Name: Remedy in Case of Swallowing Pins, Fish or Other Sharp Bones
Ingredients: 4 grains of tartar emetic; 6 egg whites

Remedy in Case of Swallowing Pins, Fish or Other Sharp Bones

Ingredients

4 grains of tartar emetic
6 egg whites

Directions

Dissolve 4 grains of tartar emetic in warm water.
Have the patient drink the egg whites to coat the stomach.
This will help envelope the sharp object for expulsion.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Remedy in Case of Swallowing Pins, Fish or Other Sharp Bones