Ointment of BITES OF POISONOUS ANIMALS

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Historical use wording: this kind of madnels, _ When ufed as a preventive, it will be fufficient to rub _ daily a drachm of the ointment into the parts about the taken freely

Source: Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines ; With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners by Buchan, William, 1729-1805. n 82060399 (1803), narrative-offset-1041699.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• BITES OF POISONOUS ANIMALS: It is efteemed a great ant'{pafmodic; and, ‘by many, extolled as an infallible remedy for preventing the effects of the bite of a mad dog. * Take native and factitious cinnabar, of each twenty« four grains, mufk fixteen grains. Let thefe be made intoa fine powder, and taken in a glafs of arrack of brandy.” This fingle dofe is faid to fecure the perfon for thirty days, at the end of which it muft be repeated; but if h

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: It is efteemed a great ant'{pafmodic; and, ‘by many, extolled as an infallible remedy for preventing the effects of the bite of a mad dog. * Take native and factitious cinnabar, of each twenty« four grains, mufk fixteen grains. Let thefe be made intoa fine powder, and taken in a glafs of arrack of brandy.” This fingle dofe is faid to fecure the perfon for thirty days, at the end of which it muft be repeated; but if he has any fymptoms of the difeafe, ic mutt be repeated in. three hours. | HN The following is likewife reckoned a good antifpaf. -Modic medicine : _. © Take of Virginian fnake-root in powder half a drachm, gum afafcetida twelve grains, gum camphire feven grains; make thefe into a bolus with a little fyrup of faffron.” 3 Camphire may alfo be given in the following manner} _ “ Yake purified nitre half an ounce, Virginian fnake- foot in powder two drachms, camphire one drachm ; fub them together in a’ mortar, and divide the whole into ten dofes.” Cae __ Mercury is likewife recommended as of great efficacy, _ both in the prevention and cure of this kind of madnels, _ When ufed as a preventive, it will be fufficient to rub _ daily a drachm of the ointment into the parts about the taken freely, either in the patient’s food or drink.

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