Items

• To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter

  A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion).
• To make Extract of Saturn

  A recipe for "extract of Saturn," also known as a basic lead acetate, made from vinegar and litharge of gold (a mixture of litharge, or lead(II) oxide and red lead). The purpose or use of this is not indicated.
• To Make by it mineral water

  A recipe for mineral water using extract of Saturn (or basic lead acetate), French brandy, and rainwater.
• To Make an Ointment for a Scald head

  A remedy for treating ringworm using butter, ale, and wormwood.
• To Make All Sorts of Wines & Stiled Water

  A section header for recipes of wines and stilled waters.
• To Make a Perfumed water

  A recipe for aromatic water using a mixture of herbs, flowers, and spices steeped in a vessel.
• To M Take of the heat of the liver

  Two recipes for drinks to cure the liver: one made from a mixture of herbs and breast milk, the other made from rabbit liver and alcohol.
• To kill Bugs and worms in horsis [horses]

  A remedy for de-worming horses using milk, honey, and salt water.
• To increase flesh or Cure a Wound

  An ointment that promotes wound healing made of dragon's blood, aloe succotrina, and olibanum.
• To heal without a Scar

  An ointment for preventing scarring made from elder buds, elder leaves, and white sugar.
• To dry up milk

  Two methods for drying up breast milk (presumably after weaning a breast feeding child) by applying soaked cloths; one with alum, and the other, diachylon .
• To drive out the Measles

  A remedy for measles made of pimpernel boiled in milk.
• 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 desolve a hard Brest

  A poultice to dissolve a hard breast (breast lump?) made from honey, brandy, and wax.
• To Cure the biting of a mad dog

  Directions for treating a bite from a dog with rabies, using cupping and a poultice made of leeks, wormwood, onions, salt, butter, and honey.
• To cover a Naked Bone with Flesh

  Recipe for an ointment to put on exposed bone that includes oil or roses, ginger, and honey of roses.
• To Cause urin presently

  A remedy to promote urination made from juniper oil and parsley water.
• To break an Imposthume in the Eare or for a Noise in the head

  A poultice for treating ear abscesses or tinnitus made from wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum), onions, and brandy.
• To asowage the pain of any Scald how great so vever

  Poultice for treating scalds with a poultice made of cloth dipped in rennet.
• Tincture sena

  An infusion of senna and cardamom in brandy for unknown use.
• This Resept Good a Gainst infection

  A cure for various illnesses made from a mixture of herbs, long peppers, ginger, nutmegs, aqua vitae, Venice treacle (Theriac), and the cure-all mithridate.
• The Worm Pills

  A remedy, likely for the treatment of worms in humans, using "aloes rosatum" (probably a mix of the juice of aloe mixed with rosewater), iron, agaric, sweet mercury, sulphurated scammony, and oil of wormwood.
• 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 use of this oyntment is this:

  A method for using an ointment of unknown composition, used to treat a range of ailments including wounds, burns, kidney stones, worms, poisons, ulcers, or fistulas. This entry may refer to an immediately-preceding entry in the Recipe Book which has been cut from the original manuscript.