Health and Medicine

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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

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  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor 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.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor 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.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor Aches the Old
    A recipe for treating body aches (possibly those of the elderly) using chamomile and dill oil
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor a Squincie
    A remedy for treating tonsillitis or throat ailment by drinking powdered boar's tooth mixed with linseed oil.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor a Sore breast
    Use of part of a rennet bag (the fourth stomach of ruminants) as a treatment for breast pain.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor 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.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor 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.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availablefor 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.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor a Cough Also Mrs Lumley
    A remedy for cough made with treacle, vinegar, and laudanum.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor a Consumption
    A remedy to treat consumption by boiling wheat meal and mixing the reduction with red wine.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFor a Cold
    A remedy for treating a cold using licorice root, raisins, brown sugar, and rum or vinegar.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFlugeny water twenty drops in Milk water given to the woman hastens her Labour
    A medical treatment to induce labor (childbirth).
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFits 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.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableFeavors, to asswage [assuage] & to Cool the Spirits or blood & settle them
    Various remedies for treating fevers.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableEyes to restore Sight, An drink, and Wash
    Recipes for a draught and eye wash to restore vision using herbs infused in white wine.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableDoctor 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.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableDoctor 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.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableDoc: Wards Recept for a sore Throat
    A remedy for sore throat made by simmering figs in water and gargling the reduction.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableCousen 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
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableCousen 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.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableBroken Ribs or Bones to knit in 6 days
    Remedy for promoting the healing of broken bones that can be drunk in ale or applied directly to the injury.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableAqua Mirabelis
    A recipe for aqua mirabilis ("miracle water"), a medicinal drink, made with aquavit, cloves, mace, ginger, nutmeg,
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableAneseclent Medcine [medicine] to disolve and bring away the Stone
    A medicinal preparation for dissolving stones (probably kidney stones) made from powder from oyster shells, eggshells, ale, white wine. The resulting medicine should be taken with a posset; directions are also given for a liquid made of boiled nettled and broom to aid the medicine that the powder can be taken in.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableAn infallible Cure for the Ague
    A remedy for ague (fever, sometimes malarial) using juice extracted from sage leaf, mixed with vinegar.
  • Handwritten receipt book page, 18th century. Description and transcription availableAn Excelent Resept for the worms in children
    Remedy for getting rid of worms in children by putting a piece of cloth dipped in sack wine on a child's mid section, along with dried spearmint.
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