Post by anon on Feb 12, 2007 15:55:37 GMT -5
Ok, I've been working on this for some time. One of the historical buildings is an apothecary, although the building is restored, the insides were taken from a historical contemporary one in England, complete with many drawers with latin words for common drugs used then. The two books used by the staff at the apothecary is from "the New Dispensary" written in 1753, and another book "Complete English Dispensatory" written in 1724. Yes, I know it isn't the correct time period, but I'm of a mind that what was compiled in the book is not new info. Some of the info would have been around and known by physicians many years earlier than when it was published. No new discoveries were made between 1660 and 1750 as far as trade routes or lands, as far as I can remember. If anything else, it gives y'all a good starting point to google and go from there. Besides, this would be great for all the writers of Siroc, Enchantresses and Druids who would be familiar with this type of knowledge.
*Warning, many of the spellings and word choices are 18th century in nature.
Sasparilla Root - Use as a sudorific where more acrid medicines are improper
Jalap Root (from New Spain) - Safe puragtive seldom occasioning nausea or gripes in cold phlegmatic habits
Red Rose Flowers - mild gratefully astringent quality especially before flower has opened {think of Rose hips as a great source of Vit C}
White Precipate of Mercury (HgCl) - used as escharotic because of its corrosive qualities
Rhubarb Root (from China) - Mild cathartic safe for kids and pregnant women...celebrated for astringent quality by which it strengthens tone of stomach and intestines and useful in diarrherea and disorders proceeding from a laxity of fibres
Lavender - recomended in vertigo, palsies, tremors, suppresion of menstrul evacuations and in all disorders of head, nerves and uterus proceeding from weakness of solids and lentor or sluggishness.
Sulphur - Loosens belly and promotes perspiration...rememdy against cutaneous diseases both internally and externally applied. Recommended in coughs, asthmas and disorders of lungs. Also a pest repillent.
Litharge - (Lead oxide) dissolved in oils externally applied anti-inflamatory and degiccative especially with veggitable oils; prove powerful and dangerous stypic taken internally.
Fenugreek Seeds - (euro) use in cataplasms, fomentations, etc and in emmollient glysters
Glinger Root from China and East and West Indies - very useful spice, in cold flatulent colics and in laxity and debility of intestines.
Gum Tragaranth - forming troches, treat coughs
Spermaceti or whale oil - mild emollient; considerable use in pains and erosions of intestines, in coughs from the sharp defluxion and in general where solids require to be relaxed. With addition of almond oil it help keeps pox marks soft (think of vitamin E creams)
Scammony from turkey - juice from roots - efficacious and strong purgative
Ipecac Root - from Spanish west indies - mildest and surest emetics...in dysenteries it almost always produces happy effects and cures in short space of time.
Melilot Flowers - Decoction...recommended in inflamations of abdomen...mostly in emollient and carminative glysters
Gentian Root from Germany - Is a strong bitter
Sweet Fennel Seeds - ranked amoung four greater hot seeds; and not underservedly looked on as a good stomachics and carminatives; often cultivated in gardens.
Green Vitriol - (iron sulfate) For use in cochectic and chlorotic cases for exciting the uterus and strengthening the tone of viscera and destroying worms.
Beeswax - Medical use in cerates, plasters, unguents and as emolient for promoting supporation.
Wild Valorian Root - use in nervious disorders and is particularly servicable in epilepsies proceeding from debility of the nervous system.
Nutmegs - astringent virtue for diarrheas and dysenteries.
Red Lead - Lead Tetraoxide - External applications for abating inflammations, cleansing and healing ulcers.
White Vitriol - Zinc Sulphate - As Emetic, very quickly; externally as ophthalmic and as basis for collyrin.
Antimony - Employed in collyria against inflamations of eyes and staining eye brows black. Internal use in the preperations of it c are medicines of great efficacy, and that though many of them are violently emetic and cathartic, yet even by a slight alteration of addition lose their virulence and become mild in operation. Panacea of Antimony includes antimony, nitre, salt and charcoal and is a celebrated purge.
Gum Arabic or Acacia Gum - from Egypt- Mild Astringent...exhibit it in the spitting of blood...employ it in collyria for strengthening the eyes and gargarisms for quinseys. Among us little use than as ingrediant in mithridate and theriac, rarely in apothecary shops.
Chamomile Flowers - stimulating, carminative, aperient, emollient and enodyne...recommended in flatulent colics, promoting uterine contractions in spasmodic pain and in pains of childbed women. Occasionaly in scrophulous cases, intermittent fevers and the nephritis.
Magnesia Alba Excellent purgative...as an alterant in hypochondriacal and other disorders.
Verdegris - Copper Acetate - Applied externally, proves gentle escharotic and serves to take down fungus flesh arising in wounds.
