The Worm Pills
Item
- Title
- The Worm Pills
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A remedy, likely for the treatment of worms in humans, using "aloes rosatum" (probably a mix of the juice of aloe mixed with rosewater), iron, agaric, sweet mercury, sulphurated scammony, and oil of wormwood.
- Transcript
- [inserted left margin: Rx] of allos, Rosatum pils of Iroh with agerick of each half a Draym, Marcureious dulsious 13 grains SCamoney Sulphererated 4 Graines, Chymicall oyle of wormwode 4 drops make it all up in to [struck: a] pills take 4 of them at Night when you go to bed when tha work drink either water Grewell or Poset drink
- Subject
- See all items with this valueiron
- See all items with this valuescammony (Convolvulus scammonia)
- See all items with this valuewormwood (Artemisia absinthium)
- See all items with this valuealoeswood (agarwood)
- Contributor
- Ochsner, Elizabeth
- Le, Vincent
- Grimm, Stephanie
- Bakir, Mehtap
- 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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