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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    jMalus horteiifis, the Garden AppleO tree. ^ ■fylveftris, the Crab-tree. ^ Fruit, Mandragora, Mandrake. Its Leaves, Manna *. The infpiffated Juice. Marrubium album \PraJJium] white Hore- hound. The Herb. Marum * Manna is the Tap, juice, or white liquor, that ouzes or flows, either fpontaneoufly or by inciflon, from the branches and leaves of the common and wild afh-tree. But this is peculiar to the afh-trees of fome climates only ; par¬ ticularly to thofe of Sicily. The Italians diftinguifh three forts ; that which flows fpontaneoufly, by them called Manna di Corpo, trunk-manna ; that gain'd by inciflon, or as it were by force, Manna forzata, forced manna; and that which proceeds from the nervous part of the leaves, and is of the flze of grains of wheat, term’d Manna di fron- da, leaf-manna, Thefe feveral forts are all gather’d in the months of June, July and yJuguft, upon the hotteft and cleared days; rainy and damp weather being prejudicial there¬ to : for unlefs it be condenfed by the fun’s heat, juft as it fweats out, it falls down and is loft. The druggifts fell leveral kinds of manna, differing only as to the name of the place they come from, or in the figure of the pieces ; and accordingly are call’d Calabrian or Sicilian manna, 13c. Flake-manna, Drop-manna, &-c. That moft in efteem is the drop-manna ; tho’ there are many who believe it fa¬ ctious, and manufactured by the Jews at Leghorn; but others certainly take it for natural, only made of that figure, and in fuch large drops, by putting little pieces of draws or fticks into the incifions for it to run along, and full from. Manna is to be chofe frefh, dry, light, and of a white co¬ lour, a little inclining to red, of an agreeable tafte, and free from dirt and foregin bodies, and fuch as when broke ap¬ pears to contain a kind of fyrup; which is a certain mark of its newnefs. Did. de Commerce.