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Title: [text loss; top of page N125 stained and torn; may be continued]
Date: en 1694/1795
Description: Appears to be a recipe for a poultice or plaster, using beeswax, pitch, mace (pepper), and turpentine, spread on a sheepskin and worn on the stomach.
Transcript: Take burgendy pitch [rosen] Bees wax of Each [2] [text loss]
ounce mellt ym to ge ather yn take one ounece & hal[f]
of Corce Turpintine, one ounce of ye oyll of Mace
Side of Sheeps [Scin] yn when it is warm grate a
Nutmeg or 2 on it lay it on to ye mouth of ye
Stomach Spring & [f]all wear it till it Come of of its [sc][illegible]
Subject: See all items with this value wax; See all items with this value poultices
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.

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