| Description Of Item | Recipe to treat an extreme nose bleed, here called haemorrhage, to take ‘16 gr of laud [laudanum] londini’, divide it in two pills, and ‘thrust them up into the nostrils, into each nostril’, while also noting that ‘both nostrils seldom bleed together’.
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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