Strangury
From Six hundred receipts.
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From Six hundred receipts, printed page 414, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/600-hundred-recipe-studyebookscom
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From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.
- Curing. Old curing amounts and salts may be unsafe. Use current tested guidance.
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Ingredients
- 1 quart of blood
- 1 ounce saltpetre
- a pint of water
Method
- Take away 1 quart of blood, and throw up a laxa- tive clyster;
- then give 1 ounce saltpetre and 1 fluidounce sweet spirits of nitre in a pint of water.
- No.
- 415.
- Strangles.
- This is known by a swelling between the jaw-bone and the root of the tongue.
- Ifa large tumour appear under the jaw, apply the suppurating poultice.
- When it is ripe, open it, squeeze out the matter, and reapply a warm poultice.
- In a few days it will run off.
- Give warm bran mashes and gentle exercise.