Items

• to make Stoutens drops – Mrs Bridget

  A recipe for liquid to be taken as drops, made from Seville oranges and a mixture of medicinal plants infused in brandy.
• The Treakele Water

  A recipe for a medicinal drink made from hartshorn, a mixture of herbs, treacle, white wine, and rose water.
• My Cousen Shirards Resept For A Dropsy

  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.