Items

• Mr Marshoff Salve

  Salve for treating burns made from Bowhead whale oil and lead oxide.
• Mr Gregorys resept of an Ague

  Calls for drying and crushing bay leaves; these are taken with ale, wine, or water to treat ague (malaria).
• Mr Balls Receipt for making black Ink

  A recipe for making black ink using iron galls, gum arabic, and copperas (possibly green vitriol)
• Lady Munson an excellent resept for Dropsy & Scurvy

  A remedy for dropsy (edema) and scurvy using mustard seed, lemon, and clove dissolved in ale.
• Jelly of Hearts horne [hartshorn]

  A recipe for making a jellied dish by boiling hartshorn (deer antler shavings) with spices and citrus.
• Imposthume in the Stomach

  Remedy for treating a stomach abscess.
• Imposthume in the head

  Remedy for treating an abscess in the head (ear?) made with honey and garlic.
• Honey of Roases

  An unfinished recipe for honey of roses.
• Greene [strikeout] ointment

  A recipe for ointment made from red sage, rosemary, bay leaves, rue, sheep suet, and olive oil. The ingredients are mixed together, and buried in a pot for several days prior to being heated and strained.
• For the Splene [spleen]

  A remedy for treating the spleen by drinking white wine. Unclear whether this is to address a specific disease of the organ, or if this is a humoral remedy related to melancholy or moodiness ("the humors" or four temperaments).
• For the Scurvey

  A remedy for treating scurvy using mustard seed, scurvy-grass, wormwood, and juniper berries steeped in brandy and drunk with ale.
• For the Same [treatment for quinsy]

  A treatment for the condition called quinsy / quinsey, a potentially life-threatening complication from tonsillitis using milk, white bread, and rose oil, applied using a cloth.
• For the Same

  Another treatment for the condition known as quinsy/quinsey, a potentially life-threatening complication from tonsillitis.
• For the jaundice Cousen Garlend

  Recipe for a medicine to treat jaundice; consists of turmeric, safern, Barberry back mixed in white wine.
• For the Gripes in Horses, approved by Dr. Kilvington

  A remedy for treating horses using Daffy's elixir (a tincture possibly containing alcohol), laudanum, and almond or castor oil
• For the Green Sicknes [sickness]

  A remedy for the so-called green sickness, which refers to chlorosis, a condition that included a greenish tinge to the skin and general lassitude. It was often associated with unmarried virgin women, and could include lack of menstruation. Has been subsequently ascribed to anemia (iron deficiency). Remedy consists of a mixture of treacle (molasses), steel filings, anise seeds, long pepper, and nutmeg. Those taking the remedy were directed to also avoid milk, fruit, and salads; and to take one long walk per day.
• For the Gravill [illegible] Spencer’s Resept

  Appears to refer to two different remedies for gravel (kidney stones). The first is mashed garlic infused in white wine. The second calls for a distillation of nutmeg, hawthorn buds, and white wine that is sweetened with marshmallow syrup (a syrup made from the sap of the marshmallow plant combined with sugar and sometimes egg whites).
• For the flux

  Remedy for flux, the abnormal and/or excessive discharge of liquids from the body, including blood and/or diarrhea. More specifically, "flux" may refer to dysentery. Calls for boiling red wax (presumably melting it) with milk.
• For the Colik [colic] in Horses

  A remedy for treating colic in horses by mixing a soapy or slippery (saponaceous) liniment with laudanum
• For Spasms Dr C

  A remedy for spasms with camphire (possibly 'camphor'), sugar, brandy, sal volatile (ammonium carbonate) and laudanum.
• For sore nipples

  A remedy for women experiencing soreness in conjunction with breast feeding. Calls for covering their nipples with gold leaf. Also includes instructions for using the ashes of sea coal (pieces of coal washed up by the sea) to end lactation once the breastfeeding child has been weaned.
• for Convultion Fits

  A recipe for a powder comprised of peony root and other ingredients to be taken with Rosemary water or other waters for convulsive fits.
• For burns, or scalds. London Chronicle

  A remedy for treating burns, possibly using ether or distilled spirits applied to the affected area and
• For Black or Stinking teeth

  Recipe to making and using a paste for teeth consisting of sage and salt.
• For any gouty or Cholic [colic] pains in the stomach

  A remedy for treating stomach pains by infusing rhubarb, orange peel, salt of wormwood, nutmeg, and cochineal, infused in "true arrack" (a distilled spirit, undetermined if referring to the Southeast Asian or Arabic drink).