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

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$‘E.D, __ Pilule Scillitice, Pills of Squills. * Take of Spanifh Sope, 1 ounce; *‘ Gum Armoniac, prepared Mille. « pedes, and frefh Squills, each half * anounce ; Balfam of Copoiba a fuf- * ficient quantity ; make them intoa * mafs. Pilule Stomachice, Stomachic Pills. © Take of Succotrine Aloes, 1 © ounce ; Rhubarb, 6 drams ; Gum ‘ Armoniac, 3 drams; Extract of * Gentian and Myrrh, each z drams ; * vitriolated Tartar, 1 dram ;_dif- * tilled Oil of Mint, half a dram ; * Syrup of Sena and Rhubarb, a fuf- * ficient quantity to make the whole * into a mafs. £. D. Pilule a Styrace, Storax Pills. ‘ Take of Storax, Calamita, 5 * drams; Gum Tragacanth, 1 ounce ; * Olibanum and Opium, each half an ounce ; Syrup of Meconium a fuf- ficient quantity, make them. into a mafs. General rules for making Pills. ‘I. The rules before given for powders, are to be exactly obferv’d in making Pills. ‘ II. The Gums, and concreted Juices, are to be firlt foftened with the fluid prefcribed ; then the pow- ders are to be gradually added, and the whole perfectly mixed by beat- ing with a pettle. HIT. All the maffes of Pills fhould be kept in bladders, oiled or moitft- ned with the fluid ufed in making the mafs, Lk) & ~ A aA HR A nn A a aA a From the former London Difpenfatory, Paftilli Cathartici, Purging Sugar-Plumbs. Take Rofin of Scammony, 2 drams ; fine Loaf Sugar, 1 pound. Mix them together after the Rofinis rubb’d into a very fine Powder ; and with a very little Mucilage, make a pafte, which work up into fmall Pills. This is contriv’d chiefly for young (253] with to take a cathartic in any other form; but may be cheated with this, the quantity of Rofin not giving a difcernible difference to the Sugar, But this is rouge phyfic for tender children ; though with many it does that flime from their bowels, which breeds worms, and occafions fevers, and a ftinking breath. One or two of thefe is a fufficient dofe. Thofe which are fo frequently in publick advertifements, are no other ; what-- foever their vendefs may pretend to. Pills are aform into which little is reduced, unlefs cathartics, in officinal compofition ; the quantity of thefe generally aflign’d for a dofe not ad- ordinarily take up more room : where- as the force of a cathartic lying for the moft part in a fmall compats, is conveniently included herein ; half a dram, which makes 4, 5, or 6 Pills, being commonly {ufficient fora dofe : whereas a due dofe of moft alteratives would amount to 15 or 20 Pills. - Mott things likewife in this form are fo very bitter and diftafteful, that, they could not be endured in any other; which this is capable of co- vering, fo as not to be difcern’d. But nothing ought to be made up in this form, that is folvable by the air, as many Salts are ; becaufe they will run, and deftroy the form :.and no- thing ought to be thus mixed, that will ferment, for the fame reafon : And upon this account all volatile Salts are to be excluded ; becaufe they puff Pills up into fix times their bulk ; and make them not poffible to be taken ; as has already been hinted in another place. Pilule de Agarico, Pills of Agaric. Take of the Troches. of Agaric, 1 ounce; of the Species of Hiera, half an ounce ; of Myrrh, 6 drams ; Syrup of Buckthorn, a fufficient quan- tity to make them into a mais for Pills, S. 4. This$