Health and Medicine
Item set
- Title
- Health and Medicine
- Date
- 1694/1795
- Source
- Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
- Publisher
- George Mason University Libraries
- Rights
- Public domain
Items
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When the Small Pox strik in again & the Party is in great dainger of death
Remedy for smallpox made from what appears to be sheep bezoars soaked in claret wine (the wine is strained before administered to the afflicted). -
To wash any foul or Dead sore
Directions to make a heated liquid used to treat sores on the body; includes tanner's oil, sage, and alum. -
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. -
To take the fire out of a Wound
An ointment to remove fire (pain?) from wounds made of sheep suet and ground-ivy. -
To take away heat in the face
A remedy to help reduce redness or possibly inflammation in the face, using herb-of-grace, sage, bay leaf, and sulfur, boiled together and mixed with butter. -
To take a pin: or web out of the Eye
A treatment for the eyes made by mixing celandine with the "juice" of a centipede (possibly a louse) with honey and salt, and dropped into the eye. -
To stop vomiting
A treatment for vomiting made by boiling rosemary, lavender, spearmint, wormwood, cinnamon, and clove with red wine. -
To Stay the Bleeding of a vaine that is broken inwardly
A treatment for bleeding or "broken veins" (possibly referring to internal bleeding) using juice from the betony plant steeped in milk. -
To renew wasted Kidneys
A medical treatment for kidneys made from plantains, elderberries, and white wine. -
To Procrere slepe
A recipe to fall asleep easier by placing a dormouse under the sleeper's head. -
To preserve the Face from pittying
An ointment to prevent smallpox scars made from spermaceti, almond oil and beeswax or lard. -
To preserve the Eyes from the Smallpox
Remedy to prevent smallpox from damaging the infected person's eyes. Made from plantain, eyebright, rosewater, camphor, and saffron. -
To Physic Children after the Small Pox
A remedy believed to treat children with smallpox using calomel (mercurous chloride), tartar emetic, "crab's-eyes" (a calcified stone found in crayfish) and sugar. -
To make the weben [weapon] salve
A recipe for a healing salve made by mixing bacon fat and the blood of a wound on the weapon that caused the wound. -
To make the syrope of Mault for a Consumtion
A recipe for a syrup to cure consumption (tuberculosis), made from a mixture of herbs, figs, raisins, dates, and brown sugar candy, all boiled in ale. -
To make the Read[text loss] the Ducheys of Buckinham way
A recipe for a remedy for a variety of ailments. Recipe includes angelica, tormentil, rue, betony, pimpernel, white wine, saffron, treacle (molasses) wine, Armenian bole, water germander (Teucrium scordium), and mithridate (mithridatium, mithridatum, or mithridaticum). Should be taken with cordial water or maids water (any weak water such as tea); Goa stone may be added. -
To Make the Poultis [poultice] for it
Recipe for making a poultice using lard, white wine, wheat flour, and egg whites. Heated in a skillet and reduced to a paste, then applied. This entry likely refers to the one immediately preceding, "Mrs Lister's Purging Drink for the Kings Evell". -
To Make the Ladys Easy
A medicinal drink to treat an unknown ailment [possibly menstrual or childbirth issues?] using mustard seed, treacle (molasses), and beer, taken for nine mornings. -
To Make the Lady Kents Pouder
Recipe for a remedy to cure numerous physical maladies, using magistery of pearls, crabs eyes (a kind of calcified stone), white amber, hartshorn, magistery of white coral, contrayerva, powdered crabs claws, bezoar, and hartshorn jelly. -
To Make The Black Plaster
A recipe for a plaster using multiple colors of pitch, beeswax, and resin. -
To Make Suger of Roses
A recipe for rose sugar made from red roses, lemon juice, and sugar. -
to make Stoutens drops – Mrs Bridget
A recipe for liquid to be taken as drops, made from Seville oranges and a mixture of medicinal plants infused in brandy. -
To make Spirit of Urin
Directions for distilling urine. -
To make Oyle of Eges good to take away Scars in the Face
A recipe for an oil of eggs made from crumbled egg yolks, wax, water, and dew. -
To Make My Lady Nevells Snaile Watter [snail water]
A recipe for snail water to be used against worms, jaundice, "obstructions [and] stoning in the stomach or liver," plague, and consumption (tuberculosis).