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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Troches of Alhandal, in Latin, Trochisc•• alhandal.
Take of the white and light pulp of Coloquin∣tida, freed from the feeds and cut small, and rubbed well with an ounce of oyl of sweet Almonds, and two days after finely powdered, ten ounces of Gum Arabick, Tragacanth, and Bdellium, each six drams, infuse the Gums three days or four in a sufficient quantity of Rose water to melt them, then with the pulp above-mentioned, and part of this Muci∣lage, make Troches, dry them in the Shade, and then powder them again, and make them up again with the rest of this Mucilage.
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Virtues. It is a violent Medicine, it purges thick and glutinous flegm, and other humours, from the re∣••notest parts of the body, as from the Head, Nerves, Joynts, and the like.
Dose. A strong man may take fifteen grains, or a scruple, but it is most commonly mixed with pills to quicken them.
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