Phylaxa medicina: a supplement to the London-Dispensatory, and Doron: being, a cabinet of choice medicines collected, and fitted for vulgar use ... / [William Salmon].

William Salmon

Date:: 1688

Credit: Phylaxa medicina: a supplement to the London-Dispensatory, and Doron: being, a cabinet of choice medicines collected, and fitted for vulgar use ... / [William Salmon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$_—— tH forenamed. Take choice Canary , tis | white Wine, of each fix quarts : “bi} Cinnamon two ounces : / Cortex ') ch) Winteram half an ounce. Cloves Ji) Mace, Nutmegs, Ginger, Galan- bth} gal, of each a drachm: fine Su- | fiw) gar ; forty ounces: digeft clofe ‘fait ftopt for two or three days: then ‘| decant-the'clear,and bottle it up. |} VV. Syrupus Sacchari, Take Da- | mask. rofe water, or Spring wa- /tera Gallon : fine Sugar fixteen | pounds: mix, and makea Syrup | by melting the Sugar: to which add {pirit of Wine a quart,fhake ‘them well together ina glafs,and keep the mixture for ufe, VI. Syrupus Volatilis.. Take the beft reétified fpirit of Wine a gallon: white Sugar as much as the Spirit will.diffolve over a gentle heat ; being mixt and dif- folved, keep the Syrup for ule. VII. Syrup of Limens or Vine- “| gar. Take the beft white-Wine- ‘| Vinegar, or juyce of Limons a Zailon : double refined Sugar fix- “| teen pounds: mix, melt and . | make a Syrup by a gentle ebul- | lition. | WIT. Cinnamon water. Take 4 | re&tified Spirit of Wine three pints: Cinnamon bruifed: four ounces: infufe them together for a week in a large Glafs clofe ftopt ; fhaking the Glafs twice aday: then take Damask Rofe Water - | three pints ; diffolve therein i | white Sugar-Candy three quar- :- | ters of ‘a pound: mix both thefe liquors together ; and hang there- in Musk, eight or ten grains ( in + | fine‘ powder, and tyed up in a Rag ). | IX. Saccharum Tabulatum.Take | Damask Rofe-Water, or Spring i Ven Me Dal), yin : iit | » ate tay tobe ons ither }. IN, 9) Water, two quarts, Gum Traga- canth an ounce, diffolve it in the water: pure fine Sugar eight pounds boyl them together to double the thicknefs of a Syrup. X. Conferve or Rob of Barber. ries. ‘Take juyce of. Barberries ftrained fix pounds : white Sugar three pounds: witha gentle heat ( if.it‘may be of a B.M_) boyl to the juft thicknefs, XI. Sapa fimplex. Take Wine newly prefled from white and ripe Grapes; boy] it fo long over the Fire. till two third parts are confumed , or till it isas thick as Honey, andthen keep it for ufe. Where note, Thatif you add afixth part of white Sugar, the Sapa will be never the werfe, XII. Diacydonium. Take juyce of Quinces depurated fix quarts ; boyl it’ to the confimption of four quarts :. then add a pound of fine white Sugar, and by repeat: - ing the boyling, make Quiddony, ie keep clofe tyed over for ufe. XIII. Diamorum. Take juyce of “Mulberries twelve quarts : fine white Sugar three pounds ; or inftead thereof as much Ho- ° ney: clarifiethe juyce, and boyl fo a Rob or Quiddony : which keep in-a Gally pot clofe tyed over with Parchment or a Blad- der, for ufe. XIV. Alfo in the ufe of thefe things obferve, 1.That you give all Medicaments of an Alcalious . Nature ina fweet Vehicle, not in atart or fowre. 2, That no acid Vehicle be made ufé of in the exhibition of Mercurials , left you provoke the Dragon to an unufual Violence. 3. That Opie Ales$