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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)
subsection 263
263. Tartarum: i.e. tartar of wine; hot and dry in the third degree; it purges the phlegmatic humour and the viscous humours generally; it is of benefit against the cold illnesses that are caused by the gross
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humours. It has the virtue of excoriating the intestines, for which reason it should not be given on its own without other things with it. If it be dried and put in wet wounds, it will dry them. If powder be made of them and they be given to people who are too fat, it will wear down their excessive fatness. If an ounce and a half of them be given with honey that has been purified by skimming, it will relax the bowels for them ten times, as we have said.