed in Smaller Quantitys with other Purgatives 121 Tincture of Jepan Earth ꝶ of Jepan Earth ℥ss Cinnamon ʒij proof Spirits One Quarter of a Pint after Proper digestion Pass it through a Strainer This Tincture is of Good Sarvice in all kinds of defluctions Catarrh Loosenesses uterine fluors and other like disorders where mild Asstringant Medecines are indicated 2 or 3 Tea Spoonful may be taken every now & then in Red Wine or any other Proper Vehicle 122 Tinctura Melampodii or Tincture of Black Hellebore ꝶ Black Hellebore Root ℥ss Cochineal..6 Grains Proof Spirits 1 Quarter of a Pint digest these Ingredients and Strain of the Tincture [this] through Paper... This is parhaps the best Preparation of Hellebore when design'd for an Alterative the Menstruum here employd extracts the Whole of its Virtues it has been found by experience Particular Sarvicable in Uterine Obstructions in Sanguine Constitutions where Challybeats are Hurtful it Scarce ever fails of Exciting the Menstrual discharges and Removing the ill Consequences of these Suppression: Dr Mead Observes that the Power of this Medicine is so great that if it does not Succeed in promoting the Mensses that it so Propels the Blood as to make its way through other Passages Dose a Tea Spoonful Twice a day in Warm Water or any other Convenient Vehicle (from London Dispeny) 123 Tincture of Myrrh ꝶ of Myrrh ℥ss Proof Spirits 1 Quarter of a Pint after due digestion Strain of the Tincture this reccommended inwardly for Warming the Habit attenuating Vicid Juices Strengthening the Solids Opening Obstruction particularly those of the Uterine Vessels Residing Putrefaction Greatly Boerhaave Esteem it in Languid Cases proceeding from Simple in Activity Likewise in Fluor Albus dose from 15 to 40 Drops & is of Great Sarvice it is much Used for Dressing Wounds 124 Tincture of Snake Root ꝶ Virgina Snake Root ʒiij Proof Spirits 1 Quarter of a Pint digest without heat Strain of the Tincture Dose from ʒi to ℥ss 125 Tincture of Balsam Tolu ꝶ Balsam of Tolue ℥ss Rectified Spirits of Wine One third of a Pint digest in a Heat a Sand Heat until the Balsam is dissolved then Strain out This solution of Balsam of Tolu possesses all the Virtues of the Balsam it may be taken inwardly against Rheumatic Pains seminal and other Weaknesses Dose a Tea Spoonful in any Convonur Tea If mixed with Plain Syrup of Sugar forms an Elegant Balsamic Syrrup 126 Mynsichts Elixer of Vitriol ꝶ of the Aromatic Tincture as No 110 ℥iij Strong Spirits (called Oyl) of Vitriol ℥i mix them togeather after the Feces has Subsided filter the Elixer through Paper for Use These preperations is Recommended in weaknesses of the Stomach and in most Cases of this kind where an Acid does not already prevail this has proved of Sarvice when Bitters have faild Dr Fuller says that he has curd Persons in a decayd Constitution it is good against Vomiting the Dose 30 or 40 drops in Tea or Water 2 or 3 Times a day when the Stomach is Empty 127 Elixer of Vitriol Dulcis or Sweet ꝶ of Aromatic Tinctr (as No 110) ℥iij Dulcified Spirits of Vitriol ℥ij mix them togeather this is Prescribed to Persons whose Stomachs will not bear the Elixer No 126 Dose a Tea Spoonful 2 or 3 Times a day in Tea 129 ꝶ Spts of Vitriol Dulcis ℥ij Essensial Oyl of Mint ℈i Esse Oil of Lemon peel Oil of Nutmeg ℈ss drop ye Oil into the Spirits mix the whole well togeather if the Spirits are not good it will not dissolve the Oils a Tea Spoonful 2 or 3 Times a day has been of Great Sarvice in weakness of the Stomach 130 Elixr of Myrrh Compound ꝶ Tincture of Castor ℥ss Tincture of Myrrh ʒij Extract of Saffron ℈i digest them togeather then Strain the Elixer this is the Elixer Uterinum Improved it is very powerful in promoting the the Mensses in Uterine Obstructions & in Hypochondriacal Cases it may be given from 5 drops to 20 or 30 or more in Penny Royal Water or any other Suitable Vehicle 131 Elixer Uterinum a Cleansing Elixer for the Womb ꝶ of Castor ʒij Myrrh ʒi ℈i Digest in Spirits of Wine ℥ij for 20 days in a Close Vessel then Strain out the Tincture then Put in Extract of [Saffron] Savin made by Evaporation of its Juice ℈j Saffron ℈i Put these also into a Vessel well Stop'd in a Gentle Heat for some days then Power of the Fine into a Fresh Phial... This is a very Powerful Medicine to Promote the Mensses and other Cleansings of the Womb as also to Assist Delivery and bring away the after birth it may be given from 5 to 20 Drops in Penny Royal Water on any other such like Vehicle great Care must be had not to give it where a Woman is with Child it will endanger Abhortion and at other Times must be given very Warily because it is so extreemly forcing In many kinds of Convulsions too from Hysterical Cases it is an Excellant Medicine and will very frequently Cure Fits in Children (Quinceys Old Disy) 132 Linimentum Saponaceum ꝶ of Spirits of Rosemary (Commonly called hungary Water) 1 Quarter of a Pint Hard Spanish Soap ʒvi Camphire ʒij Digest the Soap in the Spirits of Rosemary until it dissolve then add the Camphire 133 Green Balsam ꝶ of Linseed Oyl & Oil of Turpentine of each ℥iv Verdigris in Fine Powder ʒi Boyl and Stir them well togeather until the Verdigris is dissolved this has been greatly Recommended by Surgeons as a detergant 134 To make Black Ink ꝶ 1 Quart of Rain Water put to it 5 Ounces of Good Galls not of the Yallow sort but them of a Blueish Green Colour Grosly Bruise them then Add 2 Ounces of Green Copperas 1 Ounce of Gum Arabic 2 or 3 Small bits of Rock Indigo blue Set them by the fire in a well Glazed Jugg for a Week Stirring them twice a day then Strain of for Use (Daykin) 135 Dr Christ Bennits Water against Consumptions & Spitting of Blood Consumption and Spitting Blood Cheap ꝶ the leaves of the greater Comfrey of Solomons Seal of each 4 handful Liquorice ℥ij Infuse them Cold in 2 Gallons of Lime Water for two Days the Dose about 6 Ounces for 4 or 5 Mornings togeather This hardly ever fails cureing Spitting of Blood it Strengthens also and Purifys the Blood (Banyer) 136 Camphorated Bolus Stoppage of Urine Caused by Blisters & Scalding Urine ꝶ of Camphor ℈i Gum Arabic ℈i This Turpentine 15 Grains Syrup Myconium 2 S for a Bolus This is of great use when People dont make Urine or heat of Urine Particularly when those disorders. ae Caused by having blisters on the back and other parts which is very frequently the Case (Banyer 137 Tincture of Cassumineer ꝶ Cassumineer Root ℥i Cochineal ʒi Infuse them for 4 days in 1 Pint of Spirits of Wine keep it Close Stop d for use it is both febrifuge and Anti histeric give a Spoonful or two at a Time (Banyer) 138 Electuary Febrifuge Agues and Intermittants ꝶ of Peruvian Bark finely Powderd ℥ij Snake Root ʒij Syrup of Cloves a Sufficient Quantity to make it into an Electuary this Given in Agues and Intermittants Infalably Cures Sometimes in returns in about 10 days after the First Cure unless you take it for 2 or 3 days about the 10 day that is you may take it from the 8 day after the first [dar] Cure untill the 11 day Observe this never take it when the fit is on if you do it will make it Worse but take the Quantity of a Nutmeg at a Time & 4 or 5 Times between the Fits (Banyer) 139 Diaphoretic Anodyne Tincture The Famous Sweating Opiate given in Colds and in Fevers ꝶ of French Brandy 1 Quarter of a Pint The best Opium cut very small ʒiss Root of Contrariva ʒi Cocheneal 15 or 18 Grains Snakeweed ʒi Digest and make a Tincture It is a Famous Sweating Opiate given with great Success in Fevers it may be given in Large Quantities Promotes Sleep Sometimes it is given in so large a Quantity as 150 drops but it is the best not to use too Large Quantitys at the first give it in Mint or Baum Tea or any other Sutable Vehicle it greatly Promotes Sleep & Sweat No 140 Rats to Kill ꝶ Powder of Cantharides ℥i Mercury Sublimate ʒij Tincture Theabaic 100 Drops Oyl of Annisseed & Oyl of Rhodium of each 16 Drops Hods Lard ℥vi You may mix a Little of the Meal of Malt with it if you Like this will Distroy Ratts the Cantharides makes them dry and by drinking the Mercury Sublimate Kills them (from Mr Barber) No 141 Jaundice ꝶ Saffron about 6 Penny worth Tunmarick 1 Ounce Sheeps Dung 1 handful Goose Dung 1 handful The Inner Bark of Barberry 1 handfull Steep them in 1 Quart of Strong Ale 12 Hours this Cured Mr Hallam Joiner of the Jaundice the Dose half a Pint Night & Morning No 142 A Mїxture for Gonnerhea Clap ꝶ Balsam of Capavi ʒvi Yelk of an Egg a Sufficient Quantity mix these well together Then take Fountain Water ℥viij Sal Nitre ʒiss mix them till the Salts dissolve then Put a Little at a Time of this to the Balsam Capavi & Yelk of the Egg Stir them in a Marble or Iron Morter until all be mixt this is very good in a Fresh Clap seldom fails Cure the Dose a Spoonful Night & Morning (Thos: Porter) No 143 Tinture Cantharidum By Dr Meads Tintr for Gleeting after being Abused with Strngng Phisic Cures Gleets when Balsams fail ꝶ of Rhubarb ʒss Gum Guaicum 18 Grains Lac 10 or 12 Grains Cantharades Bruised 1 Scruple Cocheneal Grains 6 Rectified Spirits of Wine 1 Quarter of a Pint Digest and Strain In Venereal disorders Especially where Strong Catharticks have been imprudently made Use of in the Cure are not unfrequently Succeeded by a Weakness in the Seminal Vessels and the have a Constant Gleeting of Mucous Matter both from the Vesiculæ Seminales and the Prostate Glands the Cure of this is Usually Attemped with Balsamicks but for the most part with Little Success This Tinture is is of a more powerful kind and takes place even where disorders have been of long standing and the parts Extreemly relaxed Dr Mead made great Tryal of it with great Success and Recommended it to Surgeons and is now made known to the Publick the mean Dose is 30 and sometimes 50 Drops or as many as can be venterd on without endangering difficulty of Urine they must be taken every Morning and evening in a Glass of Warm Water No 144 Unguentum ad Psoram Pringles Ointment for Itch Take of Sulphur ℥i Whit Hellebore Root in Powder or Crude Salt Armoniac ʒij Hogs Lard ℥ij Mix and make an Ointment Mr Porter told me that the Sulpher should be Sulphur Vive commonly Called Black Brimstone Sulphur is a Certain Remedy for the Itch more Safe and Efficatious than Mercury for as Dr Pringle Observes that unless a Mercurial Unction touches every part of the Skin there can be no Certainty of Success whereas by a Sulphurous one a Cure may be Performd by only a Partial Unction the Animacula which Occation this disorder being like other Insects, killed by the Sulphurous Steams which exhale by the heat of the Body As to the internal Use of Mercury which some have Accounted Specific there are Several Instances of Persons undergoing a Compleat Salivation for the Venereal Disease and has not been Cured of the Itch the Quantity of Ointment above directed Serves for 4 Unctions or 4 Dressings the Patient is to be Rubled every Night but to prevent any disorder that might arise from Stopping too many Pores at Once One fourth part of the Body is to be Rubled at One Time, Though the Itch may be cured with one Pot of this Ointment it is proper to renew the Application and touch the parts most Affected for a Few Nights longer till the Second is also Used when Cases are very Bad take Sulphur inwardly not with a View to [Cure] Purify the Blood but to defuse the Steams more Certainly through the Skin there being Reason to Believe that the animalcula may sometimes ly too deep to be thoroughly killed by External Applications Dr Porter told me that the Brimstone should be made small and then Levigated with some Clear Water upon a Stone which make it smooth and fine or it is apt to be Rough & knobby and when it has been Levigated or Rub'd fine then dry it in the Sun or by the fire he said that if there was a Little Essensse of Lemon or any other Sweet sented Oil it would make it Smell Better if a Few Drops were put in to the Ointment No 145 Troches of Sulphur from the London Dispensatory Itch ꝶ flower of Sulphur Washed ℥ij Loafe Sugar ℥iv Beat them together adding Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth or Quinces which you will a Sufficient Quantity to make into Troches No 146 Troches of Sulphur from the Edinburg Dispensatory ꝶ Flower of Sulphur ℥i Flowers of Benzoine ʒi White Sugar ℥iiij Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth a Sufficient Quantity to form into Troches These Compositions are contrived only to make the Sulphur more agreable to the Palate No 146 is best for Disorders of the Breast as a Pectoral No 147 Simple Ointment ꝶ Hogs Lard Fried 8 Ounces Rose Water ℥i by Measure Beat the Lard with the Rose Water till they are well mixed then Melt them over a Gentle Fire and Set it By for some Time that the Water may subside Pour the Lard off from the Water and keep Incessantly Stirring and Beating it about till it grows Cold so as to Reduce it into a light Incoherant Mass Lastly add as much Essence of Lemon as will give it a greatful flavour No 148 Ointment of Sulphur ꝶ of the above Simple Oinment ℥iv Flower of Sulphur unwashed ℥i Essence of Lemon 10 or 12 Drops mix them togeather This is designed for Cutaneous disorders This is much neater than the Unguentum Antipsoricum cum Sulphur No 145 Though Equally as Efficatious No 149 Unguentm [Satunium] Saturinum or Saturnine Oinment London ꝶ Oil Olive 1/4 of a Pint White Wax ʒvi Sugar of Lead ʒi Let the Sugar of Lead be Reduced into a Subtil Powder be ground with some Little of the Oil and the Wax Well melted with the other part of mix both together keep them well Stirring until Cold No 150 Unguentum Saturninum Commonly called Universal Balsam ꝶ Sugar of Lead ℥i White Wax ℥iss Oil Olive half a Pint Liquefy the Oil and Wax together and gradually Stir in the Sugar of Lead continually Stirring them until growing cold they unite into an Ointment This is an Excellant Cooler and Dryer and Skinner over of Sores Cools the Itching of the Lips of Wounds Tellerous ouring &C No 151 Unguentum Album or White Ointment ꝶ Oil Olive 1 Quarter of a Pint White Wax ℥i Sperma ceti 3 Quarter of an Ounce Liquefy them by a Gentle Fire then take it in a Cool place keep it constantly Stirring till it is Cold This is Cooling emollient of a good Sarvice in frettings eruptions of the Skin of great Use for Children No 152 Unguentum Album Camphoratum This is made by Adding a ℈iss of Camphor to the above white Ointment This is more disentient than the above & is very Cooling and is good in Cutanious heats and Itchings It must be kept Close or the Camphor will Exhale 153 Green Bassilicum ꝶ of Yellow Bassilicum ℥viij Oil Olive ℥iij Verdigrease Prepared ℥i mix This is very Detergent No 154 Unguentum Cæruleum Fortius The Stronger Blue Ointment ꝶ of Hogs Lard Fried ℥ij Quick Silver ℥i Simple Balsam of Sulphur ℈i Grind the Quick Silver with the Balsam of Sulphur till they are Perfectly Incorporated then gradually add the Lard Heated mix them carefully together 155 Unguentum Cæruleum Mitius The Milder Blue Ointment Take of Hogs Lard Tried ℥iv Quick Silver ℥i Common Turpentine ℈ij Grind the Quick Silver & Turpentine in a Morter till the Quick Silver ceases to Appear then gradually add the Lard Warmed & Carefully mix them togeather Unguentum Caruteum Fortius The Stronger Blue Ointment No 156 Unguentum Desiccativum Rubrum Red Drying Ointment ꝶ Oil Olive 1/4 of a Pint White Wax ℥i Calamine Prepared ℥i Letherage of Gold Prepared ʒvi Bole Armonic ʒvi Camphor ʒss Melt the Wax and Oil take them from the fire then Sprinkle in the other Ingredients the Camphor must be first Ground with a Little Oil of almonds this is a very Good dryer and healer 157 Unguentum Arcæi ꝶ of Hogs Lard ℥i Goats Suet ℥iiss Venice Turpentine ℥iss Gum Elemi ℥iss Melt and Strain so as to make an Ointment This Ointment has long been in Use for digesting Cleaning & Incarnating and for this Purpose is prefered before all others 158 Unguentum Mercuriale Mercurial Ointment ꝶ of Hogs Lard ℥ij Quick Silver ℥ss Beat them diligently until the Quick Silver disappear it may be made with 2 or 3 Times the Quantity of Quick Silver This is the most Simple of all the Mercurial Ointment tho' possible as Efficatious as any it Requires more labour to extinguish the Mercury in the Lard than when in Turpentine But to make amends it is much Smoother that with Turpentine sometimes will Chase Tender Skins Some Cheese to make this Ointment Stiffer by taking some part of the Lard away and in the room add Suet the same Quantity 159 Unguentum e Mercury o Præcipitato or Ointt of Mercury precipitate ꝶ of Simple Ointment ℥iss Precipitated Sulphur ʒij White Mercury Precipitate ℈ii mix them well together moisten them with Ley of Tarter that they may be made into an Ointment this is a very Elegant Ointment of Mercury and frequently made use of agains Cutanious Eruptions 160 Unguentum Opthalmicum or Eye Ointment ꝶ of Ointment of Tutty ℥ss Saturnine Ointment ʒiss Camphor ℈ss Mix and make an ointment according to Art it may be made with 2 or 3 Times the Quantity of Camphor This Ointment is a good one for the purpose Scarce any comes up to it in hot defluctions & Inflammations of the Eyes 161 Unguentum Tuttiae or Ointment of Tutty ꝶ any Quantity if Vipers Fat and mix with it some prepared Tutty so as to make a Soft Ointment this is for the Eyes 162 Unguentum Egyptiacum ꝶ Verdegris finely Powderd ℥i Honey ℥iij Vinegar ℥ij Boil them over a Gentle fire to the Consistance of an Ointment This is designed only Outwardly for Cleansing and deterging foul Ulcers and are Serviceable in Venereal Ulceration if the should be wanted more Acrid you may do it by shaking the Vessel so as to shake up the thick matter as Settles to the Bottom 163 Nerve Ointment ꝶ Oil of Bays ℥iij Suet ℥ij Oil of Amber ʒi ℈i Mix them together 164 On Pills The four Rules for making Powders must be observed in making Pills The Gums and Inspissated Juices are to be first softened with the Liquor prescribed then Add the Powders by Little and Little and beat them well together The Masses are to be kept in Bladders which should be Moisten'd now and then with the same kind of Liquid that the Mass was made up with sometimes the Gummy Resins & inspissated Juices are Soft enough to mix up without addition of Moistur but if 164 the should Add a Little Spirits of Wine Pill Æthiopica Ethopic Pills ꝶ pure Quick Silver ʒi Golden Sulphur of Antimony ʒi Resin of Guaiaccum ʒi Grind the Quick Silver with the Golden Sulphur and Resin in a Glass Mortar till the Mercurial Globules entirely disappear then add the Soap with as much Balsamic Syrup as is Sufficient to Form into a Mass of Pills The Soap is Added to make the Pills sooner dissolve upon the Stomach which did not Use to do for Pills made up of Resinous Substances do not soon dissolve on the Stomach but are apt to Run off by Stool These Pills are a useful Alterative both in Cutaneous and Venereal disorders The Quantity here Prescribed may be made into Sixty Pills of Which you may take from One to four every Night and Morning Observe to keep moderately Warm during the Time the Course is Continued 165 Aromatic Pills ꝶ of Succotorine Aloes ℥ss Gum Guaiaccum ʒij ℈ij Aromatic Species ℈iv Balsam of Peru ℈iv Reduce the Aloe and Gum Guaiaccum Seperately into Powder then mix with the Rest and make ye whole into a Mass with a Sufficient Quantity of Syrup of Orange Pills This is difficult to Unite the best way is to take and Rub the Aromatic Spice with the Balsam then add the Powder'd Aloes and afterwards the Guaiaccum when these are well mixed add the Syrup by Little & Little at a Time These taken in Small Doses as ℈ss or a Little more Occationally Repeated Warm the Stomach and by degrees the whole Habit promotes Perspiration and all Natural Secretions, hence in Cold phlegmatic Temperaments Sluggish indispositions and Obstructions of the Viscera or Remoter Glands Proceeding from these Causes this Stimulating Warm Medicine proves eminently Sarvicable if the dose is large it operates Gently by Stool and continued in small doses proves at last Purgative or introduces a Salutary (or Healthful) Looseness 166 Pill ex Colocynthide Cum Aloes or Colocyth with Aloes ꝶ of Socotorine Aloes ʒii Scammony...℥ij Pith of Colocyth ʒi Oil of Cloves Grains 15 Let the dry Species be reduced Seperately into Powder then mix them and the Oil then mix them well mix the whole into a Mass with Syrup of Buck thorn The dose is a Scruple or ʒss sometimes ℈ij it is a very Brisk Purgative and Commonly Used The Pill of Cocciæ is much the same so is the Pill exduobus only the Pill exduobus is much Stronger and and only to be used where very Strong Purges are required and they have been used in Venereal disorders but they are so Violent that they Weaken a Constitution and frequently Leaves an Obstinate or incurable Gleet or Running the dose of the Pill exduobus is from, 15 Grains to half a Dram 167 Pilluæ or Ecphraticæ Chalybeatæ or Chalybeate Deobstruent Pills ꝶ of the Common Pill (Commonly called Pill Rufi) ʒiss Gum [Guaiaccum] Ammoniacum ʒss Resin of Guaiacum ʒss Salt of Steel ℈ij Alixer Propertis as much as is Sufficient to make these into a Mass of Pills These Pills are very properly called Chalybeate the Salt of Steel which is one of the most Active Preperations of Metal [remaining] 1 Dram of this Pill may be made into 12 Pills Three may be taken Night in Chlorotic or other Cases where Warm Apperiants or Dobstruent Medicines are proper No 168 Pilulæ Ecphracticæ Cum Aculeo Acuated or Purgative Deobustruent Pills ꝶ of Socotorine Aloes ʒi Extract of Black Helebore ʒi Scammony ʒi Gum [Guaiacum] ʒss Gum Ammoniacum Resin of Guaiacum ʒss Vitriolated Tarter Grains 16 Essenssial oil of Juniper Berries Grains 8 Beat them into a Mass with a Sufficient Quantity of Syrup of Buckthorn These Pills may be given as an Alterative and deobstruent in a Dose of 8 or 10 Grains a Scruple or half a Dram generally proves Purgative 169 Pilulæ Fœtidæ or Fetid Pills ꝶ Assa Fetida ʒss Russia Castor ℈i Camphor Grains 10 Oil of Hartshorn a Sufficient Quantity to make them into Pills These Pills are desegnd for Anti hystericks and emmenagogues Dose half a Scruple a Scruple or more may be taken every Night or oftener 170 London Dispy Pilulæ Gummosæ Gum Pills ꝶ of Galbanum ʒi Myrrh ʒi Opoponax ʒi Sagapenum ʒi Asa fetida ʒss Make them into a Mas with Syrup of Saffrom Edinburg Dispeny ꝶ Gum Ammoniacum ʒss Sagopenum ʒss Russia Castor ℈i & 5 Grains Myrrh ... ℈i & 5 Grains Asa Fetida Grains 16 Galbanum Grains 16 Oil of Amber Grains 5 Elixer Propriatatis as much as is Sufficient to make them into Pills theses 2 Last Prescriptions are for the same Use as No 169 the Dose the same 171 Pills Mercurial ꝶ of Pure Quick Silver ʒij Gum Ammoniaccum ℥ss Grind the Quick Silver in a Glass Mortar with a Sufficient Quantity of Honey until the Mercurial Globules Cease to Appear then Add the Gum Ammoniacum in Powder make the Whole into a Mass This is a good Alterative in a Dose of 8 or 10 Grains and do great Sarvice in Sundry Chronical disorders 172 Pilula Mercuriales Laxantes Laxative Mercurial Pills ꝶ Pure Quick Silver ʒi Gum Ammoniacum Extract of Black Hellebore Choice Rhubarb of each ʒss Grind the Quick Silver with a Sufficient Quantity of Honey until the Quick Silver dis appear then Add the other Ingredients make them into Pills This may be given as an Alterative in 8 or 10 Grains But will Purg if Given to ʒss or More this is Good in Chronical disorders 173 Pills Pectoralis or Pectoral Pills ꝶ of Gum Ammoniacum ʒij Benzoine ʒiss Myrrh ʒi English Saffron ʒss Annisated Balsam of Sulphur Grains 15 Balsamic Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Mass of Pills This Composition is well contrived for promoting of expectoration and may be usefully given in Common Colds and difficulty of Breathing proceeding from Viscid Phlegm the Dose is from 6 to 8 Grains to a Scruple or more NB Observation upon Coughs That though several Compositions are called Pectorals and have no ill Title to that Appellation they are nevertheless in Virtue disimilar thus the Pectoral decoction the Syrup and the Troches are Calculated for Softening Lubricating and Incrassating thin Serous Tickling Humours whilst the Pectoral Pills the Elixer and the Oxymel Stimulate and Deterge the Pulmonary Vessels and Attenuate or dissolve thick tenacious Juices 174 Pilulæ Rufi or Rufus Pills Common Pills ꝶ Socotorine Aloes ʒij Myrrh & Saffron of each ʒi make them into a Mass with Syrup of Saffron These Pills given to the Quantity of ʒss or ℈ij proves a Gentle Purgative But they answer much Better as an Alterative it Warms and Strengthens the Stomach it is good in Cold Constitutions an Indigestions and will many times Cure Green Sickness without any other Help in which Case it Greatly Promotes the Menstrual discharge and open Uterine Obstruction 175 Alexeterial Pills ꝶ of Virginia Snake Root ℈i of Contrayerva Root ℈i Syrup of Saffrom as much as is Sufficient to make them into Pills these Pills are Used where the Patient dont like to take Powders the Quantity here Prescribed are to be made into 12 Pills to be taken at 2 or 3 doses that is to say 4 or 6 Pills at a Time to be taken every 6 or 8 Hours 176 Pills Antifebrile ꝶ of Myrrh ℥i Venice Soap ʒi ℈i Turpentine ℈i make these into Pills of 3 Grains each This is an excellent Medicine for the obstruction of the Viscera indigestion and other disorders proceeding from the Premature Stopping of Intermittants Fevers by Peruvian Bark Boorhave recommends them much as he Tried them with great Success 5 Pills are to be taken for a Dose 3 Times a Day before Meals about 1 Hour for a Fortnight 177 Asthmatic Pills ꝶ of Squils dried & Powderd ℈i Gum Ammoniaccum ℈ij Balsam of Sulphur a Sufficient Quantity to make them into Pills 178 Asthmatic Pills ꝶ of Straind Storax ℈ij Flower of Sulphur Washed ℈i Flower of Benzoine ℈ij Balsamic Syrup a Sufficient Quantity make them into Pills 179 ꝶ of Socotorine Aloes ℈ii Saffron ℈ij Thebaic Extract Grains 6 Balsam of Peru as much as will Reduce them into a Mass of Pills 180 ꝶ of Thebaic Extract 1 Grain Extract of Saffron 4 Grains make them into a Mass of Pills NB Pills No 177 & No 178 & 179 may be made into 24 Pills four of Which are Moderate Doses No 180 may be made into 2 Pills for a Single Dose They are all Medicines of Great Efficacy in Old Coughs and Asthma's either for preventing of Defluctions of thin Rheum upon the Breast and Longs attenuating and promoting expectoration of thick Tenacious Matter or relaxing [or] and Opening the Passages so as to give Liberty of Breathing the Particular Cases these Pills are for are easily understood if the Ingredients are Rightly Examind into 181 Cathartic Pills ꝶ of Socotorine Aloes ʒi Aromatick Species ʒss Scammony ℈i Soft Extract of Liquorice (Spanish Juice is the Extract of Liquorice) a Sufficient Quantity to make them into Pills This Composition is a Warm Purgative and may be Usefully taken where Medicines of that Class as Indicated whether for removing the Crudities after a Surfeit or Debauch or Preventing Arthritic (ie Gouty) and other diseases frequent among those who live high the Quantity here Prescribed may be made into 30 Pills of which 5 or 6 Pills may be taken for a Dose 182 Pills Diuretic ꝶ of Venice Soap ʒij Salt of Amber ʒss Salt of Nitre ʒss Oil of Juniper Berries 10 drops Make them into 40 Pills in Obstinate Obstructions of the Uriney Passages where Softening and diluting Liquors and the Milder Acrid Medicines proves ineffectual recourse may be had to this Powerful Stimulating Medicine 5 Pills for a Dose 183 Hysteric Pills ꝶ Asa fetida ʒi Martial flowers ʒss Oil of Amber 8 Drops Balsam of Peru a Sufficient Quantity make into 24 Pills take 3 or 4 Pills for a Dose: 2 or 3 Times a Day 184 ꝶ Asa fetida; Gum Ammoniaccum: Myrrh: Aloes: Rust of Steel Prepared Extract of Gentian: of each ℈i Syrup of Ginger a Sufficient Quantity make into 40 Pills the Dose 3 or 4 Pills 2 or 3 Times a day 185 ꝶ of Galbanum ʒi Salt of Steel ʒss Asa fetida: Aromatic Species of each ℈i Tincture of Myrrh as much as will make