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A43017	The family-physician, and the house-apothecary containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people usually advise with apothecaries to be cured of, II. Instructions, whereby to prepare at your own houses all kinds of necessary medicines that are prepared by apothecaries, or prescribed by physicians, III. The exact prices of all drugs, herbs, seeds, simple and compound medicines, as they are sold at the druggists, or may be sold by the apothecaries, IV. That it's plainly made to appear, that in preparing medicines thus at your own houses, that it's not onely a far safer way, but you shall also save nineteen shillings in twenty, comparing it with the extravagant rates of many apothecaries / by Gideon Harvey ...	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1678 (1678)	Wing H1065; ESTC R13943	43,731	199

The manner of Preparation Note Instead of putting Sand into the Sand pan of your portable Furnace you must put in ashes or rather Saw-dust for to set the glass Alembick in to distil You must bruise the Roots in a Stone or Lignum Vitae Mortar shred the leaves and bruise them also in a Mortar and put them into such a glass stopt close and fixt in warm Water as was exprest in the Preparation of the foregoing Water The Prices The Roots at a half penny the half ounce come to 2 d. ½ d. The Leaves at a half penny the handful 8 d. The Wine at 4 s. Charcoal to burn in the furnace 4 d. The whole distillation will stand you in just 5 s. 2 d. d. The Pint of this Plague Water costs you seven pence in regard the whole Distillation will yield somewhat more than eight Pints the Ounce will come to less than three farthings computing Physically twelve ounces onely to the Pint. The Apothecaries Prices of Plague-Water By the Pint three Shillings six Pence and some sell it at four Shillings By the Ounce three Pence and some four Pence The Description of Aqua Mirabilis TAke of Cloves Galangal Cubebs Mace Cardamoms Nutmegs Ginger of each a dram juice of Celandine half a pint Spirits of Wine one pint Whitewine three pints Steep them four and twenty hours and then distil them in ashes in a glass Alembick The manner of Preparing The manner of steeping and distilling of this Water is the same with the foregoing Most Apothecaries and Distillers draw this Water off in a Copper Still with a Bucket Head or with one that goeth with a Worm The Spices before mentioned must be beaten to a course powder only for if you endeavour to bring them into a fine powder their principal vertue is apt to fly away in powdering By Spirits of Wine is here meant the best Nants Brandy Observe You are to distil this Water only half off and leave the other half in the Still because the first half will contain all the Spirits and vertue of the Ingredients whereas the other remaining half is found to be flat and sit for no other use than to wash your hands though it is to be feared that such as are greedy of gain distil it almost quite off The Prices The Spices all at 6 d. or 7 d. The juice of Celandine at 3 d. or 4 d. The best Nants Brandy the pint at 5½ d. or 6 d. Whitewine at 18 d. Charcoal 2 d. or 3 d. The whole Distillation which is two pints and a quarter comes to 2 s. 10 ½ d. or 3 s. 2 d. The Pint comes to seventeen or eighteen pence The Ounce comes to five farthings or a little less The Apothecaries Prices By the pint three shillings six pence and some four shillings By the ounce three pence and some four pence The Description of Cinnamon-Water according to the Dispensatory TAke a quarter of a Pound of Cinnamon steep it four and twenty hours in three Quarts of Brandy then distil it in ashes in a glass Alembick which renders a purer Water by much than a copper Still The manner of Preparation Observe You are to bruise the Cinnamon gross and into every Pint of the distilled Water you must dissolve two Ounces of the best white Sugar Here is a great deal of hot burning Brandy to a little Cinnamon wherefore you will do better in preparing it thus Take three quarters of a pound of Cinnamon bruised steep it eight and forty hours in a quart of Rose-Water and a pint of Whitewine then distil it as long as it drops milkie in a glass Alembick in Balneo that is in Water poured into your Sand-pan instead of Sand or Ashes but if your Pan be not large enough to contain a sufficient quantity of Water you may make use of Saw-dust instead of the Water and keep a very moderate fire in the Furnace What this Water will stand you in you may easily compute your self The Description of Aqua Raphani composita or the common compound Water against the Scurvey TAke of Garden and Sea-Scurvey-grass leaves of each three pound press the juice out of them and thereunto mix of the juices of Water-cresses and Brooklime three quarters of a pint the best White-wine two quarts Limons cut into small slices six in number Briony roots newly taken out of the ground two pound Hors-radishes one pound Winters bark a quarter of a pound Nutmegs two ounces steep them three days and distil them in Ashes in a glass Alembick or copper Still with a Bucket Head The manner of Preparation The Briony and Horse-radish Roots must be bruised together in a stone Mortar the Winters bark and the Nutmegs