A New and Complete American Medical Family Herbal (1814)What does electuary mean?
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Electuary: An electuary is a medicinal paste composed of powders, or other medical ingredients, incorporated with sweeteners to hide the taste, like syrup, honey, jam, etc., for the purposes of oral consumption.
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A New and Complete American Medical Family Herbal (1814)by Samuel Henry
The following electuary is an excellent laxative for loosening the belly in costive habits : take of senna leaves powdered six ounces, master- wort or ginger powdered one ounce, pulp of French pruens one pound, pulp of tamarinds two ounces, ...
Veterinary State Board Questions and Answers (1914)by Victor Gage Kimball
Electuary is a medicinal powder, beaten up with sugar, honey, or molasses to the consistency of thick paste. Electuaries are intended to be smeared on the teeth of animals where they melt at body temperature and act locally on the mouth and ...
The medical guide (1828)by Richard Reece
— An electuary is a form of ...
A manual of nursing, medical and surgical (1885)by Charles James Cullingworth
An Electuary is a form of medicine of the consistence of stiff jam, generally containing an aperient made palatable by the addition of honey or sugar. It is given in a tea- or dessert-spoon, according to the dose ordered. Suppositories are little ...
A system of materia medica and pharmacy (1810)by John Murray
Either electuary is a grateful aromatic preparation, frequently combined with other medicines, or made the basis of cordial or carminative mixtures, requiring merely for this purpose to be diffused in water with a little syrup. electuarium cassije ...
Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty (2004)by Katharine E. Harbury
An electuary is a medical "conserve or paste, consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with honey, preserve, or syrup of some kind"; (OED, 3:80). Saint- John's-wort is the "common English name" given to "plants of the genus Hypericum, ...
The Way of Herbs (1998)by Michael Tierra
Electuary An electuary is an old-fashioned way of giving unpalatable herbs to children who need them. A small amount of the herb is mixed with honey, maple syrup, peanut butter or other acceptable medium ...
Black's Veterinary Dictionary (1998)by Edward Boden, Geoffrey Philip West
ELECTUARY is a soft paste made by compounding drugs with treacle, sugar, or honey. It is used as a convenient method of applying drugs to the throat and pharynx of animals.
Lexicon pharmaceuticum (1828)or a pharmaceutical dictionary, comprehending the pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, with a variety of other useful information relative to medicine and pharmacy ... by Thomas Castle
Compound Electuary of Catechu. Conjectio Japonica.
Electuarium Lenitivum, Lenitive Electuary. The Confectio Senna.
Electuary of Scammony, or Confectio Scammoniae. L. See Confectio Scammonite.
The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis].by Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
— Electuary of cassia. Take of cassia puip four parts, tamarind ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or Universal dictionary of the arts, sciences, literature, &c. intended to supersede the use of other books of reference (1816)Electuary of purging cassia. — 4 Take of...
The London encyclopaedia (1829)or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge. Illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams by Thomas Curtis
— Electuary of cassia. Take of cassia puip four parts, tamarind ...
Medical lexicon (1866)by Robley Dunglison
An electuary ; — formerly, an electuary which contained opium. O'PIATED, Opia' Jitt, (F.)...
The universal etymological English dictionary (1731)by Nathan Bailey
DIAPHOE'NICON, an electuary whose chief ingredient is dates. L. DIAPHONICKS [of Gr.] a science that explains :the properties of refracted founds, as they piss through different mediums. DlAPHONI'A [JVtaan'ct, Gr.] difference, diversity.
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