A complete history of drugs / Written in French by monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the late French King Lewis XIV. To which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from mess. Lemery and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal, and mineral; with their use in physic, chemistry, pharmacy, and several other arts. Illustrated with above four hundred copper-cuts ... A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals.
- Pomet, Pierre, 1658-1699.
- Date:
- 1748
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A complete history of drugs / Written in French by monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the late French King Lewis XIV. To which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from mess. Lemery and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal, and mineral; with their use in physic, chemistry, pharmacy, and several other arts. Illustrated with above four hundred copper-cuts ... A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Galen differs from both Seels, and orders the Seeds of the Pfeudo Bunias to be ufed in that Me¬ dicine.] 15. Of Colliflower and Rape-Seed. S^Ollyfewer-Seed is a little round Seed, Pomet. ^ fomething like Turnep-Seed, but that it is a little larger. It is brought to us by Way of Mar fellies from Cyprus, which is almoft the only Place we know of where it produced in any Quantity. There is alfo fomc brought from Genoa, but it is not near fo good as that from Cyprus, and it is with much more difficulty that it is rais’d. The neweft Seed ought to be chofe, and that which is true Cyprus, without any Mixture, of which the Importer Ihould fliew Certificates and that it is true Seed, and of that Year’s Growth, by reafon it is of no little Confequence to the Gar¬ dener and others that fow it, to be difappointed of a whole Year’s Production by the Badnefs of the Seed. The Collifiower gives me an Opportunity of fpeaking of another Species, which fome Authors ■call JVild-Collyfower, and which is propagated with great Induftry in Holland, Flanders, Normandy, l$c. for the fake of the Seed, which they make Oil of by Expreffion ; and this is what is call’d Navette-Oil, and by the Flemings Coif a, or Rape- Oil : This Oil is of great Ufe to the Woollen Manufacture in France, efpecially in the Time of War, when Whale or Train Oil is fearçe and dear. The Goodnefs of this Oil is known to a great many Perfons, whofe Occafions oblige them to underffand it ; neverthelefs I advife them to chufe fuch as is pure and unmix’d with other Oils ; which may be eafily known by the Gold- Colour and Goodnefs of the Scent ; for the true Rape-Oil is fweet, and on the contrary the Lin- feed bitter. [I have before obferv’d, that it is from the Seeds of the Napus Sylvejlris that we have this Oil, which the People of Lincolnjbire call Rape- Oil, and the Seed Cole-Seed : I am perfectly cer¬ tain of this, as I have myfelf feen the Oil made there.] 16. Of Rice. JD IC E is the Produâ of a Plant Pomet. <* *• which grows very common in many Places of Europe : It commonly grows in the Water, and, as fome obferve, though the Water encreafes during the Time of its Growth, it ffill keeps its Ear above the Surface of it. That > hich is now fold in Paris is brought from Spain and Piedmont. This a Seed of fo great Ufe and Profit, that it may be call’d the Manna of the Poor, and throughout fever.;! entire Couatries, they have fcarce any tiling elfc to fubiift on. Chufe the neweft Fvice, well cleans’d, large, that is to fay, plump or well fed, white, not; duff}', nor fmelling rancid ; Thole who take no¬ tice of the Rice of Piedmont, efteern it much more than that of Spain, which is commonly reddiib and of a faltifli Tafte. The Ufe of Rice, chiefly at Paris, is for the Lent Seafon, when the) boil it in Water, then in Milk, and fdmetimes reduce it to Powder, that is to fay Flour, which they ufe inftead of Wheat Flour to thicken their Milk with. To reduce Rice into Powder, pour boiling Water upon it, and then wafh it with cold Water, fo often ’till the Water remains clear ; after this put it in a Mortar to pound, and when it is powder’d fet it to dry, and then fearce it fine ; for it will often appear very fine when it is wet, and yet as it dries Ihew that it is coarfe and re¬ quires fifting. It is reftorative, nôurifhing and fweetning ; it conglutinates the Humours, and is ufeful in Fluxes of the Belly ; it purifies the Mafs of Blood, and flops Hemorrhages. It is ufed either in Ptyfans or Food. Befides this, we fell Pearl or French Barley, which ought to be chofen new, dry, plump and well fed, white, but not blanch’d : It is prepar’d at Charenton, near Paris ; but the beft is that of Pi try. We likewife fell Rice that is brought from feveral Parts of the Country, but chiefly to make a Sort of Coffee of, which it taftes very like when burnt. The Poor buy what we call in England Groats, which is made from Oats, and when ground at the Mill is call’d Oatmeal. There is Alillet alfo fhell’d and pick’d, which they pre¬ pare in the Foreftof Orleans: Befides other Pulfe, as the green and yellow Peafe, which come from Normandy ; and the Beans of Picardy and other Places. There are other Things alfo fold in the Shops, which are made of Wheat Flour, as Ver- michelli, both the white and yellow Sort, and Starch. The Vermichelii, which the Italians invented, and call Vermicelli, is a Parte made out of the fineft Part of the Wheat Flour and Water, which is afterwards drove through fmall Pipes like Sy¬ ringes, to what Length or Thicknefs they pleafe; fo that from tire Refemblace of its Figure to final! Worms it is call’d Vermicelli. Some of this Kind of Pafte thsy make in the Shape of Ribands, of two Fingers Breadth, and this they call Kagne ; other Parcels of it are form’d like a Quill, and thofe they call Macaron ; and fome in fmall Grains C 2 like](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30412389_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