are to be beaten to a gross powder in a brass Mortar The juices are to be pressed out of the said Herbs in the same manner as was told you in the preparation of Treacle-water Put the Ing●●dients into a glass Receiver and pour the Juices on them stop the Glass very close with a Cork and a Bladder and place it in a cool Cellar for two or three days Observe 1. If you should let those Ingredients stand in steep in hot Ashes Sand or warm Water that would certainly diminish the vertue of those light flying Salts and Spirits 2. The juice of Limons mortifying the said light flying Salts and Spirits may be more conveniently left out than added 3. When this Water hath been kept a month or two though never so close stopt you may be certain it hath lost very much of its vertue 4. This Water being distilled as exactly as may be yet is not half so effectual as some Spirits which are published in my last Treatise of the Scurvie The Prices Upon the valuation of the Herbs Roots and Bark according to the Rates I have already informed you before you shall finde that this Water may be prepared at six or eight pence the pint and at a half penny the ounce The Apothecaries commonly sell this Water at three shillings six pence the Pint and three pence the Ounce The Description of Aqua Brioniae composita or the London Water against Fits of the Mother TAke of the Iuice of Briony-roots one pint of the leaves of Rue and Mugwort of each half a pound Savin dryed a little less than a handful Fetherfew Nip Penny-royal Basil of each half a handful of the outside of fresh Orange-peel one ounce Myrrhe half an ounce Castor a quarter of an ounce Canary-wine three pints steep them four days in a Glass well stopt and then distil them off in a glass Alembick in Balneo or warm water The manner of Preparation The dryed Herbs which are the Savin and Penny-royal may be beaten together to a gross powder The other Herbs which must be green and fresh are to be shred small or beaten to mash in a wooden or stone Mortar The Myrrhe must be poudered by it self and the Castor cut into small thin slices mix all these

THE Family-Physician AND THE House-Apothecary CONTAINING I. Medicines against all such Diseases people usually advise with Apothecaries to be cured of II. Instructions whereby to prepare at your own Houses all kinds of necessary Medicines that are prepared by Apothecaries or prescribed by Physicians III. The exact Prices of all Drugs Herbs Seeds simple and compound Medicines as they are sold at the Druggists or may be sold by the Apothecaries IV. That it 's plainly made to appear that in preparing Medicines thus at your own Houses that it 's not onely a far safer way but you shall also save Nineteen Shillings in Twenty comparing it with the extravagant Rates of many Apothecaries By GIDEON HARVEY M. D. Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty The Second Edition Revised by the Author Printed for M. R. and are to be sold by the Booksellers of London 1678. Imprimatur May 6. 1676. G. Iane. THE INTRODUCTION Containing the use of this TREATISE AS Diseases and Death are marks of the Divine Justice in the punishment of Sin So the Art of Physick must be acknowledged a derivative from the transcendent Mercy of the Great God whereby the crazie and sickly constitutions of humane Bodies are supported their pains appeased and Health restored These as well as his other Attributes render the Almighty most glorious The Observation deduced from what precedes informs us That those that usurp and exercise the Art of Physick abusively and unworthily do extremely Eclipse Gods glory by so diminishing of his Mercy and of this so weighty a Sin it is to be feared many Empiricks and Little Apothecaries inhabiting the skirts of the City and Country Villages do contract a guilt not only by administring Physick ignorantly and without those qualifications that are absolutely necessary in a Physician but by over-rating the prices of their Medicines to that degree that mean Families by a fit of sicknes or two must unavoidably be ruined in Estate and too oft in their Health I must tell you I have oft seen Bills of Apothecaries risen to twenty sometimes thirty pounds in the time of a Fortnight what is more I have known an Apothecaries Bill so extravagant that the Sum at the bottom of his Account amounted to Fifty Pounds in the space of Thirty Days when the Ingredients of the whole Course could not be computed to stand him in Forty Shillings But that which sounds worse than all this is that not long since an Apothecary of our Suburbs to Nine Patients brought in Bills for less than three quarters of a years Physick amounting to Fifteen Hundred Pounds Though at the same time I must intimate to you that this is not the practice of our London-Apothecaries who not only for discharging their Consciences in the faithful Preparation of their Medicines but also for vending them at reasonable Rates may vie with any others of that Trade in all Europe and therefore you are not to suppose me here embarqued in a designe of discouraging you to make use of these later who are so necessary in the Art of Physick but only of discharging my Duty to such as are exposed to be defrauded by some Little Apothecaries of the Country and skirts of the City