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Show A476 ALMOND TREE. each portion of the watery fluid, so as to form an uniform mix. ture before another portion be added. CULINARY PREPARATIONS. Atmonp Tarts. Blanch and beat fine some almonds, with little white wine and some sugar (a poundofsugar to a pound of almonds), grated bread, nutmeg, cream, and the juice of spinach to colour the almonds. Bake it in a gentle oven; and when done thicken with candied orangeor citron. Green Atmonp Tarts. Pull the almonds from the tree before they shell, scrape off the down, and put them into a pan with cold spring water, then put them into a skillet with more Spring water, set it on a slow fire, and let it remain till it simmers. Change the water twice, and let them remainin the last till tender. Then take them out and dry them well in acloth. Makea syrup with double refined sugar, put them into it, and Jet them simmer. Do the same the next day, put them intoa stone Jar, and cover them veryclose; for if the least air comes to them they will turn black. The yellower they are before they are taken out of the water, the grecner they will be after they are done. Put them into your crust, cover them with syrup, lay onthe lid, and bake them in a moderate oven. PRESCRIPTIONS R.. 1. Take ofoil of almonds milk of almonds ry POSE Water aie. - + drachms 6, . . it. . <i) ounces 5, drachins 2, This preferable to the common white emulsions formed by an alkali, which uniting with the oil produces a kind of soap, which readily ming ling with water, forms the white appearan ce we obServe, and is commonly disgusting to patients, and unpleasant in the stomach ; whereasthis suits every palate, and removes that tickling in the throat so very distr essing to patients. 477 Respecting soap, the learned and ingenious editor of the Edinburgh New Dispensatory says: The detergent property of soap, or the power it possesses of rendering oily and resinous substances miscible with water, has given rise to very erroneous notions of its medical virtues. It was supposed to render such substances morereadily soluble in the juices of the stomach, and in the fluids of the body, and to be wellfitted for dissolving such oily or unctuous matters as it may meet with in the body, attenuating viscid juices, opening obstructions of the viscera, and deterging all the vessels it passes through. It has likewise been supposed a powerful menstruum for the urinary calculus; and a solution of soap in lime water has been considered as one of the strongest solvents that can be taken with safety into the stomach ; for the virtue of this composition has been thought considerably greater than the aggregate of the dissolving powers of the soap and lime water when unmixed. How erroneous these ideas are, appears evidently, when we recollect the very easy decomposition of soap, which rendersit perfectly impossible that it should enter the circulating system, or indeed come into contact with the fluids even of the mouth, without being decomposed. As to the solution of soap in lime water, we may observe thatit is only a clumsy wayofexhibit. ing a solution of soda; for the soap is decomposed, an insoluble Soapof lime is formed, and the soda remains in solution. The internal use of soap should therefore be confined, in our opinion, to the giving form to other substances whicha re not deComposed by it, and to the decomposing metallic poisons when they have been taken into the stomach. ——— gum arabic, ———— purified sugar, equal parts , drachms 2: Let these be well rubbed together, and take two table-spoon- fuls four times a day, and a tea-spoonf ul upon coughing. is far ALMOND TREE. For this last purpose, 4 teacupful of a solution of soap, in four times its weight of water, may be drunk every three or four minutes, until a suf- ficient quantity be taken. R.. 2. Take of milk of almonds - ~ syrupof Tolu - rose water - «= ————. tincture of squills Makeinto a draught. Four of these during the day. ounce 1; « drachms 2, = drachms 2, - drops 16: draughts are to be taken An admirable remedy in colds, and also in con- sumptions, as well as in asthma. |