To take a pin: or web out of the Eye
Item
- Title
- To take a pin: or web out of the Eye
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A treatment for the eyes made by mixing celandine with the "juice" of a centipede (possibly a louse) with honey and salt, and dropped into the eye.
- Transcript
- Rx a litele Salendine ground juie of the juyce of Each 2 spounefuls 4 Sowes & a litele Honey and a corn of Salt drop ths in to the Eye & it will cure it probatam est
- Subject
- See all items with this valuecelandine (Chelidonium majus)
- See all items with this valuehoney
- See all items with this valuesalt (seasonings)
- See all items with this valueinsects
- See all items with this valuelice
- See all items with this valueremedies (health)
- See all items with this valueeyes
- Contributor
- Abu-Bader Nagham
- 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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