LXXXIX. † Tinctura Pe∣ctoralis, i. Glycyrrhizae; a Pectoral Tincture, or Tin∣cture of Liquorice.
Salmon.] § 1. Take the best Spanish Juice of Liquorice
Pharmacopœia Bateana, or, Bate's dispensatory translated from the second edition of the Latin copy, published by Mr. James Shipton : containing his choice and select recipe's, their names, compositions, preparations, vertues, uses, and doses, as they are applicable to the whole practice of physick and chyrurgery : the Arcana Goddardiana, and their recipe's intersperst in their proper places, which are almost all wanting in the Latin copy : compleated with above five hundred chymical processes, and their explications at large, various observations thereon, and a rationale upon each process : to which are added in this English edition, Goddard's drops, Russel's pouder [sic], and the Emplastrum febrifugum, those so much fam'd in the world : as also several other preparations from the Collectanea chymica, and other good authors / by William Salmon ...
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- Pharmacopœia Bateana, or, Bate's dispensatory translated from the second edition of the Latin copy, published by Mr. James Shipton : containing his choice and select recipe's, their names, compositions, preparations, vertues, uses, and doses, as they are applicable to the whole practice of physick and chyrurgery : the Arcana Goddardiana, and their recipe's intersperst in their proper places, which are almost all wanting in the Latin copy : compleated with above five hundred chymical processes, and their explications at large, various observations thereon, and a rationale upon each process : to which are added in this English edition, Goddard's drops, Russel's pouder [sic], and the Emplastrum febrifugum, those so much fam'd in the world : as also several other preparations from the Collectanea chymica, and other good authors / by William Salmon ...
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- Bate, George, 1608-1669.
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- London :: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford ...,
- 1694.
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"Pharmacopœia Bateana, or, Bate's dispensatory translated from the second edition of the Latin copy, published by Mr. James Shipton : containing his choice and select recipe's, their names, compositions, preparations, vertues, uses, and doses, as they are applicable to the whole practice of physick and chyrurgery : the Arcana Goddardiana, and their recipe's intersperst in their proper places, which are almost all wanting in the Latin copy : compleated with above five hundred chymical processes, and their explications at large, various observations thereon, and a rationale upon each process : to which are added in this English edition, Goddard's drops, Russel's pouder [sic], and the Emplastrum febrifugum, those so much fam'd in the world : as also several other preparations from the Collectanea chymica, and other good authors / by William Salmon ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26772.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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cut into thin slices, or bruised in a Mortar ℥xviij. Rain-water or May-dew, so much as may overtop it five or six in∣ches, or three pints; mix, and set it in a gentle digestion for 24 hours, or 2 days, viz. till the whole body of the Juice is throughly softened and dissol∣ved; Spirit of Wine six pints: Mix, digest 12 or 14 days, till the Tincture is wholly drawn up into the body of the Men∣struum, then decant the clear, filter, and keep it for use.
§ 2. Now here is to be noted, that Water alone would extract the most of the Li∣quorice, but being a thing of constant use, and which ought to be kept always rea∣dy prepared, the S. V. is ad∣ded▪ that it might the better keep, which now it will do a year or two, or longer; moreover the Spirit of Wine is a kind of Balsam, and adds to the vertue of the Medi∣cine.
§ 3. Or thus: ℞ Choice English Liquorice bruised well ℥xviij. common Spirit of Wine four pints; mix, digest 21 or 28 days, then decant the clear for use: Where note, that if you use dryed Liquorice, you may take the Pouder ℥xvij. and mix it with Salt of Potashes ℥ix. grinding them together in a hot Iron Mortar, and then with four pints of the best rectified S. V. extract the Tin∣cture according to Art.
§ 4. Or thus: ℞ Spanish Juice well bruised ℥iiij. Spiri∣tus Intimus lbiiij. mix, digest in a gentle Sand-heat for 24 hours, then decant the clear Tincture, which filter, and keep it for use.
§ 5. Or thus: ℞ English green Liquorice well bruised ℥viij. Spiritus Intimus lbiiij. mix, digest 48 hours, then de∣cant the clear Tincture, which filter and keep for use. Where note, that if in the time of the digestion you add an eighth part of Aniseeds, the Medicine will yet be the more pectoral.
§ 6. It is an excellent Pe∣ctoral, stops Coughs and vio∣lent Catarrhs, expectorates tough Flegm from the Lungs and Kidneys, abates sharp∣ness, lenifies roughness, takes away hoarseness, helps corro∣sion of the Bladder and sharp∣ness of the Urine, and molli∣fies the Bellies of Infants.
§ 7. Modus Utendi. ℞ Aquae Lactis ℥iiij. Syrup of Poppies ℥ss. of this Tincture ℥i. to ℥ij. mix for a Dose, against Coughs, Colds, Catarrhs, sharp∣ness of Urine, Obstructions of the Brest and Lungs, &c.