332 C H O L I C, &c. 



Take coriander, fweet fennel, anifeeds, and Jamai- 

 ca pepper, bruifed, each an ounce and half; 

 grains of Paradife half an ounce; ginger two 

 drachms. Bruife feparately in a mortar; then 

 boil in three pints of thin gruel for ten minutes; 

 ftrain, and add of compound anifeed water, or, in 

 want of that, Geneva or brandy, half a pint: 

 of this compofition let half be given fo foon as 

 poffible, and the remainder in two, four, or fix 

 hours, as the mitigation or feverity of fymp- 

 toms may dictate. 



If the diftance from a town, or difficulty of 

 obtaining the above preparations, lliould render 

 a fubftitute unavoidable, the following attempt 

 to relieve fhould be inftantly adopted : 



Take of ginger, caraways, nutmegs, Jamaica pep- 

 per ; or in fa6t of any two fpices (the houfe af- 

 fords in the emergency), each an ounce ; bruife 

 together in a mortar, and boil a few minutes in 

 three quarters of a pint of gruel or ale, with 

 two or three ounces of fugar ; then ftrain and add 

 a gill of Geneva or brandy, giving the drink mo- 

 derately warm. 



This, in country places, and remote farm- 

 houfes, may be found an ufeful and convenient 

 fubftitute during the time unavoidably necefTary 



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