[Latin] Electaria

[ [Latin] Electaria ] William Paine

Contributors
Contributor Role
Compiler
Contributor Name
William Paine

Date: This recipe is from a notebook dated 1782. | 1782/01/01 to 1782/12/31

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Medicine

Ingredients
Lenitive electuary
powdered jalap root
sal vitri
ginger syrup
rosehip conserves
powdered ginger root
powdered gentian root
sal martis
scammony
cream of tartar
ginger

Source: William Paine Papers
Institution: University Of New Brunswick | Source Origin: Loyalist Collection | Reference: MIC-Loyalist FC LFR.P3W5P3

Description

These recipes are on page 9 in what is catalogued as a medical tract, a pharmacopoeia in Latin, dated 1782. Reel 1. Image courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. 


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Transcription

          Electaria
X Elect: Lenitiv: P: Lond:

            Elect: Lenitiv: compositum.
Rx Elect: Lenitiv li. i. Pulv: Rad: Jalap ℥i.
X Sal Vitri. ℥ij: Surup [sic] zingib. q[uantum] s[ufficit]
Dosis a Drach ʒi: ad Drach ʒiv: pro re
nata.

            Elect: stomachicum.
Rx Conserv: Cynosbat: ℥iv: Pulv: Rad:
Zingib: ʒij: Pulv: Rad: Gent: ʒiij:
Sal Martis ℈ij: Symp: \an/ q[uantum] s[ufficit] Dosis
a scrup: i bis terue die ad semidrachmam
4tis horis_____

            Electarium e Scammonio.
Rx Elect Lenitiv li. ss: Scammonii ʒiij: Crema: Tartaris ℥j: Zingiberis ℥ss: Syr Zingib. q[uantum] s[ufficit]
Dosis a Drachma ad Drachmas duas____

Translation

            Electuaries
Lenitive Electuary. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis

            Composite of Lenitive Electuary
Recipe: 1 pound of Lenitive electuary, 1 ounce of powdered jalap root, 2 ounces of sal vitri [anatron], as much as ginger syrup as needed.
Dose: from 1 dram to 4 drams according to need.

            Stomach Electuary
Recipe: 4 ounces of rosehip conserves, 2 drams of powdered ginger root, 3 drams of powdered root of gentian, 2 scruples of sal martis,  1ferrous sulphate as much [Symp an ??] as needed.
Dose: from 1 scruple twice or three times a day up to a half dram every four hours.

            Electuary of Scammony
Recipe: ½ pound of Lenitive electuary, 3 drams of scammony, 1 ounce of cream of tartar, ½ ounce of ginger, as much ginger syrup as needed.
Dose: from a dram to two drams.

  Translation and transcription by Winston Black