Inoculation made easy. : Containing a full and true discovery of the method practised in the County of Essex ... Being intended for the benefit of masters and mistresses of families, and the public in general ... With a true receipt to make the preparative powders, repellent pills, and the punch used in inoculation.

Date:
1767
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Credit: Inoculation made easy. : Containing a full and true discovery of the method practised in the County of Essex ... Being intended for the benefit of masters and mistresses of families, and the public in general ... With a true receipt to make the preparative powders, repellent pills, and the punch used in inoculation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Repellent Pill. Take ten Grains of Kermes Mineral *, twenty Grains of the beft • Socotrine Aloes, and ten Grains of Camphor, add a fufficient Quantity of Spirits of Wine, to make them into a Mafs for Pills, which is done by beating them together in a Mortar; of this Compofition make four Pills. N. B. You mujl firfl pound the Camphor with a few Drops of Spirits of Wine, then mix the other Ingredients. But now thefe Pills are but little ufed\ as Regularity in Preparation is fujficieni without them. Some few have a flight Fever at the Time of breeding the Pock, thofe are defired to drink plentifully of the following Decodtion, or Punch, as it is termed in Efex. The Patient may have it made, or make it himfelf, the Defign of which is to carry off the Fever. The Receipt is as follows. Take unground Oats a Handful, and boil them for fome Time in a Quart of Spring-Water, then ftrain it, with which mix half an Ounce of antimoniated Nitre, half an Ounce of Citron, or Lemon juice, and an Ounce and half of the Syrup of Violets. About fix or feven Days after Inoculation this Liquor fhould be drank very plentiful!}', as it tends, from its cooling Quality, to carry off every Symptom of the Fever.-[The Ingredients may be had at any Apothecary’s^ nor muff the Patient be without it. But to make this ufeful Liquor more cheap and eafv to the Poor, I have fet down another Method, which in a great Mealure will anfwer all the Intentions of the firfl:, and is as follows. Boil a Handful of Oats in a Quart of Spring-Water, add to it after it is ftrained, half an Ounce of Salt-Petre; (harpen this Liquor with a little Lemon Juice or Vinegar, and fweeten it to the Palate with brown Sugar or Honey. This will not be fo pleafant as the firft Method of making it, tho’ almoft as effectual ; by drinking plentifully of this the Fever will be * -For the Virtues of Kermes Mineral, See Dr. James's Difpenfatory. almofi*