Title

For Spasms Dr C

Date

1694/1795

Description

A remedy for spasms with camphire (possibly 'camphor'), sugar, brandy, sal volatile (ammonium carbonate) and laudanum.

Transcript

Take ten Grains of Camphire a lump of sugar and a tea spoonful of Brandy beat them together in a mortar, when dissolved add two drams of [Contect] Cordial and by [illegible] one pint of pepper mint water forty drops sal Volatile and forty drops of Laudanum. Take two or three table spoonsfull.

Subject

See all items with this valuecamphor

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See all items with this valuebrandy

See all items with this valuemint (herb)

See all items with this valuelaudanum

See all items with this valueammonium carbonate

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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.