Specification of Robert Mason : medicine.

  • Mason, Robert.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Robert Mason : medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    James Sudlow, a Master rv Extra at Old Sodbury. 2 A.D. 1792.—N° 1878. Masons Medicine for Extirpating Worms. Take of powder of jallap two pounds, powder of coriander seeds two pounds, powder of scammony (Smyrna) half a pound, powder of box leaves half a pound, dulcified mercury half a pound, ipecacuan powder half a pound, yEthiop s minerals half a pound, powder of ginger six ounces, carraway seeds twelve ounces, lenitive electuary three pounds, fine wheat flour four 5 pounds, treacle a sufficient quantity to make a dowe, roll the dowe, and cut them in pieces of half a dram weight each, then bake the dowe in an oven. Directions for taking the aboveWhen a full purge is required, a grown person may take one nut at bedtime, and two the next morning; if that should not operate, a fourth nut may be taken. For a child of two years old, half a 10 nut at night, and the other in the morning. For a child of five or six years old, one nut at night, and another in the morning. From six years to thirteen, one nut at night, and one and a half in the morning. Proper care must be taken, and the operation encouraged with thin water gruel. In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Mason, have hereunto set my 15 hand and seal, the Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. ROBT MASON. (l.s.) AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fourth day of June, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Robert Mason came before our Lord 20 the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided. Inrolled the Eleventh day of June, in the year above written. g n LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1856.