Title

The way My Lady Kent gave it to Mr Sheldon

Creator

Lady Kent

Mr Sheldon

Date

1694/1795

Description

A recipe for a remedy for a wide variety of physical illnesses and depression; can also be used to induce sweating (presumably to rid the body of harmful substances). Made of pearls; red coral; the eyes of lobsters, crawfish, or crabs; hartshorn (male red deer horns); crab claws; hartshorn jelly, and saffron.

Transcript

Rx small perles Red Corall the Eyes of Lobsters or Craw fish or Crabes Eyes hartshorn calcined with Amber of each alike black tipes of the Claws of great Crabs equall to the weight of all the rest beat Clean them finely make it in to balls with jelly of hartshorne of what size yo pleas where in you have infused a Small quantity of Saffron - - then set them to dry in the Shade The Vertues. it is good agt all malignant and pestilentiall diseases Small pox Measlles feavours melancholy diseases & dejection of Spiritts it is all so a good Sudorifick. - to a man give 20 or 30 gr to a Child 12 gr -

Subject

See all items with this valuepearls

See all items with this valuesaffron

See all items with this valuered coral

See all items with this valueHartshorn

See all items with this valueremedies (health)

Contributor

Le, Vincent

Grimm, Stephanie

Nagham, Abu-Nader

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.