Lady Munson an excellent resept for Dropsy & Scurvy
Item
- Title
- Lady Munson an excellent resept for Dropsy & Scurvy
- Creator
- Lady Munson
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A remedy for dropsy (edema) and scurvy using mustard seed, lemon, and clove dissolved in ale.
- Transcript
- Take a Gallon of New ale put in to a Spiket pot put to it 2 ounces of Mustter seed bruised a litle a Lemon Stuck with Cloves Let it stand 3 or 4 days when clear drink their of a bout 1/2 a pint fasting and as much at 4 in the after Noon
- Subject
- See all items with this valuebeers
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- Contributor
- Ochsner, Elizabeth
- Le, Vincent
- 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.
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