Pharmacopœia Meadiana: faithfully gathered from original prescriptions, containing the most elegant methods of cure in diseases. To which are annexed useful observations upon each prescription : the whole digested under proper heads / [Richard Mead].
- Richard Mead
- Date:
- 1757-1758
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Pharmacopœia Meadiana: faithfully gathered from original prescriptions, containing the most elegant methods of cure in diseases. To which are annexed useful observations upon each prescription : the whole digested under proper heads / [Richard Mead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Take Oil of Sweet Almonds and Syrup of Maidenhair, of each two Ounces : White Sugar Candy, Half an Ounce. Mix and make a Lindus. One large Spoonful to b§ - taken every four Hours. Obfervations. Thefe are given to thicken lharp Rheums that prick and ftimulate the Fibres of the Larynx, and by their Irritation excite a fre* quent and troublefome Cough. They are bal- famick, pedoral, and agglutinant. Linftus Peftoralis. R Syr. Capill. Ven. Ol. Amygd. Dulc. aa §ij. Sacchar. Alb. %]. Spir. Sulph. gutt. x. m. f. Lindus. \The Peftoral Linftus. Take Syrup of Maidenhair and Oil of Sweet Almonds, of each two Ounces: Loaf Sugar, One Drachm : Spirit of Sulphur, ten Drops. Mix and make a Lindus, Ohfervations. This is given in Coughs, Pleurifies, Inflam¬ mations of the Lungs* and Confumptions; is lubricating, pedoral, and balfamick; takes off the Acrimony of the^ Rheum, and, by loofen- ing the vifcid Matter that falls on the Larynx, promotes its Difcharge, and relieves the Cough* Inter*](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30785121_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
