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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    [ S3 ] veflel of water: put the whole over a gen< tie fire. And let it remain, frequently ftir- ing it, till the Aflafaetida is perfe&ly dif- folved, then (train it through a coarfe lin~ nen cloth. Then mix in a mortar one drachm of cinnamon in fine powder, two fcruples of powder of ginger, one fcruple of amomum cleared from the hufks and rub’d alfo to fine powder, with the aflift- ance of a quarter of an ounce of the fined fugar $ when all are perfectly mix’d add them to the reft while it is yet warm, and mix them perfeftly by long ftiring. Then keep it carefully tied up for ufe. A tea fpoonfull of this, is a dofe: and to thofe who can bear the tafte of Afla- fetida, it is a moft admirable medicine. The flavour of that drug is not to be con« quer’d, though ’tis vaftly foftned by thefe ingredients; but what the great inventor meant principaly, was the diflblving its fubftance, fo as to make it readily and cer¬ tainly
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