
Anna Burnside
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Hutton Collection
Oleum amygdalarum dulcium or oil of sweet almonds or was a treatment for coughs and to ease 'the cholick [sic] and gripes of children', The London Dispensatory, 1694. A dry drug jar which held powdered sweet almonds, pulvis amygdala dulcium is in the Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain illustrated by Briony Hudson, English Delftware Drug Jars (2006), p.202, cat.169.