A Receipt for the Ague

Title: A Receipt for the Ague
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A remedy for treating ague (fever, sometimes malarial) using "salt of steel" (possibly iron chloride or iron salts), allspice, and tree bark (likely cinchona bark or fever tree).
Transcript: A Quar[ter] of a Ounce of Salt of Steel the same quantity of Jamaca pepper half a Ounce of best Bark mix all together in four Ounces of Treacle & take the bigness of a Nutmeg Morning Noon & Night drinking After every dose a Gill of warm Ale
Subject: See all items with this value iron chloride sulfate; See all items with this value allspice; See all items with this value Cinchona; See all items with this value molasses; See all items with this value iron; See all items with this value remedies (health); See all items with this value malaria
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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