The Edinburgh new dispensatory ... including complete ... translations of the ... London pharmacopoeia, published in 1791; Dublin pharmacopoeia, published in 1794; and of the new ed. of the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia, published in 1803 ... / [Edited, with extensive alterations and additions] By Andrew Duncan, jun.

  • Lewis, William, 1708-1781
Date:
1803
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Credit: The Edinburgh new dispensatory ... including complete ... translations of the ... London pharmacopoeia, published in 1791; Dublin pharmacopoeia, published in 1794; and of the new ed. of the Edinburgh pharmacopoeia, published in 1803 ... / [Edited, with extensive alterations and additions] By Andrew Duncan, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / Chap. XXIV. Of DecoBions. 53* Liquorice, each one ounce ; Water, ten pounds. Boil the guaiacum and raifins with the water, over a gentle lire, to the confumption of one-half; adding, towards the end, the fahafras and liquorice. Strain the liquorice, without expreffion. This decoflion is of ufe in fome rheumatic and cutaneous af- feftions. It may be taken by itfelf, to the quantity of a quarter of a pint twice or thrice a-day, or ufed as an alFiftant in a courfe of mercurial or antimonial alteratives ; the patient, in either cafe, keeping warm, in order to promote the operation of the mediciqe, DECOCTUM HELLEBORI ALBI. Land. DecoBion of White Hellebore. Take of The root of white hellebore, powdered, one ounce ; Diftilled water, two pints ; Redlifled fplrit of wine, two ounces. Boil the rvater^ with the root to one pint, and, the liquor being cold, and ftrained, add to it the fpirit. ' This decoftion is only ufed externally as a w’afh, in tinea capi- tis, lepra, pfora, &c. When the Ikin is very tender and irritable, it Ihculd be diluted with an equal quantity of water. DECOCTUM HORDEI DISTICHI. Edin. Decoctum Hohdei. , Land, DecoSlion of Barley. Barley-Water. Take of Pearl-barley, two ounces; Water, five pounds. Firft wafli the barley, from the mealy matter tlult adheres to it with fome cold water; then boil it a little with about half .a pound of water, to extraft the colouring matter. Throw'this away; and put the barley tints purified into fivp pounds of boil- ing water, which is to be boiled down to one-half, and ftrained, DECOCTUM HORDEI COMPOSITUM. Bond. Compound DccoElio?i oj Barley. Take of Tile decoftlon of barley, two pints ; Figs, diced, two ounces ; Liquorice root, diced and bruifcd, half-an-ounce ; Raifins, ftoncd, two ounces ; Diftilled water, one pint. Bq;1 to two pints, and ftraiq, These