To Make the Lady Kents Pouder

Title: To Make the Lady Kents Pouder
Creator: Lady Kent
Date: 1694/1795
Description: Recipe for a remedy to cure numerous physical maladies, using magistery of pearls, crabs eyes (a kind of calcified stone), white amber, hartshorn, magistery of white coral, contrayerva, powdered crabs claws, bezoar, and hartshorn jelly.
Transcript: Rx Magistery of pirls Crabs Eyes prepared white amber prepared Harts horn Magistery of white Corall. Contrayerva of each and to this poudr add an Equl quantaty of the black Tips of Crabs Claws in fine pouder to Every ounce of this pouder ad a dragm of true Bezere Stone make all these up in to a Mass wth the jely of harts horn & Couler it with a litele fateren make it up in to litele Bals & dry them
Subject: See all items with this value pearls; See all items with this value white amber (spermaceti); See all items with this value coral; See all items with this value Hartshorn; See all items with this value bezoar; See all items with this value Contrayerva; See all items with this value remedies (health)
Contributor: Ochsner, Elizabeth; Bakir, Mehtap; Stevens (Fehsenfeld), Jen
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.