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  • Suffumigation

    An application of smoke or fumes. Incense.  

  • Still-room book

    An eighteen-century privately kept book of herbal recipes.  

  • Solution

    A substance that has been combined with a liquid. A mixture of one or more substances dissolved in another substance. A dosage form in which the drug is dissolved in a liquid. A mixture of a solid substance dissolved in a liquid. Homogenous mixture, usually liquid, of two or more substances. A liquid preparation containing…

  • Serrated

    A botanical term referring to a leaf edge notched like a saw. With a zigzag or saw-like edge. Toothed, but with the teeth all forward-pointing, as the teeth of a saw. The term is used to describe muscles that connect to bones through a series of structures resembling the teeth of a saw, as seen…

  • Sachet

    A small cloth bag of herbs or spices. Any material, e.g., paper, foil, or plastic, used to package doses of medication.  

  • Rubifacient

    An herb which produces redness of the skin.  

  • Potion

    A drink or draft; a dose of poison or liquid medicine.  

  • Posset

    A hot beverage prepared by curdling milk with ale, molasses, wine, or other flavoring agents, and seasoned with spices, is commonly known as a syllabub. In the annals of medieval history, a beverage of note emerged, known as posset. This ancient libation was fashioned by combining sweetened milk with curdled curative agents such as treacle,…

  • Philter

    To strain an herbal beverage.  

  • Pestle

    A blunt instrument used to crush and grind  herbs. Its bowl-shaped complementary container is known as mortar. Most kitchen ware stores sell these today. A device for macerating drugs in a mortar.  

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