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

Date:: 1730

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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$SJMTLES. Hibernicus Lapis, Irijh Slate. Hydragyrus [.Argentum wvum\ Quick-filver. A metalline mineral. Judaicus Lazuli Lemnia Terra, Lemnian Earth. Magnes, The Load-Stone. Nephriticus Lapis, The Nephritic Stone. Nitrum [SalTetrd] Nitre. A Salt. • Ochray Oker. An Earth. Ofteocolla, Bone-binder. A Stone. 5Petroleum) Petreol. A Bitumen. Rlumbum, Lead, The Metal that yields the gold and lilver Litharge. \Pumex, The Pumice-ftone. Rubrica fabrilis, Red-oker. An Earth. Sal Ammonia cum, Sal-Ammoniac. -—- communey common Salt. ——Gemmre, Sal-Gem. —marinumy Sea-Salt. Sile/iaca Terray Silefian Earth. Silexy The Flint-Stone. Stannum, Tin. The Metal. Succinum album [ Carabe] &flavumy white and yellow Amber *. Bitumens. * Amber is a fubje£t much controverted among the naturalifts, who are not agreed as to its being a mineral or a vegetable produ&ion • fome liippofing it a bitumen, and others a gum. Various arguments are offer’d on both fides 5 but the matter of faff comes only to this $ that it is certainly found on the coaffs of ‘Prujjia, along the Baltic, upon which it is thrown by particular winds$ when the Inhabitants fearing it may be walk'd offagain. make$