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Title
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Powder for Convulsion fits which was never known to fail, when taken in time
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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A remedy for treating convulsions (possibly epileptic seizures?) using lady's smock flowers, powdered and distilled in water.
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Transcript
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The deepest red Lady smock are the best dryed and beat to a powder to be given to a young Child as much as will lie on a Silver Three pence in tea made of the same herb or water distill'd from the same flowers, every two hours till the fits abate and afterwards as you see occasion till the cure is perfected: it's to be given according to the age of the person as much as will lie on a Silver three pence, Groat Sixpence, or a Shilling to be repeated at the full & change of the Moon, the flowers to be gathered in May
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Contributor
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Caylor, Karmen
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Le, Vincent
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Grimm, Stephanie
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Salahuddin, Shafiya
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Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
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Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
