| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in recipe are: snails shells, Rhenish or white wine or winter cherry broth or decoction.
‘Rx’ for ‘stoppage of the urine’, take 2 drachms of powdered snail shells in half a pint or one pint of ‘Rhenish, whitewine or winter-Cherrie-broath or decoction’, first thing in the morning and last before bed.
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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