Gargle of equal parts of port

Automated live-review record

This formula was extracted automatically from a historical source and published directly for live editorial inspection. It may contain OCR, title, botanical-identity, ingredient, structure or safety errors. Do not use it as treatment, dosage or self-care guidance.

Historical use wording: a relaxed or common sore throat

Source: Home doctoring : a guide to domestic medicine and surgery by Kesteven, W. B. (William Bedford), 1812-1891 (1889), narrative-offset-131043.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• equal parts of port: thirty grains to the ounce of water

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: Treatment — A gargle of equal parts of port wine, vinegar, and water generally suffices for the cure of a relaxed or common sore throat. A gargle of alum, one drachm to half a pint of wate.r, is also effectual for this kind as well as for the ulcerated sore throat. In diphtheritic sore throat a solu- tion of nitrate of silver (thirty grains to the ounce of water), or a diluted mineral acid ( e.g ., muriatic or hydro- chloric acid, one part to twenty of water), should be carefully painted or mopped over the surface twice or three times a day.

Live editorial status

This record was published without a human-review gate by site policy. Automated flags at publication: no primary ingredient taxon link, title ingredient mismatch, not herbal remedy, not marked promotable. Publication makes the source extraction inspectable; it does not verify identity, completeness, efficacy or safety.