The London dispensatory, reduced to the practice of the London physicians wherein are contain'd the medicines, both Galenical and chymical, that are now in use ... / by John Pechey ...

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The London dispensatory, reduced to the practice of the London physicians wherein are contain'd the medicines, both Galenical and chymical, that are now in use ... / by John Pechey ...
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Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
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London :: Printed by F. Collins for J. Lawrence ...,
1694.
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Dispensatories.
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"The London dispensatory, reduced to the practice of the London physicians wherein are contain'd the medicines, both Galenical and chymical, that are now in use ... / by John Pechey ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53916.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Sugars.

Pearled Sugar.

Is made with Sugar boyled in half the weight of ose-water, towards the end, add to each pound Sugar half an ounce of prepared Pearl, and eight ten leaves of Gold.

Penidiat Sugar, in Latin, Saccharum Peni∣dium.

It is made with Sugar dissolved in barly water, er a gentle fire, and well beat with whites of eggs d twice clarified. As it boyls, strain it through a

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cloath, and boyl it again gently, until it risein bubbles, and being chewed does not stick to your teeth, then pour it upon a marble besmeared with oyl of Al∣monds, (letting first the bubbles sink, after it is re∣moved from the fire) bring back the outsides of it to the middle, till it looks like larch Rosin; then your hands being rubed with white starch▪ you may draw it into threads, either short or long, thick or thin, as you please.

Sugar of Roses, in Latin, Sacharum Rosa∣tum Tabulatum.

Take of the flowers of Red Roses, the whites cu off and dryed quickly in the Sun, one ounce, of fine Sugar one pound, dissolve the Sugar over the fire in four ounces of red Rose water, and in four ounces of the juice of the same, which being evaporated by degrees, add the Roses powdred, mingle them, and pour them on a stone, and so make Tablets.

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