Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the third edition of the Latin. And illustrated with notes by Peter Shaw.

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Date:: 1740

Credit: Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated and improved from the third edition of the Latin. And illustrated with notes by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$SIMP L E S, Cimclia alba [ Argilla alba ] Tobacco-pipe- Clay. •--purpurafcenSy Fuller's Earth, Cinnabar is ?iatival native 1 Cinnabar. A me- —faSiitia j factitious) talline Earth, Greta albay white Chalk. An Earth. CryJlalbuSy Cry flail. A Stone. Cuprum y Copper. The Metal whereof Brafs, Verdigreafe, Tutty (or Cadmia) Pompho- lyx (or Nil album) and Spodium (or Nil grifeum) are made. Per rum nativum, native Iron? The Me- --faBitium [Cbalybs] Steel. S tal, with its Dro-fs. Haematites Lapis, Blood-Stone. Hybernicus [Tegula vel Ardejia Hybernica] La¬ pis. Irijh Slate, Hydragyrus \Argentum vivum] Quick-filver. A metalline Mineral, Judaicusly . I Judaic Stone. Lazuli j ■jaPts> f Azure-Stone. Lemnia Lerray Lemnian Earth, Magnes, The Load-Stone. Nephriticus Lapisy The Nephritic Stone. Nitrum fell only the chalcitis, and fcarce any of ’em know the names of the three others. This drug comes to us from Germany or Sweden, where it is ufually found in the cop- per-mines. It ought to be chofe in good handfome pieces, of a colour between brown and red, having the tafte of vi¬ triol, and eafily diflolving in water; when broke, it fhould appear brightifh, and of the colour of copper ; but in defedt of it, they fometimes fubftitute calcanthum, white coppe° yas, calcined, and calamine. Lit7. de Commerce;$