Volume 1

Pharmacopoeia officinalis et extemporanea: or, a compleat English dispensatory. In two parts. Theoretic and practical. Part I in two books ... Part II in five books ... / by John Quincy.

  • Quincy, John, -1722.
Date:
1749
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    Flores Anthos, Flowers of Rofemary. = Malve, Mallows. wRofar. Rubrar. &%¢. Red Rofes, &c. “ Cort. extr. Aurant. Rind of Orange Peel. Fruétus Cynofbati, Hips. © Conferves are to be made of each ‘ of thefe fubftances by beating them « into aPulp, the Stalks, Leaves, @c. € being firft feparated ; and gradually ¢ adding thrice their weight of Sugar ‘ during the operation: the moitter * Simples require only double their ‘ weight of Sugar, and the Pulp of * Hips ftill lefs. ; E. D. Sacchar. Hordeatum, feu Pni- diatum, Barley Sugar. * Boil white Sugar with Barley- « Water, till it be of a proper adhe- * five confiftence to admit its being ‘ drawa out in firings, which mait ‘ be wrought by the hands into a * form refembling twilted Sticks. © The hands of the operator foould “ be either rubbed with Oil, or pow- © dered Starch. — Ma E.D. Saccharum Rofatum Rubrum, Red Sugar of Rofes. ‘ Take of white Sugar, 1 pound ; « Juice of red Rofes, 4 ounces; boil ‘ them over a gentle fire, till the ‘ Juice is almoft evaporated ; then ‘ throw in an ounce of red Rofes, * dried, and reduced to very fine * powder ; pour out the matter up- ‘on a marble, and form it into * Lozenges, according to art. E. D. * Tabelle Diatragacanthi, Lozenges of Gum Tragacanth. ‘ Take of white Sugar 1 pound ; « rofe Water, 4 ounces; which dif- © folve over a flow fire: then add * of the compound Powder of Gum ‘ Tragacanth, 3 ounces; and having * poured the mixture upon a mar- * ble, make it into Lozenges. | Saccharum ‘Tabulatum Simplex & Perlatum, Simple and Pearl Lo- zenge Sugar, | The firlt is made by pouring Su- gar, which hath been fufficiently boiled with half its quantity of Da- mafk-Rofe-Water, upon a marble ; and. the latter by adding to every pound of the former, towards the end of its boiling, half an ounce of repared and levigated Pearl, with, If good care is not taken to boil this to a juft confiftence, it will be either too brittle to flow upon the Stone, fufficiently for its being cut into Tablets ; or too foft to preierve its form when fo managed. But this is alfo a branch of Pharmacy now principally left to the Confectioner. Saccharum Tabulatum compofitum, Compound Loxenge Sugar. Take of fine Rhubarb, 4 fcruples ; of the Troches of Agaric, of Coral- line, burnt Hartfhorn, of the Leaves of Cretan Dittany, of Wormfeed, of the Seeds of Purflain and Sorrel, of each 1 feruple; of Cinnamon, Zedo- ary, Cloves and Saffron, of each half a feruple; of the fineft powder’d Sugar, 1 pound; let the Sugar be diffolved in 5 ounces of fimple Worm. wood- Water, and 1 {poonful of ftrong Cinnamon-Water; and the foremen- to make it into Tablets, S. 4. Saccharum Hordeatum, Barley Sugar. It is made from Sugar boiled over a flow fire in a decoction of Barley britkly beat up with the Whites of Eggs, and frequently {cummed while “ upon the fire; it is then to be ftrain’d through a flannel, and again fet upon the fire, where it muft boil flowl till it rifes in large bubbles ; and upon trial found not to ftick to the teeth, It is to be poured upon a marble ftone, rubbed over with Oil of Al- monds, as foon as the bubbles fub- fide ; and its extremities, as it runs out, turned back again, till it grows of the confiftence of a thick ‘lurpentine ; when it muft be faiten’d to fome- thing, and nimbly drawn out by the hands, rubbed over with Starch, into thin or thick, long or fhort Threads at pleafure, and laid upon a plate ee , “= provided