For a Sore breast

Title: For a Sore breast
Date: 1694/1795
Description: Use of part of a rennet bag (the fourth stomach of ruminants) as a treatment for breast pain.
Transcript: Rx a piece of a Runit bag: lay it in watter till it be Soft lay it on the breast, it will desolve break and draw it wipe twice a day & lay it on again
Subject: See all items with this value chest pain; See all items with this value remedies (health)
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.