Phistillia [fistula] watter [water] which will keep the pipe from growing & desolve [dissolve] ye Lump that is hard

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Title: Phistillia [fistula] watter [water] which will keep the pipe from growing & desolve [dissolve] ye Lump that is hard
Date: 1694/1795
Description: Describes a recipe for "fistula water," a remedy for treating fistulas using alum, zinc sulfate ("white vitriol"), and bole armeniac (a kind of clay uses as a styptic).
Transcript: A Phis[t]illia watter which will keep ye pipe from Growing & desolve ye Lump. That is hard Take of Allom & white [b]itterell of Each one ounce mi[illegible] it on a hot fire shovell till it grow hard then take an ounce of [t]rue Bole A[rmen]ack in pouder / Six diaghms of these before said Ingred ients & 2 draghms of Camphier pouder mixt and put all in to 2 quarts of watter that has boyld from 4 quarts to 2 [S]iring ye Phistila & wash & dress up with Dosils or plegets of [L]on[t] dipt in it & Lay dooble Cloths wet in in ye [S]ame watter warm & squesed out & howll up ye part you may also wett ye Rowler in the Same watter it is also good for any other [text loss] ye yellow Salve to ye wound
Subject: See all items with this value boiling (cooking); See all items with this value ointments; See all items with this value remedies (health); See all items with this value fistula; See all items with this value alum; See all items with this value Zinc sulfate; See all items with this value Armenian bole
Contributor: Grimm, Stephanie; Ochsner, Elizabeth; 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.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine; Health Waters

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