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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![[*«] candying, we fliould boil up our Syrup with three parts of Sugar, and one of Honey. Henr. ab Heers (Obf. 5. p. 5-9.) tells us. Me lie Jkpius qudm Sac char 0 Pharmacopmt fua condiunt. In his Time the German Apo¬ thecaries made ule of Honey ofcener than Sugar to preferve their Medicines with. In the P bar mac op. Helvet. Specim. every one of the Syrups is made with only Honey, without one Grain of Sugar. Pliny faith Honey is innumeros ad ttjus. And fo we know our Fore-fathers in Phyfick compoled great Variety of Medicines with it. Their Me Iterate, Apomelj Genome /, Qmpha- cornel, Oxymel) Hydromel, Thalajfomel, &c. We have in our Shops now, Honey of Roles, Violets, Rofemary Flowers, Herb Mer¬ cury, Raifins, &c. We put it alio into external Medicaments, and that not only to contain and bind up o- ther Ingredients, in form of an Unguent, or Plaifter ; but even for its own proper fake and Operation, to cleanfe, dry, heal, refift Putrefaction, &c. But the Lord Bacon faith (Nat. Hi ft. Cent. 9, Exp. 848.) we have loft thole Oblervations and Preparations of Ho¬ ney which the Ancients had. Honey is a thing which may be kept good a ftrange long time, and will preierve even raw Fruits. Columella faith (L. 12. c. 10.) lllud in totum prrecipiendum exiftimavi, nullum ejje genus Pomi, quod non pojjit](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30354134_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
