

xxxviii. INTRODUCTION. 



fcssionj but the public good is of more consequence 



than their pleasure. 



Draughts arc only little juleps, with more pow- 

 crful ingredients added to them. An ounce and 

 half of a simple water, three drams of a strong 

 water, one dram of a syrup, and forty drops of 

 a tincture, make a draught ; but to these may be 

 added a simple of some power to increase the 

 virtue. What waters, tinctures, syrups, or pow- 

 ders shall be used will be determined from the 

 case itself. ^ 



Boluses are made with these powders in a cer- 

 tain dose. A scruple or half a dram, is made 

 into a sort of paste with syrup. The custom is 

 to cover it with a little leaf-gold, but this is 

 better let alone : some use leaf-brass, which is 

 abominable. " 



Electuaries arc to be made of powders, con- 

 serves, and syriipSj they diffea' from boluses in this, 

 as well as in the size, that the dose is smaller, al- 

 though the piece taken be as large ; which is ow- 

 ing to the conserve, that having in general little 

 virtue in comparison of the other ingredients. 

 This is the form most convenient for medicines 

 that are to be taken for a continuance of time, and 

 the dose of which needs not be so very punctually 

 regarded. 



Thus for an electuary against an habitual loose- 

 ncss,. when it exceeds the proper bounds ; mix 

 together an ounce of conserve of red roses, and 

 six drams of syrup of cloves, add to these two 

 drams of powdered bistort root, one dram of 

 powdered tormentill, and half a dram of toasted 

 rhubarb. This makes an electuary, a piece of 

 which, of ihe bigness of a nutmeg, taken once in 

 two days, will check the abundance of stools, with- 

 out stopping the customary looseness intirely: it 