them into 40 Pills Dose 3 or 4 Pills 2 or 3 Times a Day In Hysterical & Hypochondriacal disorders tho' very Obstinate & of Long duration will very often yield to these 3 last medicines 186 Icteric Pills or Pills for the Jaundice ꝶ of Venice Soap ℥ss Oil of Anniseeds 15 drops the dose ʒss made into 5 or 6 Pills take 5 or 6 Pills 2 or 3 Times a Day 187 ꝶ Venice Soap ℥ss Fresh Squils ʒi Saffron ʒss make them into Pills Dose same as the last 188 ꝶ Venice Soap ʒij Saffron: Salt of Steel: Salt of Amber of each ℈i Oil of Juniper Berries 10 drops make them into Pills 189 ꝶ of Venice Soap ʒij: Powder of Rhubarb ℈ij: Extract of Saffron ℈i Make them into Pills These 4 last Receipts are very Good ones are very Powerful in Icteric disorders they Prevail in very obstinate and Inveterate Jaundices But their Use should be duely Continued and Properly Assisted by bitter Infusions and Aperient Apozems every ʒss may be made into 5 Pills take ʒss 2 or 3 Times a Day 190 Garlic Pills ꝶ Garlic ℥ss white Soap ℥ss Mellepedes Prepared a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Mass of Pills In Coughs and Asthmas where the Brest is Oppressed by Viscid Phlegm this Attenuating and aperient Composition is frequently of great Sarvice if every Dram is made into 12 Pills 5 or 6 Pills may be taken for a Dose twice a day 191 Aloetic Pills ꝶ of Socotorine Aloes: White Soap of each ℥ij: Thin Honey as much as will bring them into a Mass of Pills These are Good Aperients in Catechic & Chlorotic Indispositions and Obstructions of the Bowels make 1 dram into 12 Pills take 4 or 6 Pills for 1 Dose 192 Chalybeate Pills Pills For Hysteric Disorders ꝶ of Gum Ammoniacum ʒi Extract of Gentian ʒi Salt of Steel ʒi Myrrh ʒi Syrup of Sugar a Sufficient Quantity make them into Pills 12 Pills in each Dram 3 or 4 Pills for a Dose These are for Hysteric Disorders after Bleeding and Purging has been Used where a Plethoric & Sanguine Habit indicates these Evacuations Chalybeat Medicines are most to be Relyd on Espeicially when joined as in this Medicine with Bitters & deobstruent Gums at first taking as Sydenham observes they increase the Complaint both in Body and Mind which [cross out] however soon go off or may be relieved with Proper Doses of Opium given at Bed Time 193 Asthmatic & Icterical Pills ꝶ of Hard Soap ʒiij Gum Ammoniacum ʒij Powder'd Squils ʒi Simple Syrup as much as is Sufficient to Reduce into Pills The ingredients which are in these Pills are of the most Powerful kind and Assist and help one another in Attenuating or dissolving thick and Viscid Humours and deterging the Vessels hence in Jaundices arising from a Lentor of the Bile or obstructions of the Biliary Ducts in which the Excrements are of a Clay Colour and Void with difficulty, and in Old Stubborn Coughs, Asthmas and the first Stage of Consumptions where the Patient complains of a Pain in the Side, Boundness at the Breast or Hot and Restless Nights, this Composition is of Singular Efficacy a Dram of this Mass will make 10 Pills of Which take 3 Pills every Night and Morning 194 Tarr Pills ꝶ Tar any Quantity mixt with it Powder of Elecampane as much as will form it into a Proper Consistance for Pills each Dram of the Mass may be form'd into 12 Pills of which take 6 Pills every morning & Evening 195 Pilula: Roberantes or Strengthing Pills ꝶ of Olibanum ʒiss Stytic Powder ʒi Salt of Steel ʒss Syrup of Sugar a Sufficient Quantity make 12 Pills in a Dram This Pill is an Efficatious Strengthener and Asstringant in ye Fluor Albus and such like Complaints ye Dose 6 Pills Twice a Day Powders This for receives such as are capable of being Beat into Powder and must be such as can be well Dried without losing their Virtue: Bitter Acrid & Fetid Drug dont Sute they are disagreble emollient and Mucilaginous Herbs & Roots are too Bulky Pure Gums Stick to the Mouth Fixed and Alkaline Salts Liquify in the Open Air and Volatile Alkalies exhale Useful Vehicles for Light Powders are thin Liquors Heavy Metaline & Rensins should Be taken in thick Syrups 196 Alexipharmac Powder ꝶ of Contra Yerva Root Grains 10 Virgina Snake Root 5 Grains Saffron Grains 5 make into a Powderer Or 197 ꝶ Virginian Snake Root 10 Grains Nitre 6 Grains Camphor 3 Grains make into a Powder These Powders are designed to be given in low depressed Fevers in which Cases such Medicines as these are Prescribed for keeping up the Vis Vitæ raising the Pulse and Promoting a Gentle Diaphoresis the Quantities above are Orderd for 1 Dose which may be repeated every 6 Hours and Oftener according to the Urgancy of the Symptom 198 Asstringant Powder ꝶ of Roach Alum ℈i Nutmeg ℈i mix This Powder is a Strong Asstringant and as such may be depended on in intestinal or other Fluxes where the only Indication is to Check the evacuation 199 Pulvis Balsamicus or Balsamic Powder ꝶ Balsam of Tolu ℈ss Benzoine ℈ss fine Sugar ℈i Grind them into a Powder The Quantity here Orderd may be taken 2 or 3 Times a Day it is a healing Pectoral Medicine of Good Sarvice in Tickling Coughs and Shap defluctions on the longs 200 Saline Purging Powder ꝶ of the Vitriolated Tarter ʒss Crystals of Tarter ʒss Salt Polychrest ʒss Mix This is an excellant Purg in Scorbutic Disorders and a Viscid State of the Blood & Juices it is best Took in Whey of Which a Pint should be drank during the Opperation 201 Carminative Powder ꝶ of Anniseeds Sweet fennel Seeds āā ℈ii Ginger ℈i Nutmeg ℈ss fine Sugar ℈ss Reduce them into a Powder for 4 doses This Powder is of Good Sarvice in Expelling of Flatulencies arising from Indigestion Particularly those to Which Hyponchondriacal and Hysterical Persons are Subject to they are given with Great Success to Children in Gripes either mixed with food or otherwise 202 Diuretic Powder ꝶ of Salt Prunella 10 Grains Salt of Amber 4 Grains Oil of Turpentine 3 drops Fine Sugar ℈i Drop the Oil on the the Sugar then Add the Salts and Grind the whole together This Powder is a very Efficatious Diuretic and may be given to Great Advantage in Cases where the Assistance of Such forcing Medicines are Required the Salts hinder the Oil for being any ways Hurtful & at the same Time Cools the Passages 203 Emmenagogue Powder ꝶ of Salt of Steel: Myrrh each 8 Grains Saffron 5 Grains: Oil of Savin 1 Drop Fine Sugar ℈ss haveing dropt the Oil on the Sugar Beat them all together and well mix pound all the Ingredients Seperate into a Powder then mix them Well or 204 ꝶ of Black Hellebore Root 10 Grains Salt of Amber 6 Grains Saffron 5 Grains make into a Powder In Obstructions and Suppressions of the Uterine discharges these Powders Seldom fail taking the due effect.. NB That No 203 is for Women of Pale emaciated Habits that is to say lean Habits and do very well And No 204 Succeeds in a full Plethoric Habits that is Habits that are Gross and Abound with Humours as Fat Persons They may be given Once or Twice a Day in Penny Royal Water or a Glass of White Wine 205 Strengthening Powder ꝶ Extract of Peruvian Bark Grains 12 Salt of Steel 8 Grains Oil of Cinnamon 1 Drop fine Sugar ʒss drop the Oil on the Sugar then Beat them together for 2 Doses This is a very Great Strengthener much more so than those that usually bear that Title Particularly in Lax Habits Debilities of the Nervous System the Weaknesses Peculiar to either Sex it is of great Effect 206 Pulvus Solutivus or Laxative Powder ꝶ Sina 25 Grains Vitriolated Tarter 5 Grains Reduce them into Powder This Gentle Laxative may be usefully taken in Costive Habits and Occationally Repeated 207 Pulvis ad Strumas Powder against the Evil ꝶ of Burnt Sponge ℈i Nitre ℈ss Coralline ℈ss Fine Sugar ℈ss make into a Powder In [Scrpo] Scrophulous disorders and Obstructions of the Glands this Medicine is Generally of Good Sarvice it opens and Deterges the Minute Vessels and Carries off the offending Matter by Urine Dr Mead informs us in his Monita Medica that he very frequently experienced its good effects he used to give the Quantity above Prescribed twice in a Day with 3 or 4 Glasses of the Less Compound Lime Water along with each Dose if the Patient was much emaciated the Lime Water was mixed with an equal Quantity of Milk 208 Anthelmintic Powder ꝶ of Tin Reduced into Powder ℈i Ethiops Minerals 10 Grains Fine Sugar 6 Grains Mix them well This Powder is an Effectual Remedy for Worms in Children hardly ever failing to destroy them in a few days it is to be taken every Morning in a Little Syrup or Common Treacle You must give a Purg after taking 3 of the above Powders 209 Compound Powder of Scammony ꝶ of Scammony ℥ss Calcin'd Hartshorn Prepared ʒiij Grind them diligently together to a Powder Here the Scammony is divided by the Earthy Calx and thus Rendered somewhat more Soluble and less Adhesive hence its Purgative Quality is Promoted at the same time becomes less Griping the Dose is from 15 Grains to ʒss 210 Styptic Powder ꝶ of Alum ʒi Dragons Blood ʒss Powder and Mix This Powder has lonng been Reputed an Asstringent under the Title of Pulvis Styticus Helvetii it is undoubtedly a Powerful Medicine Alum is a Powerful Asstringent and Common in outward Applications and may be inwardly taken from 15 to 20 Grains but it is best mixed up with Resins for which Dragons Blood is very Sutable Dr Thompson in the Edenburg Essays Vouchsafes to Give a Good Account of Alum & Dragon Blood in equal Parts he found none to equal it in Uterine Hæmorrhages to Stop too frequent Return of the Mensses & to Stop the flooding of Women with Child in Violent Bleeding he gave ʒss every half Hour which Generally Stopped in 6 or 8 Doses he Tried it With Great Success in the Fluor Albus and did Great Cures Alum is best taken in Small Doses & Frequently Repeated in Large Doses it Nauseates the Stomach & Proves on first taking Purgative and Leaves afterward a Violent Binding or Cosstiveness of the Bowels 211 Compound Powder of Gum Tragacanth ꝶ Gum Tragacanth: Gum Arabic Marsh Mallow Roots: of each ʒiss Starch: & Liquorice each ʒss Double Refind Sugar ʒiij Beat them alltogether into a Powder It is a Mild Emollient Glutinous Medicine and hence it becomes Sarvicable in Hectic Cases Tickling Coughs Strangury Heat of Urine some kinds of Alvine fluxes and other disorders Proceeding from a Thin Acrimonious State of Humours or an Abration* of the Nature Mucus of the Intestines this Powder Softens the thin Humours & gives a Greater degree of Consistancy and defends the Bowels & Intestines as if it Were Chased by the thin Humours the Dose is from ʒss to ʒij or ʒiij which may be frequently repeated NB the Marsh mallows Roots are apt to make the Powder Turn Mouldy but it must not be kept long *the Word Abration Signifies Tareing off a thing 212 Species Aromatic ꝶ of Cinnamon ʒij Lesser Cardamum seeds husked ʒi Ginger & Long Pepper of each ʒi Beat them together into a Powder 213 Aromatic Powder ꝶ of [Cenc] Cenella Alba ℈i Lesser Cardamum seeds ℈i Mace ℈i Ginger ℈i Beat them into a Powder These 2 last Medicines are agreable Hot Spicy Medicines and are useful in Cold Phlegmatic Habits and decayed Constitutions are Good for Warming the Stomach promotes digestion exciting the Vis Vita Strengthens the Tone of the Viscera in General the Dose 5 or 10 Grains or a ℈i the No 212 is the Warmest 1 or 2 Grains is frequently Joind along with a Single Dose of Physick to keep it from Griping 214 Aromatic Powder ꝶ Cannella Alba ʒi Ginger ʒi make them into a Powder This is a Moderately Warm Spice and is of Sarvice where such Ingredients are Necessary may Answer as well as the two above & not near so [Costly the] Dose is ℈i [Serup] at a Time 215 ꝶ Melt any Quantity of Yellow Wax and Keep it over a Gentle Fire Sprinkle into it as much Oyster Shells prepared as the Wax will take up This Healing and lightly restringant Powder is sometimes of Great Sarvice in Dysentries (ie Fluxes or Loosensess in the Bowels) and wherever the Viscera ie Bowels are eroded or eaten away with Acrimonus Humours it is very Good for Restraining Menstrual Fluxes it is given to the Quantity of ʒi twice a Day 216 Compound Testatious Powder ꝶ of Oyster Shells Prepared ℥i White Chalk ℥ss Mix them well This Cheap Absorbent Powder is as good a Medicine as the Most Costly Compound Powder of Crab Claws or Berzoardic Powder of the Shops the Dose from ℈i to ʒss for Absorbing or destroying Ascid or Sowerness in the first Passages But these are not so good for the Purpose as the Alkaline Salts But for Common Use it is very Good when the disorder is not very Bad but when a Person is in a Fever or in a Bad & Long State of Ill Health it is not so well 217 Vermifuge Powder Powder for Worms ꝶ of Tansy Flowers Wormseed of each ʒiij Salt of Steel ʒi make into a Powder The largest Dose commonly Given is half a Dram Twice a Day 218 Purging Vermifuge Powder ꝶ Choice Rhubarb ʒi Scammony ℈i Calomel ℈i Mix them well The largest Dose is ℈i or ʒss and may be taken Twice in a Week if Necessary 219 Oils Essential Dill is a Warm Oyl it is sometimes Used as a Carmanative in Flatulancies and Colicky Pains: Hickups & the Like Dose 3 or 4 Drops NB Drop Oyls on Sugar and they will Unite with Liquor 220 Oil of Anniseeds are a Good Pectoral flatulencies & Colick the largest Dose 15 or 20 Drops 221 Essential Oil of Cloves is Hot and Spices frequently given in Quantity of 10 Drops mixt with a large Quantity of Liquor 222 Essential Oil of Cammomile This is a Pugnant Oil of a Strong not ungrateful Smell it is a Yellow Colour with a Cast of Greenish or Brown it is sometimes given as a Carminative in Hysteric Cases in a few Drops it is a Vermifuge and may be made into Pills with a few Crumbs of Bread 223 Essential Oil of Cinnamon This Valueable Oil is extreemly hot and Pungent of an Agreable flavour like Cinnamon In languid Cases and debilities of the Nervous System it is one of the most Immediate Cordials & Restoratives the Dose is 1: 2: or 3 Drops but it must be well diluted by the Mediation of Sugar &C 224 Essential Oil of Cummin is employd in Cold Flatulent & Hysteric disorders give a Strong Smell to the Urine the Dose 2 or 3 Drops 225 Essential Oil of Juniper It is a sarviceable Carminative: Stomachic it is Stumalating detergent: Diuretic and Emmenegogue Dose 6 or 8 or More Drops 226 Essential Oil of Lavender It is extreemly fragrant it is a Medicine of Great Use both externally & Internally in Paralytic & Lethargic Complaints Rheumatic Pains and debilities of the Nervous System Dose from 1 Drop to 5 or 6 227 Essential Oil of Bay Berries it is moderately Pungent and Tolerably Grateful Smell it is Given in flatulent Colicks Hysteric Complaints and for Allaying the Pains Consequent upon Delivery the Dose the Dose from 2 to 5 Drops it is Used in Carminative Glysters and in some Hysteracel Complaints Applyd Outwardly 228 Essential Oil of Lemons It is took as a Cordial in Weakness of the Stomach the Dose 2 or 3 Drops it is used Chiefly as a Perfume 229 Essential Oil of Mace it is thin and Limped of a Pale Yellow Colour, it is Celebrated in Vomiting Hiccups & Chollic Pains both Given internally in 3 or 4 Drops and Applied outwardly on the Stomach & Umbilical Region 230 Essential Oil of Common Mint it Smell lik Mint It is a Useful Stomach Medicine given in want of Appetite Weakness of the Stomach Retching to Vomit and other like disorders but should not be given when the Patient is in an Heat or Inflamation it may be Applyd outwardly 231 Essential Oil of Peppermint It is a Medicine of Great Pungency & Subtilty & diffuses almost as soon as taken a Glowing warmth through the Whole System in Colicks attended with Coldness and Hysteric Complaints it is of excellant Sarvice 1 or 2 Drops is General Sufficient for 1 Dose 232 Essential oil of Penny Royal is given in Hysterical disorders from 1 to 4 Drops 233 Essential Oil of Rosemary Boerhaave recommends it in Nervous and Hysteric Complaints and against Epilepsies and Suppression of Uterine Purgations Occationed by Weakness & inactivity a few Drops for a Dose 234 Essential Oil of Savin It is a Celebrated Uterine & Emmenegogue in Cold Phlegmatic Habits it is a good Medicine the Dose 2 or 3 drops or more 235 Essential Oil of Sassafras It stands greatly Recommended as a Sudorific and for Purifying the Blood and Juices, it is good in Humoral Asthma's the Dose from 1 Drop to 8 235 Camphorated Oyl ꝶ of Fresh Drawn Linseed Oil ℥i Camphor ℥ss mix them togeather I imagine that they must be Put into a Morter and Well Rubbed otherwise I think the Camphor will not dissolve This Preparation is for external Uses only as an Anodyne and disentient in Cases of Burns or Rheumatic Pains or Gouty Pains 236 Digestive Ointment ꝶ yellow Bassilicum & Black Bassilicum of each ℥ss Balsam of Turpentine ʒij mix & Make an Ointment 237 Mercurial Ointment ꝶ Quick Silver ℥ss Hogs Lard Purified ʒvi Suet ʒi work them well together 238 Emollient Ointment ꝶ Palm Oil ℥ij Yallow Wax ʒij Linseed Oil ℥i mix over a Gentle fire 239 Nerve Ointment ꝶ Oil of Bays ℥iij: Suet ℥ij Oil of Amber ʒiss mix them together this is Supposed to Warm and Strengthen the Nerves 240 Ointment of Sulphur ꝶ Hogs Lard Purified ℥ij Sulphur in Powder ℥ss Mix them well 241 Balsam Oderiferous ꝶ of Oil Olive and White Bees Wax of each ℥i Put the Oil into a China Bason or Stone Bason Place it in a Pan of Boiling Water Slice the Wx into it Stir them together with a Clean Knive till the Wax is Melted then Remove the Bason out of the Water when the Matter begins to thicken drop in ʒij of any oderiferous Essential Oil as that of Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Lemon Peel Lavender or Rosemary or Rhodium or a Mixture of 2 or 3 of these then Add ʒss of the Essence of Ambergrease it will Heighten the Smell of the Oils without communicating its own, Keep the whole constantly Stirring that they may be Perfectly mixed and as soon as this is done Plunge the Vessel into cold Water to prevent the dissipation of the Essential Oils, these Kinds of Balsams may be made of any Colour so as to Resemble in this Respect the Colour of the Vegetable as well as the Smell from which the Essential Oil is Drawn a Little Pigment called by the Painters Sapgreen being Previously ground with the Oil Olive will give a fine Green (a Little Cinnabar a Scarlet Turmerick a Lemon Colour Prussian Blue a Violet Colour and Cochineal a Fine Purple Hue N B there is a Small Root called Anchusæ Radix or Alkanet Root it imparts an elegant deep Red to Oils Wax and all Unctuous Substance but will not to Water 242 Balsam of Guaiacum ꝶ of Gum Guaicum ℥i Balsam of Peru ℈i Rectified Spirits of Wine ℥iiss or ℥iij Let them Stand 2 or 3 days in a Bottle then take the Cork out and Tye a Wet Bladder over the Mouth of the Bottle and Prick it full of Holes then take a Sauce Pan and make a thing like a Birds Nest of Hay put it in the Sauce Pan and the fill the Sauce Pan almost full of Cold Water then Put in the Bottle into Birds Nest so that the Bottle will not Touch the Sides nor Bottom of the Pan then set the Pan on a Gentle Fire and let it Boil the Spirits will Boil also and will soon dissolve the Gums this is the Best way of dissolving Gums it is best to have a Bottle 2 or 3 Times to large for the Ingredients and Observe not to Tye the Bladder too fast and keep the Bladder full of Pin Hole the Spirits will burst the Bottle if too Close Confined this is the Tincture I Used so frequently for Cuts & Green Wounds for the Virtues of it se No 243 243 Elixr Polychrest or Balsam Polychrest Elixer of Many Virtues Strengths the Habit and warms it in Rheumatic Scorbutic Scrophulous Phlegmatic Constitutions in Gleets ꝶ Gum Guaiacum ʒvi Balsam of Peru ʒss Essential Oil of Sassafrass Grains 15 Rectify'd Spirits of Wine ℥ij or ℥iiss Digest these as the last No 242 only dont Put in the Oil of Sassafrass until you have Strain'd out the Elixer this & No 242 are Medicines of Great Effecacy and Capable of Answering many useful Purposes They warm and Strengthen the Habit and promote Insensible Perspiration and hence become Sarviceable in Rhuematick Scorbutic and Scrophulous disorders Particularly if the Patient is of a Cold Phlegmatic Temperament as also in Gleets and in other Ill consequences of a Weak Relaxed State of the Solids Twenty or 30 Drops may be taken 2 or 3 Times a day or oftener in any Proper Vehicle as Mint Baum or Coltsfoot or Sassafrass Tea or Cold Water 244 Baume de commanduer ꝶ of dry Peruvian Balsam ʒi Storax in Tears ʒij Benjamin ʒiij Sucotorine Aloes ʒss Myrrh ʒss Olibanum ʒss Angelica Roots ʒss Flowers of St Johns Wort ʒss Spirits of Wine ℥iv let these Stand in a Glass Closely Stopped in the Sun during the Dog Days it is an excellant Balsam when Straind out thorough a Linnen Cloth it his been kept a Secret in some Private Hands under the Title of Balsamum Persicum (Balm of Berne) (Wades Balsam) (Fryars Balsam) Jesuits Drops) It is greatly Recommended in External Applications for healing & Cleansing Wounds and Ulcers even of the Cancerous kind, for discussing Cold Tumours allaying Gouty, Rheumatic and other Old Aches and Pains, Likewise inwardly for Warming & Strengthening the Stomach and Intestines and Expelling flatulencies and Relieving Colicky Complaints outwardly it is Applyd on the Part Cold with a Feather Inwardly it is taken in Wine or Tea or Water may take 20 Drops 245 Traumatic Balsam or Vulnary Balsam.. London Dispeny ꝶ of Benzoine ʒiij Storax Strained ʒiij Balsam of Tolu ʒi Socotorine Aloes ʒss Rectifyed Spirits of Wine ℥iij or ℥iijss digest as much as Possible the Gums then Strain out the Tinture or Balsam This is much of the same Virtues as the last and not any Ways Inferior 246 Traumatic Balsam from the Edenburg Dispensatory ꝶ of Benzoine ʒiij Commonly Called Benjamine (it is a Gum or Resin) Balsam of Peru ʒiss Hepatic Aloes in Powder ʒss Rectify'd Spirits of Wine ℥iij or ℥iijss Digest them in a Sand heat for 3 or 4 day then Strain the Balsam this is not Inferior to either of the Two last tho' not so many Ingredients it is good for Wounds 247 Balsam of Sulphur ꝶ of Linseed Oil or Oil Olive ℥iv flowers of Sulphur ℥i Boil them over a Gentle fire keeping them constantly Stiring until till they come to the thickness of a Balsam the Linseed Oil will sooner disolve the Sulphur than [the] Oil Olive and more agreable to the taste it should be made in a Vessel that will hold 3 or 4 Times the Quantity it Swells so that if it Boils over it is in Danger of Setting the House on Fire (the Balsam made with Barbadoes Tar is made as that with Linseed Oil only Using Tar instead of Oil the Balsam of Sulphur with Linseed Used to be given in Coughs & Consumptions from 10 to 40 Drops they have been found frequently to Offend the Stomach and Parch the Body so ought to be used with Caution the Balsam of Sulphur with Turpentine are made the very same It is very good for Cleansing & healing Old Sores and Running Ulcers 248 Syrup of Ginger ꝶ Race Ginger Grossly Bruised ℥iv Water 3 Pints Let them Steep for three or 4 day then Set it in a Pan Close Coverd and Boil it a Little Strain the Liquor then ad a Sufficient Quantity of Sugar & Boil it up well Skum it while Boyling 249 Green Balsam from (Banyers Dispry) ꝶ of Linseed Oil tbss the finest Verdigrease ʒij Boil them well together until the verdigrease is well dissolved and it becomes a green Balsam This is Used in Contused Wounds and Lacerated Wounds and Also in Gunshot Wounds nothing Exceeds it Mr Mullens the Surgeon Used it when Cut Persons for the Stone 250 Electuarey or Properly Electaries They are chiefly composed of Powders are mixed up with a Little Syrup and so forth made to that thickness that a Little about the Size of a Nutmeg may be taken upon a Knife Point Eleturies are Chiefly the Milder sorts of Drugs used as Alteratives the Stronger Sorts of Medicines are not Proper for this form on Account of the uncertainty of the Dose and likewise disgustful ones dont Sute this form such as Bitters Acrid fetid Drugs neither do the Ponderous Drugs Sute well in Eletaries such as Mercury they that are Heavy are apt to Sink to the Bottom unless they are made very Stiff N B of the lighter sort of Powders Require 3 Times their Weight of Honey to make them into an Electuary or if Syrup be Boild to be as thick as Honey it will take the same Quantity But Syrup of the Common thickness as they are Usually made 2 Times the weight of the Powder will do NB where common Syrup are used it would do well to add a Little Conserve to keep the Electarie for drying too fast When the Powders are a little unpleasant Electaries are best made up with a Little Mucilages it dont Stick to the Mouth so as Syrup &C do if there be a Little Soft extract of Liquorice added to it it makes it more Sweet a Better to take the Quantity of an Electuary made at a Time is seldom less than ℥i or more than ℥iij Gums and Juices as cannot be [disolve] pound to a Powder should be so Softend with something and so mix with the Powder 251 Pectoral Electary ꝶ Conserves of Roses ℥ij Compound Powder of Gum Tragacanth ℥ss Flower of Benzoine ʒi Syrup of Balsam a Sufficient Quantity to make into an Electuary This composition [a] is Intended for those disorders of the Breast as proceed from a Laxity and debility of the Vessels and a thin Acrimonous State of the Fluids it is agreable to the Palate Dose the Quantity of a Nutmeg or more 2 or 3 Times a Day 252 Alexeterial Electuary ꝶ Confection of Kermes ʒi Candied Ginger ʒvi Contrayerva & Vergina Snake Root of each ʒi Syrup of Orange Pills a Sufficient Quantity to make into an Electuary This is Moderately Warm Contrived by Boerhave for Raising & Recruiting the Strength in Low fevers where the Pulse is Sunk and the Patient Languid and Dejected Dose about ʒss every 4 or 5 Hours with any Proper Julep 253 Antepileptic Electary ꝶ Peruvian Bark ℥i Wild Valerian Root ʒij Syrup of Orange Peels a Sufficient Quantity to Reduce into an Electary This Medicine was frequently prescribed by Dr Mead in epileptic Cases with Great Success one Dram is to be taken every Morning and evening for 3 Months together after which to confirm the Cure to Prevent a Relaps the same dose for to be taken for 3 or 4 days before every new and full Moon to Prevent a Relapse for a Considerable Time 254 Antidysenteric Electary ꝶ of Yellow Bees Wax ʒiij Spermaceti ʒij Conserves of Red Roses ℥iss Oil of Almonds ℥ss Balsamic Syrup a Sufficient Quantity Let the Wax and Spermaceti be melted in the Oil over a gentle Fire and then mix with the Conserve and Syrup ... Where Sharp Irritating humours have eroded the Intestines and laid open the Mouth of the Blood Vessels this Soft Healing Electary is one of the most effecatious Remedies Fluxes of long Standing which have been conctracted in the Indies and had not Yeilded to Medicines of the Restringent Kind have Yeilded to this Electary and been cured It Supplies the Natural Mucus of the Bowels that the Flux has Carried off it Heals the Excoriations and Obtunds the Acrimonious Humours 255 Alterative Electary ꝶ of Crude Antimony finely levigated ʒiij Resin of Guaiacum ʒij Oil of Sassafrass 6 Drops Conserves of Red Roses ℥iss Syrup of Balsam a Sufficient Quantity Grind the Resin and the Levigated Antimony well together and Drop the Oil on a Little Sugar Rub them well together along with the Conserve then ad the Syrup by little and Little until it is of a Right thickness, This is as an Effectual Medicine as can be contrive in this form against Cutanious foulnesses, Obstructions of the Glands, and impurity of the Blood and Juices the Dose is the Quantity of a Nutmeg every Morning & Evening with a Little Lime Water or a Proper Diet Drink 256 Aromatic Electary ꝶ of the Aromatic Species ʒiss Conserves of Lavender ℥ij Syrup of Orang Peel a Sufficient Quantity make into an Electary This Warm Cordial Medicine is of Good Use in Nervous Complaints and decays of Constitution Dose a Bit as large as a Nutmeg 2 or 3 Times a day with a Glass of Wine or any other Proper Liquor 257 Balsam Electary ꝶ of Locatelli's Balsam ℥ij Conserves of Red Roses ℥iij Balsamic Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make into an Electary This composition is Looked upon to be as good an