the Eau des Carmes was published by Baumé after many experiments, and was adopted by the compilers of the Codex:—
"Balm, in flower, freshly gathered, and freed from the stalks, 2 lbs.; lemon peel, fresh, 4 oz.; coriander seeds, 8 oz.; nutmegs, cloves, cinnamon, each bruised, 2 oz.; angelica roots, dried, 1 oz.; spirit of wine, highly rectified, 10 pints."
Goddard's Drops.
The original formula for these is given as follows by Dr. William Salmon in his edition of "Bate's Dispensatory":—
R. Humane Bones or rather scales, well dryed, break them into
bits, and put them into a retort, and join thereto a large Receiver
which lute well; and distil first with a gentle Fire, then with a
stronger, increasing the fire gradatim; so will you have in the
Recipient a Flegm, Spirit, Oyl, and Volatile Salt. Shake the
Receiver to loosen the Volatile Salt from the sides, then close your
Receiver and set it in the earth to digest for three months, after
that digest it in a gentle heat fourteen days, then separate the
Oyl which keep for use.
Salmon says they that please may make it according
to the prescription, but he gives an alternative formula
which was "to rectify the Oyl from the Flegm, then to
grind the Volatile Salt with the Oyl, and so by a long
digestion to join them together." Salmon also tells us
that if these drops are distilled from the bones of the
skull they are good for apoplexy, vertigo, megrims, &c.,
but "if you want it for gout of any particular limb it is
better to make it from the bones of that limb. The
dose is 6 to 12 drops, but it has an evil scent." You
can, however, correct that, and "Elixirate" the preparation,
bringing it "even to a Fragrancy" if you add
so much Spirit of Nitre as will dissolve the oil, and then
mix it with four times its weight of spirit of wine.
