Recipe for the bite of a scorpion

On opening my basket of clothes this morning, I found in one of the fold of a shirt a young scorpion, about half an inch long, of a light colour, almost transparent: how he got there I cannot conceive. I however committed him to the Nile, and shall be careful to search if any more are among my effects. According to Mr. Anderson, this is not the time of year in which they are dangerous. I mentioned to him the applications which gives much relief to the person stung by one of these reptiles. The pain is in general excessive, and where deaths have ensued, they have been too readily attributed to the poison; whereas I believe they have been caused by fever brought on by the very great pain. The remedy to which I allude is pounded ipecacuanha, made into a paste, and applied to the wound itself. I carried some with me, as well as some eau de luce, which is very efficacious for the bite of snakes. A gallant general, who fell in the Nepaul war, was once saved by the latter, being insensible from the bite of a snake, but recovered in consequence of taking it. The natives of India are aware of its good qualities, and anxious to procure it, calling it sefait dewi, of white medicine.

from Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt to England, in the latter end of the year 1817, and the beginning of 1818
by Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence, 1819