not onely through their ill preparation of Medicines but also through their unjust and avaricious Prices So that I do pretend hereby First to instruct you how to prepare the most usual and ordinary Medicines at your own Houses which cannot but be a great satisfaction to you in regard you are certain they are well prepared and that the Ingredients are Sound and Fresh Likewise that you can have your Medicines ready without attending the Apothecaries leasure for him to bring them or without giving your self the trouble to send three or four times to his Shop for them Secondly you may be assured that in so doing you shall save Nine Pounds in Ten or sometimes Forty Eight Pounds in Fifty Thirdly by this means you avoid being defrauded of your Lives and Estates too by Mountebanks and their Medicines which being so indifferently and rashly used by many credulous Persons at all times and seasons without that particular regard had to their Constitution Age Sex Climate and Cause of Disease must necessarily if not kill at least destroy the Temperament of their Bowels and noble Parts Before I proceed any further I am obliged to demonstrate and make it appear in what manner and wherein this Treatise doth discharge what is here promised First then I have pick'd out such Medicines of the London-Dispensatory as are most usual which being reduced to a small number may without any great defray of charges be kept ready at your Houses I have only made choice of three or four fragrant Waters that are to serve for Cordial Juleps which in respect of Temperament may be mixt and qualified for use in hot or cold Distempers What concerns the vast number of other simple distilled Waters I do wittingly reject them as being so little imbued with the vertue of the Simples whence they are distilled that Decoctions or sometimes Infusions or Expressions of Juices made of the same Simples or Spirits distilled from them are experienced to be a million stronger which as your Disease may require are to be prescribed and taught you by your Family-Physician Likewise compound Waters Syrups Electuaries Pills Trochisces or Lozenges Emplasters Unguents and Oyls you have onely so many recommended to you as may serve for most uses the others of the Dispensatory are omitted either because they agree in Vertue with those that are inserted or are not so congruously compounded or are rarely used or are dangerous or useless or if occasion doth require may be prescribed by your Physician Secondly I have taught you here the best manner of distilling Simple and Compound Waters of preparing Syrups Pills Electuaries c. what Ingredients are to be put in first which afterwards how some particular Medicines are to be reduced into Powders and how at last the whole Composition is to be artificially mixt Thirdly I have calculated what each Medicine will stand you in set down exactly the prices of Herbs and other Simples that are to be bought of the Herb-women the prices current of Drugs and Physical Seeds that are to be bought of the Druggists and of Spices and dry Fruits that are vended by the Grocers all which being Alphabetically placed in the latter part of this Treatise you may at any time have recourse unto whereby you likewise avoid being imposed upon by the said Herb-women and Druggists and by the same means you may easily compute what every Composition in the Dispensatory may amount unto giving some small allowance for garbles and waste that may happen by the powdering and sifting the Ingredients or by evaporating over the Fire or sticking to the Pan Pipkin or other Utensil you make use of in preparing some Compositions Fourthly If want of conveniency or any other occasion should perswade you from the preparing of the hereafter-mentioned

such are Comfrey Knot-grass Ladies-Mantle and such like as you may read in Chap. 20. of my Treatise of Consumptions 3. By moistening and restoring the solid and other parts that are consumed and dried up by the absorbing heat of an Hectick Fever This Effect is expected from Asses Milk which they say doth cleanse cool moisten and nourish the consumed parts 4. By Fontanels or Issues shaving off the Hair of the Head and applying Attractive Plaisters on it likewise by cramming the Patient with Conserve and Sugar of Roses all which shall serve to intercept the defluxion of corroding Humours falling down from the Brain to the Lungs Now when all these means have been used a very considerable time look upon the Weekly Bills of Mortality and you shall soon know the pretended effects of those ordinary Medicines In the first place I must agree that some of those Indications are well enough proposed and the Indicata in respect of the Materia Medica there set down do sometimes though seldom accomplish a happy Cure But in the second place I must also tell you that there is another sort of a Materia Medica being artificially prepared and not according to the Rules of the slovenish Cookery of Country-Apothecaries that doth very oft and always if timely and methodically applied answer the expectation of the Physician and the hopes of the Sick not only in Pulmonick Consumptions but also in those other Diseases before recited Touching those great Medicines it is very fortunate they are not yet arrived to the