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Source: Domestic medicine. 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 (1824), narrative-offset-984833.
Ingredients or materials as extracted
- safiron: of Virginian snake root in powder, half a_ drachm, gum asafcetida, twelve grains, gum cam- phire, seven grains; make these into a bolus with a little syrup of safiron.” i “oA Camphire may also be given in the following manner * “Take purified nitre half an ounce, Virginian snake root in powder two drams, camphire one dram
Method as extracted
- Mix according to the source passage: It is esteemeda greatantispasmodic; and by many extolled as an infallible remedy for pre- — venting the effects of the bite of a mad dog. if «Take native or fictitious cinnabar, of each twenty- four grains, musk sixteen grains. Let these be made ~ into a fine powder, and taken in a glass of fine arrack or brandy. . a - This single dose is said to secure the person for — thirty days, at the end of which it must be repeated; — _ butif he has any symptoms of the disease, it must be’ — repeated in three hours. a The following is likewise reckoned a great anti- — spasmodic medicine :— | “ Take of Virginian snake root in powder, half a_ drachm, gum asafcetida, twelve grains, gum cam- phire, seven grains; make these into a bolus with a little syrup of safiron.” i “oA Camphire may also be given in the following manner * “Take purified nitre half an ounce, Virginian snake root in powder two drams, camphire one dram;
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- Domestic medicine. 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 — Domestic medicine. 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 practitionersPrimary source for the extracted ingredients and method at narrative-offset-984833.