Pambotanologia. Sive enchiridion botanicum. Or a compleat herball ... / [Robert Lovell].
- Robert Lovell
- Date:
- 1665
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pambotanologia. Sive enchiridion botanicum. Or a compleat herball ... / [Robert Lovell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![mate of honey boyled thick, fope, and boiled turpentine, to which fometimes is added moufedung,falt orfugar. 3 The more (lreng and purging, are made of agatick, aloes, hiera picra, hel- lebore, ícammony &c. in the powder of which the fnppofitory may berolled. Herethe proportion of honey isoneounce, of powder more gently purging one dram, if more ftrongly half a {crupte, halfa dram, or onedram. They are alfoat laft to be annointed with oy! or butter. Peffaries and Nafcals aremadeia the form of a finger, of hyfterick remedies, which are to be put into a long linnen bag, or made up with picked wooll or cotten, or incorporated with honey, laudanum, galbanum, wax; juyces &c. they arein figure like fuppofitories,but thicker and longer. Roots alfo may be ufed in ftead thereof, as of madder, cy perus, lillies &c. 43. Syr#ps, are made of fome medicamentous li- quor, decoction, infufion, juyce, diftilled water or vinegar, which being clarified, fugar or honey [ for prefervation and la- pour] are to be added, then boiledand clarified: it's to be in- {piffated to the confiftence of more liquid honey. The pro- portion of liquor to fugar or honey is almoft double or treble. Hereunto belong Phyfical honies, and fyrupixed Robs. 44. Tin- Eures of which the more liquid are nothing elfe than extracti- ons, without an abftra&ed menflruum : the more {olid are pow- ders without combuftion, remaining out of the liquid tin&tures, the menftruum being ab@racted, and are made after the manner Of extracts. 45. Trochukes, are made ofall kinds of remedies, which being powdered are made up. in fome convenient vifcous liquor, as in fome mucilages with tragacanth,juyees,fyrups,&c. Hereunto belong fumale candles made of odoriferous powders, with tragacanth, ftorax &c. as alfo Troches forthe fame, not differing in the way of making. 46. Inuntlory balfames, lini» ments and vnguents, hardly differ in their preparation, but coz- füflence, which in the firft 1s more liquid, like honey + inthefe- cond a little harder, and fearce fluid: the third more hard, and leffe fluid: andare made of oyl, butter, fats, marrow, rofins; mucilages, juyces &c. as alfo of powders and things that may bemelted. To 1. ounce of oyl is ufed of fat almoft 1, or 3 dramsinliniments. r.dram ora half in balfams. 1.dram and 2 hal£or half an ounce in ointments, with one dram of pow- der&c. Alfo Bal[zmes are without wax, Liniments have alittle Or none;as t. dram to 1 ounceof oyl; but Fnguents have more; and fometimes gums, andare made by mixture or liquefaQion. 47. Cauteries ate made of the lye of black fope boiled almoft in- toa flone,calledcorrofive. 48. Effinces are madecf the juyce of greenherbs, preffed out with the Spirit of wine, digefted in B. M. coloured, feparated by inclination, and boyled witha little fugat into the form of afyrupe. 49. Lixives are made of three](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3033360x_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
