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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    Bugula \Confolida media\ Bugle. The Herb. Bunias [Napus fativus & fyhejiris] Navew. Its Seed. Bupththalmum, Ox-eye. ft 1 Burja Pafloris, Shepherd’s Purfe. j e ei Buxus, Box-tree. Its Leaves and Wood. Cacao, the Cocoa-tree. Its Fruit. Calamintha montana, Calamint. The Herb. Calendula, Marygold. Its Flowers. Camphora, the Camphire-tree *. Its Rofin. Canella alba [jalso Cortex Whiter anus] the white Canella, or common Winter’s-tree. Its Bark. * The Writers upon Drugs are much divided as to the nature and formation of Camphire ; fome believing it a fait, others a gum ; fome averting it to flow fpontaneouily from a tree, and fome pretending it is only gain’d by boiling the wood. The following account appears to be the true one. Camphire is a real coagulated Oil, or Rofin, flowing, by incifion, from the trunk or principal branches of a very large tree growing in many parts of the Eajl-Indies, China, and more particularly in the Ifland Borneo. The Camphire moft in ufe is the white or artificial fort, which hath been fublim’d in proper glafies, from the coarfe, which falls na¬ tive, and runs into fmall cakes ar the bottom of the tree ; the fubliming veflels being but flightly clofed, and placed over a gentle fire. By which means, the Dutch alone are become the foie venders of fine Camphire, as having the art of preparing it; though the whole fecret is no more than common fublimation. Diflion. de Commerce. For the virtues and ufes of Camphire, fee Quincy's Compleat Dif- penfatory ; and for the natural and chemical hiflory there¬ of, Mr. Lemery's curious Memoir upon the Subjedf. M. de CAcad. R. i 705. B 2 Cannabis,