Title

The Resept of Clounes Woundwort

Date

1694/1795

Description

A remedy for fresh wound treatments made by reducing clown's woundwort in boar's grease, olive oil, and beeswax, then boiling in Venice turpentine.

Transcript

[inserted left margin: For a green Wound] Rx 4 handfuls of the hearb stamped & put in a pan. where unto put 4 ounces of Boares Grease half a pinte of oyle olive, Bees wax 3 ounces boyle these [struck: [illegible]]n unto the concumtion of the Juyce, which is knowne by this when the staf doth not Bubele a tall then straine it so set it on the fire againe add to it 2 ounces of venice Turpentine which must boyle in it a litele this you may resarve for your uce

Subject

See all items with this valueclown's woundword (Lamiaceae)

See all items with this valueedible oils and fats

See all items with this valueolive oil

See all items with this valuebeeswax

See all items with this valueVenice turpentine

Contributor

Caylor, Karmen

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.