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.
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.
Subject
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.