332 C H O L I C, &c; 



Take coriander, fweet fennel, anife feeds, and 

 Jamaica pepper, bruifed, each an ounce and 

 half; grains of Paradife half an ounce •, gin- 

 ger two drachms. Bruife feparately in a mor- 

 tar; then boil in three pints of thin gruel for 

 ten minutes ; ftrain and add of compound ani- 

 feed water, or, in want of thai, Geneva or 

 brandy half a pint: of this compofition let half 

 be given fo foon as polnble, and the remain- 

 der in two, four, or fix hours, as the miti- 

 gation or feverity of fymptoms may didate. 



If the diilance from a town, or difficulty of 

 obtaining the above preparations, fhould render 

 a fubftitute unavoidable, the following attempt 

 to relieve fhould be inftantly adopted : 



Take of ginger, caraways, nutmegs, Jamaica 

 pepper-, or in hS: of any two fpices (the 

 houfe affords in the emergency), each an 

 ounce; bruifc together in a mortar, and boil 

 a few minutes in three quarters of a pint of 

 gruel or ale, with tv/o or three ounces of fugar; 

 then drain and add a gill of Geneva or brandy, 

 giving the drink moderately warm. 



This, in country places, and remote farm- 

 houfes, may be found an uleful and convenient 

 fubftitute during the time unavoidably neceffary 



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