Title

My Cousen Shirards Resept For A Dropsy

Description

A remedy for dropsy, also known as edema, the excessive build of fluid in the body. Includes brooklime, watercress, nettles, elder bark, scurvey grass, red dock roots, dwarf elder roots, green broom, ale, juniper berries, red gallingale root, and gention root.

Transcript

Take of Brook lime water Cresses Nettles Elder Bark Scurvey Grass Red dock Roots Ground juey Femitory of Each of These one handfull Dwarf Elder Roots & Green Broom of E[text loss] of these 2 handfuls of Annisseds one ounc[text loss] beat thm & Cut the other hearbs & put [text loss] Thease in to a Thin Bagg thn put it in [text loss] 4 Galons of Midleing ale when it is fit to [text loss] let it stand 4 or 5 days & thn Drink half a pinte of these at a time the first in a Morning & the last at Night This take till you are well & at the [text loss] of the Leafe Renew the Takeing of this [text loss] a gaine & add to youre Bagg Juniper Berr[text loss] & Red Gallingale roots & Gention Roots of Ea[text loss] of these 3 ounces

Subject

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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.