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einins the medicinal Virtues of thefe Drugs to con* 
lift in their Fragrancy ; and finding that a very final l 
Quantity in Subftance would communicate its Smell 
to a very large Vehicle; in their Prefcriptions 
therefore they have ufually order’d fo much only 
as was requifice to give the whole Compofition an 
agreeable Perfume. But the Cafe is widely dif- 
ferent; for as a very fmall Quantity of Musk, Civet, 
<&c. when properly open’d and diluted, will yield a 
much greater, as well as a more agreeable Fragrancy, 
than a large Parcel without fuch Preparation : So 
the Smell of the Perfume is often found to be of 
Diflervice, where the Subftance, inwardly taken, pro- 
duces the happieft Effefts ; as Rtmaller and others 
have obferved. 
Mod of the Writers on Pharmacy feem extremely 
cautious about the Ufe of Musk; and therefore di- 
red it only in exceeding fmall Quantities. In very 
few of their Compoiitions does the Dofe of it reach 
Vo high as a Grain ; and the higheft that I meet with 
is not above five Grains (a). But the Chinefe , who 
are much better acquainted with the Nature and Ufes 
* of 
( a) In Fuller s Julap. Mofchat. <&\ Mifnr. Mofchat. the Quantity 
for a Dofe is not half a Grain : In the Fill: Solenandri-<& Syncopates 
only two Grains. Bates , in all the Compoiitions where Musk enters, 
orders it only in the Quantify of half a Grain to a Dofe ; excepting 
only in the Julap. Hyfieric. Mofchat. He gives it to the Quantity of 
five Grains. In this Quantity Etmuller once orders it in the like 
Cafe. In the College, Auguftdn, and other Difpenfatorie?, the Quan- 
tity of Musk in the great Compoiitions, fuch as the Conf. Alkermes 
Fleet, de Sajfafras • Conf. de Hyacinth. Conf. liber ans ; Spec. lati- 
ficans j Diarrhodon Abbat.j Diambr. c.od. &c. is very trifling ; in 
very 
