Camphor Mixture [1]

[ Camphor Mixture [1] ] Sarah Creighton Wilkins

Contributors
Contributor Role
Compiler
Contributor Name
Sarah Creighton Wilkins

Date: Recorded sometime in 1818. | 1818/01/01 to 1818/12/01

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Medicine

Ingredients
camphor
spirits of wine
wine
sugar
lump sugar
water
boiling water

Places
Halifax
Nova Scotia

Source: Manuscript Notebook of Sarah Creighton Wilkins
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives | Source Origin: MacDonald Family Fonds | Reference: MG 1 No. 1 / Microfilm Reel 10,618

Description

One of two recipes for camphor water.


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    Camphor Mixture.

1 dram of Camphor
10 drops best spirits of wine
½ once of lump sugar
1 pint Boiling Water.
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Rub the Camphor 1st with the
spirits of wine then add the
sugar lastly & by degrees the
water strain the mixture
& take a wine glass now & then.