This section is from the book "The London Medical Dictionary", by Bartholomew Parr. Also available from Amazon: London Medical Dictionary.
(From
oil, and ![]()
sugar). A mixture of essential oil with sugar. The oil requires at least eight or ten times its quantity of sugar, which should be well rubbed with the mixture, and kept closely from the air. In the essential oil of vegetables reside most of the virtues that are communicated to water, or to vinous spirit by distillation; and if a proper quantity of water, or of vinous spirit be added to these elaeosacchara, a medicine is immediately produced, of similar efficacy with distilled water, and of any given strength. Elanula. See A lumen. Elaphicon, Elaphoboscum,(from
and
to eat, because stags are fond of them). Sec
Pastinaca sylvestris, and Sisarum.
 
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