in natural history. See Amber.

ELECTARY, in pharmacy, a form in which both officinal and extemporaneous medicines are frequently made.

It may be considered as a number of boluses united together, but is made somewhat softer by an addition of a due proportion of syrups. When the consistence is very soft, it is called sometimes by the name of opiate.

The principal consideration in prescribing officinal electuaries is, that such things only be put together as will not, by any opposite qualities, destroy one another, or lose their natural properties by lying long in this manner; and likewise that the whole be of a consistence that will hold ingredients of different gravities in equal mixture.