[Latin] Decoctum Acidum

[ [Latin] Decoctum Acidum ] 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
tamarind fruits
white sugar
water
seneka

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 7 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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             Decoctum Acidum  1The upper right corner of this page is folded in the online photographs, so letters or short words are unreadable at the end of lines 1-3. This recipe is abbreviated from a recipe for “Decoctum Acidum” in Formules de medicamens usitées dans les différens hopitaux de Paris. New Edition (Paris, 1783), 50, or a similar book.
Rx Fruct. Tamarindorum ℥iv:  ***
Fervid: li. viij: stent simul
per horas quatuor: coletur liquor
et adde sacc: alb. ℥iv:
usurpatur pro potu ordinaro.

X         Decoct. Album P. L.

            Decoctum Seneke
Rx Radicis Senekæ ℥i:
+ Aquæ _ _ _ _ _ _ lib. ij:
decocque ad libram unam et cola
Dosis ℥ij quarta quaqua Hora.

Translation

          An Acid Decoction
Recipe: 4 ounces of tamarind fruits: ***
8 pounds of hot [water]: let them stand together for four hours: strain the liquor and add 4 ounces of white sugar.
This can be used as an ordinary drink.

White Decoction. Pharmacopoeia Londinensis

Decoction of Seneka
Recipe: 1 ounce of seneka,
2 pounds of water:
Cook down to one pound and strain.
Dose: 2 ounces every four hours.

 

Translation by Winston Black