The great importance and proper method of cultivating and curing rhubarb in Britain, for medicinal uses : with an appendix / By Sir William Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1792
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Credit: The great importance and proper method of cultivating and curing rhubarb in Britain, for medicinal uses : with an appendix / By Sir William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    calls Anitna Rhabarbari. One teafpoonful of this given once a day to a child of a year old, twice a day to one of twenty-four months old, and three times a day to one » a year older, is one of the beft compofitions * as yet known for ftrengthening the ftomach and bowels of little children, and preventing '■Tse * the big bellies, rickety joints and limbs, incident to their age, 7. Put half an ounce of the fibrous roots of our Rhubarb mentioned above, with two drachms of this fame Salt of Tartar, into a bottle of brandy, or as much anife- feed water; and you have an excellent tindlure and domeftic medicine for the wind cholic. And laftly, if the reader is not tired of my encomiums on Tartar (though this particular article has nothing to do with the above combinations of Tartar and Rhu-