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Description

A dye, used to create black Morocco leather (Yeats 1878, 297).

https://archive.org/details/aeu3853.0001.001.umich.edu

British Pharmacopoeia 1867

Honey Mel

“a saccharine sectretion deposited in the honeycomb, by Apis mellifica… the hive bee.” (207)

Characteristics

“When recently separated from the honeycomb, it is a viscid translucent liquid, of a brownish-yellow colour, which gradually becomes partially crystalline and opaque. It has a peculiar heavy odour, and a very sweet taste.” (207) Used in the preparation of:

  • Mel depuatum

Preparations of DRUG

Confection of Pepper / Confectio Piperis (87)

  • black pepper, in fine powder (2 oz), caraway fruit in fine powder (3 oz), clarified honey (15 oz)
  • dose: 60-120 grains

Confection of Scammony / Confectio Scammonii (88-89)

  • Scammony in fine powder (3 oz), ginger, in fine powder (1 ½ oz), oil of caraway (1 fl drachm), oil of cloves (1/2 fl drachm), syrup (3 fl oz), clarified honey (1 ½ oz)
  • 10-30 grains

Confection of Turpentine / Confection Terebinthinae (90)

  • oil of turpentine (1 fl oz), liquorice root, in power (1 oz), clarified honey (2 oz)
  • dose: 60-120 grains

Borax Honey / Mel Boracis (207)

  • borax, in fine powder (64 grains), clarified honey (1 oz)

Clarified Honey / Mel Depuratum (207)

  • honey (5 lb), melted and strained
  • used in the preparations of: Confectio Piperis, Confectio Scammonii, Confection Terebinthinae, Mel Boracis, Oxymel, Oxymel Scillae

Oxymel / Oxymel (231-232)

  • clarified honey (40 oz), acetic acid (5 fl oz), distilled water (5 fl oz)
  • dose 1-2 fl drachms

Oxymel of Squill / Oxymel Scillae (232)

  • vinegar of squill (1 pint), clarified honey (2 pounds)
  • dose: ½ -1 fl drachm
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