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Diabetes

From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829).

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From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829), printed page 4, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/101091388.nlm.nih.gov

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Ingredients

Method

  1. This disord -v, which consists in an involuntary discbarge of the urine, which is pale and thin, frequently proves fatal.
  2. To cure it, take a quart of blood from the neck and give the following Ball for diabetes.
  3. Peruvian bark four drachms, ginger one drachm, if costive after it, give a pint of castor oil.
  4. Repea if necessary.