Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the fourth edition of the Latin. By Peter Shaw.

Date:
1746
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the fourth edition of the Latin. By Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SIMPLES. Acetofa vulgaris [Oxalts] Common Sorrel. The Herb, Root and Seed. Acetojella [Li/jula] Wood-forrel. Acorus verus [Calamus aromaticus] Sweet Flag. Its Root. Adianthum verum [Capillus Veneris] True Maiden-hair. The Herb. Agallochum [Lignum aloes] Aloes-wood. The Wood. Agaricus [Fungus Laricis] Agaric, or the Fungus of the Larch-tree. Ageratum [Eupatorium Mejiies] Maudlin. The Herb. Agnus Cajlus [ Vitex] the Chafte-tree. Its Seed. Agrimonia [Eupatorium Grceconm, & Avi¬ cenna] Agrimony. Its Leaves. Alchimilla, Lady's Mantle. The Herb. Alkekengi [Halicacabum] Winter-Cherry. The Fruit. Alii aria, flower, and appearing all over thorny, except in the trunk. It is alfo confidently reported by others, that this is the Tree which affords the Gum-Arabic. Thus much is cer¬ tain, that the infpiffated Juice, be it afforded by what Tree it will, comes to us from the Levant, in round Balls of different fizes, inclofed in very fine bladders. Its good- nefs is known by its being high boiled, of a brown colour inclining a little to red, compaft, ihining, and of an aftrin- gent, but a fomewhat difagreeable taffe. The German Acacia is a counterfeit of this, made of the Juice of Sloes boiled to a folid confidence, and put up in bladders like the Egyptian. The two kinds differ confiderably in colour ; the genuine being of a brown with a flight daih of red, and the counterfeit of as full a black as the common Juice of Liquorife. Dirt, de Commerce de M. Savary.