Regency Health and Medicine: Wafers and Cordials for Fevers

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a A cordial Balus to be taken in Fevers Take half a scruple of Goa ftone and the fame qaanstity of crabs claws five grains of powderedlaffron mix the whole together and make it up p in a botus for the patient Wafers to be taken in Fivers Take one ounce of tamarinds the fame quantity ofi the juice of Spanish liquorice maffi the whole together in a morter with two drams of gum tragacinth then lay the compofition on troches and leti then be fet to dry in a flow oven They are to be given one at time to the patient to be held in the mouth as they contri bute to aleviate drought by keeping the mouth moist NB The above medicines are ufefül in fevers in general and are al lefs or more useful but there béiàg fo many different forts of fevers and attended with fach a variety of fymptoms that the person who would prescribe for particular ones pught to be well acquainted with the conlitation of the patient otherwise he may do more harm than good In fach cases therefore it is the duty of the perfon affitted or their friends to fend for a physician who upon examining into the nature of the disorder and the patients constitution will know what to apply

These recipes appeared in The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).

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