Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)

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A Receipt of keep Coies from casting of there Calfs

take one knob of sal earth and pound it to a powder and putt it into a pint of spring water and give it to the cow in the morning fasting and keep her fasting too hours afterward

a proved recait that never fails for to keep cowes from casting there calfs

take one quart of vargis a peny nutmeg and a tost and rub the nutmeg will he his rubed all on one the tost and put the tost in to the vargis all together and give it to the cowes when you see them [?ring] at the taile