Title

Aneseclent Medcine to disolve and bring away the Stone

Transcript

Aneseclent Medcine to disolve and bring away the Stone

Rx large Oystershells open them & take out the whit powder take quantity of that powder & the like of Egshells take out the Skin calcine both in a Crucible each by it self then beat them to powder & sers them: then take one spounfull of these equally mixt in possit drink of halfe Ale & halfe white wine and drink it puting in to the posset drink an handfull of green- broom & an handfull Nettels & giveing it a boyle when drinkable put in the afforesaid powders a spounfull and drink a draught [the] broom & Nettles being dieiereticks guid the Virtue of the powders-

Subject

oyster shells

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posset

ale

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common broom

nettles

diuretic

Contributor

Abu-Bader, Nagham

Le, Vincent

Source

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

Publisher

en George Mason University Libraries

Rights

en Public domain. There are no known restrictions.