Internal Vulnary as any and is Recommend in Coughs where there is a Susspition of Tubercles or Ulcerations of the longs the Dose is ʒss to be Repeated as oft as Urgency of the Symptom Requires it [an] if the Balsam of Sulphur added to it should be thought necessary may add ℥ss to the above Electary 258 Deobstruent Electary ꝶ of Gum Amoniacum ʒi Hard Soap ... ʒi Powderd Squils ℈i Conserves of Orange Pill ℥ss Syrup of Ginger a Sufficient Quantity to make it into an Electary Where Breast are oppressed by thick Phlegm or the Vicera Obstructed this Electary taken 2 or 3 Times a Day in the Quantity of a Nutmeg at a Time is of Singular Sarvice it Desolves and Attenuates the Vicid Humours opens the Small Vessels and Promotes all the Natural Secretions 259 Chalybeat Electary ꝶ Salt of Steel ʒij Candied Nutmeg .. ℥ss Oil of Cinnamon 5 drops Conserves of Orange Peel ℥i Balsamic Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make into an Electary This Electary is contrived to Warm & invigorate the Habit Restoreing a due tone the Vessels and to Promote the Circulation when weak and Languid and in Phlegmatic Pale Complexions it is an excellent Strengthener and Restorative but ought never to be used in Sanguine Constitutions where the vessels are full and Distended the dose is the Bulk of a Nutmeg about twice a day moderate Excercise ought to accompany its Use 260 Emmenagogue eletary ꝶ Salt of Steel ʒij Saffron ʒss Conserves of Wood Sorrel ℥ij Syrup of Ginger a Sufficient Quantity 261 or ꝶ Black Hellebore ʒiij Myrrh ʒij Conserves of Scurvy Grass ℥ij Syrup of Ginger a Sufficient Quantity to Reduce them into an Electary Both these are good in Chlorotic disorders and Suppression of Uterine Discharges the Dose the Size of a Small Nutmeg twice a day 262 Incrassating Electary ꝶ Gum Tragacanth ℥i Pulp of Fresh Comfry Root ℥i Conserves of Mallows ℥ss Syrup of Marsh Mallows a Sufficient Quantity this is to be taken 3 or 4 Times a day Thickens Watery thin Humours of the Blood &C good in tickling Coughs & heat of Urine about the Size of a Nutmeg along with Milk Diet Incrassates thin Serous Humours, Obtunds their Acrimony and irritating Quality and Checks the immoderate heat and motion of the Blood these properties render it highly beneficial in Hectick disorders in Coughs proceeding from thin tickling Rheums in fluxes and heat of Urine where the natural mucus of the Parts are upbraided 263 Pectoral Eletary Cheap Electary for Sheathing of those humours wch fret & decay the Long &C Good to Cut Phlegm ꝶ of Starch ʒvi Powder'd Liquorice ʒiv Florence Orice Root in Powder ʒij Conserves of Roses ℥ss Oil of Aniseeds 10 Drops Balsamic Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make it into an Electary This is Calculated not only for Sheathing Acrimonous humours but likewise for Strengthening the Pulmonary Vessels and Promoting the expectoration of such Phlegm as without some Assistance of this kind could not easily be voided or gotten up may take it Occationally to the Size of a Nutmeg 264 Paralytic Electary ꝶ of Mustard Seed and Conserves of Rosemary Tops of each ℥i Compound Spirits of Lavenders ʒij Beat the Mustard Seed with a Little Water that the Pulp may be Pressed through a Hair Sieve then mix it with the Conserves and Spirits for an Electary This is a very Efficatious Medicine for Paralytic Disorders Tremors and Numbness of Limbs the decays accompanying Old Age and in all Cases where the Solids require to be Stimulated or... Sluggish Stagnant Juices to be Put in Motion It should be taken every Morning and Evening or Oftener to the bulk of a Large Nutmeg in a Glass of Wine or Proper Julep After it 265 Peruvian Electary ꝶ Extract of Peruvian Bark Bark ℥i Extract of Logwood ℥ss Extract of Liquorice ℥ss (or Spanish Juice) Commonly Called so might do Mucilage of Quince Seed as much as as is Sufficient for an Electary this is a very agreable form for exhibiting the Bark to those who are offended at its Taste the Substance here joined with effectual Covering its Taste and Coincide with its Virtues it is very Pleasant it may be given in either Bolus or Electuary the Dose ʒi or it may be dissolved in any Sutable Liquor in a Draught 266 An Acid Purgative Electary ꝶ Pulp of Tamarinds ℥ij Christal of Tartar ʒij make them into an Electary This is Excellant mild Cooling Laxative in hot Bilious Disposition or Inflamatory Disseases the Bulk of a Nutmeg may be taken every hour until it Operate or you may take it oftener the same Quantity may be taken Once a Day Occationally in Dry Costive Habits of Body 277 Cooling Electary ꝶ Conserves of Wood Sorrel ℥i Pulp of Tamarinds ℥ss Weak Spirits of Vitriol a Sufficient Quantity to give it a Grateful Acid Taste Syrup of the Juice of Lemons a Sufft Quantity to make it into a Soft Electary In hot Fevers and Inflamatory Distempers when the Mouth is dry and Parched this is Very good take the Size of a Filbert and let it dissolve in your Mouth it will Cool and Moisten it and may be taken any Time 278 Acid Electary ꝶ of Conserves of Wood Sorrel ℥iv Creme of Tarter ʒvi Vitriolated Tarter ʒij Syrup of Lemon juice a Sufficient Quantity to form them into an Electary In inflamatory Distempers Proceeding from an Acrid Bile in Putrid Scurys or any disorders Proceeding from Alkalescent State of the Animal Juices this Electary Proves a Useful Cooler Aperient and Laxative the Quantity of a Nutmeg ma 2:3: or 4 Times a day 279 Antidysenteric Electary ꝶ of the Strengthening Confection ℥i Locatellis Balsam ℥ss Choice Rhubarb ʒij Syrup of Marshmallows a Sufficient Quantity to make it into an Electary dissolve the Balsam in the Yolk of an Egg then mix it with the other Ingredients This electary is well contrived for the Cure of Dysenteries as it tends not only to moderate the discharge but likewise to ease the Gripes which always accompanies this Distemper and to heal the excoriations of the Bowels the Rhubarb at the same Time in some Measure Guarding against a Dangerous retention or Accumulation of the Morbid humours but it is thought best to take 2 or 3 full Doses of Rhubarb and then begin with this Electary take the Size of a Nutmeg 2 or 3 Times a Day According as the Urgency of the Symptoms 280 Balsamic Electary ꝶ Conserves of Roses ℥ij Locatellis Balsam ℥i Dissolve the Balsam in the Yolk of an Egg then mix the Conserve with the Egg This Electary is used in such Coughs and disorders of the Breast as gives Suspition of any Internal Ulcerations in the Vomica or Suppuration in in the Stomach, which sometimes happens after Dysenteries, and where there is an erosion or Rupture of the Blood Vessels as in hœonoptoes in these Cases the Size of a Nutmeg is to be taken 2 or 3 Times a Day 281 Cephalic Electary ꝶ of Wild Valerian Root ℥i Misletoe of the Oak ℥i Simple Syrup or the Syrup of Ginger a Sufficient Quantity make them into an Electary the Bulk of a large Nutmeg of this Electary it is Given 3 or 4 Times a day in Epilepsies Virtigoes and other like Complaints the Valerian is the Thing to be Most depended on 282 Chalybeate Electary ꝶ of Rust of Steel ʒvi Candied Ginger ℥i Conserves of Orange Peel ℥iij Syrup of Orange Pill as much as will form the above into an Electary This Elegant Chalybeate Electary is given to good Advantage not only in Cachetic and Chlorotic Cases and Menstrual Obstructions but likewise in low Hysterics and Melancholic disorders and for Warming and invigorating the Habit in great Debilities and decays of Constitution in either of these Intentions the Bulk of Nutmeg may be taken twice a day & its Effects be Promoted by Moderate Exercise 283 Electary for Gonerrhœa ꝶ Lenitive Electary ℥ij Jalap ʒij Nitre ʒi Simple Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make into Electary 284 ꝶ Lenitive Electary ℥ij Balsam Capavia ℥i Rhubarb Gum Guaiacum Nitre of each ʒvi Syrup of Orange Peel a Sufficient Quantity to form them into an Electary No 283 is a Cooling Laxative or Gentle Purgative Medicine Calculated for the for the Relief of Inflamations [of the] and Tension of the Uriany Passages a ʒiss may be taken every Morning and Evening No 284 is designed for the Strengthening the Parts after the Virulence is [Epeld] Expelled and the Heat and Inflamation have Ceased the bulk of a Nutmeg may be taken 2 or 3 Times a day 285 Electuary of Gum Guaiacum ꝶ Gum Guaiacum ʒvi Compound Powder of Arum ʒvi Canella Alba ʒvi Conserves of Scurvy Grass ℥ii Syrup of Orange Peel a Sufficient Quantity to make it of a Proper Consistance In Chronical Rhuematisms Pains and Aches in general that are not Accompanied with [I] inflamations, and some kind of Paralytic Numbness This Warm Stimulating Electary has frequently good effects especially if Properly Assisted by other Remedies the Quantity of a Nutmeg to be taken Twice a Day 286 Electary of Black Hellebore ꝶ of Black Hellebore Root ℥ss Compound Powder of Myrrh ℥ss Extract of Savin ℥ss Canna Alba ʒij Syrup of Orange Pill a Sufficient Quantity to make ye Ingredients into an Electary This Electary is Calculated to Promote the Natural evacuations from the Uterus for this purpose in plethoric Sanguine Temperament it is a Medicine of Great Power but it dont do so well in Lax Phlegmatic Constitutions Dose is ʒss 287 Lenitive Electary ꝶ Polypody Roots ℥iij Sena ℥ij Pulp of French Prunes lb i Pulp of Casia Fistularis lbss Pulp of Tamarinds tbss Corriander half an Ounce White Sugar 4 Pound Water 6 Pints Boil the Polypody in the Water until 2 Pints be Wasted add towards the end the Senna & Corriander seeds then Strain of the Liquor then Boil it again with the Sugar to the Consistance of a thick Syrup which is to be mixed with with the Pulp into an Electary this is taken to the Bulk of a Nutmeg [in] or Walnut or more as Gentle Laxative in Costive Habits it is frequently Used in Compounding opening Electaries 289 Electary of Peruvian Bark ꝶ of Peruvian Bark ℥i Cascarilla ʒiss Syrup of Orange Pill a Sufficient Quantity this is Contrived for common Itermittent Fevers Dose the Size of a Nutmeg as often as required 290 ꝶ Peruvian Bark ℥iss Virginia Snake Root ℥ss Syrup of Orange Peels a Sufficient Quanty 291 ꝶ Peruvian Bark ℥iss Crude Salt Ammoniac ʒiss Syrup of Lemon Juice a Sufficient Quantity These two last are given in those Itemittants which happen in a Cachetic Habits and Persons Subject to Obstructions of Vicera Dose the Bulk of a Nutmeg 292 ꝶ Peruvian Bark ℥iss Colcathar of Vitriol ʒiij Simple Syrup a Sufficient Quantity This is a good Strengthener in Laxities of the Solids and decays of Constitution Dose the same as the last 293 ꝶ Peruvian Bark ℥iss Alum ℥ss Syrup of Lemon Juice a Suffict Quantity the Dose the Size of a Nutmeg this is a Powerful Syptic in fluxes & Hamorrhages Particularly in Diabetes and and fluor Albus 294 Electary of Sulphur ꝶ Flowers of Sulphur ℥ss Lenitive Electary ℥ij Syrup of Marsh Mallows a Sufficient Quantity This is orderd for the Piles where the disorder is Accompanied with Febrile or Inflamatory disorders some Nitre is Occationally added in the in the Quantity of ʒij to the above the Dose from a Dram to ℥ss 295 Stomach Elixer ꝶ Gentian Root ℥i or ℥i ʒi Seville Orange Peel ʒvi Cochineal Grains 16 or 18 Proof Spirit One Pint let them Sleep together for 2 or 3 days then Strain out This is a ver elegant and good Stomach Bitter and is given as such in Loss of Appetite Indigestion and other like Complaints to the Quantity of a Spoonful or ℥ss at a Time 296 Elixer of Vitriol ꝶ of the above Stomach Elixer ℥iss Oil of Vitriol ℥ss Drop the Vitriol by Little and Little into the Stomach Elixer and then filter the mixture through Paper In great Weaknesses or relaxation of the Stomach Particularly those who Proceed from Debauches or high living or where there is any Tendancy to Inflamation this Acid Elixer is a Medicine of Great Sarvice and has done Cures when Bitters have failed the Dose is 30 Drops to be taken twice a Day in any Proper Vehicle 297 Aromatic Wine ꝶ of Colves and Ginger ʒi of each Cinnamon & Nutmegs of each ʒij Canary Wine 1 Pint and a half Beat the Spices into a Coarse Powder then Put them into the Wine for some days then Strain out this is a very high Cordial and greatly commended for Warming the Habit and Strengns the Nervous System It is so Hot of the Spices that it cannot be taken but in Small Quantitys without Deluting being mixed with a Little Lemon Juice and a Large Proportion of Milk it forms a Useful Pleasant Whey in Low fevers 298 Hartshorn Gelley ꝶ of Hartshorn Shavings half a Pound Water 3 Quarts White Sugar Cand in Powder 6 Ounces Mountain Wine 1 Quarter of a Pint Orange or Lemon Juice One Ounce, Boil the Hartshorn [until] in the Water by a Gentle heat in a Well Glazed earthen Vessel until 2 Parts are Wasted Strain out the Liquor add to it the other Ingredients and Boil the whole over a Gentle fire to the Consistance of a Soft Gelly this is an agreable nutritious animal Gelley and Possesses the General Virtues of the Substance of that Class it is Occationally made Use of in Fevers 299 Decoction of the Woods ꝶ of Guaiacum Shavings ℥iij Raisins of the Sun Stoned ℥ij Sassafras Wood Shaved ℥i Liquorice Root Sliced ℥ss Water 1 Gallon Boil the Guaiacum and Raisins with the Water over a Gentle Fire to the Consumption of one half adding towards the end the Sassafras and Liquorice Strain it out and let it Stand to Settle a Little then Pour of the Clear from the Feces This Decoction is very well Contrived and if its use is Duly Continued it will do great Service in Scorbutic and Cutanious disorders foulness of the Blood and Juices and some disorders of the Breast Particular in Cold phlegmatic Habits it may be taken by it Self in the Quantity of 1 Quarter of a Pint two or 3 Times a day or used as an Assistant in a Course of Mercurials or --- Antimonial Alteratives the Person in either Case keeping Warm in order to promote the opperation of the Medicine 300 Pectoral Decoction ꝶ of Common Barley ℥ij Stoned Raisins ℥ij Figs ... ℥ij Liquorice ℥ss Water 4 Pints first Boil the Water with the Barley then add the Raisins and lastly just before the end of the Process Add the Figs and Liquorice let them all Boil till there will be about 2 Pints of the Strained Liquor 301 Nitrous Decoction ꝶ of Pure Nitre ℥ss White Sugar ℥ij Cocheneal ℈i Water 2 Pints and a half Boil it to two Pints then let Rest for some Time then Pour of the Clear the Dose is 3 or 4 Ounce 302 Green Oil ꝶ Bay Leaves Rue Marjoram Sea wormwood Camomile Leaves of : each ℥i Bruise these all in a Morter then Put them to 3/4 of a Pint of Oil Olive or Gillepolla Oil Boil them Gentle till the Herbs a Crisp then Strain out 303 Carmanative Juleps ꝶ Fennel Seed Water ℥vj Compound Juniper Water ℥ij Syrup of Clove Gilly Flowers ℥ss or Jamaica Pepper Water ℥vj Compound Anniseed water ℥ij Syrup of Orange Peel ℥ss ꝶ Dill seed water ℥vi Compound Carraway Seed Water ℥ij Syrup of Ginger ℥ss 304 Hysteric Juleps Simple Penny Royal Water ℥iii [Cardmom Seed Water] ℥ij Compound Spts of Lavender 304 Hysteric Juleps No 1 ꝶ Simple penny royal water ℥iij Castor Water ℥iij Spiritous Penny Royal Water ℥ij Simple Syrup ʒij 2 ꝶ Simple Aleseterial Water ℥vi Cardimum Seed Water ℥ij Compound Spirits of Lavender ʒi Spirits Volatile Aromat ʒi 305 Stomach Julep No 1 ꝶ Simple Mint Water ℥vi Spiritous Mint Water ℥ij Syrup of Saffron ʒij 2 ꝶ Tincture of Mint ℥vi Cardimum seed Water ℥ij Syrup of Sugar ℥ss 3 ꝶ Simple Cinnamon Water ℥vi Nutmeg Water ℥i Stomach Tincture ℥i Syrup of Orange peel ℥ss any of these Juleps may be taken to 5 or 6 Spoonfuls as deluters and Vehicles to other Medicines 306 Diuretic Draughts No 1 ꝶ Oxymel of Squils ʒiss Simple Cinnamon Water ℥i Compound Spts of Lavender ʒi Syrup of Orange Peel ʒi mix them 2 ꝶ Vinegar of Squil ʒi or ʒiss Salt of Wormwood ʒss Lemon Juice ʒvi Simple Cinnamon Water ℥iss Spiritous Peppermint Water ℥ss Syrup of Orange Peel ʒi let the Salt of Wormwood and Lemon Juice be dissolved together then mix the other Ingredients These two last elegant and efficatious Compositions are commended and frequently prescribed by Dr Mead for Promoting Urine in Hydroptic Cases He directs them to be taken Every Night or oftener according as to Urgency of the Symptom the Squils one of the most Powerful Diuretics is by the Addition here joind is more agreable and more [af] Effectual 307 An Anodyne Diuretic Draught ꝶ of Ley of Tarter ʒss Theabaic Tincture 40 Drops Pepper Mint Water ℥i Simple Cinnamon Water ℥ss Spiritous Cinnamon ʒij Syrup of Marsh Mallows ℥i mix them This was used by Dr Mead he prescribed it to a Person Labouring under a Ascites & Timpany at the same Time where the Pain was Intolerable the Thirst Intense and the Urine in very Small Quantitys Strong Purges were Tried in Vain [Soap] and increased the Distemper ye Soap and Alcaline Salts &C all in vain the Patient was thought incurable till this Draught was given him which gave him Sleep and gave him ease from Pain and a Large Discharge of Urine the Medicine was Repeated every 8 Hours for a Little Time and afterwards Using Corrobberants the Cure was Perfectly Compleated 308 A Saline Antiemetic Mixture ꝶ Salts of Wormwood ʒss Lemon Juice ʒvi Simple Cinnamon Water ℥i Fine Sugar ℈i Mix This is not only good against Vomiting is is a Saline apperient in Jaundice & in Inflamatory Disorders 309 a Cathartic & Diuretic Saline Mixture ꝶ Salt of Tarter ʒij Distilld Vinegar ℥v Cinnamon Water ʒi Fine Sugar ʒij Mix This Mixture Evacuates Plentifully both by Stool and Urine without Griping or fatiguing the Patient it has been given frequently given in Hydroptic Cases One Part is to be taken in the Morning and the other Part in an Hour or two more 310 a Cordial Mixture ꝶ Simple Cinnamon Water ℥iv Spiritous Cinnamon water ℥ij Extract of Saffron ℈i Confection of Kirmis ʒvi mix them together In great Languors and depressions a Spoonful of this Rich Cordial Liquor may be taken every half Hour 311 Anti febrile Decoction ꝶ Virginia Snake Root Bruised Peruvian Bark in Powder of each ʒiij Water 1 Pint Boil them all together to half a Pint having Strained of the Liquor mix with it Spirituous Cinnamon Water ℥iss Syrup of Clove Gilly Flowers ʒij Mix In Putrid Malignant fevers arising from foul Air Crouded Jails or Hospitals this Medicine is given with great Success in the low State of this Dangerous disease when the Pulse before Quick begins to Sink the Stupour to increase and Petechiae to appear it is one of the most effectual Medicines for Supporting this Vis Vitae promoting a Critical Diaphoresis and correcting the Putrid Humours Four Spoonful of the Decoction are to be taken every 4 or 6 Hours and moderate Quantitys of Wine or Cordial Bolus's with Volatile Salts interposd at Proper Intervals 312 Antihectic Decoction ꝶ Comfry Root ℥ss Eryngo Root ℥ss Conserves of Roses ℥ij Dulcifyd Spirits of Vitriol 40 Drops Water 3 Pints Boyl the Water with Roots & Conserves until 1 Pint be Wasted then Strain it then add the Spirits this is given in Hectic Cases where thin Acrimonious Humours abound & in beginning of Consumptions the Dose is 1/4 of a Pint to be taken 2 or 3 Times a Day 313 Astringent Decoction ꝶ of Tormentil Root ℥i Granate Peel ℥ss Plantane Leaves ℥ss Syrup of Dry Roses ℥i Water 3 Pints Boil them all together till One Pint be Wasted towards the Boil a Little Bit of Cinnamon then Strain of and add the Syrup This is given against fluxes when the Morbid matter has been Purged off the Dose is 1/4 of a Pint 3 or 4 Times a day 314 Decoction of Burdock ꝶ Burdock Root ℥ij Vitriolated Tarter ʒi Water 3 Pints Boil the Roots in the Water until it is Wasted to 1 Quart Strain the Liquor then Add the Vitriolated Tarter This Decoction is Drank to the Quantity of one Pint a Day as a Mild Aperient Diuretic and Sweetener in Scorbutic and Rhuematic Complaints 315 Decoction of Logwood ꝶ of the Shavings of Logwood ℥iij Cinnamon ʒij Water 4 Pints Boil the Logwood in the Water till half the Water is Wasted Adding the Cinnamon towards the end of the Boiling then Strain The Dose is 1/4 of a Pint 3 or 4 Times a day it is given is Diarrhœas and other fluxes it is very mild and is more safe than some of the Strong Medicines it will Colour the Stools Red but the Patient should be told that or it may affright them 316 Diuretic Decoctions No 1 ꝶ Parsley or Fennel Root ℥i Wild Carrot Seeds ʒiij Pellatory of the Wall ℥ss Rasins ℥ij Nitre ʒi Water 3 Pints: Boil all the Ingredient together except the Nitre until there is but 2 Pints of Liquor then Strain out then Dissolve the Nitre in the Liquor No 2 ꝶ of Grass Roots ℥ij Sorrel or Woodsorrel leaves 1 handful Tamarinds ℥iss Nitre ʒij Barley Water 3 Pints Boil all the in the Barley Water until 1 Pint is Wasted then adding towards the end the Sorrel Tamarinds & Nitre then Strain out the Apozem 3 ꝶ of Marshmallow Roots fresh lbi Fennel Roots lbss Nitre ℥ss Water 1 Gallon Boil the Water with the Roots till 1 Quart is Wasted then Strain the Liquor and then Dissolve the Nitre These 3 last Cooling Liquors are used as common Drink in Dissorders of the Kidneys or Rains as the Stone & Gravel they may be taken with great Safety and often with good Effect in Inflamatory Cases where the Hot Diuretics would sometimes would do hurt 317 Peruvian Decoction ꝶ of Peruvian Bark in Powder ℥ij Water 3 Pints Boil them till 1 Pint is wasted then Strain of the Decoction for Use this Decoction should be Passed through a Coarse Strainer 318 Vulnary Decoction ꝶ of the Herb Ground Ivy Plantane Leaves white Sugar of each ℥ss water 3 Pints Boil the Water & Leaves till 1 Pint is Wasted Strain it out then add the Sugar This is very good for internal Contusions and Ulcerations of Coughs and Pulmonary Phthisis proceeding from Bruises or from a freting of the Viscera by Sharp Humours it may be drank to the Quantity of a Pint a day 319 Anodyne Fomentation ꝶ Garden Poppey heads ℥i Elder flowers ℥ss Water 3 Pints Boil them till 1 Pint is Wasted then Strain out the Liquor This is used to Tumified and to Inflamed Parts as the Piles &C and is of Great Use 320 Sore Mouth Astringent Gargarism ꝶ oak Bark ℥i Alum ℥i Honey of Roses ℥i Water 1 1/2 Pint Boil the Oak in the Water till 1 half Pint in Wasted then Strain out then add the Alum & honey 321 Common Gargarism ꝶ Tincture of Roses 1/4 of a Pint Honey of Roses ℥ss Mix 322 ꝶ Water ℥vi Nitre ʒi Honey of Roses ℥i mix where Accid are required drop about 30 or 40 Drops of Weaks Spirits of Vitriol to this mixture 323 Detergent Gargarism ꝶ of Emollient Decoction 1 Pint Tincture of Myrrh ℥i Honey ℥iss Mix them 324 Emollient Gargarism Sore Mouth ꝶ Marsh Mallows Root ℥ij Figs No 4 Water 3 Pints Boil them till 1 Pint is Wasted these are Used for Washing the Mouth and Fauces No 320 where the Parts are very much Relaxed 321: 322: 323 are Used when Ulcerations require to be deterged or the excretion of thick Spittle Promoted & 324 and this is Use when the Mouth is Dry and Parched and Rigid to Moisten and Soften it in some Cases Volatile Spirits may be of Service when Joind to these forms of Preparations Dr Pringle Inform: us that Inflamatory Quinceys or Strangulating of the Fauces he has Observed but Little Benefit from Common Gargles that Such as were of an Acid Nature did more hurt than Good by Contracting the Emunctories of the Salvia or Spittle and thickening those Humours, that a Decoction of Figs in Milk & Water seem'd to have a Contrary effect especially if a Little Spirit of Sal Amoniac was added by which the Salvia or Spittle was made to run thinner and the Glads made to Secrete more freely a Circumstance always Conducive to the Cure 325 A Diaphoretic Draught A Powerful Sweat in the beginning of Inflamatory Fevers After Bleeding it is very Cooling ꝶ of Spirits of Mindereries ℥ss Syrup of meconium commonly Called Diacodium ℥ss Salts of Hartshorn 5 Grains Mix This Draught is a very Powerful One to Creat a Sweat more Certain in the intentions than those Medicines in Solid forms, in the beginning of Inflamatory Fevers after Bleeding it is one of the Surest Febrifuges The Theriaca and other Warm Substances that are usually employ'd if they fail of bringing out a Sweat increase the Fever But this Saline Draught does not so but operates without Heat 326 Diuretic Draughts For Dropsies where a discharge of Urine is Useful ꝶ of Diuretic Salt ℈ij Oxymel of Squils 1 Dram by Measure Water ℥iss mix them together This is given in Dropsies where a plentiful flux of Urine is of primary Consequence to the Cure 327 A Powerful diuretic when the Uriny Passages are Stop'd ꝶ of Tincture of Cantharides 15 drops Salts of Wormwood ʒss Lemon Juice ʒvi Simple penny royal Water ℥iss Syrup of Sugar ʒij Mix This Draught is only used when the Uriny Passages are Obstructed by Viscid Mucus and where Medicines of a Less Stimulating Quality have been Tried without Success 328 Anti scorbutic Infusion Against Scurvy ꝶ of Buck bean Leaves ℥ij Seville Orange Peel half an Ounce Compound Horseradish Water ℥iv Common Water 4 Pints let the Common Water be Pourd Boiling hot on the Buck bean & Orange then let it stand in a Close Vessel all Night then Strain out the Liquor & Add to it the Horse Radish Water This Infusion is a Very Useful and Sufficiently elegant Anti scorbutic Buck bean has been proved by experience to be one of the most Efficatious Herbs of that Class the Ingredients Joind helps is ill Flavour and at the same time promotes its Virtues 1/4 of a Pint may be taken 3 or 4 Times a Day 329 Cephalic Infusion headach ꝶ of Wild Valerian Root ℥ij Rosemary or Sage ℥ss Aromatic Water ℥iv Common Water 4 Pints let the [Boiling] Common Water be Poured Boiling hot on the Root & Herb and let them Stand in a Close Vessel all Night then Strain out then ad the Aromatic Water In epiliptic Disorders an other like affections of the Nervous System this Infusion has frequently good effects the Dose is 1/4 of a Pint to be taken twice a Day 330 Diuretic Infusion Against Dropsy or Jaundice by long continuance of bilious Fevers or Irregular Intermitants ꝶ of Wormwood Leaves dried ℥ss Salts of Tarter ℈ij Compound Juniper Water ℥iiij Common Water 12 Ounces Pour on the Boiling Water on the Wormwood and Salt of Tarter and when Grown Cold Strain it out then Add the Juniper Water a long continuance of Bilious Fever or Frequent Relapses in them brings on Obstructions of the Viscera which end in a Dropsy or Jaundice or irregular Intermittents in these Cases this Aperient Alcaline Liquor is one of the most Efficatious Remedies the quantity here prescribed is to be taken every day in 3 Dosses and a Purgative occationally interpos'd if Itermittent Fevers Return after the the Cure of other disorders they are then Successfully Treated by the Barks Preparations of this kind are very good as Dr Mead observes there is more discharged by the Kidneys than some Suppose 331 Infusion of Linseed A Cheap Infusion where there is a thin Sharp Rhuem that Causes a Cough ꝶ of Linseed Whole 2 Spoonful Liquorice Shaved ℥ss Boiling Water 4 Pints let them infuse by the fire for some Hours then Strain out sometimes add Coltsfoot This Muciliginous Liquor is of Service where there is a thin Coroding Rhuem which Causes a Cough the Dose a Pint a Day 332 Paralytic Infusion For Palsy or Scurvy ꝶ Horse Redish Root Saved ℥iv Mustard Seed Bruised ℥iv Boiling Water 4 Pints let them Steep in a Close Vessel 24 Hours it is a good Stimulating Medicine in Paralytic Complaints it is also good in Scorbutic disorders it usually promotes a discharge by Urine and if the Patient keep warm promotes perspiration the Dose half a Pint to be taken twice a day 333 Ammoniacum Julep Against Coughs Asthma's when the Pipes are Stuffed ꝶ of Milk of Ammoniacum called Lac Ammoniacum ℥iv Syrup of Squils ℥iij mix them together This is a Powerful Medicine is Asthmas and Coughs of the most obstinate kind and also in oppressions of the Stomach Ammoniacum is a most Powerful Drug and does frequently much Service the Dose 2 Spoonful twice a day 334 Diaphoretic Julep For Rheumatic Pains or Pains in the Bones through: Colds A Good Sweat ꝶ of Alixeterial Water ℥iv Spirits of Mindererus ℥ij Salts of Hartshorn 10 Grains White Sugar ʒvi Mix them