Cerusse - Lead Carbonate - Prove externally when sprinkled on running sores or ulcers, moderatly cooling, drying and astrictive.
Manna - Juice of certain ash trees, is a mild agreeable laxative and may be given with safety to kids and pregnant wommen.
Senna Leaf - Useful cathartic, operating mildly, yet effectually...only inconveniencess is apt to gripe and nauseus flavor.
*more to come later.
*Warning, many of the spellings and word choices are 18th century in nature.
Sasparilla Root - Use as a sudorific where more acrid medicines are improper
Jalap Root (from New Spain) - Safe puragtive seldom occasioning nausea or gripes in cold phlegmatic habits
Red Rose Flowers - mild gratefully astringent quality especially before flower has opened {think of Rose hips as a great source of Vit C}
White Precipate of Mercury (HgCl) - used as escharotic because of its corrosive qualities
Rhubarb Root (from China) - Mild cathartic safe for kids and pregnant women...celebrated for astringent quality by which it strengthens tone of stomach and intestines and useful in diarrherea and disorders proceeding from a laxity of fibres
Lavender - recomended in vertigo, palsies, tremors, suppresion of menstrul evacuations and in all disorders of head, nerves and uterus proceeding from weakness of solids and lentor or sluggishness.
Sulphur - Loosens belly and promotes perspiration...rememdy against cutaneous diseases both internally and externally applied. Recommended in coughs, asthmas and disorders of lungs. Also a pest repillent.
Litharge - (Lead oxide) dissolved in oils externally applied anti-inflamatory and degiccative especially with veggitable oils; prove powerful and dangerous stypic taken internally.
Fenugreek Seeds - (euro) use in cataplasms, fomentations, etc and in emmollient glysters
Glinger Root from China and East and West Indies - very useful spice, in cold flatulent colics and in laxity and debility of intestines.
Gum Tragaranth - forming troches, treat coughs
Spermaceti or whale oil - mild emollient; considerable use in pains and erosions of intestines, in coughs from the sharp defluxion and in general where solids require to be relaxed. With addition of almond oil it help keeps pox marks soft (think of vitamin E creams)
Scammony from turkey - juice from roots - efficacious and strong purgative
Ipecac Root - from Spanish west indies - mildest and surest emetics...in dysenteries it almost always produces happy effects and cures in short space of time.
Melilot Flowers - Decoction...recommended in inflamations of abdomen...mostly in emollient and carminative glysters
Gentian Root from Germany - Is a strong bitter
Sweet Fennel Seeds - ranked amoung four greater hot seeds; and not underservedly looked on as a good stomachics and carminatives; often cultivated in gardens.
Green Vitriol - (iron sulfate) For use in cochectic and chlorotic cases for exciting the uterus and strengthening the tone of viscera and destroying worms.
Beeswax - Medical use in cerates, plasters, unguents and as emolient for promoting supporation.
Wild Valorian Root - use in nervious disorders and is particularly servicable in epilepsies proceeding from debility of the nervous system.
Nutmegs - astringent virtue for diarrheas and dysenteries.
Red Lead - Lead Tetraoxide - External applications for abating inflammations, cleansing and healing ulcers.
White Vitriol - Zinc Sulphate - As Emetic, very quickly; externally as ophthalmic and as basis for collyrin.
Antimony - Employed in collyria against inflamations of eyes and staining eye brows black. Internal use in the preperations of it c are medicines of great efficacy, and that though many of them are violently emetic and cathartic, yet even by a slight alteration of addition lose their virulence and become mild in operation. Panacea of Antimony includes antimony, nitre, salt and charcoal and is a celebrated purge.
Gum Arabic or Acacia Gum - from Egypt- Mild Astringent...exhibit it in the spitting of blood...employ it in collyria for strengthening the eyes and gargarisms for quinseys. Among us little use than as ingrediant in mithridate and theriac, rarely in apothecary shops.
Chamomile Flowers - stimulating, carminative, aperient, emollient and enodyne...recommended in flatulent colics, promoting uterine contractions in spasmodic pain and in pains of childbed women. Occasionaly in scrophulous cases, intermittent fevers and the nephritis.
Magnesia Alba Excellent purgative...as an alterant in hypochondriacal and other disorders.
Verdegris - Copper Acetate - Applied externally, proves gentle escharotic and serves to take down fungus flesh arising in wounds.
Cerusse - Lead Carbonate - Prove externally when sprinkled on running sores or ulcers, moderatly cooling, drying and astrictive.
Manna - Juice of certain ash trees, is a mild agreeable laxative and may be given with safety to kids and pregnant wommen.
Senna Leaf - Useful cathartic, operating mildly, yet effectually...only inconveniencess is apt to gripe and nauseus flavor.
*more to come later.
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