A compleat history of druggs / written in French by Monsieur Pomet ... to which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral; with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts. Illustrated with above four hundred copper cutts, curiously done from the life; and an explanation of their different names, places of growth and countries from whence they are brought; the way to know the true from the false; their virtues &c. A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals.
- Pierre Pomet
- Date:
- 1725
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compleat history of druggs / written in French by Monsieur Pomet ... to which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from Messrs. Lemery, and Tournefort, divided into three classes, vegetable, animal and mineral; with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy, and several other arts. Illustrated with above four hundred copper cutts, curiously done from the life; and an explanation of their different names, places of growth and countries from whence they are brought; the way to know the true from the false; their virtues &c. A work of very great use and curiosity. Done into English from the originals. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![p. Of the Jafper. Pomet. *TpHere being various forts of Ja- JL fpers, fuch as the green, the purple, cerulean, Aurora, or CrydaMike, I (hall fpeak only of that which is fold in the Shops, which is the green Jafper; and if it had not been of fomefmall Uie in Medicine, I fhould not have fpoke of it. Being a ve¬ ry precious Commodity, it is very liable to be counterfeited in Glafs. Chufefuch as are of a fine deep Green, fmooth and fhining, full of red Spots, as if they were little Drops of Blood, and which can take no Impreffion from the Point of a Needle drawn upon it, which is a Sign that it is truly Ori¬ ental. Some People affirm that the green Jafper is very proper to cure the Epilepfy, and chat it is a good Cordial. It is pre¬ par’d as the Hyacinth and other precious Stones. Jafpis, the Jafper, is a fine, hard, Lemery fmooth, refplendent, precious Stone, which differs little from the Agate, only that is not fo hard and pure. There are a great many Kinds of it, but the Oriental is the belt. It ought to be very hard, of a deep green fpotted with red, and it is of fome Uie in Phyfick, ground fine upon a Porphyry. The prepar’d Pow¬ der is adringent, proper to flop Blood and the Scour of the Guts. Great Virtues are affign’d it in the Epilepfy, alfo to (irengthen the Stomach, and bring away the Stone in the Kidnies, &c. io. Of the Jade Stone. Pomet. Jade is a greenifh Stone, JL inclinable to grey, extremely hard and very rare. This Stone is little us’d In Phyfick, but pretty much in feveral forts of Works that are very valuable, it being very difficult to cut. The 'Turks and Poles ufe a great deal of Jade to make Handles for their Knives, Sabres, Swords, and oiher Things, which they adorn with Gold. The Orien¬ tal is the fined Jade, Jade is a very hard Stone, of a greenifh grey Colour. The fined Lemery. comes from the Eaft-Indies. The Turks and Poles make feveral Ufes of them, and it is difficult to work becaufe of its exceffive Hardnefs. Some pretend, that applyhd to the Region of the Kidnies, they are proper to bring away Stone and Grave], but I can give no Credit to fuch Re» medies. ii. Of the Nephritick Stone* H E Nephritick Stone is a grey- ifh Stone, with a little Mixture Pomet. of blue in it, fo that it is ufually of a bluith grey Colour, being fat and oily like Venetian Takk. This Stone is much valued by certain Perfons for the Cure of the Gravel, which makes it fo fcarrce, and fo much enquired after, becaufe of its Virtues, which it performs by hanging about the Thigh of thole who are troubled with the Stone or Gravel in the Kidnies, from whence it is call’d the Nephritick Stone. The Dearnefs and Rarity of this Stone istheRea- fon why fome have fubdituted in its dead a Kind of green Marble, furnam’d Malaquitte, and cut and carve it like a Bird’s Head, be¬ caufe the Ancients believed that the true Ne¬ phritick Stone refembled a Bird’s Head, or the Beak of a Perroquet. The true nephri¬ tick Stone comes from New-Spain ; and who¬ ever would know further of it may read Mr* Worms, who has writ a large Defcription of it, too long to be infened here. Lapis Nephriticus, or the Nephri¬ tick Stone, is of different Sizes, Lemery.. pretty hard, opaque, of a bluiffi Grey or Afh-colour, but fometimes mix’d with white, yellow or black, and is not perfedly fmooth, becaufe it is uacluous like Talck. It is found in New-Spain, fometimes with the Jafper, and fometimes alone. Some reckon it among the Kinds of jafpers, making no great Difference, but only that this is the harder: For the mod Part they are found like Whet-Stories in the Fields m great Lumps, fo big, that a Cup may be made of rhem. Carolina affords pretty large ones, of about eight inches long, three](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30412158_0607.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
