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To Make Lemon [Gelee]
A recipe to make a lemon drink by boiling lemon juice, peel, eggs, and sugar together. -
A medesine for ye head ach
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Napels bisket the beste
A recipe for making naples biscuits using almond flour and sweet cream. -
Mrs Listers Purging Drink for ye Kings Evell
A recipe for treatment of scrofula ("King's Evil"), using coriander and cardamom seeds, sweet fennel, senna, rhubarb, mechoacan, and sweetened with licorice. -
To Make the Ladys Easy
A medicinal drink to treat an unknown ailment [possibly menstrual or childbirth issues?] using mustard seed, treacle, and beer, taken for nine mornings. -
For the Green Sicknes
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To turn the Child right in Labour
A medicinal recipe for a paste to be used in childbirth, possibly using agrimony, to turn a breech birth. -
J : C
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[can’t read; starts with an “Rx” symbol]
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[can’t read; starts with an “Rx” symbol]
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[can’t read; starts with an “Rx” symbol]
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‘[Fr?] Col. Spencer Jan 10 [1706?]
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A Medecne [Medicine] for the Palsie [Palsy]
A recipe for a medical treatment for palsy -
Medisin [text loss]
Medicine for unknown purpose using sassafras, juniper, marshmallow, garden cress, elderflower, fennel, and licorice. Describes a recipe for a medicinal drink using a variety of herbs, berries, and roots, steeped in ale. The drink is indicated for daily use or as-needed, though the purpose is unclear due to missing pieces of the manuscript. -
An excelent medisin ye Cholick
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A most Excellent resept for a dry [can’t read] aproved by Doctor Cotes
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The most Excellent bitter wine in ye world
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The Phisbillia watter to drink for ye party
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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). -
For ye jaundice Cousen
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For Black or Stinking teeth
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To wash any foul or Dead sore
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Mr Marshoff Salve
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Mr Gregorys resept of an Ague
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Cousin Whites resept for worms