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Title
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The use of this oyntment is this:
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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A method for using an ointment of unknown composition, used to treat a range of ailments including wounds, burns, kidney stones, worms, poisons, ulcers, or fistulas. This entry may refer to an immediately-preceding entry in the Recipe Book which has been cut from the original manuscript.
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Transcript
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The use of this oyntment is this: as first a wenn Nointed twice or thrice a day and chafe it in be fore the fire then lay a linn cloth which you must continue nointing till it be noisom then re new it, it is proper for a greene wound bathed with a fether dipt in the ointment as hot as you can indure it dip a rag in it & lay on the wound for a Burn do as before but if the scin be broke use it moder atly hot, uce it in this maner for a Scald head, Take the quanty of an hisele nut for a surfit or any poisnes disease for a fistela or old ulser uce it as you did for a grene wound, For the stone in the Kidneys eat the quantaty of a nutmeg morning & evening drink after it a gill of white wine made redy to boyle & sweeted with suger but not burned for worms take it inwardly bathe the navell & ceep a cloth dipt in it to it
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Contributor
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Ochsner, Elizabeth
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Le, Vincent
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Grimm, Stephanie
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Bakir, Mehtap
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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.
