Diabetes
From 600 miscellaneous valuable receipts, worth their weight in gold (1860).
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From 600 miscellaneous valuable receipts, worth their weight in gold (1860), printed page 389, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/600miscellaneous00marq
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Ingredients
- a quart of blood
- 4 ounces Peruvian bark
- 1 drachm ginger
- a pint of castor-oil
Method
- This disorder, which consists in an involuntary discharge of the urine, which is pale and thin, frequently proves fatal.
- To cure it, take a quart of blood from the neck, and give the following ball : — Ball for Diabetes, Take 4 ounces Peruvian bark, 1 drachm ginger;
- if costive after it, give a pint of castor-oil.
- Repeat, if necessary.