They are usually exhibited in a little honey, sugar, or milk, either taken from a spoon or made into an electuary or bolus, and swallowed in the semi-solid form.
The treatment of piles consists in the administration of mild aperients, as castor oil, or an electuary of sulphur and cream of tartar.
Powdered foxglove and squills, of each 1 part; aromatic electuary (Ph.
The electuary of coffee was to be taken by the patient before and after using the instrument, which the "judge" called his Provang.
A little consideration will convince any one that the electuary was most likely to achieve the purpose for which it was recommended.
Witness "Judge" Walter Rumsey's Electuary of Cophy, which appeared in 1657 in connection with a curious work of his called Organon Salutis: an instrument to cleanse the stomach.
Take two drachms of trochisks of agaric, infuse this in two ounces of oxymel in which dissolve one scruple and a half of electuary dissarum, and half an ounce of benedic laxit.
If there be repletion besides the rigidity of the liver, purging by means of an emetic is to be recommended, for which take three drachms of the electuary diasatu.
This, like Diascordium and Mithridate, was one of the complex electuary medicines of the Middle Ages.
It was a compound electuary containing no less than 19 ingredients.
When the electuaryhad been prepared, the girls became silent.
I will give you an electuary to drive away the panic;" and he produced a small jar, and handed it to the porter.
On the 16th her Water was thick and turbid, and deposited a brown Sediment; and the Difficulty in making Water still remained; instead of the lenitive Electuary she was ordered the Rhubarb oily Draught to be taken every Night.
She was immediately blooded, took the oily Draughts three Times a-Day, the decoctum furfuris for common Drink, and so much lenitive Electuary as procured her a Stool next Day.
For relief of the cough give electuary formula, which will be found in the treatment of laryngitis.
An uncertain number, which looks to have been about seven in Cockburn's own account, but became seventy in the pamphlet which advertised the electuary after his death, were available for the trial and were speedily cured.
You may mix half a dram of it to take at one time, or less if you please, in any cordial Syrup, or cordial electuary appropriated to the same uses.
Electuary of Roses, Conserve, both moist and dry, which is more usually called Sugar of roses, Syrup of dry Roses, and Honey of Roses.
The pulp of the middle ribs of Coleworts boiled in almond milk, and made up into an electuary with honey, being taken often, is very profitable for those that are puffy and short winded.
Authors say it purges hot rheums, and takes away inflammations in wounds, I assure you the electuary works violently, and may safely be given in clysters, and so you may give two or three drams at a time, if the patient be strong.
The child took the electuary eagerly, for it was pleasant to the taste, and it did him good more than if it had been bitter.
So saying he laid in the hand of Angelo a box of olive-wood, filled with an electuary so sweet that the fragrance of it went through the wood.
The electuary of roses, which is now no longer used, was also probably indebted for its medical qualities to the addition of scammony, a very strong purgative.
Now there was in the bazar a man who was Deputy Syndic of the brokers and was given to the use of opium and electuary and green hashish.
Take of my electuary with a spoon after supping, and wash it down with a sherbet made of rose conserve; but first sup off mutton and house pigeon plentifully seasoned and hotly spiced.
As a dentifrice, he recommends a mixture of two parts of honey to one of the best sugar; or the ashes of the burnt head of a hare; or burnt salt made into an electuary by the addition of honey.
Catholicon, is little used, or made here, the lenitive Electuary of our Dispensatory may be substituted for it, or that of the Edinburgh Dispensatory, which was calculated particularly for Glysters.
Add to them a sufficient Quantity of Honey to make an Electuary of a good Consistence.
To make the stomach more apt to vomit, and to prepare the humours thereunto before you eat and drink, Take the bigness of a Nutmeg or more of the said Electuary of Cophie, &c.
A very little consideration may convince one that this electuary was likely to effect the purpose for which it was recommended.
Make the evening-meal of mutton and house-pigeon, plentifully seasoned and spiced; then take of this electuary with a spoon and wash it down with a draught of boiled date-wine.
So the merchant bought mutton and pigeons and sent them to his wife, bidding her dress them well and lay up the electuary till he should call for it.
Three doses of this excellent electuary have cured hundreds of persons, and seldom been known to fail.
If accompanied with fever, take the bark in electuary three or four times a day, the size of a nutmeg, and persevere in it two or three weeks if necessary.
This evening Mr. Hollyard sends me an electuary to take (a walnut quantity of it) going to bed, which I did.
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