for a Julep Take of it till Sweat comes freely This is a very Powerful Sudorific and a good Composition answers the end better than many others for the same Purpose where a Copious Sweat is required as in Rheumatisms &C take 2 Spoonfuls in Bed every Hour or two if Warm diluting Liquors will not keep up the Sweat The same Julep must be Repeated 335 Acid Diuretic Julep Inflamations Pluerisies ꝶ Alixeterial Water ℥iiij Treacle Vinegar ℥ij Tincture of Saffron ℥ss Spirits of Amber ʒi White Sugar ℥i Mix them The Acid Quality of this Renders it good in inward Inflamations as in Pluerisies & Peripneumonies the Dose 2 Spoonful every 2 or 3 hours 336 Diuretic Julep Promotes Discharge by Urine or Stool or Sweat good in Dropsys & Inflamatory Cases ꝶ Spirits on Mindereri ℥iiij Compound Horse Radish Water ℥ij Syrup of Marsh Mallow ℥iij Mix them The Spirits of Mindereri is an excellent Aperient Saline Liquor capable of promoting a Discharge either by Cutanious Pores or by the Uriny Passages according to the manner of exhibbiting it we have seen already that when taken Warm in Bed it proves a Powerful Sudorific especially if Assisted by Volatile Salts or small Doses of Opiates if the Patient Walk about in Cool Air it operates Gently but for the most part Effectually by [stool] Urine the Addition her joined with it makes it Move by Urine without any heating it makes it in Service in Dropseys and likewise in Inflamatory Disorders Dose 2 Spoonful 3 Times a day 337 Hydragogue Julep A Safe Purge in Dropsys ꝶ Camomile Flowers Water ℥vi Emetic Tarter Grains 10 Syrup of Buckthorn ℥ij mix them together Two Spoonful of this Julep are given in Hydroptic Cases or Dropsycal disorders every 2 hours til it takes Sufficient effect as a Purgative this it Generally does before the Quantity here prescrib'd is taken the Emetic Tarter thus exhibited in small Doses and frequently repeated Generally proves a Certain and powerful Cathartic as it does an Emetic when given in Large Quantitys at Once, it Operates nevertheless with Sufficient ease or rarely Weakens or Fatigues the Patient so much as some other Purges which does not occation so large a Discharge 338 Milk impregnated with Iron An Asstringent good in Diabates Diarrheas & Dysentery Take One Pint of new Milk Quench in it Red hot Iron Repeat it until 1 Quarter of the Milk be Wasted This is a very good Asstringent Medicine Useful in Diabetes Diarrheas & Dysenterys it is given twice a Day 1/4 of a Pint at a Time 339 Liquid Laudanum ꝶ Opium ʒij Aromatic Water ℥iiss Digest with a gentle heat until the opium is dissolved then Strain out the Prove Spirit prove a good Menstruum for the Drug as it totally dissolves it but in long keeping the Opium Seperates so you cannot judge of its Streng there is about one grain of Opium in 25 Drops and in the Tincture Thebaica in the London Dispensitory there is 1 Grain of Opium in 20 Drops 340 Mictures against Phthisis No 1 1st Coughs Consumptions when the Lungs have Ulcers see remarks on the next page ꝶ of Balsam of Copaiba ʒi Common Water ℥iv Spiritous Cinnamon Water ℥i Syrup of Orange Peel ℥ss Let the Balsam be dissolve in a Proper quantity of the Yolk of Egg then mix it it with the other Ingredients 2 2d Cough by thin Rhuem ꝶ Thebaic Extract 1 Grain Conserves of Roses ʒss Mix them for a Bolus 3 3d Coughs making Restless Nights ꝶ of Oxymel of Squils ʒiss Thebaic Tincture 15 Drops Spiritous Cinnamon Water ʒij Common Water ℥ij Mix them together Remarks on several sorts of Coughs and Consumptions & 3 last Receipts In an Advanced State of a Consumption we may distiguish two sorts of Coughs on Occationed by Ulcers and the other by a thin Rheum falling upon the Fauces or uper part of the Gullet & Tachea which Parts being then deprived of there become extreemly Sensible to Irritation It is this last kind Parhaps which is most Painful and Tearing to the Patient the same Medicine is not Proper for both... First sort requires Balsamic's if the ulcer is open and the Matter can be Expectorated, for this Purpose the first of these are a very Elegant form Take two Spoonful at a Time Twice a day if the Balsam should Purge Add ʒij of Elixer Peregoric to the Whole Mixture and it will Prevent that Effect The Second sort of Coughs can only Palliated by Incrassent Medicines (that is to say Thickening Medicines) and for that Purpose the second [cross out] of these Compositions [are] is a most Successful Medicine the Conserves of Roses are altogether safe and fit for the disease but of Weak Virtues the Opiate is most Powerful but must be Used with Caution for Opiates bind and heat the Body and hinder Expectoration As these bad Qualities are in good Measure Corrected by Squils as seen as the Patient begins to Complain of Restless Nights by Coughing the 3d Mixture may be Usefully exhibitted at bed Time 341 Valerian Mixture Good for Falling Sickness and swimming Dizziness in the head it is Cheap ꝶ Simple Peppermint Water ℥xij Wild Valerian Root in Powder ℥i Compound Spirits of Lavender ℥ss Syrup of Orange Peel ℥i Mix them together Wild Valerian Root in Powder is more Powerful then in Tincture or Infusion this Mixture is of Great Sarvice in Epilepsies and Vertigoes 2 Spoonful of this Mixture may be taken 2 or 3 Times a day 341 Deobstruent Chalybeate Pills ꝶ Socotorine Aloes ʒi Extract of Black Hellebore ʒi Salt of Steel ... ʒi Galbanum ʒi Myrrh ʒi Syrup of Sugar as Much as is Sufficient Beat them into a Mass of Pills 12 Pills in a Dram the larges Dose four Pills 342 Purging Deobstruent Pills ꝶ Sucotorine Aloes ʒij Extract of Black Hellebore ʒij Scammony ʒij Vitriolated Tarter ℈i & 3 Grains Essensial Oil of Juniper Berries 12 Grains Syrup of Buckthorn a Sufficient Quantity to make these into a Mass of Pills 12 Pills in a Dram 4 or 6 Pill is a large Dose 343 Gum Pills ꝶ of Assafetida: Wood Soot Myrrh of each ʒii Oil of Amber 14 Grains Syrup of Sugar a Sufficient Quantity mix into Pills Make 1 Dram into 12 Pills the largest Dose is 4 Pills twice a day 344 Laxative Mercuriel Pills ꝶ of Pill Coccia: Gum Ammoniaccum of each ʒi Quick Silver ʒiss: Thin Honey a Sufficient Quantity Grind the Quick Silver & Honey till they are Perfectly well Incorporated then Add the other Ingredients and mix them well together Dose ʒss or 20 Grains every other day 345 Pacific Pills ꝶ of Galbanum: Myrrh White Soape of each ʒij Opium ʒi Syrup of Sugar a Sufficient Quantity make them into Pills 8 Grains of Pill Contains 1 Grain of Opium 346 Pectoral Pills ꝶ Gum Ammoniacum ʒiss: Myrrh ʒi Balsam of Sulphur with Turpentine ℈ss Syrup of Marsh Mallows a Suffficient Quantity make them into Pills make 1 Dram into 12 Pills the largest Dose is 4 Pills twice a day 347 Scillitic Pills ꝶ of fresh Squils ʒij Gum Ammoniacum ʒij: Lesser Cardimum Seeds ʒij Beat them together into a Mass of Pills Make 12 Pills of a Dram 3 Pills are a large Dose twice a day 348 Stomach Pills ꝶ of Sucotorine Aloes ʒiss Gum Ammoniacum ʒss Myrrh ʒss Vitriolated Tarter 15 Grains Essential Oil of Mint 4 Grains Syrup of Sugar a Sufficient Quantity make into Pills Dose 6 Pills Emulsions Are white Milky Liquors generally prepared by grinding the Oily Seeds of Plants or Kernels of Fruits along with common Water on any agreable Simple or Spiritous Distilled Waters In this Process the Oil of the Subject by the Mediation of the other Matter, United with the Aqueous (ie Watery) Fluid and hence they Possess some Share of the Emollient Virtue of the Pure Oil with this Advantage they are agreable to the Palate, not apt to turn Rancid or Acrimonous by the Heat of the Body (which the Pure Oil in some Inflamatary Cases may do) and likewise by the Oil being thus intimately comebined with the Aqueous or Watery Vehicle Passes easyer and further into the Habit Emulsions besides the use as Medicines themselves are Excellent Vehicles for Certain Substance which cannot be otherwise exhibbited in a Liquid Form Thus Camphor Rub'd well in a Morter with Sweet Almonds very Readily Unite and will by puting in of a Little Water mix well & form an Emulsion and in this Form the Caphore is Conveyed into the Remotest Part of the Body with Sufficient efficacy to answer intentions of Moment at the same Time that its heat and Pungency are Softened by the Unctuosity of the Almonds Several of the Gummy resins as Ammoniacum, Galbanum, Myrrh and others may be Reduced into Emulsions or Milky Liquors by Rubbing with Water The Resinous Juices Balsams Turpentine &C are Dissolved by putting into the Yolk of an Egg and after they have been a very little Time in the Yolk of an Egg will easily mix with Water and is often Used with great Success in veneral Disorders of the Uriny Passages 349 Common Emulsion or Arabic Emulsion ꝶ Sweet Almonds Blanched (that is the brown Skin Taken of) 1 Ounce Gum Arabic ℥ss Double Refind Sugar 3/4 of an Ounce Barley Water 2 Pints dissolved the Gum in the Barley Water when it is thoroughly grown Cold pour it by little and Little upon the Almonds and Sugar Observe the Almonds & Sugar must be beaten togeather before you put the Water to it and then as before Ad the Water Grind all togeather in a Morter then Strain out when it is Turnd Milky you must take Care that the Almonds are Quite fresh not Turnd Rancid as is very oft the Case by long keeping then they are hurtful as this Medicine is taken in Large Quantitys Its Use for diluting and Obtunding Acrimonus Humours Particularly Sharp Humours in the Uriny Passages as Strangury &C by using sharp Medicines as Cantharides & by Blisters Dose 1/2 Pint or more at a Time & drank frequently 350 Lac Ammoniacum Stuffing of the Lungs ꝶ Gum Ammoniacum ʒij Simple Penny Royal Water half a Pint Grind the Gum Ammoniacum [until the] with the Water in Coughs and Asthmas in a Morter untill it dissolves This Liquor is employ'd with good Success for attenuating Tough Phlegm and Promote Expectoration, in humoural Asthmas Coughs and Obstructions of the Viscera it may be given in the Dose of an Ounce or two Occationally Repeated on dissolving Gums and Resins Several other Gummy Resinous Bodies as Myrrh may by a like Treatment be excellantly fitted for Medicinal Purposes there Whole Substance being thus dissolved into a Milky Liquor Boluses how to make Boluses Boluses differ very little from Electarys being only somewhat Stiffer This form is very Convenient for the exhibition of the more Powerful Drugs which require their dose to be exactly adjusted as the Stronger Alexipharmacs Cathartics and Opiates as Boluses are Chiefly intended for Immediate Use, Volatile Salts and other Materials which if the Mass was to be kept would exhale or Swell it are frequently admitted into them the Quantity of a Bolus should not exceed light powders best made up with Syrup 2 Drams The lighter Powders are made up with Syrup ʒss of the Powder, that of Bark for Instance with as much Syrup will bring it to a fit form heavy Powders best made up with Conservs The more heavy Powders as the Mercurial ones are best made up with Conservese for Syrups or other Liquors will very seldom hold them togeather The Testaceous Powders also require an Addition of Conserve tho' if made up with this alone it would be too. Bulk but take ℈i of Powder ℈i of Conserves ℈i of Syrup will bring it to a Proper form & Size 351 Alexipharmac Bolus's No 1 ꝶ Compound Powder of Contrayerva ℈iss Syrup of Wild Poppies a Sufficient Quantity No. 2 ꝶ of Contrayerva root ℈ss Syrup of Saffron a Sufficient Quantity No. 3 ꝶ Virginian Snake Root 15 Grains Confection of Kermes as much as is Sufficient mix and Make a Bolus No 4 ꝶ Virginian Snake Root 8 Grains Contrayerva Root 8 Grains Saffron 3 Grains Syrup of Diacodium a Sufficient Quantity to make a Bolus 5 ꝶ Camphor 5 Grains: Saffron 5 Grains Confection of Kermes as much as will bring it to a Proper Stifness 6 ꝶ of Camphor & Nitre of each 15 Grains Syrup of Clove Gilly flowers as much as will make it into a Bolus N 7 ꝶ of Musk 12 Grains the Cordial Confection 12 Grains make it into a Bolus No 8 ꝶ of Musk 10 Grains Salts of Hartshorn 10 Grains Camphor 6 Grains Syrup of Saffron a Sufficient Quantity to make into a Bolus These 8 Elegant Set of Alexipharmacs Contain Compositions of different degrees of Strength according to their order from the Weakest that has any considerable Affect at all to the Strongest that can be venterd on the Two last are Medicines of Great Power and have sometimes taken place even in the last Stage of Malignant Fevers after Hickcups and Convulsions and twitching of the Tendons had come on No 352 Bolus Catharticus or Purging Boluses No 1 ꝶ of Rhubarb ʒss Syrup of [Blackthorn] Roses Solutive a Sufficient Quantity to make a Bolus 2 ꝶ of Jallap ʒss Syrup of Buckthorn a Sufficient Quantity to make a Bolus 3 ꝶ of Scammony 12 Grains: Soluble Tarter ℈i Soft Extract of Liquorice a Sufficient Quantity let the Scammony be well Ground with the Soluble Tarter then add the extract make it into a Bolus 4 ꝶ of Jallap ℈i Scammony ℈ss Crabs Eyes ℈ss Syrup of Buckthorn a Sufficient Quantity let the Scammony & Crabs Eye and Jallap be first well Rubd in a Morter then Mix them with the Buckthorn 5 ꝶ of Elaterium 2 Grains, Extract of Jallap ℈ss [(Syrup of)] Crystal of Tarter ʒss Syrup of Orange Peel a Sufficient Quantity to make into a Bolus Observe the No 1 is a mild Purge No 2 & 3 are Strong purges the No 4 & 5 are Violent Purges No 353 Purging Bolus with Mercury No 1 ꝶ Jalap ℈i Mercurius Dulcis 5 Grains Solutive Syrup of Roses as much as is Sufficient to make to make them into a Bolus No 2 ꝶ of Gamboge ℈ss Mercurius Dulciss ℈ss Aromatic Species ℈ss Syrup of Buckthorn a Sufficient Quantity to make into a Bolus Observe No 1 is Mild Purge & Safe No 2 is much Stronger No 354 Bolus Diureticus No 1 ꝶ of Fresh Squils 6 Grains Commpound Powder of Arum 10 Grains Gingers 5 Grains Syrup of Orange Peel a Sufficient Quantity make them into a Bolus No 2 ꝶ of Cantharides 4 Grains Thebaic Extract half a Grain Nitre ℈i Balsamic Syrup a Sufft Quantity make them into a Bolus The first of these Compositions is Recommended by Dr Mead in Dropycal Disorders No 355 Bolus against the Dysentry ꝶ of Cordial Confection ℈i French Bole ℈i Thebaic Extract 1 Grain make them into a Bolus This Composition is excellently contrived for the purpose expressed by the Title Dr Mead says he never Tryed any Medicine so effectual as this either for Restraining the flux or healing the ulcerated membranes 356 Emetic Bolus No 1 ꝶ Ipecacoanha ℈i Syrup of Sugar a Sufficient Quantity to make a Bolus this is a Safe Vomit 2 White Vitriol Gr 25 Conserves of Roses as much as will make it into a Bolus this is a more Stronger and Quicker Vomit 3 ꝶ White Vitriol ℈i Emetic Tarter 2 Grains Conserves of Hips as much as will make it into a Bolus this is a Strong Vomit 357 Emmenagogue Bolus No 1 ꝶ Succotorine Aloes 8 Grains Saffron 4 Grains Guinea Pepper 2 Grains Oil of Savine 2 Drops Conserve of Rice a Sufficient Quantity to make into a Bolus No 2 ꝶ Salt of Steel 6 Grains Myrrh ℈ss Cordial Confection 15 Grains make them into a Bolus No 3 ꝶ Black Hellebore root 8 Grains Fresh Squils 4 Grains Essessial Oil of Pepper Mint 1 Drop Conserves of Orange Pill a Sufficient Quantity to make into a Bolus All these Medicines are of Great Power for the promoting or Exciting the Menstrual Flux and other evacuations from the Uterus the 2 first are Calculated for Lax Phlegmatic Habits the third for Persons of a Sanguine Temperament 358 Febrifuge Bolus ꝶ of Peruvian Bark ℈i Cascarilla ℈ss Mucilage of Quince Seed a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Bolus This Elegant Composition is excellantly well adapted to the Cure of Intermittant fevers and may be given in Cases where the Peruvian Bark by it Self would be Less proper where Aromatics Chalybeates Bitters &C are also Requisite they are either to be premised or occationally interposed See No 115 359 Hysteric Bolus ꝶ of Musk 6 Grains Asafetida 6 Grains Castor ℈ss Syrup of Saffron a Suffict Quantity to make into a Bolus This is a Dear Medicine but a good one for Hysterical Hypochondriacal disorders & gives Relief in the depressions Faintings flatulent Colics Head ach &C attending them & is to be taken twice a Day [in any] along with any Sutable Liquor 360 Iliac Bolus Good in Twisting of the Guts or Dry Bellyach ꝶ Cathartic Extract ℈i Theabaic Extract 1 Grain make them into a Bolus This Bolus is Prescribed by Dr Mead for easing the Pain and Procuring Stools, in the Iliac Passion & dry Belly Ache where the Irritating Cathartics Exhibited by them Selves are thrown up by Vomit the Use of this Medicine is to be preceded by plentyful Bleeding and Accompanied with Purgative Glysters of the more Acrid kind and its Operation promoted by Infusion of Sena with a Little of the Elixer Salutis or Tincture of Sena 361 Bolus of Ipecacoanha ꝶ of Ipecacoanha 4 Grains Aromatic Species 15 Grains Syrup of Orange Peel a Sufficient Quantity to make it into a Bolus Ipecacoanha thus Exhibited in Small doses from an Emetic becomes a Powerful Alterative of great Sarvice in Obstructions of the Viscera and Generally more Effectual in the Care of Dysenteries than when in such Doses as Excite Vomiting 362 Rheumatic Bolus Rheumatism a good one but Dear ꝶ of Extract of Guaiacum 10 Grains Mercurius Dulcis 1 Grain Oil of Turpentine 1 Drop Confect Cardiac 15 Grains make into a Bolus This Medicine is of Sigular Efficacy in Rheumatism and Old Pains and Aches of the Limbs Exciting a Gentle Diaphoresis is a Mark of its taking due Effect to promote which the Patient ought to keep Warm and drink Sutable Warm Liquors 363 Scillitic Bolus ꝶ Fresh Squils ℈i Aromatic Species ℈ss Oil of Pepper Mint 1 Drop Beat them well togeather into a Uniform Mass of a Due Consistance for a Bolus - This is a Warm Stimulating Attenuating Medicine and may be given to great Advantages in all Cases where the Natural Secretions are Obstructed or Suppressed from a Vicidity or Sluggishness of the Juices these other Additions to the Squils promotes their Power at the same time Strengthens the Stomack and keeps the Squils from Vomiting 364 Sudorific Bolus A certain and safe Sweat ꝶ Camphor 10 Grains Thebaic Extract 1 Grain Syrup of Orange Peel a Sufficient Quantity to Reduce them into a Bolus ... This Medicine is one of the most Effectual and Certain Sudorifics scarce ever failing a Copious Sweat, In Cases where this intention is to be Answered whether acute or Chronical it may be given to great advantage 365 Turpentine Bolus ꝶ Chio Turpentine ʒi Liquorice Powder Quantity Sufficient to make it into a Bolus 366 Alexeterial Bolus Given in low Fevers ꝶ of Virginian Snakeroot 15 Grains. Castor 10 Grains. Camphor 3 Grains Syrup of Sugar a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Bolus This Bolus is given as an Alexepharmic in low Fevers & Repeated every 6 Hours or oftener according to the Urgency of the Symtom 367 Alum Bolus ꝶ of Alum 15 Grains Extract of Peruvian Bark 10 Grains Nutmeg 10 Grains Simple Syrup as much as Sufficient to make into a Bolus This Composition is a very Strong Astringent and as such as is used with Success in Violent Uterine Hæmorrhages and other immoderate Secretions which require to be Speedily restrained It may be taken twice a Day [if] or if the Flux is very Violent take ever 4 or 6 Hours till it Abates --- Alum is very Apt to Occation Violent Pains of the Bowels it is therefore very proper to begin with lesser Doses than here Prescribed and increase by degrees as far as the Patient can bear it without inconveniencies 368 Antidysenteric Bolus Given in a Looseness and Griping in the Bowels ꝶ of the London Philonium ʒss Rhubarb 10 Grains Simple Syrup as much as is Sufficient mix and make a Bolus In Dysenteries or Alvine Fluxes accompanied with a Tenesmus & Gripes after the first Passages have been Sufficiently cleansed by mild Emetics and Cathartics (as Ipecacoanha and Rhubarb) this Bolus generally takes place Effectually, If given before these necessary evacuations it eases the Pain and moderates the Flux for a short Time but this Relief is not only of Short duration but likewise is sometimes of fatal Consequence the Retention of Acrid and Corrupted Humours occationed by it continually removing and aggravating the Disease the Rhubarb is supposed to prevent this ill effect though the Quantity here directed can avail but little the Philonium in this Bolus Contains 5/6 of a Grain of Opium 369 Bolus of Camphor A Sweat good for Colds Fevers Cramp Rhumatism ꝶ Camphor ℈i Gum Arabic ʒss Syrup of Marsh Mallows a Sufficient Quantity to make into a Bolus This is a Convenient form of exhibiting Camphor this Drugg however when thus given by it Self in large Doses is apt to Nauseate the Stomach and rarely has so good effects as when mixed in small quantities with Nitre and other like Substances and frequently repeated 370 Castor Bolus Hystericks Hypochondria Causes Sweat in malignant Fevers ꝶ of Castor ℈i. Salts of hartshorn 5 Grains or else oil of hartshorn 5 drops Simple Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Bolus This Medicine is given in Hysterical and Hypochondriacal disorders and likewise as an Alexipharmac in Fevers, Its Virtues which are great and unquestionable, depend more upon the Fetid Animal Oil or Volatile Salt than on the Drugg from which it takes its Name 371 Chalk Bolus Heartburn Sharp & Sower Belchings Gripes very Cheap ꝶ of Prepared Chalk ℈i Nutmeg ℈ss Simple Syrup Quantity Sufficient to make it into a Bolus Where a Redundancy of Acid humours in the first Passages occations Gripes, heartburns Sour eructations Belching &C this Bolus is a very Effectual Remedy not inferior in Virtue to the more Compounded Cardiolgic Lozenges of the Shops 372 Diaphoretic Bolus A Good & Cheap Sweat for a Cold or Fevers Rheuematism ꝶ Compound Powder of Contrayerva ℈i Crude Salt Ammoniac ℈i Simple Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Bolus This Bolus is given in Fevers and other Cases where a Diaphoresis is to be promoted, Sal Ammoniac is for this purpose one of the most Efficatious of the Nutral Salts. It requires however when thus given in Solid form to be Assisted with warm deluters frequently Repeated, which not only promotes its Action but likewise prevents its sitting uneasy on the Stomach 373 Diuretic Bolus Grand Dropsy Jaundice ꝶ White Soap ℈ij Assential Oil of Juniper Berries from 10 to 20 Drops make them into a Bolus This is a very Powerful Detergent, aperient, and Diuretic, it is frequently exhibbited with Success in Hydropic Cases, and in such Icterical disorders as proceed from Viscidity of the Bile or Obstructions of the Biliary Ducts which are usually accompanied with Whitish Stools but hurtful in a Loosnes & Yellow Stools with Costiveness and whitish Stools, But in Jaundice Proceeding from too great an Attenuation of the Bile (which are attended with a Looseness or Yellow Stools) Medicines of this Kind are manifastly improper 374 Gamboge or Hydragogue Bolus This a strong purge in Dropsy ꝶ of Gamboge ℈ss Cristal of Tartar ℈ss Syrup of Buckthorn a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Bolus This Bolus is a Strong Cathartic and as such is commonly Given in Hydropic Cases, Once or Twice a Week, according as the Patient can bear its operation, The Crystals of Tartar prevent the Gamboge from proving Emetic or producing ill Effects which it would be apt to do by it Self 375 Guaiacum Bolus In Rheumatic Fever ꝶ Extract of Guaiacum ℈ij Salts of Hartshorn 7 Grains Simple Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Bolus In Chronical Rheumatisms whether the remains of a Rheumatic Fever or a continuation of [Colds] Pains Or Continuation of Pain from neglected Colds when the Blood is not Sizy that proceed from neglected Colds this Bolus has generally good Effects, It is to be taken one a Week or Oftener the Patient keeping Warm, and drinking Warm Liquors to promote its operation as a Cathartic and Diaphoretic, Its Use ought to be accompanied with Bleeding which ought to be repeated every 8 or 10 Days as long as the Blood is Sizy This Medicine is frequently Used in Sciatic, Arthritic and other Pains not accompanied with Sizyness of Blood but in these it dont so often Succeed as in the True Rheumatism 376 Jalap or Purging Bolus A Strong and Safe Purge ꝶ Jalap in Powder ℥i Jammaica Pepper ʒi Cristals of Tartar ʒi Syrup of Buckthorn a Sufficient Quantity to make them into a Mass of due Consistance Two Scruples of this Mass may be made into a Bolus for 1 Dose it is a Purgative of Sufficient efficacy and almost universally mild and Safe or those that dont Chuse to make so large a Quantity together as the above may make the Quantity as follows which answers the same end as the above The same in a less Quantity ꝶ Jallap about 25 Grains } Cristals of Tartar 4 Grains } Jamaica Pepper 4 Grains } make them into One Bolus with Syrup of Buckthorn the New Dispensatory directs it to be made as follows ꝶ Jallap ℈i Jamaica Pepper 5 Grains Cristals of Tartar 5 Grains make them up with Syrup of Buckthorn into a Bolus 377 Jalap Bolus with Mercury ꝶ Choice Jalap ℈i Calomel from 5 to 10 Grains make them into a Bolus with Syrup of Sugar This is likewise is an effectual and safe Cathartic and may be used in Cutaneous disorders dropsies and other Diseases where Mercurial Purgatives are Proper 378 Bolus of Ipacacoanha In Pains and loosness in the Bowels Cheap ꝶ Ipecacoanha 5 Grains Syrup of Orange Peel as much as will make it into a Bolus in Dysenteries a Vomit of Ipecacoanha given after Bleeding Removes the Sickness of the Stomach generally Complain'd of at the beginning of these with Remarks on Ipecacoannha The emetic is observed to be more efficacious in proportion of the Evacuation of the Bile and to Succeed best when it also operates by Stool both these effects are more Certain when instead of the Usual Dose only the Quantity here directed is given at a Time and Repeated 2 or 3 Times a day till a Vomit or Purging comes on which generally comes on before or soon after the third Dose is given 15 Grains in this Manner works more than 30 Grains given at Once 379 Mercurial Bolus ꝶ Calomel from 5 to 15 Grains Conserves of Roses ʒss mix for a Bolus This Bolus is given every night or oftener for Raising a Salvation in veneral and other disorders which require that Herculean operation, It is likewise taken at Night as an Alterative and to be Purged off next Morning by a Cathartic Mercurials exhibited in this manner have better effects then when joined with purgatives directly 380 Pectoral Bolus ꝶ Spermaciti 15 Grains Gum Ammoniacum 10 Grains Salts of Harts Horn 7 Grains Simple Syrup a Sufficient Quantity to make it into a Bolus In Colds of Long Standing Old Coughs Asthma's and beginning of Consumptions this Bolus Generally gives Relief especially if Bleeding is premised and Repeated if necessary at Proper Intervals 381 Bolus of Rheubarb with Mercury ꝶ Choice Rhubarb 25 Grains Calomel 5 Grains Simple Syrup as much as will make them into a Bolus This is a very mild Mercurial Purgative it is given to destroy Worms, and in Cachectic Chlorotic and other Like disorders 383 Mynsicht's Tincture for the Toothach ꝶ of Guaicum Wood ʒi ℈i Sassafras and Sarsaparilla of each ℈ij Pellatory of Spain Alum and Salt Pranella of each ℈i Staves Acre Seeds Henbane Seeds of each 10 Granes Opium and Cloves of each 8 Grains [Syr] Serpyllum commonly called Mother Time and Oraganum of each 6 Grains Saffron 6 Grains Rectified Spirits of Wine: ℥iss Vinegar ℥iss Reduce the dry Ingredients into Powder and extract a Tincture from them with the Spirits of Wine and Vinegar mixt A Little of this Tincture is to be taken warm into the Mouth and Repeated if there should be Occations It effectually Relieves the most Violent Toothach's, preventing the afflux of Humours and Surprizingly extracting those already settled upon the Part the pain seems often on the first Application of it to Increase but soon after abates and goes off this Compositions and its Quality is take from the Pharmacopia of the College of Stransburg 383 Odoriferous Water this is made as Directed in the Dispensatory Printed