A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt. Easily known from all counterfeits by its bitter taste / Written originally in Latin ... And now published in English, by Joseph Bridges. With animadversions of a late corrupt translation publish'd by Francis Moult.

Nehemiah Grew

Date:: 1697

Credit: A treatise of the nature and use of the bitter purging salt. Easily known from all counterfeits by its bitter taste / Written originally in Latin ... And now published in English, by Joseph Bridges. With animadversions of a late corrupt translation publish'd by Francis Moult. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Í Jy ( 42.) VE ter feafon'd with 7Mace, of the Bitter Purging| « B Salt fix Drachms, an Ounce, or ten Drachms,|. : ED Mix, and drink them fafting, warm or cold, as 1! you like them belt, repeating them thrice, of i oftner, if need be, either every, or each other} || Het day ; and join herewith the following Pils. — 4i. i Ü AW Take red. Rofes:and ftrong Cinamon, of each” a Drachm, Cloves and Salt of Steel of each al. Oil of Aint eight Drops, and as much Syrugy P of Steel as will make them up into twenty fou. - Pills. Let the Patient take threeof them every} p day, two hours before a Dinner of Spoon-meat and as many going to Bed. D^ A. Fomentation made: with a hot Isfufzon. 0| Mint and. Red. Rofes, and an Ounce of Venity, | Treacle in Claret-Wine, may fometimes be Of, great ufe. ioe iy In the Pain of the Stomach like tbe'Colick. | |dri Take of the belt Sena two Drachms, Adacel] ° Drachm: Boil them in a fufficient quantity € ake Spring-water, to three Pints or two Quarts i and to.the {trained Liquor add fix Drachms, a Ounce, or ten Drachms of the Bitter Purgm Salt, Syrup of Steel an Ounce and half; for Purging Apozeme, to be drunk in the Mornin l after the ufual manner. Or it may be mad ule without Sena *, and taken either by it felf, € Uy with the following Pulls. Tal Ericus S r LA — + Or without Sena. ] That is, when it gripes the Patient [$