[Latin] Elixir

[ [Latin] Elixir ] 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
Castoreum
Gum of asafoetida
Opium
Salt of hartshorn
Spirit of rectified wine

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 11 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

            Elixir.
Elix. Aloes, PL
Elix. Paregoric. PL
Elix Vitrioli acid. PL
Elix Guajacinum P:L:

            Elix: Foetidum __ S__
Rx 1The same recipe for Elixir Foetidum, without the comment about opium or the unidentified word after Castoreum, is found in Pharmacopoea Svecica, Third Edition (1784), 70, https://books.google.ca/books?id=CaZdAAAAcAAJ&pg. Other words that appear after genitive Cast[orei] are recentis or pulveris, neither of which appear indicated here. Cast. Riss [?] ℥ss. G. Assa Fetid’ ʒiij: Opii ʒss. Salis Corn: Cervi: ʒi: Sp’
Vin: Rect: ℥iv. digere per quatriduum
et per linteum cola  ________

Elixir Foetidum in scrupulis tribus et
dimidio continet Opii granum unum

Translation
           Elixir
Aloes Elixir, Pharmacopoeia Londinensis
Paregoric Elixir, Pharmacopoeia Londinensis
Elixir of Vitriolic Acid, Pharmacopoeia Londinensis
Elixir of Guaiacum, Pharmacopoeia Londinensis

            Stinking Elixir
Recipe: Castoreum [Riss?],  ½ ounce. Gum of asafoetida, 3 drams. Opium, ½ dram. Salt of hartshorn, 1 dram. Spirit of rectified wine, 4 ounces. Let sit for four days and strain through a cloth.

Stinking Elixir contains one grain of opium in 3½ teaspoons.

 

Translation and transcription by Winston Black