A Plaster to ceep [keep] a [woman] [text loss]

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Title: A Plaster to ceep [keep] a [woman] [text loss]
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A process for making a medicinal substance using a range of tree gums or resins including mastic, Elemi, Benjamin (gum benzoin), Burgundy pitch, dragonsblood, and troches (dried cakes or lozenges) of alipta muscata, as well as bole armeniac, lead oxide, quince oil, Venice turpentine, beeswax, Himalayan balsam, and lavender oil.
Transcript: Rx of the Choice mastick 4 drams Gum Elemni half an ounce burgendy pitch 3 dragms beniamen & dragons blood of Each two drams melt all these straneing them and add to them of the best Bole almenack finely poudered: 2 drams: of the Trockeses caled Alipte: Moscate; five drams of the plaster of red Lead redy made. of the oyle of Quinces half an ounce one dram of venice Turpentine a litele boyled: half half an ounce of Bees wax, one dram & half of Indian balsam[m] one scrupele, of oyle of Spicke half an ounce make all these in to 2 plaisters and spread them upon lether: one for the Region of the back the other for the lower Region of the belly send to the A Pothecarey and he will compose it: The – charge will be a bout six shilins this quantity will sarve two if thare be ocasion
Subject: See all items with this value resin; See all items with this value mastic; See all items with this value elemi; See all items with this value Benjamin (benzoin resin); See all items with this value Armenian bole; See all items with this value red lead (lead(II,IV) oxide); See all items with this value quince; See all items with this value Venice turpentine; See all items with this value essential oils; See all items with this value lavender oil; See all items with this value beeswax; See all items with this value Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera); See all items with this value leather; See all items with this value remedies (health); See all items with this value illness; See all items with this value alipta muscata (labdanum)
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.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine

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