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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

pulp 5. The manner of preparing Sugar of Violets Take two ounces of the juice of Violets and as much Violet-water therein dissolve one pound of white Sugar Boil them in a Preserving-pan over a Chafing-dish of Charcoal until they come to a just thickness which you shall know by these several trials 1. By dropping a drop off the point of a Knife or steel Slice on a Plate and let it grow cold if it prove hard enough so that you may take it off the Plate without sticking it is boil'd enough 2. By taking some of it on the point of a knife and let it drop into the Pan again which if it be enough it will drop a top of the surface and continue raised on it like a knob 3. By letting a little cool on the point of a knife and then see whether it be hard enough Lastly observe while the Violet-juice Water and Sugar are boiling you must oft stir it with a steel Slice or long-handled spoon or knife to prevent it from burning at the bottom The manner of preparing Sugar of Roses Because of the Affinity of this Preparation with the foregoing and that a little father information will serve I thought fit to set down the manner of preparing Sugar of Roses Dissolve a pound of the best white Sugar being powdered and sifted into four ounces of red Rose-water or into two ounces of red Rose-water and as much of the juice of red Roses boil it to a just body mixing it with one ounce of red Rose-leaves dried in the Sun and powdered a little before it be ready to be taken off from the fire How to make the foresaid Sugar of Roses or Violets into Lozenges When your Sugar of Roses or Violets is taken off from the Fire and hath stood a little for to cool put it on a clean smooth Marble-stone whereon you must have dusted a little fine Flour by tying it up in a fine rag and then beating the said rag all over the stone this being done to prevent the sticking of the Lozenges to the Stone afterwards take a small Rolling-pin such as is used for Paste and dust it likewise over with fine Flour with this Rolling-pin smooth the top of the Sugar being almost grown cold then with a Knife cut it into Lozenges of such shape and bigness you fancie best The Prices of Electuary Lenitive The Ingredients of the Decoct 18 d. The white Sugar and Sugar of Violets for the Syrup 18 d. The Pulps 3 s. 2 d. The Sena and Anniseeds 8 d. The whole 6 s. 10 d. For which you shall have five pounds and somewhat more of Electuary Lenitive so that it will not stand you in above sixteen pence farthing the pound and the ounce will come but to one penny The Apothecaries prices The pound four shillings The ounce four pence CHAP. IX Of Pills The Description of Pilulae Rudii or Extractum Catholicon TAke of the pulp of Colocynth six drams Agarick black Hellebore-root Scammony Turbith of each half an ounce Aloës Succotrine one ounce of the powder of Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce All these excepting the powder or Species of Diarrhodon Abbatis must be beaten into a gross powder and put into a digesting-Glass viz. a glass Body and blinde Head or into a bolt Head with a wide neck pouring upon them as much Brandy as will cover them and eight fingers breadth higher so let them stand in the Sun to steep for eight days Afterwards in the same manner infuse the powder of Diarrhodon Abbatis in Brandy for four days then strain and press the Liquor or Tincture hard from both the Infusions and mix them pouring them into a glass Body covered with a glass Head and distill off as much of the moisture until the remainder in the bottom of the glass Body come to the thickness of Honey whereof make a mass of Pills and put it up into a stone Pill-pot Exceptions against this Prescription 1. Whoever caused this description to be inserted into the Dispensatory discovered himself very much unexperienced in Chymical Pharmacy by directing the Aloës and Scammony to be infused with the other Ingredients for the Aloës and Scammony immediately saturating or clogging the body of the Brandy hinder its Spirits in attracting the virtue out of the other purgative Ingredients there being not a third part of their virtue extracted 2. The Powder of Diarrhodon Abbatis is not only troublesome but chargeable to be prepared and when it is prepared signifies no more to the correcting of those strong Purgatives than water to the washing a Blackmore white Wherefore instead of this Fobcorrective rather adde to those Purgatives one dram of Cinnamon Clove-bark two scruples both reduced to a gross powder and put in with the other Ingredients The volatile Salts and Spirits of those Spices being united with the Spirits of the Brandy do not only render them more potent to extract the virtue of the other Simples but also qualifie them through their subtile particles to maturate and digest the gross impure Sulphurs of those violent Purgatives whereby they become more milde and less offensive to Nature and heightned in their virtues The true manner of preparing the foresaid Pilulae Rudii 1. BReak the Colocynth-Apples and take out the white soft Marrow flinging away the grains or kernels Then put the said Marrow into your brass Mortar dropping into it a few drops of Oyl of sweet Almonds or of sweet Salade-oyl and beat it to powder 2. The Agarick will not be beaten into powder but must be grated on a Tin Grater 3. The black Hellebore and Turbith may be beaten together into a powder 4. Put all these Ingredients together with the Spices beaten to a gross powder into a digesting-Glass and then pour the Brandy upon them having dissolved into it one dram and a half of Salt of Tartar When the Liquor is sufficiently tinctured strain it and press it hard out into a low glass Body to which you are then to adde the best Scammony and Succotrine Aloës which needs no other purification each by it self grosly powdered and sifted from the stalks and other heterogeneous bodies that are usually incorporated with them After this distil off the moisture until it comes to the thickness of Honey Twenty grains of this Preparation is more safe and yet not less effectual than fourty grains of the other The Prices The Colocynth 5 d. or 6 d. Agarick 3 d. Black Hellebore ½ d. Scammony 5 d. Turbith 3 d. Aloës Suc. 6 d. Spec. Diarrhodon Abbatis 6 d. Bourdeaux Brandy 15 d. Charcoal 4 d. The whole 3 s. 11 d. ½ d. For which you shall have about two ounces of Pil. Rudii The ounce comes to one shilling eleven pence three farthings The dram comes to three pence The Apothecaries prices The ounce at four shillings The dram at six pence The Description of the Mass of Pills of Hiera with Agarick TAke of the powder of Hiera Picra the preparation whereof hath

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