[ A Medicine for the Cholic ]
Date: 1784/01/01
Source:
Nova Scotia Calender, or an Almanack [...] by Metonicus 1784 (online), "The Treasure of Health"
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A Medicine for the Cholick, which not only gives Ease in the most
violent Fits, but also, being often used, prevents their returning.
Take of the best manna, and oil of sweet almonds, of each one
ounce and a half, camomile-flowers boiled in posset drink, an hand-
ful ; let the posset-drink be strained from the flowers, and mingled
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very well with the oil of almonds and manna, let the patient take it
three days successively, and afterwards every third day for a fort-
night.
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