My Cousen Shirards Resept For A Dropsy

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Title: My Cousen Shirards Resept For A Dropsy
Creator: Cousin Shirard
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A remedy for dropsy, also known as edema, the excessive build of fluid in the body. Includes brooklime, watercress, nettles, elder bark, scurvey grass, red dock roots, dwarf elder roots, green broom, ale, juniper berries, red gallingale root, and gention root.
Transcript: Take of Brook lime water Cresses Nettles Elder Bark Scurvey Grass Red dock Roots Ground juey Femitory of Each of These one handfull Dwarf Elder Roots & Green Broom of E[text loss] of these 2 handfuls of Annisseds one ounc[text loss] beat thm & Cut the other hearbs & put [text loss] Thease in to a Thin Bagg thn put it in [text loss] 4 Galons of Midleing ale when it is fit to [text loss] let it stand 4 or 5 days & thn Drink half a pinte of these at a time the first in a Morning & the last at Night This take till you are well & at the [text loss] of the Leafe Renew the Takeing of this [text loss] a gaine & add to youre Bagg Juniper Berr[text loss] & Red Gallingale roots & Gention Roots of Ea[text loss] of these 3 ounces
Subject: See all items with this value brooklime (Veronica beccabunga); See all items with this value watercress; See all items with this value nettle (Urtica); See all items with this value elder (Sambucus nigra); See all items with this value scurvy grass (Cochlearia officinalis); See all items with this value red dock (Rumex sanguineus); See all items with this value dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus); See all items with this value broom (Cytisus scoparius); See all items with this value juniper berry; See all items with this value edema; See all items with this value galangal; See all items with this value gentian (Gentiana); See all items with this value beers; See all items with this value medicinal plants; See all items with this value remedies (health)
Contributor: Ochsner, Elizabeth
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

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