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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    liquorice a dram; falt of Ep/om- water 2 drams; infufe in enough boiling water, to {train 3 ounces 5 and add fyrup of buckthorn half an ounce for one potion. bi The dofes here are for grown perfons, and for children they may be proportionably varied to their ages, as likewife be made ftronger or weaker, according to the ftrength and circumftances of the patient-; tho’ mdeed..the ftronger cathartics, fuch as. fome conftitutions and dif- orders require, come not convenient- ly-into this form; as many refinous fubftances and .,preparations in ‘the chymical pharmacy, the reader may therefore expect to meet -with them amongft the boles and powders of this clafs, Narcotics. Reafons have already been given why thefe ought not to be trufted in any forms but fuch as are moft proper for one dofe, and therefore juleps are hence excluded, and no- thing elfe. but draughts are proper under this divifion : a few examples take as follow. | (1.) Take plague-water and milk- water, of éach an ounce and half : fyrup .of .white poppies 6 drams.: make them into a draught. + Or, (z.) Take. plague-water. and barley-cinnamon-water, of each. an ounce and half: liquid, landanum ‘35 drops: fyrup of red poppies .3 drams MIX. oy ~. Or, (3.),Take Dr. Stephens’s wa- ter an ounce: barley-cinnamon- water. 2 ounces:: folid London lauda- num a grain and a half: fyrap of cloves 3.drams: mix. 5 |) a) Or, (4.) Take. aqua mirabilis. an ounce: camomile-water 2 ounces: fyrup of. white poppies 6 drams ; mix for one draught. . (itchmeai When the intention is only to .* Part Ti. of rheum, which all opiates more is the vehicle, provided the opiate be well adjufted in its dofe ; but in pers, which have fome other indi- cations befides that of giving fleep, the vehicle muft be chofe out of fuch as are moft proper to the in- tention pointed at, whether alex- or any other. There is a hazard in afcertaining the dofe of liquid lauda- num from the number of drops, is, the fhape of the bottle from whence it is dropt will make the quantity more. or. lefs, becaufe the drops will form larger or. fmaller, according to the fafhion of the phial, riment, by weighing fuch a number of. drops from phials of different forms and magnitudes; for this rea- fon many phyficians now chufe the folid laudanum, which may be af- certain’d by weight; and if it be hardly difcernible, fo as to make a draught thick or foul. But altho’ opiates are beft prefcribed in fingle dofes to grown people, yet to chil- dren, where they are neceffary, be- caufe the quantity of one dofe is fo {mall as not eafily,to. be computed by weight or meafure, the beft way ny dofes, and direéting a, fpoonful at atime, to berepeated at feveral diftances, till the end aimed at. is obtained: in the _ following may be of ufe. ces: aqua mirabilis 2 drams: fyrup of white poppies. aa ounce: for a mixture, to be given at, difcretion. fennel-water,, of ¢ach 2. ounces = fyrup of clove gilliffowers an ounce : Gk : liquid ‘