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Health and Medicine
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Title
Health and Medicine
Date
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1694/1795
Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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George Mason University Libraries
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Public domain
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To make Spirit of Urin
To Cure the biting of a mad dog
To break an Imposthume in the Eare or for a Noise in the head
To draw out an Imposthume without incision
A preservative in the Small pox
To preserve the Face from pittying
To preserve the Eyes from the Smallpox
When the Small Pox strik in again & the Party is in great dainger of death
To Cause urin presently
To take the fire out of a Wound
To increase flesh or Cure a Wound
To heal without a Scar
A Plaster of Tachamahac Spred
A medicinal treatment using tacamahac, a resin from the balsam poplar tree, to help with a range of ailments.
Aneseclent Medcine to disolve and bring away the Stone
To desolve the Stone
For the Same
Another treatment for the condition known as quinsy/quinsey, a potentially life-threatening complication from tonsillitis.
For the Same
A treatment for the condition called quinsy / quinsey, a potentially life-threatening complication from tonsillitis.
Quinsey
To renew wasted Kidneys
A sure and perfect way to Cure the plague to full of tokens and St Anthonys fire
Against Obstructions
[Flugeny?] water twenty drops in Milk water given to the woman hastens her Labour
To drive out the Measles
For Aches the Old
A recipe for unclear purposes, using chamomile oil
The way My Lady Kent gave it to Mr Sheldon
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