by J Nurse opposite Catharine Street in the Strand London 1753 a Few drops gives a very high flavour to any Mixture and makes it Reviving 384 Spirits of Scurvy Grass directed to be made in the Book see No 383 It is very Subtil Parts and good in Scorbutic Humours the Dose from 20 to 100 Drops 385 Spirituous Alexeterial this is made as [illegible] Dispensatory No 383 It is Tolerably Pleasant and is looked upon as a Good Alexepharmac & Stomachic 385 Bale's Alum Water ꝶ of Alum & White Vitriol of each ℥ss Water 2 Pints ... Boil the Salts in the Water until they be dissolved let the Solution Settle and afterwards filter it through Paper This Water is directed for cleansing and healing Ulcers and Wounds and for Removing Cutaneous Eruptions the part being bathed with it Hot three or 4 Times a day it is likewise sometimes Employd as a Collyrium that is for the Eyes, and as an Injection in a Gonnerhoa and fluor Albus when not Accompanied with Virulence 386 Sapphire Colourd Water London ꝶ of Lime Water 1 Pint Salt Ammoniac ʒi let them Stand in a Copper Vessel or along with some Plates of Copper until the Liquor has acquired a Sapphire Colour Edinburg Dispency ꝶ Lime water newly Made 1 Pint Salt Ammoniac ʒij disolve the Salt in the Lime Water and let the Solution Stand in a Brass Vessel untill it has acquired a blue Colour this water is at present pretty much as a detergent of foul and obstinate Ulcers and for taking a way Specks or films in the Eyes the Copper Contributes but very little only gives it a Colour 387 [ꝶ] Blue Vitriol Water Londn. Dispy. ꝶ Blue Vitriol ℥i Alum ʒvi Strong Spirits or Oil of Vitriol ʒv Water one half Pint Boil the Salts in the Water, until they are disolved then add the Acid Spirit and filter the mixter through Paper Styptic water Edenburg ꝶ of Blue Vitriol ℥iss Alum ℥iss Water half a Pint Boil them until the Salts are dissolved then filter the Liquor through Paper and add half a Dram of the Oil of Vitriol these 2 last a to stop Bleeding in any part by dipping Cloths and applying them to the part 388 Camphorated Vitriol Water ꝶ White Vitriol ʒij Camphor ʒi Boiling Water 1 Pint Mix them that the Vitriol may be dissolved and after the Feces have Subsided filter the Liquor through paper 389 ꝶ of Bole Armenic unprepared ℥ss Tutty unprepared ʒij White Vitriol ʒi Camphor ʒss Water 1 Pint Boil the Water a little with the other Ingredients Powdered frequently Stirring them from the Bottom then Suffer the feces to Subside pour off the Clear Liquor for Use This dont so much from No 388 as might be Imagind from its containing more Ingredients for the Bole and the Tutty, too ponderous to Remain Suspended in the Water falls to the Bottom, and form great part of the Feces these two last are very good Eye Waters they Cool and Repel the Sharp Humours which sometimes fall down upon the Eyes and defend them from beginning films and Specks 390 Tincture Sacra .. London ꝶ Sucotorine Aloes ʒvij Cannella Alba ʒij Mountain Wine 1 Pint Reduces the Aloes and Cannella Alba Seperately into Powder then mix them and pour on the Wine afterwards macerate without heat for one Week or longer occationally shaking the Vessel lastly Strain of the Wine ... It will be convenient to mix with the Powders some white Sand well washed from dirt to prevent the Aloe [for] from Concreting which it is apt to do upon being Moisten'd 391 Tincture Sacra Edinburgh ꝶ Socotorine Aloes in Powder ℥i Lesser Cardamom Seeds ʒi Virginian Snakeroot ʒi Cochineal ℈i Mountain Wine 1 Pint and a half Digest in a Very gentle heat for two day then Strain of the Tincture This Medicine has long been in great esteem not only as a Cathartic but likewise as a Stimulus. The Aromatic Ingredients are added to Warm the Medicine and somewhat alleviates the Ill flavour of the Aloes, as Cenella Alba, or Cloves are said amongst Numerous Materials that have been made Tryal of to answer this end most Successfully, The Snakeroot in the Second of the above prescriptions seems designed for [the] promoting the Stimulating Virtue of the Aloes, and thus extending its Action to farther Purposes than it is by it Self capable of It is proved by experience to be a Medicine of Excellent Sarvice in Languid Phlegmatic habits not only for cleansing the Primæ Viæ but likewise for attenuating and dissolving Viscid Juices in the remoter parts Stimulating the Solids, warming the Habit promoting or exciting the Uterine Purgations and the hæmorrhoidal flux .. The dose as a Purgative is from One to 2 Ounces or more it may be Introduced into the habit so as to be Productive of excellent effects as an alterant by giving it in small Doses at proper Intervals, thus managed it does not work Remarkably by Stool but at last Causes a Lax habit and will hold so for some time much longer than any other Phisick 392 Thebaic Solution ... ꝶ of Thebaic Extract 12 Grains or Good Opium which is much ye same Rectified Spirits of ...} Wine 1 Quarter of a Pint } Water half a Pint digest them together until the Opium is Quite disolved and then filter it thro' brown or White Cap Paper This preparation is free from the Inconveniencies attend= in the common Opiate Tincture, for the Opium totally dissolves in the Menstruum here order'd, no part seperates of it in keeping and the dose may be Ascertain'd to great exactness, for every 7 drams of the Solution Contains about 1 Grain of Opium any proper Aromatic Tincture or distilled Water may be added to it as Occations Sute No 393 The Famous American Receipt for the Rhuematism ... ꝶ of Garlick 2 Cloves Gum [Guaiacum] Ammoniacum ʒi mix them by Bruising them together in a Morter make them into 2 or 3 Bolusses with fair Water Take One Bole at a Night and another in the Morning &C and while you are taking these Bolusses take the Tea as under ... This was taken out of Loyds London Chronacle in the Year 1766 and he says 100 Pound has been given for the Receipt and says it is found to Banish the Rhuematism and Contraction of the Joints Tea ꝶ Sassafras Chips and allmost fill the Tea Pot full then Pour the Boyling Water on it and let it Stand drink Pretty Plentiful of this Tea The following Receipts to No 436 are take from the Dukes Dispensatory Published by John Theobald M D for the Use of the Poor & the Army Printed by R Baldwin in Paternoster Row 1752 No 394 An Electary for the Piles ꝶ Lenitive Electary ℥ij Flowers of Brimston ʒiiij Clean Nitre ʒij and with a Sufficient Quantity of Syrup of Orange Peel Make them into an Electary ... This Compossition is Cooling and Detersive and therefore well appropriated to the Use of the Title the Dose of it is a Dram twice a day, all Sulphurous Medicines are allowed to be great Sweeteners of the Blood by Sheathing the Acrimonious Particles which Causes it to run into Preternatural Cohesion and to become Grumous, and have been Particularly devoted to the Piles in all Ages. When there is any Degree of Inflamation it will be necessary to Bleed and in Case the Malady is External you must have Recourse to Bread & Milk Poultice, Ointment of Elder Flowers ℥ij & ℈iiij of Opium mixed And to Sit over a Pan of Hot Water to Receive the Steam by way of a Fomentation NB When External Piles Rise in Tumours with lived Spots in the Middle the Blood should be let out of them with a Lancet for it is impossible the Blood should ever return into the Mass of Blood again, But is frequently the Parent of much Mischief which this Method will Prevent No 395 Jalap Electary A Cheap Purge in a Gross or Dropsycal habit ꝶ powder of Jalap ℥ss which is half an Ounce Powder of Ginger Grains 45 Syrup of Orange Peel a Sufficient Quantity to make it into an Electary The Dose of this is from 30 Grains to 40 about half of the above Quantity would make 4 Good Doses ... The Jalap Root is one of the best Purgers we have it works efficatiously and at the same Time mildly enough it is an Admirable Medicine in Dropsical and overloaded Habits, it powerfully attenuates Viscous Juices and Avacuates them sometimes Surprizingly by Stool nor can any thing be objected to it but it being Cheap, the form it is here prescribed in deserves Attention or Notice the Ginger so Gaurds it that it prevents it from Griping or flatulencies it must be taken in the Morning early No 396 Sticking Plaster ꝶ Common Plaster ℥iij Burundy Pitch ʒij melt them together in a Pot or Pan this is Good Plaster for Discussing or dispersing the Gathered Matter or Supperating or Gathering it No 397 A Common Lambative Cough Cheap ꝶ Oil Olive ℥iss white Syrup ℥i Conserves of Roses ʒij: 10 or 12 Drops of the Oil of Vitriol and mix for a Lambative There is often a great Acrimonious Irritation Accompanying a Preternatural Relaxation of the Glands so as to Produce very Troublesome and frequent Fits of Coughing in which Case this mixture will be of double Service the Olive Oil blunting the Sharpness of those Stimulateing Particles while the Conserve of Roses and the Oil of Vitriol are Guarding against Rhuem and Defluxions about One Spoonful of it may be taken on the Urgency of the Cough NB a Lambative is ment a Mixture to be Licked of with a Stick of Liquorice or your Finger No 398 An Oily Emulsion ꝶ Oil Olive ℥iss White Syrup that is Syrp of Sugar ℥i Spring Water ℥iv Best Spirits of Hartshorn ʒss Mix it for a Mixture Oily Medicines of a lubricating, Softening and Relaxing Nature are Singularly Useful on many Emergencies, They are particularly Sarviceable in Gravelly Cases and in regard of Expectoration one can Scarce raise a Laudable one without them This mixture seem pecularly Calculated for freeing the Lungs from that Oppression which is Essentially Consequent to an Inflamation of them, And indeed there cannot be devised a Better. The Spirits of Hartshorn bears in it Will be thinning the fluids greatly facilitate that discharge 2 Spoonfuls are to be taken of this every now and then it will be proper also in any Cough and Stuffing of the Glands from the Catching any Sudden Cold No 399 A Pectoral Infusion Cough and Consumption ꝶ 2 handfuld of Ground Ivy that is Gill Liquorice Roots Sliced ℥ij Ifuse these for 3 hours in 1 Gallon of Boiling Barley Water then Strain for Use NB with the Addition of ℥vj Ounces of Manna and ʒvi of Clean Nitre it becomes a Laxative and Diuretic Infusion Medicated Liquors of this Sort are made to good Purpose where the Blood abounds with Acrimonious Particles and foreign Salts in all Scorbutic or Consumptive Habits this may be Used as a Common Drink being of a Cooling Healing & Balsamic Nature it is likewise a Proper diluter in fevers a very Cheap Medicine The Adding Manna and Nitre to it renders it Servicable on other Occations when ever the Body is too much Bound or an Indication Prevents it Self of Diuretic Medicine this Infusion also with an Oily Tinctus in order to ease the Cough and Promote Expectoration the Addition of a Little Nitre may be Advantageously drank in the Measles from the beginning to the end of that disorder Agreable to what Dr Mead Advances on that Head No 400 A Volatile Julep ꝶ Salts of Hartshorn ℥ss Spring Water 3 Pints Alexaterial Water ℥iij Fine Sugar ℥ij Mix for a Julep the Active Particles with which this Julep is impregnate from the Salts of Hartshorn will Infallable correspond with the Intentions of opening the Obstructed Pores of the Skin and bring on an Effectual Moisture and Consequently be of Sarvice not only in downright Fevers but when ever the Body either from Fateigue or hard Drinking is become as it were jaded and requires Immediate Supplying and Relaxation to furnish it by means of some such Method of Recruiting with fresh Powers for brisk Action on these Causes a few Spoonfuls of this Julep drank in Bed and Repeated at Proper Intervals will without the least Trouble will Communicate a most agreable Senseation and in the Gentlest manner Immaginable Remove all Wearyness Heat and [Tense] Tension of the Parts what ever it is likewise very Aptly Prescribed with Diaphoritick Powders or Boluss being what will Powerfully Assist the Views and Projected Opperation of those Attenuating Medicines No 401 A Mixture for an Asthma ꝶ Oxymel of Squils ℥ij Spring Water ℥iv Spiritous Cinnamon Water ℥ij Make a Mixture This Mixture is Justly Esteemed for its Servicable Properties in Asthmatic Cases it opens the Breast [an] Rarifying and thinning the Viscid Cohesions of the Vessels and of Corse gives more Liberty of Breathing, Deterging at the same Time and Ceansing the Small Glands and Procuring a Passage for their Discharges Bleeding should Precede or come before and Blistering accompanying it Dose 2 Spoonful 3 or 4 Times a Day No 402 Pills for an Asthma & Jaundice ꝶ Gum Ammoniaccum ʒij Squils in Powder ʒi Castile or Venice Soape ʒiij with a Sufficient Quantity of White Syrup make into Pills each dram of the Whole make into 10 Pills the 3 Respective Ingredients that enter this Composition are of a Pennitrating Attenuating and Deterging Nature and Consequently entirely Accommodated [with] for the Removal of the Jaundice Asthmatic Complaints and all diseases derived from Obstructed Vessels from the Diuretic Quallity of these Pill they are Servicable in Hypochondriacal & Dropsycal Disorders Dose 3 in the Morning & 3 in the Evening No 403 Diuretic Pills ꝶ Squils ʒij Aromatic Species ʒiss Balsam of Peru ʒi and with a Sufficient Quantity of the Syrup of Orange Peel of every Dram make 10 Pills These are Effectual detergents and nevertheless a very Safe Diuretic the Balsam of Peru being a very Strong Bar against any Immoderate Relaxation of the Renal Glands and Urinary Vessels, This Balsam has been much Celebrated for Asthma's, the Phthisick and [Nephoid] Nephritic Pains, Obstructions of the Menses Weakness of the Stomach and Jaundice. The Blending the Squils with it in this Composition will considerably forward those Intentions, Dose 2 or 3 of these Pills are to be taken Morning and Evening in Disorders where Diuretics are Indicated No 404 Powder for Epilepsy ꝶ Wild Valerian Root in Powder ℈ij Cinnabar of Antimony ℈i Mix The warm and Aromatic Quallity of the Valerian Root renders it Useful in many Intentions, it Efficacy, as a Sudorific is Supported by the Testimony both of the Ancient and Present Practice. the Root also is Ditersive and Diuretic and Good in All Obstructions of the Viscera. In Hysterical and Convulsive Cases where the Spirits are Hurryd on with Great Impetuosity it will sometimes do Wonders and in Nervous Nervous Complaints Particularly those of the Epileptic kind it has few Equals The mixing this Antimonial Preperation with it forwards the Exertion of its Virtues & Constitutes a most Excellant Powder to be taken Night & Morning Ranked with this for Nervous Disorders Stands the Compound Spirits of Lavender is Good for Palsey Convulsion Apoplexy loss of Memory & may be taken of Lump Sugar from Drops 20: to 100 Drops No 405 A Remark of the Spirits of Minderari see No it is good in Catching Slight Colds or Fatigue and in Fevers where the Blood is Sizy Hence it may be of Sarvice in Pluratic Disorders Provided they be accompanyed with due Evacuations by Bleeding It may not be amiss Just to hint in this Place that sometimes an Acute Pain will Obstinately fix it Self in the External Muscles of the Side which without Repeated Bleeding ℈i [Scrup] of Camphire & ʒi of Spirit of Salt Armoniac & ʒiij of Sweet Almonds Oil mixed with Ointment of Marshmallows and Rubbed in a few Times on the Part affected with a Warm Hand will almost Infallaby Discuss No 406 Balsam of Guaiacum ꝶ ℥iiss of Rectifyed Spts of Wine Gum Guaicum ℥i Infuse in a Gentle heat often Stirring it then Add Balsam of Peru about 14 or 15 Drops so that the whole may mix into a Balsam This Medicine is endued with great Efficacy and will Prove of Singular Sarvice on many Occations It is a Good Preservative against the Gout as by its Warmth it will defend the Nerves from the Saline Defluxions which are wont to Obstruct the Motions of those Organs and so form that Distemper in the Joints, It is Benifical likewise in Dropsycal Tendency, Dissipating by Insensible Transpiration all Superfluous Moistures as it is also in Scropulous Cases and in Old Gleets if there Remain no Virulence it will help much to the Removal of the Disorder the Dose 20 to 30 Drops in Water or Tea 2 or 3 Times a day it is good for Green Wounds if they are Clean No 407 Allum Bolus Agues & Fluor Albus ꝶ Alum: Nutmeg: Extract of Peruvian Bark of each 15 Grains make these into a Bolus with Syrup of Cloves This in Persons of a Strong Constitution whose Stomach will not Recoil on the Offensive Sensation Generally Created in it by the Stipicity and Villicating Property of the Alum Taken 3 Mornings together fasting will almost Infallably Cure the most Stubbor Agues on which Account it may by Reason of its Cheapness be of Service to Poor Country People it is likewise of Great Service where it Agrees in a Fluor Albus See my Manuscript Marked D page 144 No 408 Anodyne Bolus ꝶ Venice Treacle ʒss Matthew Pill Grains viij and make a Bole This is a Safe and Good Opiate and may be given when ever Pains are to be Eased or Sleep Procured with very Little Caution No 409 Camphor Bolus ꝶ Gum Arabic ʒss Camphor ℈i and with a Suffict Quantity of Orange Peel make a Bole This is of Great Service in Fevers attended with a Delirium twitching of the Tendons and Heat of Urine or Strangury from having Blisters it may be given along with 3 or 4 Spoonfuls of Some Julep that has some Volatile Spirits in it and may be Repeated ever 6 or 8 Hours No 410 Cathartic Bolus ꝶ Jalap ʒss 2 drops of Oil of Juniper with Syrup of Orange Peel make a Bolus This is a Safe and Efficacious Purge Particularly in Dropsical Habits which will Powerfully drain off Watry Humours if duely followed and such Rubs observed as should be in Persons in a Dropsy Temperance in Drink is not the least take it Early in a Morning fasting No 411 Ipecacoanha Bolus ꝶ Ipecacoanha Root in Powder 4 Grains Aromatic Species 16 Grains with Syrup of Orange Peel make a Bolus By this Exhibiting the Ipecacoanha in a Small Dose, from an Emetic it becomes an Admirable & Powerful Alternative and a Powerful Specific in a Dysentry and may be Repeated every Morning during the Continuance of of the Disorder No 412 Calomel Bolus ꝶ 10 Grains of Calomel & with a Sufficient Quantity of Conserves of Red Roses make a Bolus It is usually taken over Night and a Gentle Purge given in the Morning and it is very Powerful Medicine in Scropulous Humours or foulness of Blood No 413 Myrrh Bolus with Steel ꝶ Compound Powder of Myrrh ℈i Flowers of Steel & Extract of Savin of each 10 Grains & with Syrup of Orange Peel make [an] a Bolus This is Particularly for the Female Sex each of the Ingredients Concurring in Its Virtues to that End, It may be Properly directed to Promote the Mensses, and forward delivery, or to Procure a Discharge of the Lochia & Secundines It is to be taken with 2 or 3 Spoonful of Some Julep for the same Purpose & to be Repeated as oft as is Necessary No 414 Æthiops Mineral Electary ꝶ Conserves of Red Roses ʒvi Ethiops Mineral ℥i Syrup of Orange Peel Sufficient to make them into Electary In all foulness of Blood Productive of Cutanious Eruptions, Such as Itch Tatters Ringworms &c this is a Powerful Remedy the Dose is the Quanty of a Nutmeg twice a Day No 415 Electary for an Asthma ꝶ Honey ℥ij Flowers of Sulphur ℥i Ginger in Powder ℥ss Saffron in Powdr ʒi and with a Sufficient Quantity of Syrup of Cloves make an Electary This will Powerfully deterge and Scour the Bronchia and Pulmonic Vessels and Consequently Prove very Servicable in Asthmatic Complaints, and Coughs arising from Infarctions and tough Viscid Matter Adhering to the Sensible Texture of those Parts It may be taken 3 or 4 Times a day to the Quantity of a Nutmeg more or Less According as the Urgency of the Symtoms No 416 Guaiacum Pills ꝶ of Gum Guaiacum and Aloes of each ʒiss and with a Sufficient Quantity of Balsam of Peru make them into Pills Three or 4 of these Pills taken every Night going to Bed will keep the Body Moderately Open and will be of Service in Hypochondriacal Affections and Indeed in almost all Chronic disorders the Gum Guaicm Creats such a Gentle Breathing No 417 Steel Pills ꝶ Salt of Steel ʒi Aloes ʒij Gum Ammoniac ʒss with a Sufficient Quantity of Balsam of Peru make them into Pills NB: T Porter Surgeon says that Salt of Steel is nothing but Good Green [Coppera?] such as is put in Ink another ꝶ Steel Prepared with Sulphur ʒij Saffron ʒss and with a Sufficient Quantity of Extract of Gentian make them into Pills Three of Either of these Pills above given twice a Day will be very Servicable in a Difficult Eruption of the Menses in very Young People, Or in an Obstructed Habit in Regard to those More Advanced in Age No 418 Rosin Pills ꝶ Common Rosin and Sugar of Lead of each ʒi Camphire & Balsam of Capevy of each ʒss Oil of Turpentine 12 Drops and with a Sufficient Quantity of the Yolk of an Egg make them into Pills This Composition is well Contrived and a very good one for the Whites in Women 4 Pills may be taken twice a Day and Continued as Occations Requires In a Gonorrhea after the Virulance has been Removed by Proper Evacuations you may take as above without Running any Risque No 419 Ethiops Meneral Pills ꝶ Ethiops Minerals ʒij Cerus of Antimony ʒss Gum Guaiacum ʒi with Syrup of Orange Peel make them into Pills 10 Pills out of each Dram It is a very Powerful Remedy in Dropsies & Veneral Diseases and in all Cutanious Distempers. and Indeed if we Consider the Properties of the Ingredients we must Conclude it Efficatious in opening of Obstructions even in the Minutest Passages and Correcting the Sharpness and Acrimony of the Humours five of them are Orderd for a Dose and there Use is to be continued for at least 6 Weeks No 420 Pills for an ill Habit of Body --- ꝶ Socotorine Aloes ʒiss Gum Ammonia ʒiss Steel Prepared with Sulphur ʒi Oil of Anniseeds 6 Drops and with Syrup of Orange Peel make them into Pills each Dram into 12 Pills The Blending Aloes with Gum Ammoniac and Steel renders it a very good Medicine - The Peccant Matter that loads the Vessels and to a great Degree Obstructs the Circulation of the Blood and Juices is more Expeditiously dislodged as a Passage is continually Promoted for it through the Channel of the Intestines wherefore these Pills will be of Service in Hypochondriacal & Hysterical disorders and Particularly in defect of the Menses 4 or 5 of them to be taken every Night at Bed Time No 421 Pills for a Catarrh ꝶ Rufus's Pill ʒi Storax Pill ʒss Oil of Cinnamon 2 drops make them into 20 Pills This is an Exceeding Good One 3 Pills is to be taken every Night while the disorder is Urgant No 422 A Linctus for a Hoarseness ꝶ Linseed Oil fresh drawn ℥i Spermaciti ℥ss White Sugar Candy in Powder ʒvi Balsamic Syrup ℥iss Mix for a Linctus 1 Spoonful is to be taken every now and then as Occations Require No 423 A Nitre Mixture ꝶ Spring Water ℥vi Powder of Crab Claws Prepared ʒiss Purified Nitre that is Salt Peter ʒiss Syrup of Orange Peel ℥ss Make a Mixture This is a Good Cooling Diuretic Medicine fit to Several Inflamations Particularly Fevers that are Inflamatory, In Conjunction with due Evacuation with Bleeding a Spoonful of it may be taken every Frequently No 424 Squil Mixture ꝶ ℥viij of Simple Cinnamon Water Vinegar of Squils & Syrup of Marsh Mallows of each ℥iij Mix for a Mixture This is very Powerful for an Asthma and Works Powerfullly by Urine therefore Good in Dropseys and Stuffing of the Lungs - 2 Spoonful of this mixture may be taken Morning and Evening as long as Necessary No 425 Powders Against Worms No 1 ꝶ Corraline in Powder 15 Grains Ethiops Minerals 15 Grains Mix for 1 Dose No 2 ꝶ powder of Tin 10 Grains Ethiops Minerals ℈i Mix for 1 Dose No 3 ꝶ Powder of Tin ℈i Ethiops Minerals 10 Grains Mix for 1 Dose No 4 ꝶ Corraline 16 Grains Ethiops Minerals 10 Grains Powder of Savin 3 Grains Powder of Saffron 3 Grains Mix for One Dose Worms are Common Complaints in Children Some One of these Powders mixt with Treacle for Conveniency of Taking of it and Given twice a day for 3 days together and Give a Gentle Purge on the fourth day will be almost Certain to Clear the Intestines of Worms but if the same doses was Repeated on the 5th.. 6th.. & 7th day and a Purge on the 8th day it would be Certain Cure. NB the Powders are to be made Greater or Less Accoring to the Strength of the Child No 425 An Electary to Promote the Menses ꝶ Conserves of Sea Wormwood ℥iss Salt of Steel ʒi Saffron ℈ij Powder of Cardimums ℈i with the Syrup of Orange Peel make an Electary In a Green Sickness from a Stoppage of the Menstrual discharge a Distemper common enough among the Fair Sex this Electary will be attended with Admirable Success for if taken twice a day to the Quantity of a Nutmeg for a Dose with Proper Exercise along with it it will increase by degrees the Circulation of the Blood help to Restore the the Vessels to their Usual Elacticity and by its Invigorating Qualities Remove whatever Obstructions may be formed in the Uterine Canals No 427 An Electary against the Palsy ꝶ Conserve of Rosemary flowers ℥i Mustardseed ℥i beat with water and Pulped through a Sieve add Spts: of Lavendar ʒij mixt into an Electary This is very Pungent & detersive and therefore of Use in all Cases where the Nerves want a Stimulus to help them perform their destined Offices, Hence in Paralytic Disorders and in Decays of Old Age it is much Recommended From it Diuretic Quality it is also Servicable in Asthmatical and Dropsycal Habits to be taken twice a Day to the Quantity of a Chesnut Along with some Suitable Julep or a Glass of Strong White Wine No 428 An Emulsion for an Asthma ꝶ Mellepedes alive that is Wood Lice by some Called Sows Number 120 Bruise them in a Marble Mortar Pouring on them Gradually 6 Ounces of Penny-royal Water In a Strong Expression of the Liquor dissolve Gum Ammoniacum ʒiij then Strain it From the Insiding and Attenuating Qualitys of the Ingredients that Compose this Emulsion very good Effects may Reasonably Expected from it, in whatsoever Viscidities of the blood unattended with an Inflamation Particularly in Infarctions of the Lungs, the Unavoidable Source of Wheezing and Laborious Respiration 1 spoonful of it may be taken 3 or 4 Times a Day in a Draught of Pectoral Decoction No 429 A Diuretic Draught ꝶ Simple Penny-royal Water ℥iss Salt Prunella or Good Salt Petre ℈ij Oxymel of Squils ʒi mix for a Draugt In any Obstruction of the Kidneys from a Lodgement of Gravel in a heat of Urine either from a Gonorrhea or any other Cause in Asthmatic Infarctions, or what ever Clog besides on the Humours & Juices this Draught will be of Service it may be Repeated and the Use of it Continued Discretionally No 430 The Simple Bitter Infusion Cheap Medicine in a Cold and Weak Stomach ꝶ Gentian Root and Tops of Sea Wormwood of each ʒij the Outer Peels of Seville Oranges dried and the Lesser Cardamoms Seeds of each ʒi Infuse these in 1 Pint of Boiling Water when Cold Strain it for Use This Infusion however easy and unpompious its Preperation is a direct and Natural Remedy in a Cold weak Stomach and a decay of Appetite a Glass of it to be taken on those Occations every Morning fasting & at 5 in the Evening No 431 Purging Steel Pills Green Sickness ꝶ ʒi of Scammony prepared with Sulphur Gum Ammoniaccum ʒij Salt of Steel ʒss Oil of Cloves 3 drops Syrup of Orange Pill make into Pills of ever Dram of the Pale Complexion & Shortness of Breath whole make 10 Pills - This is a very good Composition for a Chlorosis, or Green sickness as 4 or 5 of these Pills taken in a Morning and Repeated at Proper Distances partly by Evacuating the Clogging Obstructing Matter, and Partly by gradually Invigorating the whole System of the Body, will almost Infallibly remove the Symtoms Attendant on that disorder such as Shortness of Breath, Paleness of Complexion &c. and will be also Servicable in Hypochondrical Oppressions No 432 A Detergent Linctus A Cough & Stuffing to Discharge Phlegm ꝶ Linseed Oil. Oxymel of Squils Syrup of Saffron of each ℥i Fine Sugar Candy