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Fairfax-Spencer Family Recipe Book
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Who Was Elizabeth Fairfax?
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Health and Medicine
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Title
Health and Medicine
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1694/1795
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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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[text loss; top of page N125 stained and torn; may be continued]
Appears to be a recipe for a poultice or plaster, using beeswax, pitch, mace (pepper), and turpentine, spread on a sheepskin and worn on the stomach.
[no title - recipe for a medicine for bowel problems]
[Hathorn's] Tincture
A recipe for making a medicinal tincture using crushed tree bark mixed with orange peel, snakeroot (a non-specific plant genus), saffron, and cochineal and steeped in brandy.
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