Sympathetick pouder

Item

Title

Sympathetick pouder

Date

en 1694/1795

Transcript

[Image 1] Sympathetick pouder

Rx Lapis Caelestis or the best Roman Vittriol what quantity you pleas beat it to powder and dysolve it in fair watter then put it in a glass allimbick set it in sand bath to draw of all the watter and leave a dry powder in the Bottome let the powder remain in in the glass and still. keep the fier under it till the powder be Calcined white & then it is readdy for use The Vertues Take a little of the blood upon a [strikeout] Clean linen Cloth then put some of the powder in to a Spoon[strikeout: full] with some watter and dip the bloody rag in it then put the the Clout in to your breast or pockett and keep it warme from the Cold and every 12 or 24 houres wash the woun clean with

[Image 2] [text loss] warm beer or watter & put fresh linens this you must do at the first It cures all green wounds stops blood presently doth the like to any old sore taking the matter [text loss] it upon, and do as above said: it cures the tooth[text loss] by pricking the Gumes and using the blood as [text loss] it cures the bloody Flure or an old Fistula.

Contributor

Abu-Bader, Nagham
Le, Vincent
en Grimm, Stephanie
en 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.