Name: A Fever Drink
Ingredients: 1 ounce Mitbridate; ½ ounce Peruvian bark; 1 ounce aromatic spirit of ammonia; 8 ounces castor oil; 1 quart warm gruel

A Fever Drink

Ingredients

Directions

Mix Mitbridate, Peruvian bark, aromatic spirit of ammonia, and castor oil in warm gruel.
Give the mixture immediately.
Repeat once or twice a day as necessary.

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.