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muft be, which is fold for lefs, as Sweat, he will be dozed into Stag-

it is by thefe pretended Importers.They who have any fufpicion thatthis is an Injuftice upon thefe Ve-nice-Treacle Merchants, may be fä-tisfied at almoft any Printers, whoprint and keep by them fuch ItalianPire&ions, unlefs they can per-fuade themfelves, that an Apothe-cary at Venue, is forc'd to fend toLondon to have his Bills printed.

This one Remark more the pre-fent Practice will not fuffer us toomit; which is making this Medi-cine into an Electuary with Syrupusde Meconio inftead of Honey as was

nation, and fo have a Fever, whichmight have been foon thrown off,chang'd into one of a putrid malig-nant kind. And Inftances of thisnature I have more than once metwith, from the common Ventee*Treacle when imprudently taken, orin an Over-dofe ¡ and thereforefuch Accidents are much more to befear'd, when this Alteration comesmore to take place. The greateftReafon which can be alledg'd forthis Practice* is the Honey difagree-ing with fome particular Conftitu-tions ; but one Inftance of this does

„no uviuj l-'ul une límame ui uns auesbefore obfetv'd of the Diafcordium ; not happen to an hundred of thebut fuch who think there is equal contrary : and if this is fufficient,

reafon for fo doing, proceed upona great Miftake. The Diafcordiumis calculated for an Aflringent, towhich Intention Honey is oppofite,becaufe it attenuates and deterges ;and therefore with great reafon wasthe Syrupus de Meconio fubftituted inits room : but in an AlexipharmicCompofition, as the Venice-Treacleis, to reject Honey, which is of thefame Intention, and very powerfullyfo too, and fubftitute what is con-trary, unlefs by accident, feems tobe owing more to whimfy, or theVanity of leading an Example, thanany good Reafon. Opiates indeedcontribute fomewhat, which we fayby accident forwaftls the Intentionof an Alexipharmic ; as may befeen explain'd under the Divifîon ofNarcotics, in Part 2. Sen. to. butin the Theriaca there feems to be afull Proportion of Opium already ;fo that by the addition of the Dia-codium, inftead of procuring thateafy Relaxation which favours theOperation of an Alexipharmic,there is induced fuch an Infenfîbility,that the Secretion will rather be di-

it pleads for the fame Alteration inmod of the officinal Electuaries,becaufe there are few of them with-out it. If this Medicine be madeaccording to the Recipe we have of-fer'd, the Operator will find all theprincipal Ingredients of the TrochifciHedychroi contriv'd therein, andtherefore need not take it for anOmiffion that they are left out.

Confectio Archigenis, Archigenis'fConfeííion.

« Take of the bed Caftor, of« Long and Black Pepper, Styrax,' Spikenard, Coftus, Galbanum,• and Opium, ana 5 is. of Saffron' 3 ii. of Syrup of Mugwort, a fuf-' ficient quantity to make the wholec into a Confection.'

This hath not been received intoany Difpenfatory* of the College be-fore the Iaft Reformation of it. It isoriginally a Prefcription of Mefue,De Tuff! Húmida, and is in Page 30of the Venice Edition in 1^49. Itis from thence inferted into theAttguflan Difpenfarory exactly as itftands here, unlefs in the Subft'tu-

minifhed than enlarged ; that is, in- tion of Syrup of Mkgtüm for Ho-ltead of warming the Patient into a ney, and is there recomm» ided for

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