Powder of Elecampane

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Source: The farrier's dispensatory : In three parts. Containing first, a description of the medicinal simples commonly made use of in the diseases of horses ... Secondly, the preparation of simples, vegetable, animal and mineral ... Thirdly, a number of useful compositions and receipts suited to the cure of all diseases. To which is also added, a complete index of all the medicines contained in the book ... with a table of diseases ... by Gibson, W. (William), 1680?-1750 (1726), narrative-offset-326669.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Elecampane: In fhort, there is not a better, and more ,Proper, Remedy to be met with in the whole Materia Medica for Horfes; nor one more eafy to be made up with Horfe-Balls, with Powder of Elecampane, and other Ingredients of» the fame Intentions. It may, at any Time, be work’d up in a Pafte with Flour and Butter, and given two or three Times a Day, from a Dram to two Drams; and, in fome Circuniftances, to the Quan- tity of hal

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: In fhort, there is not a better, and more ,Proper, Remedy to be met with in the whole Materia Medica for Horfes; nor one more eafy to be made up with Horfe-Balls, with Powder of Elecampane, and other Ingredients of» the fame Intentions. It may, at any Time, be work’d up in a Pafte with Flour and Butter, and given two or three Times a Day, from a Dram to two Drams; and, in fome Circuniftances, to the Quan- tity of half an Ounce, or even to a whole Ounce, Balfams of Sulphur, with Oil o Annifeeds, « Take the fame Quantity of Sulphur, and Oil of Annifeeds, ‘‘ as in the preceding Procefs; | «« digeft in a Veflel two Thirds ‘empty, at leaft, until the Oil be impregnated.” ¢ This is us’d in the fame In- tentions as the preceding, tho” it falls fomewhat fhort of it in’ its Efficacy, and is alfo more chargeable; however, it may be very proper, mix’d with the other, in fome .grofs phlegma-— tick Habits, or given fingly in a leffer Dofe; for, by its extraor- — dinary and diffulive Warmth, it often does Good in fuch Cafes, ee 4 a Balfams Se&t.

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