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• For aney paine in the Eare

  A recipe to cure ear pain made from boiled milk and cloves, which is to be held to the patient's ear while hot.
• For an ague for a child, if for a man a greater proporsion [proportion]

  A remedy for fever (ague) using egg white mixed with spirits and peppercorns, to be consumed.
• For Aches the Old

  A recipe for treating body aches (possibly those of the elderly) using chamomile and dill oil
• For a Squincie

  A remedy for treating tonsillitis or throat ailment by drinking powdered boar's tooth mixed with linseed oil.
• For a Sore breast

  Use of part of a rennet bag (the fourth stomach of ruminants) as a treatment for breast pain.
• For a scald head

  A recipe for a scald head (now referred to as staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome) using butter, vervain, and bay salt which has been melted twice and strained. A purgative or laxative is to be taken while applying this mixture to the head.
• For a pimpled Face

  A recipe for acne made from grape juice, camphor, sugar candy, roche alum, and verdigris, all mixed and kept underground for 40 days.
• for a pain in the Ear

  A remedy for ear pain that includes liquid laudanum (a solution of opium in alcohol). A roasted (hot) onion is also applied to the ear, presumably both for the comfort provided by its heat and to keep the liquid in the ear.
• For a Cough Also Mrs Lumley

  A remedy for cough made with treacle, vinegar, and laudanum.
• For a Consumption

  A remedy to treat consumption by boiling wheat meal and mixing the reduction with red wine.
• For a Cold

  A remedy for treating a cold using licorice root, raisins, brown sugar, and rum or vinegar.
• Flugeny water twenty drops in Milk water given to the woman hastens her Labour

  A medical treatment to induce labor (childbirth).
• Fish Sauce

  A recipe for brewing a sauce using port wine, anchovies, vinegar, horseradish, onion, and herbs and spices.
• Feavors, to asuage & to Cool the Spirits or blood & settle them

  Various remedies for treating fevers.
• F[illegible] Col. heneer Jan 10 1706

  Appears to be a recipe for a remedy to treat an unknown condition.
• Eyes to restore Sight, An drink, and Wash

  Recipes for a draught and eye wash to restore vision.
• Elder Brandy

  A process for making a spiced, fruited brandy using elderberries, mace, and cloves (and possibly with bread crumbs).
• Doctor Jams’ [James] Powder how to use it

  This entry describes how to use or administer Dr. James' Fever Powder, a known quack medicine remedy (the recipe for the powder is not given). It instructs how and when to administer the medicine to a sick patient, including diluting the powder in jelly, barley water, tea, or gruel.
• Doctor Cole

  Brief description for a remedy to aid digestion that can be purchased at a local inn. Unclear whether the drops are produced by a local doctor.
• Doc: Wards Recept for a sore Throat

  A remedy for sore throat made by simmering figs in water and gargling the reduction.
• Diet Bread

  A recipe for a fatless bread using eggs and egg white, sugar, and flour with caraway seeds and musk.
• Crisp Pastes for Tarts

  A recipe for pastry dough using sugar, flower, boiled cream, and butter. The recipe is possibly signed "HS".
• Cowslip Wine

  A process for making a wine using cowslip flowers, ale yeast, egg whites, citrus, and sugar steeped in Rhenish wine (a German white wine or rosé) and aged in sack or wine casks.
• Cousen Whites resept for worms

  A remedy for worms consisting of salt of wormwood (potassium carbonate) and oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid) mixed in white wine
• Cousen Bosvils resept for pain in the back

  Remedy for back pain; calls for comfrey, clary sage, pith from the back leg bones of an ox, muscadine wine, eggs, and sugar. Also advises the consumption of crocus martis and rose conserves.