Eyes to restore Sight, An drink, and Wash

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Title: Eyes to restore Sight, An drink, and Wash
Date: 1694/1795
Description: Recipes for a draught and eye wash to restore vision using herbs infused in white wine.
Transcript: Rx Red sage Red Fennill Vervin Eybright Lovage Saxafrage dill penyroyall Tormentill Rue Cinque-foil folowers Elder flowers Ground Ivy Celandine Red Nettle Betony Lusimackium or lose strife hearts Tongue Melipodes 50 or 100 Cinamon [illegible] i and of each of the hearts an handfull bruse all these in a morter then put upon them a bottle of White Wine let them infuse 24 howers then Strain them out drink hereof near haffe a pint morning and Evening. you may put a quart more of white wine with a little white Rose watter upon the druges let it stand on 48 howrs to infuse and then distill and wash with the watter this cured one that had been blind 3 years by Washing with this watter you may ad Tormentell Routs
Subject: red sage (Salvia miltiorrhiza)See all items with this value; fennel See all items with this value; vervain (Verbena officinalis)See all items with this value; eyebright (herb)See all items with this value; lovage (Levisticum officinale)See all items with this value; dill See all items with this value; saxifrage (Saxifraga)See all items with this value; pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium)See all items with this value; tormentil (Potentilla erecta)See all items with this value; rue (Ruta graveolens)See all items with this value; cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans)See all items with this value; betony (Betonica officinalis)See all items with this value; loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris)See all items with this value; celandine (Chelidonium majus)See all items with this value; red nettle (Lamium purpureum)See all items with this value; ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)See all items with this value; hart's-tongue (Protea scolopendriifolia)See all items with this value; millipede (Diplopoda)See all items with this value; cinnamon See all items with this value; white wines See all items with this value; eyes See all items with this value; infusing (cooking)See all items with this value; remedies (health)See all items with this value; medicinal plants See all items with this value; straining See all items with this value; diluting See all items with this value; mixing 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.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine