Fits of Mother & Confultions

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Title: Fits of Mother & Confultions
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A medication to be taken by mothers experiencing convulsions comprised of senna, long pepper, anise seeds, licorice, elecampane, and white peony root; and boiled in sack (wine). Should be taken with honey and bread dipped in vinegar. An additional recipe with mercury plant, gerrymander, spearmint, fennel, liverwort, broom, wormwood, and betony is also given.
Transcript: [text loss] Sena long peper anasedes. a qrt of an ounce of an ounce [text loss] each. Liquerish Elicompany Single pyana root. half [text loss] ounce of Each. boyld in a pinte of sack to half a pinte [text loss]cand. add to it 3 spounefuls of English Honey Drink [text loss]rs Purg and after it take a Bit of white bread dipt in vinecere will hinder it from coming up a gane. the same roots & spices made in to an Electury with honey and taken is very good after which Drink whey as a -- Diat drink trind up with planten marcery Germander Speremint feniell liver Wort broom smalege wormwode beteny one handfull of Each boyld and kept in whay Expeariansed by Rapper.
Subject: See all items with this value Senna; See all items with this value long pepper (Piper longum); See all items with this value anise; See all items with this value liquorice; See all items with this value elecampane (Inula helenium); See all items with this value white peony (Paeonia lactiflora); See all items with this value honey; See all items with this value breads; See all items with this value wines; See all items with this value vinegar; See all items with this value germander (Teucrium); See all items with this value sack; See all items with this value remedies (health); See all items with this value boiling (cooking); See all items with this value spearmint (Mentha spicata); See all items with this value fennel; See all items with this value liverwort (marchantiophyta); See all items with this value broom (Cytisus scoparius); See all items with this value smallage (Apium graveolens); See all items with this value wormwood (Artemisia absinthium); See all items with this value betony (Betonica officinalis)
Contributor: Ochsner, Elizabeth; 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.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Health and Medicine