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.

A Stomachick Water.

℞. Outward rind of Oranges one ounce, lesser Galengal five drachms, Ginger three drachms, Aromatick Reed, Enula Campana, of each two drachms; Cardamoms, Cloves, of each a drachm and a half; Spirit of Nitre two drachms; good Brandy twenty ounces; let them stand in digestion for six days, then separate the clear from the thick according to art.

This Water strengthens and warms the Stomach, helps Digestion, breaks and expells Wind in rarifying and attenuating the flatulent viscous matter it meets with. The Spirit of Nitre is mixt to help to draw off the better Tincture, and to give the Water a more agreeable smell.

He advises to dissolve a drachm and a half of the Salt of Guajacum in Bates's Aqua Syphilica to make it more efficacious for the end it is design'd for.