Dartmouth Medical Student Notebooks

Bitters used by William Chadbourne 1 North Conway N.H.

Chamomile flowers Scullcap Balmony Boneset [Ppsiseway] 2 lbs each

Hops Sassafras Root Bark Beeches leaves Juniper berries

Gentian Root Yellow Dock Stillingia Mandrake one pound each Anise seed one half pound Cayenne one ounce

Five parts of water to one of 95 per cent Alcocol - (over)

These Bitters contain the following meds and properties - They are Diaphoretic producing viscus [the] perspiration expelling humor Through the pore of the skin. They are Diuretic [] reaching the disease of the urinary and generation organs carrying off humor in the water They are gently Laxaive eliminating humors by the bordels - thus combining the best properties for a blood

[panifer] They are Ante-bilious, reaching disease of the Liver - vemrony tired langaid feelings [+] using strength and vigor to the whole system The expell humor from the stomach and increase the appetite They are Anodyne [quating] the nervous System producing refreshing sleep without the nartotic effects of opiates - Take one quarter spoonfull three times a day a short time before eating [Zcapling] the last dose

wheel take just before going to bed. The dose may be increased as the system requires.

Pancakes Half a Pint of Milk Three Table spoons full of sugar, Three Eggs, a tea spoon full of sal Eratis a little cinnamon or cloves, a little salt, stir in the flour

Molasses Cake 3 Tea Cups of Molasses 3 Tea spoon full of sal Eratus, one quart of milk. dissolve the sal Eratus in a Cup of the Milk, and mix the whole as you would Pound Cake

Molasses Ginger Bread 1 Tea Cup of Molasses 2 tea spoonfull of sall Eratus, one Pint of Cyder, one Tea Cup of Butter, stir in flour as thick as pancakes, ginger as you please. -

Tea Cakes 3 cups of sugar, 3 eggs, one cup of Butter 1 cup of milk, - 1 Teaspoon of Sall Eratus - make it not as stiff as Pound Cake. -

To remove Ink spots from Linnin or cotton [???]

Supply strong vinegar, lemonjuice & salt, by rubbing the spot with part of a lemon - or oxymumat[???] and or common m[???]

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Printers Ink or any kind of Peint may be removed by rubbing it with oil of turpentine, warmed by putting the phial in hot water

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He[???] of [???] or [???] may be removed by strong [???] of wine or the oxy-numati[???] acid & washing with soap [???]

To remove grease spots.

To render leather water-proof (used by fishermen) Bees wax, Burgundey pitch, and terpentine of each 2 oz. Fallow 4 oz. - melt + rub on when the leather is warm & dry - or Take Bees wax 1/2 tb Rosin 1/4 - Beetroot 1/4 melt.-