A Receipt for the Ague
Item
- Title
- A Receipt for the Ague
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A remedy for treating ague (fever, sometimes malarial) using "salt of steel" (possibly iron chloride or iron salts), allspice, and tree bark (likely cinchona bark or fever tree).
- Transcript
- A Quar[ter] of a Ounce of Salt of Steel the same quantity of Jamaca pepper half a Ounce of best Bark mix all together in four Ounces of Treacle & take the bigness of a Nutmeg Morning Noon & Night drinking After every dose a Gill of warm Ale
- Subject
- See all items with this valueiron chloride sulfate
- See all items with this valueallspice
- See all items with this valueCinchona
- treacle
- See all items with this valueiron
- See all items with this valueremedies (health)
- See all items with this valuemalaria
- 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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