For a Canker

[ For a Canker ] Jonathan Odell

Contributors
Contributor Role
Compiler
Contributor Name
Jonathan Odell

Date: This manuscript was compiled sometime after the 1763 date noted on page 9 and Odell's death in 1818. | 1763/11/01 to 1818/11/25

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Medicine

Symptoms
sore

Ingredients
holly leaves
alum
salt
water

Places
Charleston
South Carolina

Source: Jonathan Odell Notebook
Institution: New Brunswick Museum Archives and Research Library | Source Origin: Odell Family Fonds | Sublocation: Notebook containing poems by other writers, various recipes and remedies | Reference: S29B - F28 (1)

Description

This remedy is on page 11. Image courtesy of New Brunswick Museum Archives and Research Library.


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Transcription

For a Canker--

(said to have been purchased of its

Discoverer in Charlestown, South 

Carolina, by the Provincial Le=

=gislature)

Burn a good quantity of Holly leaves,

to ashes, & pulverize them well--

add an equal quantity of powdered

allum: mix them and with a soft

Rag rub them on the sore twice a day

Then take an ounce of salt and an 

ounce of allum; dissolve them over

the fire in a Pint and a half of water,

and therewith wash the powder out

of the sore a quarter of an hour

after it is dressed.

Remark--an oddly worded and

no very scientific Prescription.