Doc: Wards Recept for a sore Throat

Title: Doc: Wards Recept for a sore Throat
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A remedy for sore throat made by simmering figs in water and gargling the reduction.
Transcript: Take eight dried Figs & put them in a Quart of Spring Water and let it Simmer over the Fire till it comes to half a pint then let th patient gargle his Throat and if he can swallow some of the figs the better
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Contributor: Ochsner, Elizabeth; Le, Vincent; Grimm, Stephanie; Salahuddin, Shafiya
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.