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It is said to occasion heat, thirst, a degree of delirium, and a peculiar sensation of the parts affected. Woodville's Med. Bot. p. 239. SECT. VIII. MEDICINAL PLANTS not contained in either of the BRITISH DISPENSATORIES.
It is amusing to think with what horror he would have seen such an institution as Solomon's House rising in his republic: with what vehemence he would have ordered the brew-houses, the perfume-houses, and the dispensatories to be pulled down and with what inexorable rigour he would have driven beyond the frontier all the Fellows of the College, Merchants of Light and Depredators, Lamps and Pioneers.
With all these, there appears no more serious difficulty to encounter than that involved in altered editions of their usual dispensatories, or books of reference' an amount of trouble and expense, we should say, not greater, certainly, in proportion to the position of the parties concerned, than that which was forced on the poor chandlers and milkwomen by the act of 1826.
In the experimental sciences, they originated chemistry; they discovered some of its most important reagents sulphuric acid, nitric acid, alcohol. They applied that science in the practice of medicine, being the first to publish pharmacopoeias or dispensatories, and to include in them mineral preparations.
He tried the tortoise soup, which he said in a fortnight stuffed him up with phlegm. This gentleman has got a smattering of physic, and I am afraid tampers with his own constitution, by means of Brookes's Practice of Physic, and some dispensatories, which he is continually poring over. I beg pardon for this tedious epistle, and am Very sincerely, dear Sir, Your affectionate, humble servant.
Nor is Cotton Mather's favorite and much-vaunted ingredient millepedes, or sowbugs, once mentioned within. All are not vile in my Queen's Closet far from it. Many other dispensatories, guides, collections, and records of medical customs and concoctions, remain to us even of the earliest days.
We have some meats also and breads and drinks, which taken by men enable them to fast long after; and some other, that used make the very flesh of men's bodies sensibly' more hard and tough and their strength far greater than otherwise it would be. "We have dispensatories, or shops of medicines. We have them likewise of divers ages, and long fermentations.
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