This Resept Good a Gainst infection

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Title

This Resept Good a Gainst infection

Transcript

This Resept Good a Gainst infection Take ye best kresketine & pintes. boyle in it a hand full of red sage as much Earbygrace. let it boyle to a pinte yn strane it out & set it on ye fire a gane and put in long peper Ginger and nutmegs of each a like quansaty one oence well bett: put it in wth an ounce of Medridate & 2 ounces of ye best venice freackle a quarter of a pinte of aquaritey give it a litele boyle once or twice to betele it up for uee when ye person findes ym selves verey ill let ym take 3 or 4 sponefuls of it warm wgo to bed swell on it keeping warm after it. if not ill and aney distemper be [illegible]uring a brode take a [illegible] oune full warm ye first thing in a morning ya Plague adn furfits seveours small pose of Colds in [illegible] benes [2 words illegible] give it in surfeits after- drinking for it in flames more- you may give w a man fill 4 ounces to a woman 3 together

Contributor

Abu-Bader, Nagham
Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.