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In canto 10 of Byron’s Don Juan, the hero “grew sick” and “showed a feverish disposition”, whereupon “his medicines [were] doubled”:
But here is one prescription out of many:
“Sodæ-Sulphat. 3. vi. 3. s. Mannæ optim.
“Aq. fervent. F. 3. iſs. 3ij. tinct. Sennæ
“Haustus.” (And here the surg...