The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon].

  • John Hill
Date:
1759
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Credit: The virtues of honey in preventing many of the worst disorders; and in the certain cure of several others ... the gravel, asthmas ... consumptions, etc / to which is prefix'd an account of the origin and nature of honey; its various kinds, English and foreign; and the marks which distinguish them: also a method to obtain honey as fine in England as from any part of the world; and the best ways of taking it. With the genuine receipt for the syrup of capillaire as made in Italy; and for the celebrated Aristaean confection. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    : 5* ] then {train it through flannel. The mai¬ den hair has very little {hare in the virtues of the capillaire, they are the natural vir« tues of Honey and no other: when it is pure and fine, it needs no addition, C H A P. XIV, Of the Arificean Confe£iion> T T may not be foreign to the purpofe of this treatife to add in the few re¬ maining pages, the receit for a compofi- tion of great excellence, known at this time only by name; in which Honey is a very material ingredient, though not the principal: this is the Silphian confedtion, invented by Ariftasus a king of Sardinia in the remoteft antiquity, and therefore called often his name. We find by Di« ofcorides that the Greeks who were excel¬ lent in pharmacy, confidered Honey as the firft of all diflblvents for vegetable fubf- tances : ’tis with this intent, that author diredts that in the making cf oil of rofes,
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