An Emulsion for the Piles
Item
- Title
- An Emulsion for the Piles
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A remedy for hemorrhoid treatment using barley water, almonds, and nitre (possibly soda ash or sodium bicarbonate).
- Transcript
- To a Quart of Barly-water put 12 Almonds a desert spoonful of Gum Arabic, and a Tea spoonful of purified nitre. A tea-cup ful to be taken three or four times a day.
- Subject
- See all items with this valuegum arabic
- See all items with this valueBarley water
- See all items with this valuesodium nitrate
- See all items with this valueremedies (health)
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- 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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