To Make an Ointment for a Scald head
Item
- Title
- To Make an Ointment for a Scald head
- Creator
- G. Spencer
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A remedy for treating ringworm using butter, ale, and wormwood.
- Transcript
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Take a pound of fresh butter & a quart of strong ale & a good quantity of wormwoods boyl all theas to gather till it lookes green & then strain out the wormewood & let & let it stand till it be cold & then render it for yr use when you use it you must shave the hare and anoint all over the head with ointment & let them wear the same cloath thrice a day with it
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- See all items with this valuebutter
- See all items with this valuebeers
- See all items with this valuewormwood (Artemisia absinthium)
- See all items with this valueillness
- See all items with this valueremedies (health)
- Contributor
- Caylor, Karmen
- 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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