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Historical use wording: fevers, and goes under the name of fames

Source: Pharmacopoeia hippiatrica: or, The gentleman farrier's repository, of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses; in two books; 1764 by John Bartlet (1716?-1772) (1764), narrative-offset-207633.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• REMARK: of purified opium, ipecacuana root in powder, and liquorice, each one ounce; of nitre and tartar of vitriol, each four ounces

Method as extracted

1. Grind according to the source passage: And if to half a dram of this powder, two grains of coralline mer- cury be added, we fhall have a medicine not to be diftinguifhed in fmell, tafte, or Operation from the powder which has made fuch a noife in the cure of fevers, and goes under the name of fames.—This medicine in a proportionate quantity may be given to horfes, which may be afcertain- ed by a few trials, beginning with a quarter 218 The Medical Part of quarter of an ounce of the powder, and eight or ten grains of the mercury, and increafing that quantity afterwards, accord- ing to the effects it produces, A Perfpirative, or Sweating Powder TAKE of purified opium, ipecacuana root in powder, and liquorice, each one ounce; of nitre and tartar of vitriol, each four ounces.

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