To desolve a hard Brest
Item
- Title
- To desolve a hard Brest
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Description
- A poultice to dissolve a hard breast (breast lump?) made from honey, brandy, and wax.
- Transcript
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Rx honey, one spoonfull, Brandy spfulls sal[text loss]
one spoonfull and an half wax [strikeout] boyl alto[text loss] dip a cloth there in and ly to it. - Subject
- See all items with this valuehoney
- See all items with this valuebrandy
- See all items with this valuewax
- See all items with this valuepoultices
- Contributor
- Grimm, Stephanie
- Le, Vincent
- Abu-Bader, Nagham
- 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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