Philosophical Transactions. For the months of January, February and March, 1714

Philosophical Transactions. For the months of January, February and March, 1714 - Part IV.

By Nicole Renee

IV. A Recipe: Or the ingredients of a medicine for the spreading mortal distemper amongst cows: Lately sent over from Holland, where a like distemper raged amongst the black cattle.¹

Recipe veronica, pulmonarie, hissopi, scordii, ana m ivrad, aristolochie rotundo, gentiana, angelica, petasitidis, tormentilla, carlina, and unc. 12. bac lauri & funiperi, ana unc. 12. misc. fiat pulvis.²
Bleed the cow³, and give her every morning, for 3 or 4 mornings, an ounce of this powder with a horn in warm beer. If the cow's illness continues, after omission of 2 or 3 days, repeat the medicine for 3 or 4 days again.

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This entry was titled in the contents page as: A recipe: Or the ingredients of a medicine for the late spreading distemper amongst cows. Sent lately from Holland, where it was made use of with success. [↩]
The Netherlands lost 70% of cattle due to what is called the cattle plague. Some farmers lost little to no cattle and because of demand became very wealthy. [↩]
But not these cows! [↩]

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Philosophical Transactions. For the months of January, February and March, 1714 - Part III. « Bimbo.Club says:

January 8, 2019 at 11:09 p.m.

[...] the correlation between a work area and associated disease. [↩]See my previous article article for the 'recipe' that was being used for a cure. [↩]OCR must have left a random 'for' as a [...]

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