[ Dr. Boerhave's Fever Powder ] Sarah Creighton Wilkins
Date: 1818/01/01
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
A hand-written letter to the new Times with Dr. Herman Boerhaave's remedy for fever powder. Dutch physician Boerhaave's remedy was well known and was published also in John Wesley's 1747 Primitive Physic, a lay manual reprinted in numerous editions throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
To the Editor of the new Times 1818
{...} the afflicting {...} from Ireland
respecting the Fever have suggested
the propriety of sending you a receipt
efficatious Fever powder of the use {...}
{...} Dr. Boerhave, Ten grains of
which may be taken every 4 hours
this doze for an Adult
8 onces of Nitre
¼ once of Camphor
½ a ¼ of an once of Saffron
8 grains of Cochineal
Pound them together & keep them
in a dry bottle
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