knowledge of the little Apothecaries or the prescribing Surgeons who using them without Method though sometimes they might do good yet for want of capacity in the Applicative would certainly at most times do great mischiefs with them and therefore every Physician ought to reserve them secret by preparing them himself and when necessary to be used to send them to the Apothecary to be exhibited or to give them to his Patients with what Directions are requisite In conclusion though the practice by the said great Medicines is by me here proposed as necessary yet I am not to be understood by that to exclude the use of Apothecaries or the Medicines of the Dispensatory that are to be prepared by them for most schetical and moveable or slight commencing Diseases those ordinary Medicines are experienced so capable to remove that to make use of great Medicines in those cases would seem as if you laid hold of a Club to knock down a Louse The second necessary use of the said ordinary Medicines is either to serve the great Medicines for Vehicles or to be substituted in their stead when some circumstances may countermand their use so long until occasion or opportunity shall require the aid of the said great Medicines and the forementioned circumstances be abated Now Reader if I finde this Essay doth receive that acceptance from you which its real Use and consequently the certain Advantage that you will acquire thence doth merit you may expect a further pursuit of this so profitable design that tends to no other end than the Preservation of your Health and Purse Farewel Hatton-Garden March 10. 1675. Pre-Instructions touching Weights Measures WEIGHTS A Physical Pound which is Troy-weight contains onely twelve Ounces The Druggist and Grocers Pound being Aver-de-poiz-weight contains sixteen Ounces An Ounce contains eight Drams A Dram contains three Scruples A Scruple contains twenty Grains MEASURES A Pint measure in most watery Liquors weighs twelve Ounces Two Quarts make a Pottle two Pottles make a Gallon A Fascicle signifies an Armful One Handful is as much as a moderate hand can take up A Pugil is as much as you can take up with your Thumb and two next Fingers Observe That Roots Barks Woods small Fruits Berries Seeds Gums and Rosins are set down by weight Herbs by handfuls and fascicles Flowers and the tops of some Herbs by pugils THE Family-Physician AND THE House-Apothecary CHAP. I. Of the most useful Simple distilled Waters and the manner how to distil them AMong the vast number of distilled simple Waters none are more useful than those four mentioned below which may serve to answer that intention which the best of simple Waters are used for viz. for Cordial Juleps and Cordial Potions What concerns alterative Waters they contain so weak a vertue as I said afore in the Introduction that Decoctions Infusions and Juices made or Spirits drawn from the same alterative Simples are infinitely more effectual and therefore when occasion doth require the use of them may be prescribed and easily taught you how to prepare them by your Family-Physician The Four Simple Waters are 1. Baume Water 2. Black-Cherry Water 3. Carduus Benedictus Water 4. Red Poppey Water that is Water distilled of red Poppey flowers The Herbs namely Baume and Carduus Benedictus are to be bought in Newgate-Market Stocks-Market Gutter-lane or Covent-Garden of the Physical Herb-women by the Basket the Red Poppey Flowers by the Peck Violet Flowers and some others are sold by the pint or quart measure Scurvey-grass is sold by the Basket also by the Bushel or Peck For most Herbs if you buy them by the handful you must pay a Groat a dozen or if you have occasion for less than a dozen a half-penny the handful is the usual rate The value of twelve Pence in Herbs or Flowers will yield three Pints of Water or more in some Herbs it may yield two Quarts or five Pints or if you have not the convenience of distilling them you may buy them from the Apothecaries at a Shilling the Pint or if you are onely mindful to buy them when your occasions require you need pay but a Penny for the Ounce being the common price of almost all distilled Waters The common price of most English Roots among the Herb-women is a Groat for a Pound The manner of distilling the said Simple Waters Put as many of those Herbs being separated from the greater Stalks or Flowers pull'd from their Husks as will only fill two Thirds or at most three Fourth parts of the body of a Pewter Alembick or a Copper Alembick with a Bucket head without adding any Water to the Herbs which too many Apothecaries do and having closed the head to the body by pasting slips of Paper of the breadth of an Inch or a little more round about the juncture with Starch or Yest kindle your fire gradually and continue it to a heat so gentle that your hand may endure it on any part of the Head and so you will distill your Waters without smelling of being burned provided you have put ashes to the thickness of an Inch and half between the plate and the body or bottom of your Pewter Alembick If you make use of a Copper Alembick you must fill the bucket with cold Water and assoon as you finde the Water to be hot in the said bucket head you must tap it off and fill it up again with cold Water The reason