A consumsion [consumption] water

Title: A consumsion [consumption] water
Description: A recipe for a medicinal drink to cure consumption (tuberculosis) using snails, "fair water," milk, and spearmint. White sugar candy is recommended as a sweetener.
Transcript: [Inserted left: fo the 38] Snailes put thm in to faire water 2 houres thn take thm out & bruse thm [strikeout] in the shels lightly, put thm in to a Paile of water and wash thm till the shels ccome of thn put thm in to a cleane Cloth and hang thm up till the Water be dreaned from thm thn put thm in to a galen of Red Cowes Milch & let thm boyle one houre thn put thm in to a still with one handfull of spearemintt, Distill Take here of 6 spounefuls of it at Morning 6 at Night 6 at Noone when you sweten it let it be with suger Candy White
Subject: See all items with this value snails; See all items with this value water; See all items with this value milk; See all items with this value Mentha spicata (spearmint); See all items with this value candies; See all items with this value sugar candy
Contributor: Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.