Items

• 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).
• Fits of Mother & Confultions

  A medication to be taken by mothers experiencing convulsions comprised of senna, long pepper, anise seeds, licorice, elecampane, and white peony root; and boiled in sack (wine). Should be taken with honey and bread dipped in vinegar. An additional recipe with mercury plant, gerrymander, spearmint, fennel, liverwort, broom, wormwood, and betony is also given.
• Fish Sauce

  A recipe for brewing a sauce using port wine, anchovies, vinegar, horseradish, onion, and herbs and spices.
• Feavors, to asswage [assuage] & 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 using herbs infused in white wine.
• 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.