Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated ... and illustrated with notes, by Peter Shaw.

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1730
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Credit: Pharmacopoeia Edinburgensis: or, the dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh / Translated ... and illustrated with notes, by Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Calaminaris,. Calamine. A Stone. Chalcitis, Beals-Stone *. A metalline Re- crement. Cimolia alba ^Atgilla alba'] Tobacco-pipe Clay. --purpurafeens. Fuller’s Earth. Cinnabaris natival native 1 Cinnabar. A __faftitia 3 faditiousi metalline Earth. Creta alba, white Chalk. An Earth. Cryjlallus, Cryftal. A Stone. Cuprum, Copper. The metal whereof Brafs, Verdigreafe, Tutty (or Cadmia) Pompho- lyx (or Nil album) and Spodium (or Nil grifeum) are made. Ferrum nativum native Iron VTheMc- — faffitium [Chalybs3 Steel. S tal, with itsDrofs Hematites Lapis> Blood-Stone; * The true Chalcitis, fometimes alfo call’d by the name of Colcothar, is a fpecies of naturally red vitriol, in the form of a reddifh done. The ancients confounded the Chalcitis with the Mifi, Melanteria and the Son * or rather they faid there was a fucceflive tranimutation ox thefe four minerals j beginning with chalcitis, which then became mifi^ afterwards melanteria, and at lengtn re¬ main’d fori : but our druggifts fell only the chalcitis, and fcarce any of ’em know the names of the three o- thers. This drug comes to us from Germany or Sucrien, where it is ufually found in the copper-mines. It ought to be chofe in good handfome pieces, of a colour between brown and red, having the tafte of vitriol, and eali y diffolving in water j when broke, it fhould appear brig i- tifh, and of the colour of copper 5 but in defett ot it, they fometimes fubflitute calcanthum, white copperas calcined, and calamine. tDi5f. de Commerce.
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