For Mrs Bulkeley

[ For Mrs Bulkeley ] Sarah Creighton Wilkins

Contributors
Contributor Role
Compiler
Contributor Name
Sarah Creighton Wilkins
Contributor Role
Author
Contributor Name
Adair Hawkins

Date: Recorded sometime in 1806. | 1806/01/01 to 1806/12/31

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Medicine

Symptoms
bladder obstruction

Ingredients
Spanish saffron
anise
lime 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

A prescription in physician's Latin recommended for treating bladder stones. 


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Transcription

For Mrs.Bulkeley      1806
Rx Safron: Hispan      ℥ss.
Tist [sic] Annisi.         ʒss.
M. Fiant Pilulæ Medioceres [sic]
No 4xxij quarum capias No V
bis in Die, superbibendo
Aqua Calcis ℥iiij.

Supposd Stone
prov d an obstruction
in the Bladder           Adair Hawkins
 

Translation
For Mrs.Bulkeley      1806
Recipe: ½ ounce of Spanish Saffron,
½ dram of Tincture [?] of Anise.
Mix and prepare medium pills,
80 [?] in number, of which you should take 5 in number, twice a day, drinking with it
4 ounces of lime water.

Supposd Stone
prov d an obstruction
in the Bladder           Adair Hawkins

 

Translation by Winston Black