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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Title: 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.
Author: Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
Publication: London :: Printed for Walter Kettilby,; 1700.
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Pills of Gambogia.

℞. Aloes Succotrine two ounces and a half, Gummi Gutta, Gum Ammoniack of each an ounce and a half, Rosine of Scam∣mony one ounce, Tartarum Vitriolatum half an ounce; make them into a Mass of Pills with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Buck-thorn.

Gambogia is of it self both Emetick and Purgative, but being mix'd with the Tar∣tarum Vitriolatum purges only by Stool▪ It is given from half a scruple to half a drachm, in which Dose it powerfully car∣ries off watry humours without any con∣siderable gripes.