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.

An Elixir us'd against the Stone and Gravel.

℞. Strawberries one pound, Sugar-candy half a pound, seeds of Gromel bruis••d three ounces, Alkekengi Berries an ounce and a half, tops of Golden-rod, leaves of Ground-Ivy, Saxifrage, of each half a handfull; being all cut small and pounded, put them into a Matrass, and pour on good Brandy until it is the breadth of four fingers over the Ingredients, then stop the Vessel close and put it to digest in a Sand Bath or other moderate heat for four or five days, stirring it every day, which done, filter it with ex∣pression, and when it has settled, pour it from the subsiding dregs, and having strained it a second time, put it up in a Glass Vessel well stop'd.

This Elixir, or Tincture, is much us'd in Languedock against Gravel and diffi∣culty of Urine, also in windy and ne∣phritick Colicks, suppression of the Men∣ses, Hysterick Passions, &c. it may be taken to two ounces.