Folio 2. Page 36. Verso
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Title
Folio 2. Page 36. Verso
Subject
Medicine for Tooth ache and Cholick with a touch of poison.
Description
tea-pot with half a pint of boiling
water, & disguised with a few drops
of milk & a little Sugar- a small
teacup full may be given every ten
minutes till it operates [.........]
[... .... may] ┌or you may ┐ give[n] 5 or 6 Grains of ipeca-
-cuanha in powder conceale'd in jelly &
The feet shou'd be bathe'd in warm
water┌once┐ every 2 or 3 days- the Body
kept gently open- & if the Cough
prove very obistent a little syrup
of poppies may be sometimes taken
to allay it-
R In Cholicky complaints
much good may be done by, bathing
the feet & legs in warm water- fomen
-ting the Stomach & Bowels- making
the Patient drink freely of diluting
mucilagenous Liquors, & giving an
emollient Clyster every 2 hours-
Tooth ache
Such things as promote the discharge
of saliva are useful- such as Gentian, or the
ro Calamus aromaticus, or pellitory
of
Spain- or the root of the yellow water
water, & disguised with a few drops
of milk & a little Sugar- a small
teacup full may be given every ten
minutes till it operates [
[
-cuanha in powder conceale'd in jelly &
The feet shou'd be bathe'd in warm
water┌once┐ every 2 or 3 days- the Body
kept gently open- & if the Cough
prove very obistent a little syrup
of poppies may be sometimes taken
to allay it-
much good may be done by, bathing
the feet & legs in warm water- fomen
-ting the Stomach & Bowels- making
the Patient drink freely of diluting
mucilagenous Liquors, & giving an
emollient Clyster every 2 hours-
Tooth ache
Such things as promote the discharge
of saliva are useful- such as Gentian,
ro
of
Spain- or the root of the yellow water
Continued from Folio2. Page 35. Recto.
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Creator
Charlotte Starkie
Source
Folio2. Page 35. Recto
Publisher
Gillespie Family
Date
1782 to 1808
Rights
Site licence
Relation
Folio2. Page 35. Recto
Format
Handwritten text on a page of a paper document
Language
English
Type
Paper document
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tea-pot with half a pint of boiling water, & disguised with a few drops of milk & a little Sugar- a small teacup full may be given every ten minutes till it operates ......... ... ....may or you may give
R In Cholicky complaints
much good may be done by, bathing the feet & legs in warm water- fomenting the Stomach and Bowels- making the Patient drink freely of diluting mucilagenous Liquors, & giving an emollient Clyster every 2 hours-
Tooth ache
Such things as promote the discharge of saliva are useful- such as Gentian, or the ro Calamus aromaticus, or pellitory of Spain- or the root of the yellow water
Tooth ache
Syrup of Poppies is another name for Opium. It is potentially lethal. The 'Leeds Intelligencer' on Tuesday 12 July 1791 (p3), reporting the death of a baby from a misjudged dose of the medicine, said that; "...opium, laudanum, nay even Godfrey's cordial, syrup of poppies, and poppy tea, are deleterious poisons, and there is reason to fear that the lives of some, and the constitutions of many children, fall a sacrifice to such medicines, when imprudently administered."
Pellitory of Spain is a small Mediterranean edible and aromatic plant, Anacyclus pyrethrum, the root of which contains an oil formerly used to relieve toothache.
Calamus was largely grown from time immemorial for its rhizomes in the East and the Indian rhizomes were imported extensively long after it was common in Europe.
If the Calamus of the Bible is this plant, Exodus xxx. 23, Canticles iv. 14, and Ezekiei xxvii. 19, are the earliest records of its use.
The Calamus aromaticus of the Ancients is thought by some to be a plant belonging to the Gentian family, though the description of the plant 'Acoron,' a native of Colchis, Galatia, Pontus and Crete, given by Dioscorides and Pliny, seems to refer to the Sweet Flag.
It is now found wild on the margins of ponds and rivers in most of the English counties, and is in some parts abundant.
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Charlotte Starkie, “Folio 2. Page 36. Verso,” The Huntroyd Receipts, accessed October 21, 2026, https://huntroyd.co.uk/items/show/82.
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