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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To Make Mrs Fleetwoods Surfeit Watter
A recipe for surfeit water (liquid medicine for indigestion). -
To make Extract of Saturn
A recipe for "extract of Saturn," also known as a basic lead acetate, made from vinegar and litharge of gold (a mixture of litharge, or lead(II) oxide and red lead). The purpose or use of this is not indicated. -
To Make by it mineral water
A recipe for mineral water using extract of Saturn (or basic lead acetate), French brandy, and rainwater. -
To Make an Ointment for a Scald head
A remedy for treating ringworm using butter, ale, and wormwood. -
To Make All Sorts of Wines & Stiled Water
A section header for recipes of wines and stilled waters. -
To Make a Perfumed water
A recipe for aromatic water using a mixture of herbs, flowers, and spices steeped in a vessel. -
To M Take of the heat of the liver
Two recipes for drinks to cure the liver: one made from a mixture of herbs and breast milk, the other made from rabbit liver and alcohol. -
To kill Bugs and worms in horsis [horses]
A remedy for de-worming horses using milk, honey, and salt water. -
To increase flesh or Cure a Wound
An ointment that promotes wound healing made of dragon's blood, aloe succotrina, and olibanum. -
To heal without a Scar
An ointment for preventing scarring made from elder buds, elder leaves, and white sugar. -
To dry up milk
Two methods for drying up breast milk (presumably after weaning a breast feeding child) by applying soaked cloths; one with alum, and the other, diachylon . -
To drive out the Measles
A remedy for measles made of pimpernel boiled in milk. -
To draw out an Imposthume without incision
A plaster for treating abscesses made of leeks and lard. -
To desolve the Stone
A medicinal treatment for dissolving stones (probably kidney stones) made from distilled cow dung. -
To desolve a hard Brest
A poultice to dissolve a hard breast (breast lump?) made from honey, brandy, and wax. -
To Cure the biting of a mad dog
Directions for treating a bite from a dog with rabies, using cupping and a poultice made of leeks, wormwood, onions, salt, butter, and honey. -
To cover a Naked Bone with Flesh
Recipe for an ointment to put on exposed bone that includes oil or roses, ginger, and honey of roses. -
To Cause urin presently
A remedy to promote urination made from juniper oil and parsley water. -
To break an Imposthume in the Eare or for a Noise in the head
A poultice for treating ear abscesses or tinnitus made from wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum), onions, and brandy. -
To asowage the pain of any Scald how great so vever
Poultice for treating scalds with a poultice made of cloth dipped in rennet. -
Tincture sena
An infusion of senna and cardamom in brandy for unknown use. -
This Resept Good a Gainst infection
A cure for various illnesses made from a mixture of herbs, long peppers, ginger, nutmegs, aqua vitae, Venice treacle (Theriac), and the cure-all mithridate. -
The Worm Pills
A remedy, likely for the treatment of worms in humans, using "aloes rosatum" (probably a mix of the juice of aloe mixed with rosewater), iron, agaric, sweet mercury, sulphurated scammony, and oil of wormwood. -
The way My Lady Kent gave it to Mr Sheldon
A recipe for a remedy for a wide variety of physical illnesses and depression; can also be used to induce sweating (presumably to rid the body of harmful substances). Made of pearls; red coral; the eyes of lobsters, crawfish, or crabs; hartshorn (male red deer horns); crab claws; hartshorn jelly, and saffron. -
The use of this oyntment is this:
A method for using an ointment of unknown composition, used to treat a range of ailments including wounds, burns, kidney stones, worms, poisons, ulcers, or fistulas. This entry may refer to an immediately-preceding entry in the Recipe Book which has been cut from the original manuscript.