| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in recipe are: pepper, salt, and fine bole.
‘Put pepper, salt & fine bole in your uvula-spoon, put it under the palate being fallen & blow the powder into the cavity behind the uvula’.
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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