An Excellent Remedy for a Bruise

[ An Excellent Remedy for a Bruise ]

Date: 1784/01/01

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Type
Medicine

Symptoms
bruise

Ingredients
red coral
dragon's blood
Irish slate
mummy
lemnian earth
spermaceti
rhubarb
Brunswick ale

Places
Nova Scotia
Halifax

Source: Nova Scotia Calender, or an Almanack [...] by Metonicus 1784 (online), "The Treasure of Health"
| Source Origin: Canadiana | Sublocation: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.39176/1


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                 An excellent Remedy for a Bruise

   Take of red coral, dragon's blood, Irish slate, and mummy, of

each half an ounce ; of Lemnian earth, and spermaceti, of each two

drachms ; of rhubarb three drachms ; let them all be finely pow-

dered ; give a drachm of it at a time in a draught of Brunswick ale,

after the patient has been blooded.