My Cousen We[s]bys resept for the Dropsy
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Title
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My Cousen We[s]bys resept for the Dropsy
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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A remedy for dropsy (edema or swelling) using squill, elecampane, hyssop, horehound, and elder mixed with ginger and wine.
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Transcript
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Take [or as] Roots Squills & Elicompany roots of each one ounce. A jsop & hore hound leves of Each one handfull of the inner rind of Elder that is the dwarf Elder & also A Green Elder of each one handfull: A Se[illegible] one ounce & a half Agrick’s drams Ginger one dram the leves brused & the roots Cut thin all put in to 2 quarts of white wine put in to a picher well stoped and set in to a Boyling pan of water to the Neck let it boyll [inserted left margin: full an our when all most cold strain it very hard in to a flagen & when its setled some time the next day botle it up & take fasting in the morning ten spoonfuls for 6 mornings to geather then drink out the rest it will give you a gentle P[illegible] and maby a gentle woman be Reguller
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Contributor
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Caylor, Karmen
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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.
