Title

My Cousen Shirards Resept For A Dropsy

Transcript

My Cousen Shirards Resept For A Dropsy
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

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.