To Physic Children after the Small Pox

Title: To Physic Children after the Small Pox
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A remedy believed to treat children with smallpox using calomel (mercurous chloride), tartar emetic, "crab's-eyes" (a calcified stone found in crayfish) and sugar.
Transcript: Calomel twelve grains. Tartar Emetic one Grain. Crabs eggs and sugar of each thirty grains. divide this into six papers a Child of one year old may take 1/2 of one of them of two years a whole one they should be taken two nights together and a little Castor oil the third morning.
Subject: See all items with this value calomel; See all items with this value Antimony potassium tartrate; See all items with this value sugar; See all items with this value castor oil; See all items with this value contagious diseases; See all items with this value smallpox; See all items with this value powders (remedies)
Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent; Grimm, Stephanie; Salahuddin, Shafiya
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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