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For Dyspepsia [Early nineteenth-century medical receipt].
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An early nineteenth-century domestic or apothecary recipe headed “For Dyspepsia,” prescribing a complex mixture of botanical gums and roots combined with West Indian rum. The ingredients include “1 ounce of gum myrrh, 2 ounces of gum aloes, ½ ounce of gum guaiac, 1 ounce of sulphur flowers, 2 ounces of big ginseng, 2 ounces of turmeric, ½ ounce of the skins of fowls’ gizzards,” all to be “put into three pints of West India rum” and left to stand for a week. The mixture was to be taken in “4 to 8 drops as the constitution can bear before eating.”
Representative of vernacular medical practice in the early Republic, a concise example of early American household pharmacology.
Description: For Dyspepsia [Early nineteenth-century medical receipt].
[Likely America, ca. 1800–1830.] Manuscript on wove paper, 8 x 7½ in., written in brown ink on one side. Not docketed.
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