Eyes to restore Sight, An drink, and Wash

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Title: Eyes to restore Sight, An drink, and Wash
Date: 1694/1795
Description: Recipes for a draught and eye wash to restore vision using herbs infused in white wine.
Transcript: Rx Red sage Red Fennill Vervin Eybright Lovage Saxafrage dill penyroyall Tormentill Rue Cinque-foil folowers Elder flowers Ground Ivy Celandine Red Nettle Betony Lusimackium or lose strife hearts Tongue Melipodes 50 or 100 Cinamon [illegible] i and of each of the hearts an handfull bruse all these in a morter then put upon them a bottle of White Wine let them infuse 24 howers then Strain them out drink hereof near haffe a pint morning and Evening. you may put a quart more of white wine with a little white Rose watter upon the druges let it stand on 48 howrs to infuse and then distill and wash with the watter this cured one that had been blind 3 years by Washing with this watter you may ad Tormentell Routs
Subject: See all items with this value red sage (Salvia miltiorrhiza); See all items with this value fennel; See all items with this value vervain (Verbena officinalis); See all items with this value eyebright (herb); See all items with this value lovage (Levisticum officinale); See all items with this value dill; See all items with this value saxifrage (Saxifraga); See all items with this value pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium); See all items with this value tormentil (Potentilla erecta); See all items with this value rue (Ruta graveolens); See all items with this value cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans); See all items with this value betony (Betonica officinalis); See all items with this value loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris); See all items with this value celandine (Chelidonium majus); See all items with this value red nettle (Lamium purpureum); See all items with this value ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea); See all items with this value hart's-tongue (Protea scolopendriifolia); See all items with this value millipede (Diplopoda); See all items with this value cinnamon; See all items with this value white wines; See all items with this value eyes; See all items with this value infusing (cooking); See all items with this value remedies (health); See all items with this value medicinal plants
Contributor: Ochsner, Elizabeth; Le, Vincent
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.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine