Powder of Colds

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Source: The farrier's dispensatory ... Containing first, a description of the medicinal simples commonly made use of in the diseases of horses ... Secondly, the preparation of simples ... Thirdly ... compositions and receipts suited to the cure of all diseases by Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750 (1729), narrative-offset-645641.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Colds: an Handful of 1 Take Liquorice one Ounce each, and wring out their Juice, ’ Cumin-feeds, and Elecampane- otherwife to

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: 22^ Colds, and for the Yellows $ in the Apothecaries knows what it Winch Cafes it would doubtlefs is 5 but inftead of it may be ad- be a good Remedy enough, on- ded an Ounce of Mithridate be- y £hat u w unskilfully managed , fides the Quantity ordered, 'and tor the Spices are mudi better it will more effectually anfwer given m Powder than boiled, be- in all thole Intentions for which caule the volatile Parts of them it is recommended 5 and with an are in a great Meafure loft in boil- Addition of Saffron and earn¬ ing, and the better Way to ma- phire, it may be very ferviceable nage me Herbs fb as to make in thofe Fevers, that are of the the Medicine of any Efficacy, malignant Kind, would be to take an Handful of 1 Take Liquorice one Ounce each, and wring out their Juice, ’ Cumin-feeds, and Elecampane- otherwife to boil them would be * roots, of each half an Ounce, too muen for the Quantity of the * Turmerick, and Bay-berries of Liquor, and they are too few as ’ each a Quarter of an Ounce, they are ordered. This Method 3 of long Pepper and Fenugreek] Will make the Medicine much bet- ’ of each two Drams, • beaten ter, and contain the Virtue of the ’ Email (which is aljo a Quarter Simples more efficacioufly.

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