in powder ℥ss Mix Accordind to Art In an Infarction of the Pulmonary Vessels or Stuffing of the Glands of the throat this will be of Service by a discharge of Sluggish phlegm that Loads them 1 Spoonfull may be taken at Discretion No 433 An Emollient Linctus ꝶ Oil of Sweet Almonds & Syrup of Violets mix of each ℥ij This is good for a Dry husky Cough to take a Little of it at Pleasure No 434 A Velerian Mixture ꝶ Simple Pepper-mint Water ℥xij Valerian Root in Powder ℥i Compound Spirits of Lavender ℥ss Syrup of Orange Peels ℥i Mix for a Mixture The Valerian Root in Warm and Aromatic and of great Efficacy in all Nervous & Hysterical Complaints Consequently its no Wonder it is such a favourite of the Present Practice as it is highly Attenuating it may be of Service likewise in Obstinate Agues Especially if Assisted by Camphire the dose of this Mixture is a Spoonful to be taken 3 or 4 Times a day No 435 Directions for Bleeding Of all the Remedies Recurred to in Relieving the diseased Part of Mankind there are none of such General Service & Advantage as that of Bleeding As there is no one on the other hand Attended with more Pernicious Consequences when Indirectly and Injudiciously Orderd a Number of Illnesses are Absolutely owing to too great a Quantity of Blood in which Cases there is ever of Course an Indispencable Necessity for Proportionably draining this Fluid tho' in the Preceding Work and in the Appendise to it there is pointed out a variety of Occations where Bleeding is Indicated Previouly to or along with this or that Particular Medicine Yet Parhaps it may [m] be no disagreable Task I Perform in the Opinnion of the Generally of my Readers in thus Collecting those Scattered Directions In all Inflamatory Distempers it is next to Sacralege to Omit it - As it is on the Contrary Exposing the Patient to the utmost Hazzard to enjoin it in a low Languid depressed State, where the Spirits before were too much Exhausted & Nature Consequently unable to Support the leas Evacuation hence it always [out] ought to be constantly directed and Repeated According to the Exigency of the Violence and Duration of the Malady in Pluratic & Perepneumonic Disorders during the few first day of those Painful Attacts but it is in Vain Expect any Recourse from thence when Once Supuration is begun and the Morbid Matter is only to be thrown off by Expectoration which Bleeding must Certainly Retard, Again in Appoplectic Disorder & Dysentery or Bloody Flux and Irksome heat of the Bowels we must Bleed in Proportion to the Illness which we must likewise generally do in the Beginning of Fevers but Abstain from drawing way Blood on their Decline as from being Inflamatory they are often at this Period degenerated into the Nervous kind when the Chief of the Affair is to be Transacted by a Liberal Application of Blisters [when] Bleeding again ought to be [us] directed in large Absesses where there is an Excessive Turgency from the flux of Humours and a great Oppression of Nature from Immoderate Heat for in that Case in drawing away some Blood the Supuration is happyly Performd both in point of Time and the Compleat discharge Morbific Matter, in the Small Pox also for the Communication of Which Experience we are Obliged to Dr Mead to whose Treatise on that Subject I Refer the Reader, Bleeding & that Repeated in some Cases may be Advantagiously Orderd in Plethoric Habits at any Period of that disorder Exceping Children under Twitching of the Nerves before the Eruption It being in Respect to these found by frequent Tryals that the taking away Blood in that Situation Renders the Disease Mortal, In a Word when ever Prevails Sore Eyes, a Sciatica, a dry husky Cough, HeadAch, Inflamation of the Womb or Bladder a Virualent Gonerrhea, Cordee: Buboes, Veneral Stricture, Inflamed Piles Hot Rhuematism dry Gripe, Sore Throat & Asthma, Cholic Stranguary Gravel a Nephritic Pains, Heomorrhages and Inveterate Itch &c the opening of a Vein is of great Service - But in Dropsy: Jaundice: the Gout & all Illnesses derived from too great a Relaxation of the Vessels or Obstruction of them Remedies Addapted to the Respective Compaints must be saught for from other Specific Quarters without the Least thought of Increasing those disorders by Abrupt and Preposterous Bleeding Ink No 436 A Recepe to Make Ink from Thos Porter Surgeon Take Strong Beer 1 Quart Sugar Candy ℥ij Boil them over a Gentle Fire to a Froth Add Whilest Warm ℥vi [Ounce] of Good Blue Galls --- Gum Arabic ℥iij Green Vitriol that is Green Copperas ℥ij Mix them and Digest them for some Days then Decant it off then Boil the Gross that is the Galls and so forth as is [f] Left in the Pot along with 3 Pints of Water until it comes to One Pint then Strain off and Mix it with the first that was Decanted off  No 437 Mercurial Pills ꝶ Quick Silver ʒv Strasbourg Turpentine ʒij Rudius 's Extract that is Extract Cathartic ʒiss first Grind the Quick Silver with the Turpentine till it Appear no longer then Beat them up with the Rest into a Mass if the Turpentine should prove too thick make Use of a Little Oil Olive Wherever Mercurials are Indicated, Pills from this Mass may be Administred with great prospect of Success, being Second to no form wherein Quick Silver is wont to be Exhibited They are very Beneficial in all Veneral Symptoms of the Lesser kind, and in Scorbutic Habits and Ulcerous Cases, greatly Contributing to the healing those Loathsome Obstinate Sores Their Use is to be Continued for Sometime, which may be done with all the ease Immaginable the Dose is ℈ij Scruples of this Mass formed into 5 Pills No 438 Carminative Powder A Cheap Powder for Windy Complaints or Gripes in Children ꝶ Anniseeds: Sweet Fennel Scends of each ℈ij Ginger ℈i Nutmeg ℈ss Fine Sugar ℈ss Reduce them all into a Powder for 4 Doses This Powder is Good Service in Expelling Flatulencies Arising from Indigestion Particular those to Which Hypochondriacal and Hysterical Persons are Subject to. It is given also to Young Children in the Gripes along with their food or otherwise No 439 Worm Cakes for Children By Thos Porter ꝶ ℥ij double Refin'd Sugar ʒij Calomal ʒij Powder of Scammony or Diagrydum mix them well by Pounding them in a Morter mix them up with a Strong Mucalige of Gum Arabic the mucalige is made by Pouring ℥ss of Hot Water on ℥ss of Gum arabic in Powder make them in a Cake about One Scruple Each a Child of Year Old may take One at a Time every other day No 440 a Mixture ꝶ Dragons Blood ʒi Gum [ababic] ʒij Arabic Syrup of Dryed Roses ʒvi Laudinum ... 40 Drops the dragons Blood & Gum Arabic Pound in a Morter to Powder Acid Spirits of Vitriol 30 drops the Gum Arabic & Dragons Blood to be dissolved in 6 ounces of Rose Water mix all together take 2 or 3 Spoonsfuls twice a Day if a Little Cinnamon Water was added to it would make it better This last mixture is given to Women that have too great over flowings of the Redds or Whites if they should be too Costive in their Body give them a Spoonful or two of Tincture of Rhubarb at a Night when going to bed sometime ℥i of Bark is Boyld in 1 Quart of Water to a Pint and Give them 2 or 3 Spoonfuls of this decoction 2 or 3 Times a day No 441 Take [Tacke] Lenitive Electary 1 Ounce Powder of Cream of Tartar half an Ounce Powder of Sena Compound 3 of the apothecaries Drams Magnessa Alba 2 Drams by Apothiaries Weights Make the above into an Electary with a Sufficient Quantity of the Solutive Syrup of Roses. The Dose is the Quantity of a Nutmeg every Night or ofter if Nature Requires this is Given to Persons in a Costive Habit of Body or where there is any Sower Belching on the Stomach this was Given to Hellen Singlehurst by Ine Herdick of Chester field Apothecary No 442 A Receipt next to Infallible an Ague Ague Cheap & Certain This is taken from the Gentlemens Magazine for October 1760 Take five Grains of House Cobweb Clapt between a Cloth to Shake the dust Out and Pick it as Clean as you can make it up with a Little Syrup of Elder or with any Syrup till it will roll into a Pill and take it as near as you can Guess One Hour before the fit comes on, Drink half a Pint of Warm ale after it, and Walk for an Hour as fast as Possible without sitting Down 3 or 4 Grains are Sufficient for a Child with a Quarter of a Pint of ale & at least half an hours Excercise if the Child cannot goe it must be kept in Motion 441 Mr Geries Pill Diuretic ... ꝶ Venice Soap ʒij Rhubarb Salt Petre Gum Arabic āā ʒi Gum Guaiacum ʒss Simple Syrup q s for Pills No 442 An Alterative Electary for Piles ꝶ Lenitive Electary ℥iss Cream of Tarter Flower of Brimstone āā ʒij Jalap in Powder ʒi Ginger Grs 10 Syrup of Buckthorn q s for an Electary Take the Quantity of a Nutmeg Morning & Evening No 443 Pills Deobstruent ꝶ Bennets Pills in Fullers Pharmacopia ʒij London philonum ʒi Make them into Pills 15 in each Dram Take 2 Pills at Night going to Bed & 3 Pills next Morning washing them down with two Spoonfuls of the Mixture Hysteric as Holmes Daughter of Edwalton used to have 444 Keelings Medicine for Bronchocela or Swelld thick Necks in young Women Directions a Red Powder Directions how to take the Vomit The Vomit is to be taken in one Spoonful of boiling White Wine for four of five Nights before the Moon is in the full at about 8 of the Clock and when you have had it on your Stomach about fifteen Minutes whether it makes you sick or not drink very plentifully of Warm Water to work it off with all you cannot drink too much ... ... On the day the Moon is at full please to take early in the Morning 6.. 7.. or 8 of the purging Pills just as your Constitution will bear and work them off with water Gruel or green Tea ... ... The Night after you take the first dose of Purging Pills please to put one of the black Balls under your Tongue when you ly down in in Bed and as it gradually dissolves Swallow is not at all Tasting it and use one Ball each Night in the same manner for fifteen Nights Together and the Morning after you have used the fifteen Balls. Take 6 or 7 more of the Puring Pills according as the other agreed with you and for Fourteen Mornings whilest you Use the Balls please to take One of the Powder Tasting in a glass of White Wine except these Two Mornings you take the purging Pills, and then you are to desist from all Medicines until the next full Moon and then proceed as before The Vomit only must be omitted. You need not use any Confinement only when you take the Purging Pills ... ... Keep the Balls in a Bottle Close Stopped neither in a nor damp place The Vomit Take Tarter Emetic grains 7 or 8 it was Charged 2s/6d The Purging Pills are thus made ... Take Pill Catharitic Chalybeat ℈ij made into Nine Pills The dose Charged two Shillings Turn over Keelings Medicines Continued The Black Balls are thus made Take Sponge Calcin'd & Ungula Equi Calcin'd of each Parts Equal with a thick Mucalage of Gum Tragacanth a Sufficient quantity make them into a Mass each Ball to Weigh ʒss Charge 2s / a Ball The Powders are thus made ꝶ Camomile flowers in Powder 15 Grains The Oil [Salts] of Wormwood 3 Grains Antimony diaphoreticum 6 Grains Mix for a Powder NB Twenty eight of these Powders are Charged fourteen Shillings Continued NB a Guinea is always Customary at the beginning of these Medicines & Carriage of the Box & Letter a Guinea When I wrote to you as the Month was likely to be hot defer the taking until the full Moon in September So far as this place is the Copy which I had from a Manuscript and their was Ten pound offer'd for the Receipt the 3 broads Lines below are for further Remarks ... (445) Tooth Powder ꝶ Bole Armenia in powder ʒvi Dragons Blood Gum Mastic Gum Myrrh Cattle Bones āā ʒij Mix these together when in Powder for the Teeth these was order'd for Miss Wright Mr John Wrights Daughter for years & Dr Davison's Wife was very fond of it Charged 10d 446 ꝶ Fennegreek seed ℥iv Crocus Metallorum ℥ij Ethiops Minerals ℥ij Mix & divide them into 8 powders these Mr Thoms Barber orderd & several Times for his Horses 447 Ingredients for a Fomentation ꝶ Marshmallows Leaves Camomile flowers Leaves of Wormwood of each One Handful This was orderd for Mr Barbers Servant Boy 448 ꝶ [crossed out] Sulpher Vive ℥viij Oil of Amber ℥iij Cantherides in Powder ℥iv Common Turpentine ℥ij Mix them for an Ointment This Ointment Mr Thoms Barber orderd for his Horses several Times 449 Electary ꝶ Lomatur Martis ℥iss Flowers of Brimston Liquorice Powder Enulcampany in powder Anniseeds in Powder Carraway seed in Powder Sweet Fennel Seen in Powder of each One Penny Worth best Honey 8 Ounces Mix them and make an Electary This Mr Thos Barber of Bilboro order'd for a poor Woman 450 An Anodine Mixture ꝶ [Simple] Spiritous Alixeterial Water Nutmeg Water āā ʒvi Barley Cinnamon Water Syrup of Diacodium āā ℥iss Simple Alixeterial Water ℥ivss Sydenhams Liquid Laudanum 30 drops [M] them Jacob Kerkbys Wife of Little Hallam had this Mixture the day she was deliverd of a Child Mrs Barber of Bilboro had the same she had One for a Poor Woman and she took 4 of these in 3 days when she lay in of a Child this has been orderd to a great Number of Lying in Woman it is Charged 2/[6]2 & 2/3 451 Remarks on Mrs Barber a Journey and order'd a Tea spoonful of Tincture of Cassamaneer 2 or 3 Times in a day ꝶ Alixeterial Water of the Simple sort ℥iv Simple Pennyroyal Water ℥ij Syrup of Peaney, Bryon Water Spts of Rosemary āā ℥ss Mix them for a Mixture Turn over Continued An Electary for Mrs Barber ꝶ Conserves of Hips ℥i Mustard Seed in Powder ℥i Compound Spirits of Lavender ʒij Powder of Valerian ʒi Ginder ʒss Syrup 2 S for an Electary The Dose the quantity of a Nutmeg twice in a day These Medicines she had was when inclining to an Apoplexy No 452 Purging Pills ꝶ Calomel pp grs vi Pill ex Colocynth with Aloes Extract Cathartic āā Grs x make them into Six Pills for One Dose for Miss Bark July 15th 1769 No 453 ꝶ Cerat Epulotic or Turners Cerat ℥iss sperma Ceti Ointment ʒiij Mix them for an Ointment for Miss Bark July 17 1769 454 Pills Edulcorative ꝶ Cream Tartar in Powder ℥ss Lac Sulphur in Powder Jalap in Powder āā ʒss Aromatic Species grs xviij Conserves of Hips Q S for to make into pills for Miss Bark July 17th The dose is 3 Pills Twice a day Charged 15d July 18th she had the purging pills repeated as No 452 July 23 The same repeated Augt 2d the Edulcorative pills No 454 and she had these No 454 betimes for Years No 455 Pills ꝶ Saponacious Pill ʒiij Gum Guaiacum Gum Arabic āā ʒi Rhubarb ʒss Aromatic Species ℈i Syrup of Marshmallows 2s for pills for David Taylor Dose 3 or 4 twice a day No 456 Stomach Pills for Mrs Morley Senr & Dr Davison ꝶ Extract of Gentian Aromatic Species Salt of Tartar āā ℈ij Myrrh in Powder ʒss Balsam Peru q:s for Pills Doses is 2 Pills an hour before Dinner & 2 at 5 in the Evening & 2 Pills at going to bed Washing them down with 3 Spoonfuls of the following Infusion No 457 Peruvian Infusion ꝶ Lime Water ℥xx digest or Infuse in it Peruvian Bark ℥i grossly powderd for 8 Hours Strain it of then add Tincture of Virginia Snake Root ℥i Mix them for an Infusion No 457 Haustus Paregic or A Paregoric Draught ꝶ Simple Alixeterial Water ℥i Spirituous Alixeterial Water ℥ss Syrup of Diacodium ℥ss Tincture of Cardimums 15 drops Mix them for a Draught No 458 Balsamic Electary ꝶ Conserves of Red Roses ℥ij Lucatillas Balsam ℥i Gum Ammoniacum ... Gum Mastick ... āā ʒi Anulcampany Root in powder ʒi Oil of Anniseeds vi drops Syrup of papavis Arat q s for an Electary Take the Quantity of a Nutmeg 3 or 4 Times a day for a Cough drinking Coltsfoot Tea after it for Mr Warwick at Arnold No 459 Sudorific Bolus ꝶ Theriac Andromica that is Venice Treacle ʒss Sperma Ceti Grs xv Compound Powder of Contrayerva Root Grs x Volatile Salts of Hartshorn Grs iv Syrup of Papavis Orat q s for a Bolus for Mr Padley of Calverton No 460 Remarks on Electarys That it is generally orderd to take the Quantity of a Nutmeg at a Time which is about the One Sixth Part of an Ounce No 461 Carminative Bolus ꝶ London Philonium ʒij for 2 Bolus for Mr Padley of Calverton No 462 Mixture for Cough ꝶ Cool drawn Linseed Oil ℥iss Syrup of Papavis œrat Syrup of Marshmallows āā ℥i Salt Petre ʒij Nutmeg Water ʒvi Elixer Paregoric 30 drops Mix them for a Mixture for Launder Esqrs Maid No 463 Mixture Restringent ꝶ Styptic Tincture ℥i Simple Spear Mint Water Simple pepper Mint Water āā ℥iss Syrup of Diacodium ℥ss Thebaic Tincture 20 drops Alixer Vitriol Acid 20 drops Mix them for a Mixt Take 2 Table Spoonfuls every 3 hours for Miss Strut of Arnald No 464 Mixture for Throat ꝶ Syrup of Black Currants ℥i Oil Sweet Almonds ʒvi Nutmeg Water ℥ss Sal Nitre ℈ij Ol Sulphur percampanum 6 drops Mix them No 465 Agrimony Diabates Incontinency of Urine The leaves are either used Fresh or dryed they have be recommended in the Jaundice but they are found by experience to be good in a Diabetes and Incontinence of Urine the plant in one of the Famous Vulnary Herbs Hills Herbal Page 4th No 466 Alehoof or Ground Ivy It is an excellent Vulnerary outwardly or inwardly a Conserve may be made of it in Spring And may be given by way of Tea it is excellent in disorders of the Breast and Lungs and in those of the Kidneys in Bloody and foul Urine Hills Herbal No 467 Succotorine Aloes ... It must not be given to Women with Child nor those that spit Blood for it may be fatal the best way of giving it is in the Tincture of Hierapicra Hills Herbal page 7th No 468 Herb Archangel The Herb or Flowers are either used fresh or dried The Decoction is good for floodings or Bleeding at the Nose spotting of blood it stops blood Bruised & applied outwardly Hills Herbal Page 13 No 469 Stinking Arrach 4 It is to be used fresh gather'd it losses its Virtue in drying A syrup may be made of a Pint of its Juice and 2 Pounds of Sugar and will keep all the Year The Leaves may be made into a Conserve wth 3 Times it Weight in Sugar in any of these forms it is an Excellent Medicine in all Hysteric complaints It cures fits and promotes the Menses and the necessary Evacuations after delivery Hills Herbal page 13 No 470 Aron or Arum The Root is the part used, It is an excellent Medicine in Palsies, Half one of the Roots Fresh gatherd and Bruised will sometimes restore the Speech at Once and a Continued use use of them goes a great way toward a Cure It is also good in Scorbutic Cases and in all inward Obstructions some dry & Powder it but then it Almost loses all its Virtue Hills Herbl page 14 No 471 Arsmart or Water Pepper A Common Wyld Herb neglected but of great Virtue If grows every where about Ditches and in Watery places It is a foot & half High the Stalks are weak Green or Reddish and Jointed the Leaves are long and narrow like those of the Peach Tree of a bright Green; and not Spotted and even at the Edges The flowers stand at the Top of the Stalk in Slender Spikes of a greenish White. As there are several other kinds of Arsmart and most of them different from this in their Nature and Quality great care is to be taken to geather the right, It must have no spot upon the middle of the Leaf There is another common kind of Arsmart wth with such a Spott and with thicker Stalks and reddish flowers which has none of its Virtues The right Arsmart is an excellent thing in obstruction of Urine in the gravel & Stone and in the Jaundice & beginning of Dropsys it has done great Cures the Juice of the fresh gather'd plant is the best way of giving it Hill Herbl page 15 No 472 Top Artichoke The Roots Fresh gather'd and sliced and boild in Water 6 Ounces to a quart of Water makes a Decoction which works by Urine I have known it alone cure a Jaundice says Hills Herbl page 15 NB it is those sort of Artichokes as the Top is Boild & brought to table No 473 Asparagus The root is a Powerful Diuretic and is good in all Obstructions of the Viscera it has been known Singly to perform Cures in Jaundice & Dropsys it is best given in Decoction Hill Herbal page 18 No 474 Assafetida It is sold by Drugests an excellent Medicine in all Nervous Complaints it may be given alone rold up into pills no way better Hills Herbl page 19 No 475 Avens A common wild plant neglected but worthy of our notice it grows in Hedges & rises 14 Inches high the Stalk is firm & Slender and divided into several Branches ye Leaves Large & rough ye Stalk also is Hairy ye Leaves that grows from ye Root are Winged they consist of 3 pr of small ones & One much larger at the end, those on the Stalk are smaller and Consist of fewer Parts but otherwise they are like, The flowers are small and Yellow The are succeeded by rough Heads as big as Horse Beans comeposed of many Seeds wth hooked Filaments The Root is long & large of a firmish Substance redish Colour and a very fragrant Spicy Smell it is better than many Drugs kept in the Shop It is cordial & Sudorific food in nervous Complaints I have known it alone cure Intermittants Fevers when the Bark has been unsuccessful Hills Herbal page 20th No 476 Baytree The Berries are dried and are the part of the Tree mostly Used; but the Leaves also have great Virtue The Berries are used in powder or in Infusion They are good in Obstructions and in Cholics The promote Urine and the Evacuations after delivery The Leaves are Cordial and good in all nervous Complaints, Paralytic People would find great Benefit from small Doses of them often repeated and four of 5 Doses have sometimes cured Agues. They are to be put fresh into an Oven and when they are Crisp reduced to a Powder Hills Herbl Page 27 No 477 Basil But little used but deserves to be much more a Tea made of the Green plant is excellent against all Obstructions No Simple is more Effectual for Gently promoting the Menses and for removing those Complaints which naturally attend their Stoppages No 478 Bears Breech This plant is not so much known in Medicine as it deserves. The Roots being Cut in Slices and boiled in Water makes an excellent Diuretic Decoction it was a great Medicine with an eminent Apothecary of Peterborough and he gave more relief with it in the Gravel and Stone than any other medicine would afford Hills Herbal page 32 No 479 Ladys Bed straw This Herb is very little regarded but of very great Virtue it should be getherd when the flowers are not quite blown and dried in the shade An Infusion of will cure Bleeding at the Noses and almost all other Evacuations of Blood Hills Herbal Page 33 No 480 Beets The Roots fresh of the White Beet is an excellent Remedy for the Head Ach and Tooth Ach when the whole Jaw is affected the Juice is to be Snuffed up the Nose to promote a Sneezing the red Root is good for the same purpose but not as strong as the White Hills Herbal Page 34 No 481 White Behen A Common wilde plant in our Corn Fields it is two Feet High the Stalks are weak and often Crocked but they are thick enough round and of a Whitish Green Colour the leaves are Oblong broad and of a Fine blue Green Colour not Dented at all on the Edges, and they grow two at every Joint the Joint of the Stalks where they grow are swelled and Large and the leaves have no Stalks The Flowers are white and Moderately Large and 5 Leaves in each flower and a deep nick in the middle of the Leaf makes it look take 2 leaves and are prickley They stand up on a Husk which seems blown up with Wind they are Call'd also Sparkling Poppies they are a sort of a Campion, This is one of those Plants of our own Growth that have more Virtues than People Imagine the Root which is long & white and Woody is to be gathered before the Stalk rise and dried an Infusion of the root is one of the best Remedies known for a Nervous Complaint it will not take place against a Violent Present disorder but is an excellent preservative taken Cautious by Hills Herbl p 34 Mr During says the Herb boild in Soop before it is in flower give it a flaver like young Pease N 482 Wood Betony Is to be gathered when just going to Flower It is excellent for disorders of the Head, and for all nervous Complaints, The Habitual Use of it will Cure the most Inveterate Headachs it may be taken as Tea or dried and Powder'd some smoak it with Tobacco but this is a more uncertain Method H .. s H. b l page 37 No 483 Billberries A Syrup made of the Juice of Billberies when not over ripe is pleasant cooling & Binding a gentle Medicine for Women in the overflowing of the Menses taken for a Week before the Time No 484 Bistort Hill says in his Herbl Page 41 If we minded our own Herbs we should need fewer Medicines from abroad. The Root of Bistort is one of the best Asstringents in the World not Violent but sure The Time of Gathering it is in March when the Leave begin to shoot String several of them on a String or Line and let them dry in the shade The powder or decoction of them will stop all manner of Fluxes of the Belley and is one of the safest Remedies known for overflowing of the Menses, They are also good in a Diabetes The Use of this root may be continued without Danger until it effects a Perfect Cure No 485 Bitter Sweet The Wood of the large Branches and the Young Shoots of the Leaves are a safe & excellent purge I have known a Dropsy taken early cured by this Single Medicine Hill Herb p 42 No 486 Bloodwort The Roots are Used: They are best dryed and They may be given in Decoction, or in Powder They are Powerfully Asstringent: They stop Bloody Fluxes Spitting Of Blood and the overflowing of the Menses It is also good in violent purgings and in the Whites No 487 Bramble The most neglected thing have their Use the Buds of the Bramble Boild in Spring Water and the Decoction sweeted with Honey are excellent for a Sore Throat a Syrup made of the Juice of unripe Fruit with very fine Sugar is cooling and Asstringent, It is good in immoderate Fluxes of the Menses and even in Purgings, The Berries are to be gathered for this purpose when they are red Hills Herbal Page 43 When the Berries are almost Ripe Stew them down and Press the Juice out. Boyl it up with its own Weight with Sugar It makes an excellent Rob or Jelly for Stone or Gravel take the Quantity of a Nutmeg Night going to Bed No 488 Blue Buttons Stop Bleeding of Wounds Diuretic The leaves which grow on the Stalk fresh gatherd and bruised will stop the Bleeding of a fresh Wound even if a large Vessel be Cut They are not Sufficiently known for this purpose but they exceed all other things and may save a life where a Surgeon is not to be had in Time for such Accident An Infusion of them works gently by Urine Hill Page 44 No 489 Box Tree Foulness of Blood & Leprosy The Wood of the Box Tree and particular the Root is an Excellent Medicine in all Foulness of the the Blood it has the same Virtues as Guaiacum but in a greater Degree, It is to be given in Decoction not made too Strong and Continued a Long Times There has been Instances of what were call Leprosys cur'd entirely by this very Medicine There is a distilld Oil of it if Dipt in Cotton & put into an Aching hollow Tooth it would be of Service to it Hill p 45 No 490 Black Bryony Diuretic & for Gravel The Roots of Black Bryony is one of the best Diureticks known in Medicine, It is an excellent Remedy in the Gravel and all other obstructions of the Urine and other disorders of the Uriny Passages - Hill page 47 No 491 Buckbean The leaves of this is to be geathered before the Stalks appear for Flowering and are to be dried the Powder of them will cure Agues But theire great Use is against the Rhumatism for this purpose they are to given for a Continuence of Time in Infusion or in ye manner of Tea ... Hill p 49 No 492 White Campion This plant is not much regarded for its Virtues but it deserves Notice the Country People in some places gather them the flowers I mean and give them in the Whites and other Weaknesses with Success Hill p61 No 493 Clary It is Cordial and Astringent it Strengthens the Stomach and Good for the Head ach & good for the Whites The seeds of this are put into the Eyes to take out any little offensive Substance fallen into them as soon as they are put into the end of the Eye they gather a Coat of Mucilage about them and this Catcheth hold of any little