Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh.

  • William Buchan
Date:
1786
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Credit: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thofe who chufe to preferve the juice of lemons in form! of fyrup, may difiblve in ir, by the heat of a warm bath^ Jiearly double its weight of fine fugar. The juice ought to be previoufly ftrained, and fuffered to ftand till it fettles. The fyrup of ginger is fometimes of ufe as a warm ve- hicle for giving medicines to perfons afflided with flatu- lency. It may be made by infufmg two ounces of bruifed ginger in two pints of boiling water for twenty-four hours. After the liquor has been ftrained, and has flood to fettle for fome time, it may be poured off, and a little more than double its weight of fine powdered fugar diflblved in it. TINCTURES, ELIXIRS, ^f. REcti]tiED fpirit is the direft menftruum of the refinS and eflential oils of vegetables, and totally extrads thefe aflive principles from fundry fubftances, which yield them to water, either not at all, or only in part. It diflblves likevvife thofe parts of animal fubftances iri which their peculiar fmells and taftes refide.* Hence the tinftures prepared with rectified fpirits form an ufeful and elegant clafs of medicines, poflefTing many of the moft ef- fential virtues of fimples, without being clogged with their inert or ufelefs parts. Water, however, being the proper menftruum of the gummy, faline, and faccharine parts of medicinal fubftances, it will be necefl'ary, in the preparation of feveral tinilures, to make ufe of a weak fpirit, or a compofuion of redtified fpirit and water. Aromatic Tin5lure. Infufe two ounces of Jamaica pepper in two pints of brandy, without heat, for a few days; then ftrain off the tin(Slure. . This Ample tindure Will fufEciently anfwer all the inten- tions of the more coftly preparations of this kind. It is rather too hot to be taken by itfelfj but is very proper for mixing