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Recipes - Manuscript Notebook of Dr. William James Almon

  • A Plaster to Treat Liver Pain
  • A Popular Remedy for the Rheumatism
  • A Remedy for Contracted Limbs from Dr. Lobb
  • Alkali Remedy for Gout or Rheumatism
  • Angina Maligna
  • Antimonial Soap & Aloes Med[icine] for Bruises
  • Cancer Cure of, from the Boston Magazine for August 1793
  • Charcoal for Cleaning Utensils, Improving Oral Hygiene, and Purifying Water
  • Cheap Substitute for Sugar
  • Chinese Raddish Oil
  • Composition of Gun-Powder / Method of Giving Additional Force to Gun-Powder
  • Considerations on the Use of Injections in the Gonorrhea
  • Cure for Cancer
  • Cure for the Croup
  • Cure for the Stone
  • Cure from Mr. Glennie
  • Cure in Scurvy
  • Cure of Cancer
  • Doctor Garthshore’s Treatment of Scrophulus Swellings
  • Dr. Ward's and Dr. Saunder's Remedies for Dropsy / A Recipe from Sir Benjamin Strange by Dr. Carmichael Smith
  • Dr. Wyer's and Theodore Mayerne's Treatment for Eruptions
  • Dr. Wyer's Treatment for Delirium
  • Dr. Wyer's Treatment for Lockjaw
  • Elements Salve
  • Epilepsy
  • Eruptions
  • Experiments on some Precipitates of Metals & Semi Metals by M. de Beunie
  • Facts Concerning the Butternut Tree of North-America
  • For the Cure of an Obstinate Herpes
  • Hearing Restored to a Patient Deaf and Dumb
  • How to Destroy Mites and Weevils
  • John Bremner Case with Medicines
  • List of Quack Medicines, Family Nostrums &c
  • Mercury and Opium Given in Inflammatory Diseases
  • Method of Dissolving Gum-Elastic
  • Method of Preparing the Oxygenated Muriatic Acid
  • Method of Taking Spots of Grease from Paper
  • Mr. Morden Case with Medicines
  • Observation on a Species of Leprosy
  • Obtaining Opium in America / Culture of the Poppy Plant
  • Oil a Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog
  • Oil Recommended in Spasms of the Intestines
  • On the Cure of Ulcerated Legs
  • On the Sugar of Milk
  • Phytolacca, American Nightshade
  • Prophylaxis, or Method of Preventing Infection
  • Receipt for Killing Rats
  • Remedy against the Anthrax
  • Remedy to be Administered in Cases of Swallowing Pins or Fish Bones
  • Table of the Effects of Medicines
  • Tea of Garden Tanzy for Painful Menses
  • The Angelyne Tree
  • The Method of Cure with Dr. Burton's Recipe
  • To Know Whether It Is Pus or Mucus Deposited in the Urine
  • To Preserve Birds with Their Natural Plumage Unhurt
  • To Quench Thirst without Drinking
  • Wens of the Sort Called Stentonaceous
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