thing it meets with in the Eye Hills Herbl page 83 No 494 Catmint It should be gathered just when the Flowers are opening and dried It is an excellent Womans Medicine; an Infusion of it is good against Hysteric Complaints, Vapours, and Fits and it Moderately promotes the Menses It is also good to promote the Evacuations after delivery Hills Herb p 71 No 495 Cranes Bill The whole Plant is to be gathered Root and all and dried for use it is a most excellent Astringent Scarce any plant is equal to it It may be given dried and Powdered or in Decoctions it Stops overflowing of the Menses bloody Stools and all other Bleedings It is to be observed that Nature seems to have set her Stamp upon Several Herbs which have there Virtue to Stop Bleedings this and the Tusan The 2 best Remedies in the Fields affords for our Outward & inward Bleedings becomes all over as red as Blood at a Certain Season Hill Page 103 No 496 Great Daisy The Flowers is the Part Used They are to be gathered when newly opened and dryed and may afterward given in powder or Infusion They are good against Coughs shortness of Breath and in all disorders of the Lungs They are Balsamic & Strengthening Hill page 114 No 497 Elecampane It is good in all disorders of the Breast & Lungs and it opens Obstructions It opperates by Urine powerfully & also by sweat Hill page 133 No 498 Elm The inner Bark of the Elm Boild in Water makes one of the best Gargles for a Sore Throat That can be Supply'd by the whole list of Medicines It should be sweeted with Honey of Roses It is extremely soft & healing and yet at the same Time very cleansing There are 2 or 3 other kinds of Elms common in Garden Hedges they are brought from other Countries but the Bark of the English rough Elm is preferable to them all in Medicine Hill p 134 No 499 Fox Glove The Plant boiled in Ale is taken by People of a Robust Constitution for the Rhuematism and other Stubborn Complaints it Works violently upwards & downwards and cures also Quartan Agues and as it is said the Falling Sickness An Ointment made of the Flowers of Fox glove boild in may Butter has been long Famous in Scrophulous Sores Hill 154 No 500 Frankinsense It is a dry Resin kept in the Druggests Shop it is a noble Balsam dissolved in the Yolk of an Egg and made into an Emulsion with Barley Water it will do good in a Consumptions when almost all other things fail It were well if the Common trifling practice in that Fatal disorder would give way to the Use of this great Medicine Hills Herbal p 155 No 501 Sweet Flag or Calamus Aromaticus The Juice of the Fresh root is excellent to promote the Menses it Works by Urine Moderately and gives no Offence to the Stomach the dried Root is Cordial and Sudorific it Warms the Stomach & is good against Indegestions and Fevers Hill Herbl page 147 No 502 Carminative Pills for Mrs Vincent Edwalton ꝶ Gum Ammoniacum, & Myrrh āā ʒi Pill Ruffi ʒi, Amber, Mastic & Olibanum āā ℈ij Cantor ℈ss Saffron ℈i Sal Martis ʒi Oil of Carraway seeds and Juniper of each 6 drops Elixer of Aloes Q s to make them into Pills No 503 Black Ointment Banyers ꝶ Barbadoes Tarr ℥i Yellow Rosin ℥iss Yellow Wax ℥ij Linseed Oil ℥i Melt them into an Ointment This is order'd as a Digestive especially in an Ulcerated Herpus No 504 Ointment of 4 things Banyer ꝶ Burgundy Pitch ℥i Yellow wax ℥ij Frankinsence ʒi Olive Oil ℥ij Melt them and make an Ointment This is used as a moderate digestive No 505 Green Ointment Banyers ꝶ Verdigrease ʒi Ointment Egyptiacum ℥ss Ointment of Elder ℥i common Yellow Rissin or Rosin ℥iss Oil of Skike ʒij Mix them according to Art for an Ointment This is a Warm digestive and a good detergent and is used to cleanse old foul Ulcers and wear away fungus Flesh from green Wounds especially if a little red precipitate be added No 506 Elder Ointment Banyers ꝶ Green Leaves of Elder & Houseleek of each 2 parts of the inner Bark of Elder 1 part mix them together & Boil of much of them as possible with 10 pound of Hogs Lard until they are Crisp then press out hard & Boil a fresher quantity in the same Lard & press out again to the last putting 10 pound of Yellow Wax Tis a good Cooler & Anodyne & directed in Inflamations & Erysipelatous Tumours this tho more Simple than the Ungt Populneum but it is to be Used with Calution for the Reasons given under the Epulotic Ointment for which See No 1 of this Book No 507 Soldiers Ointment Banyers No Cooks Balsam No 508 ꝶ Balsam of Peru ℥i Storax Calamitis ℥ij Gum Benjamin impregnated with sweet Almonds ℥iij Succotorine Aloes, Gum Myrrh Frankincence Root of Angelica, Flowers of Saint Johns Wort, of each ℥i These must be Beaten and put alltogether in a glass Bottle with a Pint of Spirits of Wine Stop the Bottle Close and let it Stand in the Sun all the Dog Days taking it in at Night & when it Rains when it hath stood the full Time Strain it thro' a fine Cloth or a piece of Muslin and it will be fit for Use The Virtues There is no Cut with Iron if not Mortal but it Cures in 8 days Time for the Gout Anoint the part affected therewith for the Tooth ach dip a little Cotton in it and put it in the Hollow Tooth For a Nail in a Horses Foot put a few drops in the place For the Collick take 5 or 6 drops in Brandy or Wine Stir it up and drink it It cures Ulcers Cankers the bite of a mad Dog or any Venomous Beast It Cures Loosnesses or Bloody Flux by taking 5 or 6 drops in a glass of Red Wine or in 3 or 4 Spoonful of Broth If any thing has been used to a wound before this be applyed was it well wth Brandy then apply this It Cures a fixed Cough or Consumption by taking 5 or 6 drops on a Lump of Sugar 3 Times a day  No 509 Pectoral Decoction ꝶ Pectoral Decoction tb i in it dissolve Gum Arabic ʒijss Salt Petre ℈ijss Spiritous Cinnamon Water ℥iss mix them Take 4 Spoonfuls 3 or 4 Times a day for Mrs Knowles No 510 Drops [illegible] Dr Davison ꝶ 7 Drops of Balsam of Cappivy upon fine Sugar 2 or 3 Times a day Washing them down with a Tablespoonful of the Decoction Coccina for Mrs Knowles [illegible] No 511 Pills Deobstruent ꝶ Pill Bennedict Fullers ʒiij Species Aromatic ℈ss Rhubarb & Gum Guaiaccum āā ℈i Tincture of Melempodi q s for pills Take one pill going to Bed & 2 next Morning These she had for Years No 512 Bolus Diuretic ꝶ Gum Arabic in Powder, Salt Petre in powder āā grs 8, Conserves of Hips ʒss Calcin'd Egg Shells in Powder grs iij Syrup of Marshmallows q s for a Bolus Mr Immins had 2 of these every day for 5 days then he had the Lythontriptick Mixture No 513 A Lotion for Pimples in the Face Gentleman Magazine Augt 1752 Mr Urban the following prescription I intend as a present to the Ladies It is not mentioned in any Author and it is known but to few it is a certain Remedy for Pimples that rise and settle in the Face ꝶ Precipitate of Sulphur ℥ss, Damask Rose Water ℥i and a little Aromatic Oil or Perfume to prevent the offensive smell of the Sulphur shake them well in a little Boule and lay some of this Lotion thick on the Pimples at Night, and in the Morning wash it well off with Milk & Water, Few Cases will require above one Week. It would be adviseable that the Patient if the Pimples be Numerous or Obstinate that they should take at that Time some gentle Diureticks No 514 Powder for Convulsions in Children From Gentlemans Magazine Augt 1752 The Writer says that on his looking over the Bills of Mortality out of [3160] 316 Persons 90 were Carried off by Convulsions Chiefly I suppose Children Convulsions in general before Dentition (that is before they Breed or Cut their Teeth) proceed from Sharp irritating Humours generated in the Prima Via that is in the first Passages as the Stomach & Intestines by living Chiefly on Milk or Acid Food Their Fits are preceeded by griping green Stools &c And I believe there is no disorder Incident to human Bodies which will admit of a more Speedy & Certain Cure than Convulsions by the following Prescription for I never knew a Child have a Single fit after having taken it altho I have order'd the Powder to be taken for 2 or 3 Days at proper Intervals ꝶ white Sugar Candy 1 Ounce in fine Powder drop into it One hundred & twenty Drops of the best Oil of Aniseed Rub them well in a Morter then Add One Ounce of Sperma Ceti then rub well The Dose of it is 20 Grains in a little Breast Milk every 3 or 4 Hours or oftener if the Child require it No 515 515 Herring Soop to please the Rich & poor from Gentlemans Magazine Sepr 1752 Take Split pease One Quart put them to five Quarts of Water, Jemacai Pepper One Quarter of an Ounce two large Onions Three Pickled Herrins washed in 2 or 3 or 4 Waters the Roans took out and Cut in pieces but the Skins must be took off Boil all together until One quart is Wasted Pour in One Pint of Boiling Water and let them Boil One quarter of an Hour take it of & Strain it thro' a Cullender Thro' into the Soop 7 or 8 Heads of Salary & 3 heads of Endive all of them Cut Small with a handful of Dry'd Mint pas thro' a Lawn Sieve Set all these on the Fire Boil the whole near 3 Quarters of an Hour Stirring the Soop Continualy to prevent it Burning which it will do in a Moment therefore the Pot Should Stand on a Tritvit Bread must be Cut into Diamonds & Fry'd Crisp in Butter & thrown into the Soop which may be Served up This was in the News Paper as an Invention of a Lady a Zealous Friend to the Herring Fishery but it is said to be an old Receipt of the Papists in Lent only they Use White Herrings Instead of Red No 516 Mixture for Ears for Miss Wright Daughter to Mr [In?] Wright ꝶ Oil of Sweet Almonds & Tincture of Castor of each ʒi Powers of Amber 15 drops Mix them No 517 A Purging Mixture for Mrs Bowskil at Stanton on the Wolds ... ꝶ Infusion of Senna with Lemon as by the Dispensatory ℥iv dissolve in it best Manna ʒx Glaubers Salts ... ʒv Tartar Solubile ℈iv Spirits of Lavendar ʒiss Mix them for a Mixture [?] Dr Davison Take 3 Spoonfuls immediately and one Spoonful every Hour until it purges she has this by Times for Years 2s/ No 518 Electary for a Cough for Mr Wilkinson Mr Mark Huishes Man March 21s 1772 ꝶ Liquorice Powder ℥i Salt Petre ʒiiss Cream of Tartar ʒiij Syrup of Red Roses quantity Sufficient to make them into an Electary Take the quantity of a Nutmeg 3 or 4 Times a day washing it down with a Cup of Strong Infusion of Milfoil commonly call'd Yarrow [illegible] Dr Davison this he had after several expectorating Mixture & Several Boxes of Balsamic Pills and it seemd to Sute best No 519 Electary for Intermitting Fever ꝶ Peruvian Bark in Powder ʒvi Salts of Wormwood ʒi - Virginia Snake Root, Camomile flowers in Powder, Calamus Aromaticus in Powder āā ʒss Conserves of Roman Wormwood ℥i Syrup of Elder Berries q:s for to make them into an Electary take the quantity of a Nutmeg every 2 Hours when the Fever is off Mr Mr Gamble Winter Leenside No 520 Bolus ꝶ Opium gr iss, Volatile Salts of Amber ℈ss Salt of Tartar gr v Calomel grs v Syrup de Althea qs for a Bolus to be taken going to Sleep No 521 Mixture ꝶ Balsam Capevy ℥ss, The Yolk of one Egg Rub them well in a Morter together then Add by little & little Fennel Water ℥x Parsley Water ℥x Syrup of Marshmallows ℥ij Mix them Take 3 Tablespoonfuls 3 Times a day for Mr Danl Walkinsons Wife in But Dyke [illegible] Dr Smeeton NB the Bolus was for her too No 522 Powders ꝶ Gum Guaiacum in Powder ʒiss Sulphur Vive in Powder ℥ss ʒss Calomel grs xxvij Creme Tartar ʒi Ginger grs vi Mix them and divide them into 9 Powders Take one Powder every Morning washing them down with Tea made of Sassafras Chips for Mr John Swans under Maid March 18th 1766 No 523 Electary ꝶ Peruvian Bark in Powder ʒvi Candied Nutmegs ʒiij Ginger in Powder ʒss Candied Orange Peel ℥ss Syrup of Orange Peel q s for an Electary Take the quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day washing it down with a little Brandy & Water with 15 drops of Elixer of Vitriol Accid in each draught for Mr Stokes in Pepper Street Decr 19th 1763 this was for a Slight Ague or a Shuddering upon & a Bad Weak Stomach No 524 Mercurial Pills by Dr Ford for Mr Birches Man Snenton ꝶ pill ex Colocynth cum Aloes ʒiij Mercuries dulees or Calomel ʒi Syrup of Balsam q s for Pills make each Drachm into 12 Pills Take 2 Pills every other Night No 525 Pills ꝶ pill Olibanum of Fuller the Whole quantity as by his Pharmicopia Add Saffron ℈ss London Philonum ℈ij Zodary Root in Powder ʒss Gum Guaiacum in Powder ʒss Mix them for Pills. Take 3 or 4 Pills 3 Times a day washing them down with a Cup of Camomile Tea these were for Mr Birches Daughter of Snenton No 526 Stomach Pills for Mrs Burden p Dr Davison ꝶ Aromatic Species, Extract of Gentian āā ℈i Pill Ruffi grs xxv Salt of Tartar ℈i Balsam of Peru q s to make into Pills Take 3 Pills an hour before Noon & 3 More at 6 in the Evening washing them down with a little Pepper Mint Water No 527 Powders for Mr Roberts' Child Narrow Marsh Novr 25th 1774 ꝶ Rhubarb grs ix Cream of Tartar grs 18 Cochineal grs 6 mix them and divide them into 6 Powders The 27 a purging Powder The 29th the 9 Powders repeated December 5th ꝶ Tincture of Rhubarb made with Wine ʒx Saffron Wine ʒij Syrup of Ginger ʒiss Take a Childs Spoonful Night & Morning No 528 Elixer No 529 (1) Peruvian Powders ꝶ Peruvian Bark in Powder ʒvi Euletheria Bark ʒi Rhubarb in Powder ℈ij Mix them & divide them into 24 Powders for the Reva Mr Gazes Man Take one Powder every 2 Hours when the Ague or Fever is off in any Convenient Liquor Night Pills No 530 ꝶ Gum Ammonicam ℈ij Salts of Wormwood ℈i Powder of Squils Gr ij Syrup of Ginger q s for Pills 14 Take 2 Pills every Night going to Bed for Mr Wilkinson Kinsman to Alderman Hollins No 531 Mixture for Asthmah ꝶ Oxymel of Squils Strong Spirituous Cinnamon Water āā ℥ij Elixer Paregoric ℥i Mix them Take half a Spoonful Morning & Evening at going to Bed for the same Mr Wilkinson (2) 532 Powders in a Low Nervous Fever ꝶ Camomile Flowers in Powder and Roots of Wooddy Valerian āā ʒij Salts of Wormwood ℈ijss Mix and divide them into 8 Paper for Saml Morleys Wife at Sheppard & Shippardis [illegible] Dr Davison Take one Powder every four Hours in a little French Brandy & Water these she had Several Times a long Time 533 Hysteric Tincture ꝶ Tincture of Fuliginous that is Tincture of Wood Soot ʒiij Spirits of Lavendar & Tincture of Castor āā ʒi Mix them Take 35 Drops 3 or 4 Times in a Day in any Convenient Liquor for Mr Morleys Wife as above 534 Mixture for Sore Throat ꝶ Syrup of Mulberries ℥i Oil of Sweet Almonds Aq Mirabiles ... āā ʒss Oil of Sulphur P Companum 20 drops mix them for Mr Immins Maid next Morning she took a Common Purging Draught (3) 535 Carminative Stomach Mixture ꝶ Spirituous Tincture of Rhubarb & Tincture of Senna āā ℥i Simple Pepper Mint Water ℥ij Crabs Claws Prepared ʒi London Phylonum ʒss Syrup of Ginger ʒiij Mix them for Mr Immins's Maid 536 Antirheumatic Draught ꝶ Simple Alixeterial Water ʒvi Simple Pepper Mint Water Common Mint Water Nutmeg Water Syrup of Marsh Mallows āā ℥ij Atherial Oil of Turpentine 15 drops Gum Guaiacum in Powder Grs x And so much Yolk of an Egg as will be Sufficient to disolve the Gum Guaicacum & Oil of Turpentine in a Morter by rubbing of it then Mix the other Liquor with them for a Draught This was orderd for Mrs Cole several Years to be taken at Night going to bed for the Rheumatism (4) No 537 Tincture for Mrs Carrier in Clifton Hospital who had an Aparelitic Stroke upon her 1773 Jany 2d ꝶ Tincture of Castor, Compound Spirits of Lavender, Spirits Salvolatile āā ℥ss Mix them for a Tincture ꝶ Valerian of the Woods the Root of it ℥i fore Ingredients for Tea Jany 3d 1773 She had this Mixture ꝶ Simple Alixeterial Water ℥iij Simple Pepper Mint Water ℥iiss Compound Spirits of Lavendar ʒiii Compound Brion Water ℥iss Syrup of Ginger ℥ss Mix them for a Mixture Take 2 Spoonful 3 or 4 Times a day (5) Jany 11th 1773 She had the following Electary ꝶ Mustard Seed in Powder ℥i Conserves of Hips ℥i Gum Guaiacum & Native Cinnabar āā ʒi Ginger Grains 10 Compound Spirits of Lavendar ʒij Mix them for an Electary The same day she had the Mixture repeated Jany 28 She had the Electary & the Mixture repeated 538 Pill ꝶ Rhubarb Grs x, Pill Rufi and Spanish Soap āā grs xv mix for Pills in Number 8 Tame 4 Immediately & 2 every hour for Mrs Rallighan [illegible] Dr White 539 Mixture ꝶ Tarter Emetic Grs iij Simple Alixeterial Water Simple Spearmint Water āā ℥iv Oxymel of Squils & Gum Arabic āā ℥i Syrup of Diaodim ℥iss Mix them for a Mixture for Mrs Rattaghan [illegible] Dr White Take ℥ss every 3 hours or when the Cough is Urgent 540 Pill ꝶ Tarter Emetic grs ij Mercurious Dulcis grs iv Rhubarb grs 15 Ginger Grs 10 Mix them well together add Myrrh & Extract of Gentian āā ʒss Syrup of Saffron 2 s to make into 20 Pills for Mrs Rattagham [illegible] Dr White Take 2 Pills Morning & Evening these she had Repeated for a long time No 541 No 542 Tent Wine ꝶ of Red Port Wine 1 Pint of Sack or any Sweet Wine One Pint sometimes there is a Sort of Raison Wine Sweet enough which would do Mix them together then add to them a Little of the best French Brandy but there should not be much for fear of it being tasted in the Wine This was the Way Mrs Porter in Castle Gate told me her Father (who was a Vintner in Herefordshire) Used to make it for the Wine for the Sacrament There is a Rich Canary Wine very Sweet or there is a Sack Called Malaga Sack very Sweet One half of either of them & the other half Red Port & a little French Brandy will do very Well 543 Mixture Diuretic Sepr 11th 1765 Mr Philn Burril ... ꝶ the Common Barley Water 2 Pints dissolve in it Gum Arabic ℥ij Strain it off Add to it Syrup of Marshmallows ℥iss Nutmeg Water ℥ij Sweet Spirits of Nitre ʒiss Mix them for a Mixture ... 2s/4d 544 Another Sepr 13 for Mr Burril ꝶ Gum Arabic ʒiss Dissolve it in Pepper Mint Water ℥iiss Syrup of Marshmallow & Oil of Sweet Almonds āā ℥iss Nutmeg Water ℥ij Sweet Spirits of Nitre ʒiss Spirits of Vitriol 12 Drops Theabaic Tincture 22 drops Mix them for a Mixture Take 2 Spoonfuls every 2 hours Charged 2s/2d This he had Several Times N 545 Guaiacum Draught for Rheumatism for Mr Gamble Winter when he had got the Rheumatism & Pain in this Back December 8 1768 ꝶ Gum Guaiacum in Powder grs x dissolve it with a little of the Yolk of an Egg by rubbing it in a Mortar Add by little & little Clear fountain or Spring Water ℥iss. Volatile Tincture of Guaiacum 15 drops Atherial Oil of Turpentine 10 drops Nutmeg Water ʒij Mix them for a Draught to be taken at Night going to Bed He had the same repeated Decr 9th the 10th 2 Ditto 12th 2 Ditto the 15th 2 Ditto the 15 Oppodeldock ℥iss the 16th the 2 Draughts 17 A purging Potion as follows No 546 Purging Draught for Rheumatism for Mr Winter Decr 17th 1768 ꝶ Electary of Scammony ʒiiss dissolve it in Simple Alixeterial Water ℥ijss or Baum Water or Pennyroyal Water for a Purging Potion take it in the Morning taking Care not to get Cold Mr Gamble Winter Continued Decr 19th ye Guaiacum Draught repeated and a plaster for the Small of his back as follows ꝶ of Cummin plaster, of Sticking plaster & of the Common plaster of each ʒiij Melt them together then Spread them upon Leather the Moisten ℈i of Camphor with a little Spirits of Wine and Spread it upon the Plaister and apply it to the small of his Back Decr 20 the Guaiacum Draught (21) Do 21 the Purging Draught repeated (23d) the Guaiacum Draught (24) Do (25) Do 28 Do 30 the Purging Draught Jany 8 the Plaster repeated No 547 A Vomit ꝶ Ipecaccoanha Wine ʒvij Oxymel of Squils ʒi m for Mrs Winter No 548 Pills ꝶ Pill Balsamic of Dr Fullers ℥ss Jalap in Powder ʒss Syrup of Ginger a sufficient quantity to make into Pills Take 3 or 4 Pills 3 Times a day for Boar County Prisoner Novr 16: 1774 No 549 Antihysterick Pills ꝶ Gum Myrrh, Gum Ammoniacum, Gum Galbanum āā ℈ij Steel Prepared ʒi Sal Martis ʒss Venice Borax ℈i Aromatic Species grs xv Tincture of Melempodi grs to make them up into Pills Take 3 or 4 Pills Morning and evening for Ann Baum ꝶ Hysteric Mixture as Holmes's Daughter No 550 Pills ꝶ Balsamic Pills of Dr Fullers ℥ss Add Gum Ammoniacum, Gum Galbanum, Gum Myrrh, Sal Martis Extract of Gentian āā ʒss Steel Prepar'd ʒi Elixer of Myrrh Compound q s for to make them into Pills Take 3 Pills 3 Times in a day washing them down with Tea made of Colts Foot These where for Mark Fishers Wife Staver to Mr Barber of Bilboro August the 19th 1768 .. Price 18d She had these several Times & she got them for a Woman 1775 who Lay In She had in 1768 Holmes Mixture along with the Pills No 551 A Febrifuge Tincture for Miss Williams ꝶ Tincture of Peruvian Bark ℥i Aromatic Tincture ℥ss ᵯ Take a Tea Spoonful twice a day No 552 Mixture of Restringent for Mr John Buxtons Wife Novr 10th [1775] 1767 ꝶ Helvatious's Styptic Tincture ℥iij Plantain Water ℥iv Syrup of Boylean ʒvi m of Mixture Take 2 Meat Spoonfuls 3 Times a day No 553 Restringent Pills for the same as the above Novr 13 1767 ꝶ Gum Olibanum ℥i Dragon Blood & Rhubarb āā ℈ij Jepan Earth ℈i Balsam Capevy q s for Pills Take 3 Pills 3 Times in a day No 554 Restringent Mixture March 28th 1768 for Mrs John Buxton ꝶ plantain Water ℥iv Helvatious's Styptic Tincture ℥ij Syrup of Boyleans ℥ss Orange Peel Water ℥ss Aromatic Tincture Sweet Spirits of Vitriol Theabaic Tincture aa 24 Drops Mix them Take 2 Spoonfools every 2 Hours No 555 Restringent Pills ꝶ Colophony ʒi Dragons Blood ℈ij best Rhubarb ʒss Jepan Earth grs xv Roach Alum [q s] grs 10 Syr of Boyleans q s for Pills make 15 Pills in each Dram Take 3 Pills 2 or 3 Times a day washing them down with Yarrow Tea for Mrs Ino Buxton March 29th 1768 & She had the above mixture repeated the same Day No 556 Electary Edulcorative for Mr Ino Buxtons Maltster ꝶ Conserves of Hips ℥iss, Ethiops Minerals ℥i Cinnabar of Antimony finely Legigated ʒiij Cerus Antimony & Creme of Tartar āā ʒij Compound Powder of Ari ʒi Gum Arabic ʒiss Syrup of Elders q:s for an Electary Take the quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day washing it down with a Draught of the following Infusion ꝶ Sassafras Chips Guaiaiccum Chips and Sarsaperrella Roots āā ℥i for Ingredients for an Infusion No 557 Elixer for Mrs Ino Buxton ꝶ Tincture of Vellerian the Simple ʒiij Tincture of Castor Saffron Wine āā ʒijss Salvolatile ʒi Mix them Take a Tea Spoonful any Time when Languid in any agreable Liquor No 558 Electary for Pills July 1775 for Mrs Syston of Arnold [illegible] Dr Davison ꝶ Lenitive Electary ℥iss Nitre ℈iv Jalap ʒiij Tincture of Jalap ʒiss Ginger ℈ij Solutive Syrup of Roses q s to make them up into an Electary This was orderd to be taken the quantity of a Nugmeg Night & Morning but it was not sent but was given to J Singlehurst of Radford he was troubled with the piles at that Time & had a great heat about his Seat he took the Quantity of a large Nutmeg for 3 Mornings & it worked him briskly but it Coold & Cured him No 559 Mixture for Sore Throat ꝶ Syrup of Mulberies ℥i Oil of Sweet Almond ℥ss Nutmeg Water ʒij Salt Peter ℈i Spirits of Vitriol 6 Drops m No 560 Dressing for Wm Gervases Sons Lacerated Arm ꝶ Yellow Liniment ℥iss Balsam of Turpentine Oil of Turpentine āā ʒij Mix them No 561 Pills for Mr Moor at Black Swann ꝶ Jalap, Rhubarb āā ʒss Calomel grs [xv] X London Philonum ʒiss Syrup of Ginger q s for Pills No 562 Pills for Mr Pepper of Leicester June 19th 1774 ꝶ Cathartic Extract ʒiss, Species of Hiera picra & Gum Guaiacum āā ʒi Jalap ʒss Syrup of Ginger q s for Pills 1775 July 8th the same was repeated but there was Added Jalap ʒss No 563 A ditergent Mixture for Throat ꝶ Syrup of Black Curians ℥iss Oil Olive ℥ss: Nutmeg Water ʒiij Sal Nitre ℈ij Spirits of Vitriol 15 drops No 564 Remarks upon Burns 1775 On the 31st of March at 12 at Night the Revd Mr Davison of Bramcote sent a Man to and said that a Coal had fallen upon the back of Mr Davisons hand and had Raised 3 large Blisters he was orderd to Prick the Blisters and let the Water out then to rub it with the following embrocation [illegible] 2 or 3 times in a day. ꝶ Common Linseed Oil ℥iss Rectified Spirits of Wine ℥i and Mix them for an Embrocation NB but as there was no common Linseed Oil in the Shop they made Use of Cool drawn Linseed Oil and it made it look thick & white No 565 Nervous Tincture Aug 1 1775 ꝶ Tincture of Castor ʒiss Tincture of Fuliginous ℥ss Tinctr of Valerian ʒij Mix them The Dose is 30 to 40 drops 2 or 3 Times a day in any agreable Liquid for Miss Collishaw No 566 Balsamic Electary Aug 1775 for Mr Silverwood in Nottm Goal ꝶ Gum Ammoniacum ℈ij Sperma Ceti ʒi Lapis Hibernicus ℈iv Gum Arabic ℈i Conserves of Hips ℥i Salts of Hartshorn grs xxv Syrup of Marshmallow q:s for an Electary Take the Quantity of a Nutmeg twice a day No 567 Mixture Asthmatic for Mrs Johnson near the Flying Horse ꝶ Gum Ammoniacum ʒi Aq Pulegi ℥vi Aq Raphon C ℥i Oxymel Squils ʒvi Syrup of Garlick ℥ss Saffron Wine ʒi Mix them for a Mixture Half the above quantity she had for Years of repeated No 568 Purging Bolus for Mr Halton Tanner Sepr 22d 1760 [illegible] Dr Davison ꝶ Calomel grs v Jalap grs viiij Rhubarb grs xv Syrup of Buckthorn q:s for a Bolus to be taken in the Morning fasting This he had for 10 Years at Times No 569 for Mrs Shellingtons Son ꝶ psoric Liniment ℥ij ꝶ Seeds of Stavesacre in Powder ℥i Boil them in one Pint of Water until you can Strain half a Pint then add Spirits of Rosemary ℥ss Mix them for a Lotion or Wash ꝶ Mrs Smiths alterative Powders No 6 No 570 Balsamic Sudorific Bolus for John Turner Mr Ingmans Malster Augt 27 1770 ꝶ Sperma Ceti ℈i a little Yolk of an Egg Gum Ammoniacum grs 6 Salts of Hartshorn grs [4] 5 Powder of Contrayeva Compound grs 15 Syrup q s for a Bolus No 571 Balsamic Electary for Ino Turner Mr Ingmans Malster Augt 28 1770 ꝶ Conserves of Red Roses ℥iss Lucatilla's Balsam ʒvi Sperma Ceti ʒiij Lapis Hybernia ʒij Sal Nitre ʒi Compound Powder of Gum Dragon ʒiss Salts of Hartshorns ʒss Syrup of Marshmallows q s for an Electary NB Lapis Hibernia is Irish Slate The same Day he had the Sudorific Bolus repeated as No with the Additions of 5 Grains of Calx of Antimony Ilsta No 572 Plaister for a Sore Throat for Mrs Booth on the Backside in July 1761 The first she was Blooded ꝶ The Mucilage Plaister spread it upon Leather about the breadth of a Mans Shirt Neck and such a length as will reach from behind one [to] Ear to behind the other Ear and to come before the Gullet of the Throat then drop upon the Plaister Six or Seven drops of the Chymical Oil of Wormwood which will stick on & apply it from behind one Ear to the other Then she had the following Mixture for the Throat ꝶ Syrup of Mulberies & Syrup of Cranes bill āā ʒvi Oil of Sweet Almonds & Spirituous Alixeteral Water āā ℥ss Lapis Prunel ʒss Oil of Sulphur [illegible] Campany 20 drops Mix them Turn Over No 573 Purging Draught for Mrs Booth ꝶ Manna Alba & Glaubrs Salts āā ʒiij dissolve them in Clear Water ℥iss Add Tincture of Senna ℥ss & Spirits of Lavendar twenty drops Mix them for a purging Potion to be taken in the next Morning fasting The Manna & Salts will dissolve in the Water over the fire in a Pan with Shaking it about a bit No 574 Mrs Gadsby near St Nicholas Church April 29th 1768 Jaundice ꝶ Mixture Coralline as in fullers Pharmacopia ꝶ Creme Tartar & Cochineal āā grs 45 Venice Soap ʒiij Rhubarb Root ℈ij Aromatic Species ℈ss Balsam of Peru Q s for Pills Take 3 or 4 Pills: Three times a day No 575 Mrs Gadsby May 6th 1768 Repeat the Coralline Mixture as April 29th Repeat the Icteric Pills as April 29th Ad to them Powder of Rhubarb & Powder of Jalap āā ℈ss & Extract of Gentian ʒi Mix them for Pills & Take as before No 576 Balsamic Electary for Mr Gadsby May 18th 1770 ꝶ Conserves of Roses ℥iss Sperma Ceti ʒiij dissolved in the Yolk of an Egg Elecampany Root in Powder ʒij Gum Ammoniacum ʒiss Gum Arabic ʒi Balsam of Sulphur Annisated ʒiij Syrup of Orange Peel Q s for an Electary No 577 Mixture Petoral for James Coulton [illegible] Dr Bigsby June 24th 1776 Ias Coultons Asthmatic Mixture Dr Bigsbys Very Pleasant ꝶ Spermaceti about ʒiij or ʒiiij put this into a Marble Morter with a little Oil of Sweet Almonds to Soften it with rubbing in a Morter then