My Cousen We[s]bys resept for the Dropsy

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Title: My Cousen We[s]bys resept for the Dropsy
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A remedy for dropsy (edema or swelling) using squill, elecampane, hyssop, horehound, and elder mixed with ginger and wine.
Transcript: Take [or as] Roots Squills & Elicompany roots of each one ounce. A jsop & hore hound leves of Each one handfull of the inner rind of Elder that is the dwarf Elder & also A Green Elder of each one handfull: A Se[illegible] one ounce & a half Agrick’s drams Ginger one dram the leves brused & the roots Cut thin all put in to 2 quarts of white wine put in to a picher well stoped and set in to a Boyling pan of water to the Neck let it boyll [inserted left margin: full an our when all most cold strain it very hard in to a flagen & when its setled some time the next day botle it up & take fasting in the morning ten spoonfuls for 6 mornings to geather then drink out the rest it will give you a gentle P[illegible] and maby a gentle woman be Reguller
Subject: See all items with this value ginger; See all items with this value white wines; See all items with this value squills (Scilla); See all items with this value elecampane (Inula helenium); See all items with this value hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis); See all items with this value elder (Sambucus nigra); See all items with this value dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus); See all items with this value illness; See all items with this value remedies (health); See all items with this value medicinal plants; See all items with this value white horehound (Marrubium vulgare)
Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Grimm, Stephanie; Salahuddin, Shafiya
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine