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Mel Scotic, c1745-1807

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Description

Cardboard box and cup sealed with leather and plastic wrapping, containing honey, possibly from Scotland. From the Burges Collection.

Text on paper box labels reads ‘Catal. Mat. Med. p.127, no. 80’ and ‘MEL SCOTIC.’

Lemery describes tincture of honey as ‘one of the noblest Medicines for inveterate Coughs, Phthisicks, and Catarrhs, from a Quarter of a Spoonful to a whole one’, and says that ‘All the Preparations of Honey are pectoral and diuretick.’