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• When the Small Pox strik in again & the Party is in great dainger of death

  Remedy for smallpox made from what appears to be sheep bezoars soaked in claret wine (the wine is strained before administered to the afflicted).
• To wash any foul or Dead sore

  Directions to make a heated liquid used to treat sores on the body; includes tanner's oil, sage, and alum.
• To take away heat in the face

  A remedy to help reduce redness or possibly inflammation in the face, using herb-of-grace, sage, bay leaf, and sulfur, boiled together and mixed with butter.
• To take a pin: or web out of the Eye

  A treatment for the eyes made by mixing celandine with the "juice" of a centipede (possibly a louse) with honey and salt, and dropped into the eye.
• To renew wasted Kidneys

  A medical treatment for kidneys made from plantains, elderberries, and white wine.
• To preserve the Eyes from the Smallpox

  Remedy to prevent smallpox from damaging the infected person's eyes. Made from plantain, eyebright, rosewater, camphor, and saffron.
• To make the Read[text loss] the Ducheys of Buckinham way

  A recipe for a remedy for a variety of ailments. Recipe includes angelica, tormentil, rue, betony, pimpernel, white wine, saffron, treacle (molasses) wine, Armenian bole, water germander (Teucrium scordium), and mithridate (mithridatium, mithridatum, or mithridaticum). Should be taken with cordial water or maids water (any weak water such as tea); Goa stone may be added.
• To Make the Poultis [poultice] for it

  Recipe for making a poultice using lard, white wine, wheat flour, and egg whites. Heated in a skillet and reduced to a paste, then applied. This entry likely refers to the one immediately preceding, "Mrs Lister's Purging Drink for the Kings Evell".
• To Make the Lady Kents Pouder

  Recipe for a remedy to cure numerous physical maladies, using magistery of pearls, crabs eyes (a kind of calcified stone), white amber, hartshorn, magistery of white coral, contrayerva, powdered crabs claws, bezoar, and hartshorn jelly.
• To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter

  A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion).
• To Make an Ointment for a Scald head

  A remedy for treating ringworm using butter, ale, and wormwood.
• To draw out an Imposthume without incision

  A plaster for treating abscesses made of leeks and lard.
• To desolve the Stone

  A medicinal treatment for dissolving stones (probably kidney stones) made from distilled cow dung.
• To Cause urin presently

  A remedy to promote urination made from juniper oil and parsley water.
• Tincture sena

  An infusion of senna and cardamom in brandy for unknown use.
• The way My Lady Kent gave it to Mr Sheldon

  A recipe for a remedy for a wide variety of physical illnesses and depression; can also be used to induce sweating (presumably to rid the body of harmful substances). Made of pearls; red coral; the eyes of lobsters, crawfish, or crabs; hartshorn (male red deer horns); crab claws; hartshorn jelly, and saffron.
• The Ruburb for will

  A remedy for the "will," which probably refers to the contemporary usage of the word to mean "pleasure" or "desire" given the rhubarb was often used for purging ill humors from the body during this period. Recipe calls for rhubarb and small ale.
• The Phisbillia watter to drink for the party

  A recipe for a fistula treatment; includes green broom and molasses.
• The Lady Fairfax Medisine against the strangurey [strangury]

  A remedy for treating strangury (a urinary organ disease) by steeping roasted apples in spiced, sweetened water or orange juice.
• The burnt salve to be made in may

  A burn salve made from sempervivum or houseleek leaves and elderberry twigs, pounded and mixed with vinegar, urine, and candle wax.
• Quinsey

  A treatment for the condition known as quinsy/quinsey, a potentially life-threatening complication from tonsillitis.
• Plague Water to Make

  A recipe for a medicinal drink made from a mixture of plants.
• Phistillia [fistula] watter [water] which will keep the pipe from growing & desolve [dissolve] ye Lump that is hard

  Describes a recipe for "fistula water," a remedy for treating fistulas using alum, zinc sulfate ("white vitriol"), and bole armeniac (a kind of clay uses as a styptic).
• Phiseck and Surgery May be found here

  A header for a section of the recipe book featuring medical and surgical remedies.
• My lady Nevels Surfit [surfeit] water

  A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion).