The new dispensatory: containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica ... III. Pharmaceutical preparations. IV. Medicinal compositions ... Being an attempt to collect and apply the later discoveries to the Dispensatory published by W. Lewis ... / By gentlemen of the Faculty of Edinburgh [i.e. C. Webster and R. Irving].

Date:: 1786

Credit: The new dispensatory: containing I. The elements of pharmaceutical chemistry. II. The materia medica ... III. Pharmaceutical preparations. IV. Medicinal compositions ... Being an attempt to collect and apply the later discoveries to the Dispensatory published by W. Lewis ... / By gentlemen of the Faculty of Edinburgh [i.e. C. Webster and R. Irving]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$pelli Lin. £.£.] Blue WolfTbane; tlie leaves. ‘ This is a perennial plant, grow- ing naturallv in various mountain- ous parts of Europe. The juice has a difagreeable fniell ami an acrid tafle, becoming lefs acrid on inipif fation. It is a very adtive poilon, was introduced by Dr Stork, and recommended by him and others in glandular lwellings, venereal nodes, anchylofis, fpina ventoia, itch, a- niaurofis, gouty and rheumatic pains, intermittent fevers, and con- vuliive difordevs. Stork’s formula was two grains of the infpiffated juice rubbed down with two drams of fugar. ' He began with ten grains of this powder night and morning, and increafed it gradually to fix grains of the infpiffated juice twice a day. Others have ufed a tindlure of one part of the dry leaf, and fix parts of Spirit of wine, in the dofe of forty drops. From Stork’s reprefentation of the figure and talle of the plant, ionic are of opi- nion that he made his experiments with the aconitumcammorum Liu.’ ACORUS, vide Calamus aro- M ATICUS. ADI ANTHI VERI, feu capita Veneris, folia : Adianthi folio cor tan - dri C. B.: Adianthi cap 'tlli Verisris Lin. True maidenhaii ; the leaves. This is a low evergreen herb, and one of thole which, from the ilen- dernefs of their {talk, are called ca- pillary. It is a native of italy and the fouthern pants of France; from whence the leaves are fometimes brought to us. Thefe have an a- grceable, but very weak, fmell; and a mucilaginous fomewhat rouglufii talle, which they ieadily impart to boiling water. Maidenhair has been greatly ce- lebrated in diforders of the breaft, proceeding from a thiunefs and acu- mony of the juices; and likewife lor opening obllrudtions of the vif- ccra, and promoting the ex perora- tion of tougii phlegm. But modern practice pays little regard to it ; nor is it often to be met with in the lliops; the truchomanes, or Englijh maidenhair, which is of the fame quality, generally fupplying its place. JERUGO \_L. i?.j] Verdegris. This is a preparation of copper, made chiefly at Montpelier 'in France, by Gratifying copperplates with grape Gaik’S that have been impregnated with a fermented ve- getable acid : in a few clays, the plates are found covered with a pale green downy matter, which is fera- ped off from the copper, and the procefs again repeated. Verdegris, as it comes to us, is generally mingled with Gaiks of the grape; they may be feparated, in pulverization by dilcontinuing the operation as foon as what remains feems to be almoft entirely compo- sed of them. Verdegris is rarely or never ufed internally. Some writers greatly extol it as an emetic, and fay, that a grain or two being taken a£ts as foon as received into the Gomach ; but its .ufe has been too often fol- lowed by dangerous confequences. (See tiie article Cu prum.)—Ver- degvis ap; lied externally, proves a gentle detergent and efcharotic, and ferves to take down fungous fleili avifing in wounds. I n thcle inten- tions, it is an ingree/Lnt in the tnel cegypliacutn, unguent um baflicum c rTdc if ], and ting ex arugine [■£•]• AGALLOC HUM, feu. lignum aloes. Aloes w°ou. There have ^een different con- jefturesvconcein’ng this wood, but no fatisfa&my account of it has hi- therto appeared. AuthorsdiGmguiih jr j ieverai$

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