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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    however will anfwer the intention of its title, and with this the following is very conveniently made. - ~ Emplaftram Mercuriale, The Mercurial plafter. Take 4 pounds of the above de- feribed difcutient plafter, and mix with it carefully 12 drams of quick- filver. ‘ | This is certainly better than the _ ¢ommon frog-plafter, and much eafier made. It is good for the fame ules. Emplaftrum Febrifugum, A Febrifuge plafter, . Take frankincenfe 8 ounces; na- tive cinnabar in fine powder an ounce ; mix them together into an emplafter, S. 4, This is a great fecret with: feme ‘for curing childrens intermittents, and is what many ufe who advertife infallible plafters for fach purpofes ; it is ufually laid “to the wrifts and pit of the ftomach, and fometimes _to the foles of the feet... The frank- incenfe ought to be ftrained before the cinnabar is put in, and not’ to be that which is too brittle. Some- times indeed it does fervice in thefe cafes, but no great ftrefs is to be laid upon it, The manner of operation may be conjectured from the yir- _tues of the two fimples of which it is made; which confult’ in their Places in the preceding part. _ Emplaftrum febrifugum alterum, Another Febrifuge plafter. Take frankincenfe pretty hard, but itrained, a pound and half ;. pow- der of favin half an ounce; cam- phire 2 drams; balfam of Peru 6 drams ; mix into an emplafter, S$. 4. ' This by fome is faid to be more €fficacious than the former, and or- dered to the navel, {pread pretty broad, and likewife on a long flip #0 the back-bone, befides the places , [323] the other is direéted to; but this is not fo much in ufe, and indeed not fo much known, tho’ it may be cer= that's however it will not always anfwer, Row : Emplaftrum ad Herniam, Plofer againft ruptures. Take of the glue made with fhaked fkins boiled in a lixivium of tartar 4- ounces ; blood-ftone, fugar of teh burnt tin, of each 3 drams ; ammo: niacum diffolved in vinegar 3 oun-. ces; mix, §. 4. This is given by Schroder, who bap, op commends it in all inds of ruptures but the hydrocele ; and he fays it is an infallible reme- dy, obferving a proper diet, which muft be ftrengthening, reftringent, to. be conftantly wore with a proper bandage. Emplaftrum Stiaicum Crollii, Crollius’s Stic plafter. Take red lead and calamine, of each half a pound ; litharge of gold and filver, of each 3 ounces ; oil of olives and linfeed, of each a pound and a half; of bays half a pound ; yellow wax and rofin, of each a pound; vyarnifh and turpentine, of each half a pound ; opopanax, gal- banum, ferapine, (z..e. fagapenum) ammoniacum, and bdellium ftrained with vinegar, of each 3 ounces ; yellow amber, olibanum, myrrh, aloes, birthwort both long and round, of each an ounce ; mummy, white «coral, loadftone, red coral, mother of pearl, dragon’s blood, ftrigo-earth, and white -vitriol, of each an ounce ; ¢flowers of antimo- ny and faffron of iron, of each z ounces; camphire an ounce; mix all, S. 4. es This owns for its firftauthorO fwald Crotlius, and paffes through Schroder and the Augufan \Difpeniatory with XX 2 great