Pharmacopoeia Lemeriana contracta Lemery's Universal pharmacopoeia abridg'd, in a collection of recepe's and observations compar'd with the London and with Bates's dispensatories, and also with Charas's Royal pharmacy : to which are added some remedies recommended by the members of the French Royal Academy of Science, most collected out of the history of that society lately published by John Baptista du Hamel.
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Pharmacopoeia Lemeriana contracta Lemery's Universal pharmacopoeia abridg'd, in a collection of recepe's and observations compar'd with the London and with Bates's dispensatories, and also with Charas's Royal pharmacy : to which are added some remedies recommended by the members of the French Royal Academy of Science, most collected out of the history of that society lately published by John Baptista du Hamel.
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Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
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London :: Printed for Walter Kettilby,
1700.
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Pharmacopoeias.
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"Pharmacopoeia Lemeriana contracta Lemery's Universal pharmacopoeia abridg'd, in a collection of recepe's and observations compar'd with the London and with Bates's dispensatories, and also with Charas's Royal pharmacy : to which are added some remedies recommended by the members of the French Royal Academy of Science, most collected out of the history of that society lately published by John Baptista du Hamel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47661.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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Wine called Hypocrate.
℞. Refined Sugar reduced into powder, two pound and a
half, sweet Almonds blan∣ched and bruised 4 Ounces, Cinnamon
gros∣ly powdered one Ounce and a half; let all be mixed and put in infusion
for 24 hours in 7 quarts of good Claret, and a pint of the
best Brandy; then pass twice or trice through a Wine Sack, or through
Hippocra∣tes's sleeve, and dissolve in the strained Li∣quor half a
grain of Ambergreese, and the like quantity of Musk.
This Wine warms the Stomach, and helps Digestion, yet is
oftner taken
descriptionPage 30
for Pleasure than as Physick. It is
cal∣led Hypocrate, either because Hippocrates invented
some such Liquor, or that it is strained through such a cloth as he
used in his Filtrations. This is different from common preparation.
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