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Title
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Mrs Listers Purging Drink for the Kings Evell
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Creator
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Mrs. Lister
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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A remedy for the Kings Evell (tuberculosis). Includes coriander seeds, cardamon seeds, sweet fennel, anise seeds, sassafras, senna, rhubarb, and licorice; these are steeped in water over night and then boiled.
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Transcript
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Take Coriander seeds Cardimum seeds sweet fenill and anis Seeds of Each an ounce - of Sasifress 3 ounces Sena 4 ounces powder of Ruburb one ounce Mecoacum one ounce sweten it with luicorish steep all theas in six quarts of watter all Night next day boyl it in an Earthen vesell well Covered for 2 or 3 howrs thn drink a pint Every morning
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Contributor
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Cheston, Jarissa
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Le, Vincent
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Grimm, Stephanie
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Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
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Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.