Pharmacopoeia Universalis: Or, A New Universal English Dispensatory. Containing, I. An Account of All the Natural and Artificial Implements and Instruments of Pharmacy, Together with the Processes and Operations, Whereby Changes are Induced in Natural Bodies for Medicinal Purposes . With a Copious Index to the Whole

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J. Hodges, 1747 - Dispensatories - 852 pages
 

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Page 351 - ... refused to drink it. However, one of the neighbouring inhabitants being seized with a violent paroxysm of fever, and finding no other water to quench his thirst, was forced to drink of this, by which he was perfectly cured.
Page 661 - Pour a gallon of cold water on a quart of tar, and stir and mix thoroughly with a ladle or flat stick for the space of three or four minutes, after which the vessel must stand eight and forty hours that the tar may have time to subside, when the clear water is to be poured off and kept for use, no more being made from the same tar, which may still serve for common purposes.
Page 486 - The web astringes and conglutinates. and is. therefore, vulnerary: restrains bleedings, and prevents inflammation. The country people have a tradition that a small quantity of spider's web, given about an hour before the fit of an ague, and repeated immediately before it, is effectual in curing troublesome and sometimes obstinate distemper. This remedy is not confined to our own country, for I am well informed that the Indians about North Carolina have great dependence on this remedy for agues, to...
Page 605 - Pans, or Beds, it lies expofed to the Sun and Wind, in order to exhale the weakeft "Waters ; and it is in thefe Beds, if the Weather prove very favourable, that they can make as good Bay Salt as any we have from France, and at fuch a time they never bring their Brine to the Boilers. But if the Weather is not hot enough for that Purpofe, their Brine is...
Page 606 - Pans, where, evaporating it alraoft to a Pellicle, they fill it up again 8 or 9 Times, and then wafte it with a gentle Heat for the common or Sea Salt. The Liquor, that runs from this Salt, when taken out, and put into proper Veflels, is what they call the Bittern...
Page 606 - Bittern j which, before Dr. Hoy found out an Ufe for it, was always flung away ; being fo different in its Properties from the Brine made Ufe of to produce the Sea Salt, that it would not boil up into a Sea Salt again, and required the niceft Skill and Attendance of the Operator, to determine the Time when to take out the Sea Salt from the Pans...
Page 328 - ... immediately. After this, as much more water is to be put into the pot upon the remainder, and to be boiled as before, to extract all the juice and what remains of the spirituous part of the root.
Page xvi - Ohio turpentine, of each ten drachms ; camel's hay, costus, Indian leaf, French lavender, long pepper, seeds of hartwort, juice of the rape of cistus, strained storax, opopanax, strained galbanum, balsam of Gilead, or, in its stead, expressed oil of nutmegs, Russian castor, of each an ounce ; poly-mountain, water germander, the fruit of the balsam tree, seeds of the carrot of Crete...
Page 445 - ... feverish, the bile sharp, the juices putrid, the parts inflamed or wasted, or when the putrid scurvy abounds. " Mustard seed, by chemical analysis, gives a much greater indication of an acrid than of an acid salt. But it affords a considerable quantity of oil, very little fixed salt simply saMne, a great deal of earth, a little urinous spirit, and no volatile concrete salt.
Page 605 - Standard to judge of the retí by. But from all Experiments then made, there could no material Difference be found between the Salt made from the Waters, and that made by them who were in the Secret. There was indeed a Salt fold by fome, which in the Courfc of thofe Trials, was found to be a Sal...

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