Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Medical recipe book (MSS 03340)

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RB 755 88

Presented to the LIBRARY of the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO by the estate of J.S.H Guest

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A wholsom Salue to haue in [annaus] house

Tak an ounce of whit uergens wax an ounce of vosen an ouce of Croune sope an ounce of burows Bores greas boyle all these tell thay will stand apon your [na] then put in an ounce of uenies turpintine it will draw and heale any greene sore

to cuere the blody flix

Tak half a pound of butter out of the churn unwashed & unsalted and half a pound of hard lofe suger and beat it to a powder then ming mingle the powder and the butt[...] and mak it up in small pills [and let] the [...] swallow them

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A reseate to break & heale a sore brest 1 Tak a quart of chopped sage and one gallon of running watter this boyle together 6 [o ]houres till your sage is resonable tender and till all your water is boiled away saueing a pint then tak a [ponnengen] full of the smallest sifted [ctemele] and let it boyle untill it bee a poltis this applyed will be weak the breast if to bee broken and heale if afte it is broken without [tenting] you might allso take a litil of your courset hony and spread it upon your [poltise] (on breaste) [who] you- are reday to lay it on the breaste let it not be too hot laid on this is an aproved medisine 2 To mak a plise polise for a sore brest how it be [relieved] or cansered Tak one ounce of Linsede one ounce of [o] a handfull of red [uose] leaves beat this uery small then boyle [the] in a milkk to a coullis & when it is boyled but in sum [sasseur] enough to losen it & when it is redy to lay on but in sum Linseed out & lay it on an aproved

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