For a pimpled Face

Title: For a pimpled Face
Description: A recipe for acne made from grape juice, camphor, sugar candy, roche alum, and verdigris, all mixed and kept underground for 40 days.
Transcript: Rx the juce of un ripe grapes [strike out] 4 Camphir ℥ ß suger Candy ℥ ß Roach alum 6 dr: sublimate 2 dr verdigrace 6 dr: put all these in to a glas with a strate neck stop the mouth Close & burey it in Earth 40 days in a Celer or low room is best after uce it to the face or aney other place the oyley white pouder found in an oyster shell pils [Teters] if you an oynt thare wth
Subject: See all items with this value acne; See all items with this value grapes; See all items with this value camphor; See all items with this value alum; See all items with this value sugar candy; See all items with this value verdigris; See all items with this value oyster shell
Contributor: Abu-Bader, Nagham; Le, Vincent; Thibodeau, Gavin
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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