For a Patient Who Has Symptoms of Stone

[ For a Patient Who Has Symptoms of Stone ] Sarah Creighton Wilkins

Contributors
Contributor Role
Compiler
Contributor Name
Sarah Creighton Wilkins

Date: Late 18th or early 19th century; exact date unknown.

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Medicine

Symptoms
stones

Ingredients
salt
soda
salt of soda
chamomile flowers
chamomile
oil of juniper
juniper
gum arabic

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 recipe and instructions for treating symptoms of stone.


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For a Patient who has Symptoms
of Stone
Take of salt of Soda dried & Powder’d
2 drachms. Extract of Chamomile
Flowers 3 drachms mix them
into a mass & add 20 drops of
vial Oil of Juniper & if there should
be Occasion Make some good
gum arabic into a Mucilige
then divide into 50 pills of which
take 3 a day twice a day