| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in recipe are: ‘galls’, alum.
‘Rx’, 47? galls and 4 ounces of alum, ‘calcine them & powder’ before blowing it into the nostrils.
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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