Bolus of A NEW AND COMPLETE SYSTEM root

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Historical use wording: the yellow jaundice, and the bitings “ of the viper

Source: A new and compleat body of practical botanic physic, from the medicinal plants of the vegetable kingdom ... With useful observations and improvements, necessary regimen and diet, under all diseases by Baylis, Edward. nr 91010483 (1791), narrative-offset-489502.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• A NEW AND COMPLETE SYSTEM root: Or, Take of the roots of preferved Butter-bur one ounce, of the “ volatile fait of hartfliorn, grains fifteen, of laudanum grain one, and make a fweating bolus.” An old valuable Author has favoured us with the proper dofe of this plant, and fays, “ If one drachm of the powder of the root of Butter- “ bur be given in wine, it is a moft excellent thing againft all forts of “ peftilential fevers, as the plague, fpotted

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Or, Take of the roots of preferved Butter-bur one ounce, of the “ volatile fait of hartfliorn, grains fifteen, of laudanum grain one, and make a fweating bolus.” An old valuable Author has favoured us with the proper dofe of this plant, and fays, “ If one drachm of the powder of the root of Butter- “ bur be given in wine, it is a moft excellent thing againft all forts of “ peftilential fevers, as the plague, fpotted fever, purples, meafles, “ fmall pox, &c. becaufe it is fudorific, or promoting perfpiration, and “ therby driving from the vital parts the evil tendency of their poifon, “ but it alfo kills worms, and is powerful againft hyfterick fits, or va» “ pours, and fuffocation of the mother. “ That the juice when it is expreffed out of the roots, by being “ beaten in a mortar, with the addition of a little white port wine, has “ all the virtues of the powder, and may be given from one ounce, to “ two or three ounces, morning and evening, as a preventive againft “ the plague, and every fix hours after infe(51:ion, “ That the effence has all the virtues of the powder and juice, but “ more powerful to all the intentions, as it provokes urine, and the monthly terms, and deftroys all kinds of worms in the belly, and is “ a powerful thing in the cure of the yellow jaundice, and the bitings “ of the viper; dofe one or two ounces mixed with wine as often as ne- “ ceffary. ^ He further fays, “ That the fpirituous tinflure is good againft poi- fon, and the biting of venomous beafts, and prevails againft; fainting ‘ * and fwooning fits, and is a famous thing to rectify the difeafes of the “ ftomach.

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