Volume 1
Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page].
- Page, John, 1699?-1779
- Date:
- 1763
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Receipts for preparing and compounding the principal medicines made use of by the late Mr Ward. Together with an introduction, etc / [John Page]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Set it in a Moderate Sand-heat, and let it evapo¬ rate till a Pellicle or Skin comes over the Top of it. Then take it from the Fire, and let it Hand in a cool Place to congeal. [Great Care mull be taken, that your Heat be not too great in your Evaporation *, nor continued too long; or it would coagulate, and mix the corrofive Oil (which is to be poured off after its Congealment) with the fine pure Salt; and quite fpoil the Medicine.] There will remain, uncongealed, a Heavy Li¬ quor, or Oil, which pour off, and let it drain, until no more will run or drop from it. Take the remaining Salt, put it into a Giafs Body, and to each Pound (fixteen Ounces) put Three Pounds of the fined: Role Water; flopping the Mouth of your Body, by tying over it a Piece of doubled brown Paper. Set it again in your Sand-heat; make an indifferently hot Fire, till all your Salt is diffolved *, which is ufually done in 24 Hours. Thus the White Drop is prepared. Observation. This Medicine, thus rendered extremely Mild, cannot poffibly be accounted Dangerous ; feeing that, in the Dofe of two Drops, ufually taken in 24 Hours, the Quantity of Mercury does not amount to Half a Grain. lljsiri do!•>•*•/' • ■ . ' ’I. . !' t { j;/ j Attefted December iff, 1762, by me ■JOHN WHITE, This White Drop was wholly and conftantfy prepared by Mr. White, for Mr. Ward. I, who am neither Chymiff nor Phyfician, do not pre¬ tend to fay any Thing as to the Nature of this excellent Antifcorbutic Medicine ; and, therefore, fhall confine myfelf, merely, to its Effects ; which, D under](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31918141_0001_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
