A Famous Water for a Sore Mouth or Cancer; by Dr. Lower

[ A Famous Water for a Sore Mouth or Cancer; by Dr. Lower ]

Date: 1784/01/01

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Type
Medicine

Symptoms
sore mouth
cancer
canker

Ingredients
small beer
honey
red sage
rosemary
bramble leaves
celandine
alum
aegyptiacum

Places
Nova Scotia
Halifax

Source: Nova Scotia Calender, or an Almanack [...] by Metonicus 1784 (online), "The Treasure of Health"
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A famous Water for a sore Mouth or Cancer ; by Dr. Lower.

   Take three pints of small-beer ; half a pound of honey ; of red

sage, rosemary, bramble leaves, and celandine, of each an hand-

ful ; roch-allum, as much as will make it sharp, let it boil till it

comes to a quart, the strain it, and keep it for use. This water

will cure any sore mouth, if curable : if at any time stinking ulcers

infect the gums or mouth, let half an ounce of unguent, aegypticum

be added to half a pint of water.