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

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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$Linaria, Toad-flax. ^ Lingua Cervina [Scolopendrium] >The Herb. Hart’s-ton ge. ) Linum vulgarey Flax. Its Seed. -catharticum, Mountain-flax. The Plant. Liquidambra, Liquid-amber. * The Rofin. Lithofpermum [Milium folis] Gromwell. The Seed. Lotus urbana, Field-trefoil. The Herb, and Seed. Lupinusy the Lupin. Its Seed. LupuluSy The Hop. Its Leaves or Flowers. M. Macisy The Mace-tree. Its inward Bark and Nutmeg. Majoranay Marjoram. The Herb. Malabathrum \Folium Indicum] Indian-leaf. *f* Malva vulgarisy common Mallows. The Plant. . i • * This is a kind of red tranfparent rofin, afforded by certain trees growing in New Spain, and there by the na¬ tives call’d Ofofol. When this rofin is frefh and fluid, ’tis called oil of liquid amber; but when it is old and thick, the balm thereof. Difl. de Commerce. f This is the leaf of a very large tree growing in the IndieSy particularly near Cambaya. The tree is not much unlike a lemon-tree, and affords berries like the cinna¬ mon-tree, but fmaller. Under part of thefe leaves are found a kind of bladders, fcarce larger than a pin’s-head, which are by fome taken for the feed. The leaves for ufe ought to be chofe fair, large, green, and as entire as poffible. DiCt, de Commerce. c Malus$