A Medicine for the Cholic

[ A Medicine for the Cholic ]

Date: 1784/01/01

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Type
Medicine

Symptoms
cholic
fits

Ingredients
manna
sweet almond oil
chamomile flowers

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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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.