For a scald head
Item
Title
For a scald head
Transcript
Rx 2 pound of buter out of the Churn not washed in to a frying pan put to it 4 handfuls of vervine chopt and put in 2 good handfuls of bay salt but beat your salt well be fore you put it in then put it in to to your frying pan with youre buter & vervine when youre salt is melted stir them with a wooden Knife till thay chang couler that is to look like a blackish Greene then take it of the fire and stir it till it be colde in the frying pan for it will melt Peuter when it is colde take it out of the pan and put it in to a Cleane scellet to setele then melt it on a soft Fire and strane it to ceep it for your need then before you anoint the head let the paient take a purge of jolop & creame of Tarter one peny worth of Each for 3 days to gether if a woman or a childe Every other day then anoint the head Every day till it be well this will by Gods help cure for it - never fails
Subject
Vervain See all items with this value
jalap resin See all items with this value
Cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate) See all items with this value
Contributor
Ochsner, Elizabeth
Le, Vincent
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.