Specification of Francis Tanner : sudorific pill.

  • Tanner, Francis.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Francis Tanner : sudorific pill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bennett. Tanners Specifick Pill. and of turbith mineral one ounce and two drams, all being in fine powder, with surup of buckthorn and balsam capivi, of each equal quantities, as much as is sufficient; make little pills, each weighing fifteen grains, to be taken one pill over night and another next morning, drinking gruel, broth, or sack whey, as they give a motion or two besides the sweat, which is to be received as 5 fast as the pill pushes it out of the joint, and suckt up into a sheeps milt slit in the middle and laid on a piece of flannell, and so to be bound on round the swelled joint or limb, upon which ease is presently had, repeating the pills and renewing the flannell and milt some few times. In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Tanner, have hereunto sett my 10 hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May, One thousand seven hundred and forty-four, and in the seventeenth year of the reign of King George the Second. FRANCIS TANNER. AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twelfth day of M!ay above 15 written, the before-named Francis Tanner came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above Writing, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above said; and also the said Writing was stamped according to the form of the Statute made and provided in the sixth year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, and so 20 forth. Inrolled the Twelfth day of May, in the seventeenth year of King George the Second within written. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode Printers to the Queen s most Excellent Majesty. 1856.