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Poultice of pome- granate peels

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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-195053.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

  • pome- granate peels: of barley flower twelve ounces, powder of pome- granate peels, and myrtle berries, of each three ounces ; red wine s “ fufficient quantity, mix and

Method as extracted

  1. Pound according to the source passage: “ Take of barley flower twelve “ ounces, meal of fleawort feeds three ounces, honey, oil of lillies, “ of •' PRACTICAL BOTANIC PHYSIC.' 105 “ of each two ounces, water a fufiieient quantity ; mix and boll It to “ the confiftence of a poultice, or cataplafm.” This he likewife recom- mends as the former author, to be “ applied warm for tumours under “ the ears, in the neck and throat, and other the like places.” • *• So alfo he obliges us with the particulars of the cataplafm for the itch, hinted at by the fame author, viz. “ Take barley flower fixteeii “ ounces, white fait and honey, of each three ounces, white wine' “ vinegar a fufficient quantity, mix and form a cataplafm to be applied' to the parts affeffed.” He further remarks, “ the following prepa- “ ration is faid to be ufeful applied to the belly for all fluxes or loofe- “ nefs thereof : take of barley flower twelve ounces, powder of pome- granate peels, and myrtle berries, of each three ounces ; red wine s “ fufficient quantity, mix and boil to a confiflency.” That with the following mixture he has cured feveral pleurifies :

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Primary and supporting references

  1. 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 — 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 diseasesPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-195053.
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