Items

• The Treakele Water

  A recipe for a medicinal drink made from hartshorn, a mixture of herbs, treacle, white wine, and rose water.
• The Snaile [Snail] : Water

  A recipe for snail water.
• 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 Resept of Clounes Woundwort

  A remedy for fresh wound treatments made by reducing clown's woundwort in boar's grease, olive oil, and beeswax, then boiling in Venice turpentine.
• The Phisbillia watter to drink for the party

  A recipe for a fistula treatment; includes green broom and molasses.
• The most Excellent bitter wine in the world

  A recipe for a tonic that includes gentian, cardemon, chamomile, saffron, cochineal, and sherry.
• 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 Great Palsey water Duches of Bu [Buckingham]

  A recipe for the treatment of palsy, using peony, celandine, lavender, and loaf sugar, "approved by her Grace the Duchess of Buckingham."
• 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.
• The best way to make honey of roses

  Recipe to infuse honey with roses.
• Sympathetick pouder

  Recipe for a powder of sympathy, believed to cure wounds through a sympathetic magic.
• Stinging

  A recipe to cure a venomous insect sting using sympathetic magic.
• Sore Brests . . . Bruised Blood to bring a way . . .

  A poultice for treating sore breasts made of linseed oil and beeswax.
• Quinsey

  A treatment for the condition known as quinsy/quinsey, a potentially life-threatening complication from tonsillitis.
• Powder for Convulsion fits which was never known to fail, when taken in time

  A remedy for treating convulsions (possibly epileptic seizures?) using lady's smock flowers, powdered and distilled in water.
• 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 Unkle Bladen’s Balsom for Man of Horseflesh

  A medicinal recipe using myrrh and aloe dissolved in alcohol.
• My lady Nevels Surfit [surfeit] water

  A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion).
• My Cousen We[s]bys resept for the Dropsy

  A remedy for dropsy (edema or swelling) using squill, elecampane, hyssop, horehound, and elder mixed with ginger and wine.
• 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.
• Mrs Listers Purging Drink for the Kings Evell

  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.
• Mrs Fletwoods Surfeit water

  A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion).
• Mrs Austens Salve for grene wound or olde sores

  A method for making a salve for new or old wounds made by mixing camphor into a mixture of heated oil, beeswax, and white lead, then cooled and rolled into shape.