put in a little of the Yolk of a new laid Egg rub them well together then take the Syrup of Balsam ℥i put it into the Morter by little & little keep constantly rubbing it then put in Sweet Spirits of Nitre ʒiiij then put in 3 or 4 Ounce of the Simple Alixeterial Water ... This is a pleasant Mixture and was orderd to be taken by a Table spoonful or two any Time when the Cough was Troublesome James liked it vastly he had an Asthma & a Dropsy swelld Legs &c Jackey Bigsby said their was Spirits of Mindereri in it but I Singleharst saw him make it but did not see him put in any of Spirits of Mindereri but half an Ounce might be put in very safely or an Ounce if he was 24 Hours in taking it No 578 Miss Boulstrages Medicines when at Revd Mr Waytes at Radford May 30th 1776 A Journey to Radford Mr Bettison thought she was too Costive & she was Subject to have Fits he order'd her the following opening Pills ꝶ Extract Catharticus ʒss Gum Guaiacum in Powder Castor in Powder Rhubarb in Powder Species of Hiera Piera of each ℈i Jalap in Powder ℈iiss Valerian Root in Powder ʒss Syrup of Ginger Q:S for to make them into Pills She was to take 1 Pill over Night & 2 Pills in the Morning but see further on these pills did Move her a little after she had taken the Electary & Apozem for the Worm she took the Decoction of Bark see further on Turn over No 579 Miss Boulstrages Medicines Continued June 2d 1776 a Journey Mr Bettison concluded she had gotten the Worms he se said she had a delicate Constitution & he sent her as under ... ꝶ Vinum Ipecacoanha ʒv for a Vomit to be taken before she begun the following Medicines ꝶ Camomile flowers ℥ss to make Tea to Drink with the Vomit 580 Electary for Worms ꝶ Æthiops Minerals ʒiij Coraline that is Sea Moss Wormseed .. āā ʒi Powder of Crabs Eyes ℈iiij Conserves of Hips ʒvj Syrup of Violots q:s for an Electary Continued 581 An Apozem for Worms ꝶ Elixer propritaties ʒij Syrup of Cloves ℥ss Spirits of Vitriol ʒi Fountain Water Q:S to make an Apozem NB Mr Tommy Charlton had a Pint of Clear Water put to this above Take 2 Table Spoonful 2 or 3 times a day 582 Miss Boulstrage had the Electary & Apozem twice & then the Decoction of Bark & she was so Bound that she could not go to the Ground of 5 days it was thought the Bark was the Cause of it then she had another Box of opening Pills as under ꝶ Extract Catharticus ʒss Gum Guaiacum, Castor, Rhubarb Species of Hiera Piera āā ℈i Jalap ℈ivss Valerian Root ʒss Scammony [ʒs] ℈ss Oil of Juniper 6 Drops Salts of Tarter 10 Grains Syrup of Ginger q s for pills to Take one pill over Night & 1 or 2 in the Morning these Answered 16d No 583 Remarks on India Pink Worms to Cure Cheap way From the Medical Magazine No 20 for July 1775 which came out Monthy printed by G Keasley No 46 in Fleetstreet Anthelmia it is also called Spigelia, Herba Caryophylli Indica Indian Pink and Worm grass of Jamaica and other of the Windward Islands The usual Method of Administering this Medicine is as follows. ꝶ of India Pink ℥ss Boyl it in twelve Ounces of Fountain Water until you can Strain off Eight Ounces when it is strain'd add gradually the juice of Limon * and white Sugar to make it to be agreable. The dose is two large Spoonfuls at going to Sleep & One Spoonful in the Morning following NB ʒss of this Herb may be infused 5 or 6 Hours in a quarter of a Pint of Boiling Water one Half of the Strained Liquor may be given over Night to a Child 12 Years Old and the other half next Morning If no inconveniency is manifest from this dose the Infusion may be made still Stronger. For Persons who are upgrown who are not Remarably feeble 3 Ounce of this Herb may be boiled in One Pint & a half of Water until One Pint may be Strained off The Doses may be from two to Six Common Spoonfuls According to the effects on the Patient. In most persons it procures sleep; in many after taking a full dose their Eyes are observed to Sparkle and also to distend after the sleep is over: and if their was a Fever from Worms the Pulse becomes more regular and the heat moderate and by the Use of a Purg or two afterwards Worms are discharged. This Medicine must be continued as long as the Worms are observed to pass a way by Stool If its effects on the Eyes of Children is such as to produce a Painful distension in them It is better to Omit the Use of this Medicine Saith Motherby 584 From the London Medical Observations Vol the 1st Experiment on mixing Oils resinous & Pinguous Substances with Water, by means of a Vegetable Mucilage in a Letter from Mr James Bogle French Apothecary in London to Dr Ino Fothergill with Remarks by the same Page 412 Woodstreet Jany 18 1757 The Mucilage I first made Tryal of was the following ... I dissolved 4 Ounces of clean Gum Arabic in 8 Ounces of new River Water which formed a Mucilage of the Consistance of thick Syrup Eperiment 1st To 2 Drachms of this Mucilage I put half an Ounce of Oil Olive one Ounce of Water. By Agitation the Mixture assumed the appearance of an Emulsion and continued so, after standing 3 or 4 Minutes, when the Oil & Water began to seperate Experiment 2d I put the same quantity of Oil & Water to half an ounce of the Mucilage. This Mixture likewise by agitation, soon became like an Emulsion and remained so as long as the former. Experiment 3d I tryed the like quantity of Oyld of Almonds. A perfect uniform Emulsion was produced but on standing 3 or 4 Minutes a Seperation ensued. Experimt 4th Two Drachms of Oil of Almonds half an Ounce of the Mucilage & 2 Ounces of Water were put together these by shaking soon had the appearance of a Uniform Emulsion; though on standing they seperated as in the former experiments. Experimt. 5 I put half a Drachm of the Powder of Gum Arabic to the same Ingredients as in Experiment the 1st and found that by somewhat longer Agitation the like Union was Obtain'd; and this also was more lasting Of the several Oyls that was made Use of on ye Experiment I think the Oyl of Almonds Unites The most speedily, and remains united in the form of an Emulsion much longer than any of the others. Experiment 6th To one Drachm of Simple Syrup and One Drachm of the Mucilage I put half an Ounce of Oil Olive, two Drachms of Proof Spirits & One Ounce of Water, these by a short agitation produced a very Uniform Emulsion and retained this appearance several Minutes Experiment 7th The same Ingredients without the Syrup in the same proportions shook together an equal Time did not afford so equable a mixture and a Separation soon ensued Expert 8th To 1 Drachm of Oil of Almonds I put two Drachms of Honey & One Ounce of Water, These by agitation were seemingly United but soon parted upon standing Expert 9th Instead of the mucilage I made Tryal of some of the more Viscid Syrup but none of them succeeded so well as the Mucilage the Syrup of Marshmallows answerd the best tho this but indifferently & not without Labour Expert 10th One Scruple of the Powder of Gum Arabic, with One Drachm of Balsam Peru, Capivi & Balsam of Guaiacum. Two Drams of Proof Spirits and One Ounce of Water United easily by agitation. The Balsam Guaiacum by this means, affords a Mixture of fine blue Colour, lastingly Uniform; with the Balsam Peru it did not long continue mixed though on shaking, it reassumed a good appearance Expert 11th To one Drachm of Balsam Capivi was put One Drachm of of the Mucilage of Gum Arabic and One Ounce of Water, These by Agitation presently formed a neat smooth Draught though parts seperated a little upon standing Experiments on mixing Oils &c by Attrition Experiment 12th To one Drachm of the Mucilage of Gum arabic I put two Drachms of Oil Olive & one Ounce of Water, These by moderate attrition in a Mortar formed a neat Emulsion and Continued perfectly mixed many days Attrition is Rubbing one thing against another Experiment ye 13th Oil of Almonds and Linseed Oil, treated as in the former experiment made a Perfect Emulsion & kept United in the same manner Experiment ye 14th I varied the proportion of the mucilage and Oil but found the Mucilage but found the Mucilage would not keep more than double its quantity of Oil, United with Water, any considerable Time. Experiment 15th A Drachm of Mucilage & a Drachm of the Balsam of Capivi being first well rubbed together, & one ounce of Water added formed an homogeneous milky Liquor, which remained intimated mixed many days. homogenious is of the same Nature Experiment ye 16th The same quantity of the yolk of Egg mixed the Balsam & Water as speedily and united as long as the former but the Taste of this was more unpleasant. Experiment the 17th A Scruple of the Mucilage of Gum Arabic mixed half a Drachm of the Balsam of Peru, with one Ounce of Water as perfectly and as expeditiously mixed as the like quantity of the yolk of Egg and covered the taste of the Balsam much better though it parted sooner from the mucilage than from the Yolk of Egg when thus mixed with equal quantities. Experiment ye 18th Balsam of Gilead, the thinner Strasburgh Turpentine, The fine liquid Resin of late years brought from Newfoundland & Nova Scotia commonly called Balsam Annapolitanum treated in the same manner, united with the Water as readily, by means of the Mucilage as when the Yolk of Egg was Used & the Taste at the same time was better Experiment ye 19th To half a Drachm of Mucilage of Gum Arabic I put one Drachm of Balsam Guaiacum, One Drachm of Proof Spirits & One Ounce & a half of Water, which, by Attrition made a very smooth Draught, and did not seperate; that, by agitation (Ept ye 10th) was of a deeper blue Colour parhaps this was owing to the parts not being so perfectly divided; but both Succeed well. Experiment ye 20th I took one Scruple of Gum Guaiacum in Powder One Scruple of the Mucilage & One Ounce & half of Water which I rubbed carefully in a Marble Mortar, I did the same with the Yolk of Egg and on standing some days it appeared that the Gum was Suspeded best by the Mucilage Experiment ye 21st Gum Benzoin or Gum Benjamin dissolved almost entirely by this management, and continued perfectly mixed with the Water a considerable Time Experiment ye 22d One Scruple of the Balsam of Tolu, One Scruple of the Mucilage with the same proportion of the other Ingredients as in the former experiment Succeed rather better and made a neat Draught full of the flavour of the Balsam Experiment ye 23d Myrrh half a Drachm Mucilage of Gum Arabic one Dram first Rubbed together and then mixed with one Ounce & a half of Water formed a smooth and uniform Mixture which continued equally United several Days, when a small part subsided; but, upon shaking the Mixture soon resumed its former appearance Experiment 24th The same quantity of Myrrh readily dissolved by Attrition in the same quantity of Water without the Mucilage but the different parts soon seperated Experiment 25 Half a Drachm of common Styrax treated as the Myrrh (Expert 24th) so far [communicated] dissolved as to Communicate a strong but fine flavour to the Water Experiment 26th I took five Grains of Camphire with a Scruple of the Mucilage of Gum Arabic and One Ounce & a half of Water and it formed a very agreable Draught, which, on standing some Nights, seperated but very little Experimt 27th I melted Bees Wax in Spirits of Wine upon the fire and filtred off the Spirit: half a Drachm of the Wax so treated, rubbed with a Drachm of Mucilage, mixed with One Ounce & a half of Water, so as to appear like a Uniform Emulsion, but this requires some Labour: the Wax soon swims at top but easily mixes again by agitation Experiment 28 A Scruple of Sperma ceti rubbed with an equal quantity of Mucilage of Gum arabic makes an elegant Draught: but more labour is here required than in the common Solution with Yolk of Egg; the mixture continues, however much longer homogeneous, the Sperma Ceti appearing only like a Cloud on the top of the vial some days after; but, on agitation, becomes perfectly smooth, and its taste as little rancid as when ye mixture was fresh made. Experiment 29th Four Grains of Musk, one Scruple of the Mucilage of Gum Arabic, One Ounce & a half of Water, of Spiritous Water & simple syrup each a Drachm; with very little Labour, formed an agreeable Draught; which appeared uniform, and continued so for some Time, when the Musk subsided a little, but by a slight agitation soon resumed its first uniform appearance. Experiment 30th I took one Scruple of Balsam of Sulphur. with a Scruple of the Mucilage & One ounce & a half of Water, This also mixed agreably and seperated but little on standing some Time: the taste was likewise less offensive than might have been expected Experiment 31st With ten drops of Oyl of Cloves one Ounce of Water and a Scruple of the Mucilage of Gum Arabic, a Perfect union may easily produced and the mixture continues uniform many days Experiment 32d I tried the same experiment, with five drops of Oyl of Cloves, anniseeds, & Nutmegs, by means of the Mucilage of Gum Arabic and an Ounce & a half of Water which readily United Experiment 33d A Mucilage was prepared of clean Gum Dragon dissolved in the same Water & of a similar consistance with that made from Gum Arabic: with this Mucilage I repeated ye preceding experiments by agitation but could not unite Oil & Water by this medium so speedily or lasting as by the mucilage of Gum Arabic, tho' I made use of of double the quantity of the Mucilage to that of Oil in some of the Experiments. Experiment 34 The Mucilage of Gum Dragon or by some calld Gum Tragacanth was also tryed with ye Balsams, by attrition, but a larger quantity was requires and the union was neither so Perfect nor so lasting; tho' by simple agitation, double the quantity of the Mucilage mixed the Balsam & Water so well as to have the appearance of an Uniform Emulsion; but the parts soon seperated Experiment 35 Many of these Experiments, by attrition I repeated with Mucilage of Quince Seed made of the like consistance with the others I had Used and found the mixture succeed very well and in most of them better than with the Mucilage of Gum Dragon. Experiment 36 I likewise made Tryal of Starch reduced to a Jelley by Boiling it with Water, and found that this also united many of the Liquid Resins; tho', on standing they Separated: Several Syrups were likewise made Use of for the like Experiments, but scarcely any of them succeeded of Marshmallows answers the best: but this is inferiour to a much smaller quantity of the Mucilage of Gum Arabic of the same Consistance. Experiment 37 I tryed to cover the acid of Vitriol by these Mucilages and found that of Gum Arabic answer'd best; the quince seed that of the Gum Dragon and that better than the Syrup of Marshmallows these I did by agitation. Remarks on the Preceding Experiments by I Fothergill MD It may not be improper to acquaint the Society with what view the ye preceding Experiments have been made, and what purposes they are intended to Serve; I shall do this with as much conciseness as I can, and shall point out some of the Advantages which I think may result from them. In 1748 I received a MS from a Corespondent at Dublin: included a new Method for the improvement of the Manufacture of Drugs in a Treaties on the Elixer Proprietatis which was printed here ye the same Year under this Title at that time I ascribed it to Dr Rutty from whom I received it though it was sent to me as the Work of an anonymous acquaintance but I have been since been infomd the public is indebted for it to H Barton an ingenious Apothecary in Doublin Tho' Circumstances may seem foreign to the Subject, yet as I think the Treaties above mentioned contains much useful Instructions and as I am obliged to it for the hint which gave rise to ye preceding Experiments, and for the advantages received from them I think it is but Justice to give the public these Information. Our Auther tells us that he dissolved Gum arabic in Water to the Consistance of a thick Mucilage wth this made a union of Turpentine & Water in the form of a neat smooth Emulsion: he likewise informs that the same [En] Mucilage with some Oil of sweet Almonds & common Water were mixed together in the form of an Emulsion At this Time I was engaged in some enquiries into the Origin of Amber, and as I had many Reasons to believe that it was a Vegetable resin reduced by Time and a [Vitriolic Acid] Vitriolic Acid into the condition we now see it I imagined it not Impracticable to produce a substance resembling Amber in many of its properties. To mix a strong Vitriolic Acid intimately with any of the Vegetable Resins was a difficulty I could not Surmount till I met with the Treaties above mentioned for the oil of Vitriol burns that part of the Resin which it touches the moment they come in Contact and if the Oil is lower'd with Water it will not mix by any other Means I am acquainted with so intimately and without burning the Resin as by the Assistance of a Mucilage, and had the pleasure of Observing from the first essay I made that the Mixture instantly gave the fragrance of Amber sufficiently strong and distinct. Other affairs took me off from prossecuting this enquiry any further at that Time: But I have still made use of the same contrivance to exhibit several Medicine in a Liquid form which with respect to Extemporaneous prescriptions are some of the most untractable in the Materia Medica. Expressed and Essential Oils Balsams Resins Gummi-Resins resinous Tinctures Pinguious animal Substances by the Means of a Vegetable mucilage are rendered to a certain degree miscable with Water and capable of being Administred in this form as speedily and as effectually as by mean of the Vitellum Ovi The common medium now in Use The mucilage has besides this further Advantage it is seldom foreign to the Subscribers Intention when he gives these Substances, It is not known to disagree with the Stomach in any Case which cannot be said of the Vitel Ovi it is not liable to become rancid & excessively prejudicial and what will be of Weight wth some Compounders 585 Remarks on Anodynes From Medicinal Magazine July 1775 Anodyne Medicines are such which case pain, and procure Sleep. They are divided into three sorts Viz 1. Paregorics, or such as assuage pain 2. Hypnotics, or such as relieve by procuring Sleep. 3. Narcotics, or such as ease the patient by Stupefying him. Opiate & Narcotics destroy Sensation some Hypnotics and Paregorics procure ease and Sleep by removing the offending Cause, as Nitre, Camphor &c The Doses of these Medicines are generally regulated by the Pulse, Yet this Rule is not without Exceptions: If the Pulse is Strong, a large Dose Anodynes Is safe; if Weak, a less Dose must be given. Camphor is the best Anodyne in Nervous Cases, and at the decline of [a] Fevers. Hemlock procures ease and Sleep without causing that Headach, the next Morning, which usually is Complained of after taking Opium Anodynes should not be given without great Caution, on a full Stomach not in Dropseys.  No 586 Of a Gangrene & Sphacelus The last Method whereby an Inflammation Terminates is a Gangrene & Sphacelus. By a Gangrene we understand that most dangerous degree of Inflamation wherein the parts affected begin to Corrupt and put on a State of putrefaction: but by a Sphacelus, we do not mean an incipient, but an absolute and perfect Corruption, or Death of the parts. A Gangrene may generally discover'd from the following Signs: Namely, the Inflammation, with its Symptoms, which have all along been very Violent, generally undergo a a Sudden Change, as if they were Going off. The parts which were before swelled and Tense, now be soft and flaccid; and upon pressing with the Finger upon the Skin & Fat Its impressions remain behind as in a Œdema; at length Cuticula seperates from the Cutis, often rising up in Blister, like those in Burns, filled with a reddish, yellowish, & sometime black Humour, and the Sense of the Limb is, in some Degree, diminished. The chief Mark whereby we discover a Sphacelus is, when after a Previous Gangrene the parts turn livid, and entirely lose their Sensation, in such a Manner, that the Flesh may be pricke or Cut without giving any Pain; and if the Gangrene penetrates deep, so as to affect the Nerves and Mussles, The Limb also Gangrenes Loses its Power of Motion; afterwards The colour of the parts turn black by degrees, and the Skin feels cold and flaccid; and at length it adheres so loosely to the Flesh, that it may easily be pulled up, and off from it, The Skin becomes hard & dry like ye Rind of Bacon It also yeilds a most intolerable cadaverous Stench, and the Sphacelus, spreads by degrees to the adjacent parts. We must always endeavour to treat the Gangrene in such Manner, as that it may not determine in a Sphacelus. First of all therefore, in plethoric and Strong Habits, we are to Bleed largely, and to repeat the opperation at discretion But in Weak Habits it should be Omitted The remainder of the Treatment will consist chiefly in observing the three following Directions. First to be careful in the beginning to remove all violent external Causes of the Inflammation, as too strict a Bandage in Wounds & Fractures. all Foreign Bodies that are stuck in the parts, as Thorns, Splinters, Needles &c Improper Medicines externally applied, as Ointments, Oils and Plaisters, with cooling & astringing Things, all which should be removed as soon as possible. Second Observation chiefly respects the keeping up of the patients Strength, especially, in weak & old People; this may be best affected by ordering a Diet which not only afford good Juices, but is also well accommodated to the Age, Constitution & other Circumstances of the patient: If the patient is weak & in years, is naturally of a Cold Habit, has lost much Gangrene &c Blood, or abounds with Acidities, the most suitable Diet will be Soops, and Strengthening Broths, such as are made of Chicken or Capons, Beef, or some other good Flesh, Boiled with Mace, Ginger, or other Spices, as also Suppings of Ale boiled with the Yolk of Eggs, Cinnamon & Sugar, Eggs themselves poached soft, so as to be potable; Strong Jelleys of Calves Feet, Hartshorn, & Ivory Shavings, Old & Rich Wines, as Rhenish Wine & Hungaryan, Spanish, Canaries &c and lastly fine Ale may do very well, especially for the Poor. With Respect to Medicines, [usually termed a] The most proper are the Corroborantia, usually termed a Cordial, as the Spirits, Essenses, Powders & Electuaries of that Tribe, especially made up or mixed [as] with Confection Alkermes: at Intervals may be drank hot, Tea of Sage, Scordium veronica, & Herbs of the like Nature, with the Addition of a little Cinnamon, or a few shaving aSassfras or Yellow Sandars & T For by these means stagnating Blood will be greatly resolved and attenuated, its sound and healthy parts will be retained in due Circulation, and its noxious parts, will be discharged, and dissipated: It is not also improper in this Case, frequently to apply a Sponge to the Nose or Carpal Arteries, which has been dipped in Hungary Water. Also to bind it on the Temples. In like manner we may find almost equal Benifit from the Crumbs of Rye Bread mixed up with Powdered Cloves, if it be first macerated in strong Vinegar, or Hungary Water then made into Balls Wrapped up in Linnen Cloth, and frequently applied to the Nose. For Patients, who area of a more Warm Sanguine, or Bilious Habit, Soops & Ptisans, mixed with the Acid Juices of Citrons, or Lemons will be proper Strengtheners, Also Barley Gruel mixed with Gangrenes Syrup of Citrions or Syrup of Mulberies or Rasberies, or Syrup of Currans or Syrup of Sour Cherries to be taken daily as a Common Drink When the Heat is small, the patient Weak, or before accustomed to drink Wine, It may be allowed to mix a little Wine with the Gruel, and sometimes a Glass of Rich Wine may be taken unmixed at proper Intervals; at the same time not neglecting the other Medicines which are proper to be used in Fevers, such as are mild, temperating, Cooling, and Cordial But the Peruvian Bark, is by many Recommended in this disorder beyond any other Internal Medicine, they took upon it the only Medicine in this Case, and is to be given in the same manner as in Intermitting Fevers I have seen the good Effects of this Medicine; tho' indeed in some Cases it has failed, which proceeded from an Internal Cause, and where the patient was advanced in Years. The 3d Observation concerning treating A Gangrene, is chiefly to discharge the stagnating and Corrupted Blood from ye parts affected, as soon as possible, and to prevent the Neighbouring parts from being affected thereby. The principal means to effect these are to make use of proper Internal Corrobarantia or Strengthening Medicines; to make Scarifications (prore nata) by the Scalpal upon the parts affected, making the Incessions very Numerous lengthways upon the parts, and of a sufficient Depth, in order to discharge the Stagnated & Corrupted Blood, and to make ways for the Ingress of the Virtues of the Discutient Medicines, which are apply'd externally; by which means they can better penetrate through the small Wounds to the Internal parts. Lastly, discutient, and Stimulating, & Balsamic, Fomentations and Poultices, which resist putrefaction, are to be carefully apply'd to the disorderd parts of which kind is the following Fomentation Turn over Gangrenes The Fomentation ꝶ of Lime Water One Pint Spirits of Wine & Camphor ℥iij Crude Salt Ammoniac ʒss Mix them for a Fomentation This may be applied hot with Compresses that is with Coths of Linnen dipped in it and held on: It being what I have very frequently experienced and still continue to use it with very good success in these Cases, and in other inflammations. A very extraordinary and useful mixture is also made as under ꝶ of Lime Water 1 Pint Mercurious Dulcis ʒi Mix them Use this as above directed in the other In the Hospital at Amsterdam the following excellent Fomentation was used with Great Success in Gangrenes ꝶ Spirits of Wine or Brandy ℥iij Myrrh & Aloes in powder of each ʒss Ointment Egyptiacum ʒij Mix for a Fomentation Or ꝶ Spirits of Wine, and Boil or Simmer Gently Aloes & Myrrh & Saffron Or Spirits of Wine & Camphor with a little London Treacle Or what Garengeot greatly Extols Hot Wine with common Brandy Or Spirits of Wine & Camphor made Strong with Salt Ammoniac which he extols as an excellent Remedy to Revivify parts which seem to be dying Or ꝶ The Leaves Fresh of Scordium, Southernwood, Wormwood, Rue each 2 handful Camomile flowers One Handful & Boil them in Water for Gangrenes Sometime & then strain it off Take of the above strain'd Liquor [?bii] or two Pints Add Spirits of Wine ℥iv Spirituous Treriacal ℥iv. Venice Soap ℥ij. Salt Gem ℥ss Mix them for a Fomentation. This Fomentation should be applied hot several Times in a Day to the part affects, by means of Linnen or Woollen Cloths & to give a lasting Warmth, we may apply hot Tiles Wrapped up in thick Cloth or a Bag of hot Sand For the Poor There is a cheap domestic Remedy in this Case, but of Great Efficacy, recommended by Simon Paulus and others, Viz The Pickle of Cabbages Valesius de Taranta has long before taught us That Horse or Cows Dung Boiled in Vinegar [crossed out] or Wine, makes an excellent Fomentation for this purpose But long after him we are told that Silvius & Barbet held the same Remedy a Secret in this Dissease. But the Filthyness of the Medicine makes it unworthy a Physician, it being fitter for the Poor than the Superior Class of people But there is a neat & very Efficatious Fomentation to be made for Gangrenes as Under ꝶ Scordium, Southerwood & Wormwood Boil them in Sea Water or where that is not to be had Salt & Water Or Vinegar for a Fomentation NB if you cannot get all the 3 Hearbs take any of them To be applied hot like other Fomentations Several Times a Day, giving a lasting warmth by hot Bricks or Tyles or hot sand Bags, till the disorder disperseth or Diminsheth thus [theyr] there will be no Occation to unbind the part but Observe india pink worms sugar Cakes for Children 67 page 583