Cancer Cure of, from the Boston Magazine for August 1793

[ Cancer Cure of, from the Boston Magazine for August 1793 ]

Date: Recipe transcribed sometime after August 1793. | 1793/08/01 to 1800/01/01

Publication Format
Manuscript

Source: Manuscript Notebook of Dr. William James Almon
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives | Source Origin: Almon Family Fonds | Reference: MG 1 / Microfilm Reel 10,045

Description

Instructions for making a cancer remedy from oak bar to be spread on a plaster, p. 273.


Transcription

Cancer cure [of]
from the Boston
Magazine for 
August 1793.

Take a bushel of red oak bark and burn it to ashes: take the
ashes and boil them in three Gallons of water, until the
water is reduced to a gallon: then strain it and boil it again
until it is reduced to a thick substance similar to butter milk
or cream: then spread plaister of it on [silk or lint], and renew
the plaister once in two hours, until the roots of the cancer
are well cured. It will sometimes take four and sometimes six
plaisters, but do not be discouraged if it should take twelve