To Cure the biting of a mad dog

Title: To Cure the biting of a mad dog
Date: 1694/1795
Description: Directions for treating a bite from a dog with rabies, using cupping and a poultice made of leeks, wormwood, onions, salt, butter, and honey.
Transcript: Clap Cuping glases upon the place where the bite is this will draw forth the Vemome Than [strikeout] make a Cataplasme of Leeks Wormwood Raw Onions Salt butter and honey and Apply it
Subject: See all items with this value cupping; See all items with this value cupping vessel; See all items with this value leeks; See all items with this value wormwood (Artemisia absinthium); See all items with this value onions; See all items with this value salt (seasonings); See all items with this value butter; See all items with this value honey; See all items with this value poultices
Contributor: Abu-Bader, Nagham; Le, Vincent
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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