To Physic Children after the Small Pox
Item
- Title
- To Physic Children after the Small Pox
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A remedy believed to treat children with smallpox using calomel (mercurous chloride), tartar emetic, "crab's-eyes" (a calcified stone found in crayfish) and sugar.
- Transcript
- Calomel twelve grains. Tartar Emetic one Grain. Crabs eyes and sugar of each thirty grains. divide this into six papers a Child of one year old may take 1/2 of one of them of two years a whole one they should be taken two nights together and a little Castor oil the third morning.
- Subject
- See all items with this valuecalomel
- See all items with this valuetartar emetic (antimony potassium tartrate trihydrate)
- See all items with this valuesugar
- See all items with this valuecastor oil
- See all items with this valuecontagious diseases
- See all items with this valuesmallpox
- See all items with this valuepowders (remedies)
- See all items with this valueAbrus precatorius
- Contributor
- Caylor, Karmen
- Le, Vincent
- Grimm, Stephanie
- Salahuddin, Shafiya
- Source
- Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
- Publisher
- George Mason University Libraries
- Rights
- Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
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