Account of the use of 'Hipecacuana', a root growing in Brazil, by Hans Sloane
Reference number: RBO/8/21
Date: 1697
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Gives various medicinal remedies to cure fluxes and dysentery with details of 'The Stomachick Elixir', 'the ordinary Ptisan', and 'Clysters'
Read to the Royal Society on 23 March 1697
- Reference number
- RBO/8/21
- Earliest possible date
- 1697
- Page extent
- 10 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Account of the use of 'Hipecacuana', a root growing in Brazil, by Hans Sloane, 1697, RBO/8/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_8_21/account-of-the-use-of-hipecacuana-a-root-growing-in-brazil-by-hans-sloane, accessed on 11 April 2026
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 8, copies of papers communicated 1695-1700
1695-1700 Reference number: RBO/8
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