Yellow Wash, Dysentery, Salts Tartar

Medicine -- History -- 19th century -- Florida

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Dr. John Davidson's volume of remedies and recipes to cure various illnesses and to treat diseases. The book, dated August 3, 1843, covers treatments for such sicknesses as pneumonia and consumption to recipes for laxatives and expurgants.

Davidson, John M. W.

State Archives of Florida, Collection M81-24

1843-08-03

journals (accounts)

eng-US

Text

m81-24_23

Territorial Florida (1821-1845)

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Yellow Wash.
[Recipe]. Hyd. Chlor. Corrosive [1 scruple].
82. Aq. Calcis [8 ounces]. M.
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[Recipe]. Infus. Bucu. [8 ounces].
83. Tinct. Bucu [1 ounce].
Tinct. Cubeba. [1 ounce]. M.
One [ounce] 3 times daily & with
It muriated Tinct Ferri.
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Dysentery.
[Rcipe]. Nitric Acid. [2 drams].
84. Tinct. Opii gtt. L.
Aqua. pura. [2 ounces]. M.
Teaspoon full 3 or 4
times daily.
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Wednesday. May 17 th. 1843.

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[Recipe]. Salts Tartar. [2 drams].
85. Spts Ammonia [2 drams].
Cinnamon water [4 ounces]. M.
Useful combination to relieve
those distressing sensations ex-
perienced by dyspectic [sic] persons
after eating a full meal; to
be taken in a wine glass full
of Ginger tea in doses of a
table spoon full or two when-
ever the distress is felt.----
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[Recipe]. Sulph. Querea. [1 dram].
86. Aq. Comph. [2 ounces].
Sulph Morph. gr. [half]
Acid. Sulph. gtt Vi. [half] Solut.
Table spoon full in any agreeable
fluid -- Bell & Stokes.

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Quincy (Fla.)

Gadsden County (Fla.)