For the Scurvey
Item
- Title
- For the Scurvey
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A remedy for treating scurvy using mustard seed, scurvy-grass, wormwood, and juniper berries steeped in brandy and drunk with ale.
- Transcript
- Take muster seed scurvey Gras & wormwode of Each half an ounce, half an ounce of juniper Bereys bruse them, mix them all to gether & ty them in a thin - pece of Canvice or bag, put in 2 quarts of the best brandey let it stand 3 days put 3 spounefouls of this in a litele smoale ale & drink it every morning
- Subject
- See all items with this valuemustard seeds
- See all items with this valuescurvy grass (Cochlearia officinalis)
- See all items with this valuewormwood (Artemisia absinthium)
- See all items with this valueberries (fruits)
- See all items with this valuejuniper berry
- See all items with this valuebrandy
- See all items with this valuebeers
- See all items with this valueillness
- See all items with this valueremedies (health)
- See all items with this valuescurvy
- Contributor
- Ochsner, Elizabeth
- Le, Vincent
- Grimm, Stephanie
- Bakir, Mehtap
- 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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