Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)

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Take a old Red Cock, 2 ounce of China, 1 ounce of Correander seeds, 2 drames of mace; boile all these in 6 Gallons of sweet Wortt till 2 gallons be wasted. then worke itt up, with barme as you doe ale, and when you tun itt put into the Barrel 2 ounce of cream of tarter in the lumpe, and 2 ounce of melted steel tied up in a Canves bagg.

Index

Dropsy pp. 1. 9. 16. 28. 42

Snayle W. 2

Aq. Mirabilis 3. 45 (see Sir Kenelm Digby - cf. Salmom - p 446.

Palsey Water 4. 13.

{'Probatum est.'} Wound 7 cf Sir Kenelm Digby

Oyle of Swallows 8

Jelly of Harshorn 8

Fistula 9. 40. The Lady Mildmays way

Renal Calc. 11. 13. 41. 42. 46. 47. 49. 59

Ague 12. 35

Head 13. 35. 45. 59. 61 Sydenham 62. 63

Tooth ache [&c.] 14. 28. 33. 34. 52. 56

Oyle of Charity 15

For a Redd Face 17. 24. 56

[AgainAgst.st] Plague 18. 25.26.27. 70

Ricketts 18. 43 1st printed by Whistler 1645: Glisson 1650 cf. Princess Elizabeth

Freckles (Morphew) 19. 32. 26

Tetters (Herpes) 21. 33

Lytes 22

Wormes 23

Erysipelas 23

"Fatt" 29

Mad Dog 29. 64

Eyes bloodshot 30. 51. 53

Breast 30

Jaundices 28. 16 black. 31 (Prob. Est)

Constipation 31

Liver 32. 41

[Morphew 32. 19] freckles ?Ringworm

Poyson 32

[E...tic] 34

Short breath 34. 35

"Sovreignes water" 35 Philip Stephens [held] Open - 1655. "Catalogus Anti mastiBritannia Oxon.

Small pox 36. 37. 38

Rosemary 37

Bals. Lucatelli 38

Scurvie "Rights" 39. 42. 51. 67. 71 Lower

Convulsions 40. 73

Epistaxis 40

Pitting in Sm. Pox 42 Stone (Judge Ellis) 42. 46. 7

Hair. To make grow 44. 60. 70-Bees

Gout (Weatherley) 48

Consumption 54

Cough 54

Piles 57

Gripes 59. 71

Incontinence 69

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