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A mixed batch of 12 scraps of various hands mostly about first half of 17'th C., chiefly prescriptions; one of the recipes (blank section) is on the back of a prayer

there is a healing drink to be made in May or June from some twenty-eight ingredients, a linctus, a balsam, "A great restorative for anye consumuption" and a panacea which I have pencilled "A" and partly ttanscribe. The constituents are mastick incense, laudanum, castorium, dates (?) stones clean scraped and basped daysis rootes, angelica root, calaminte (?), they are to b steeped in turpentine and honey 24 hours and distilled in an oven or sand furnis "and soe cleane it over 2 times and scurculate it in the same furnas"

"The Virtue of this balm being taken every morning vj roped in a spoonefull of wine it precer(v)eth on the poyson alsoe it preserves a man from corrupt and poyson ayre and especially to be used in time of the plage or pestilences and for on(e) that is bruised in any part let them straygth way anoynt the place and it shall assuage the welling of it and take away the blacke, and it is good for the stich in the side, being annoyed, and vjdrops put into a fistilla every daye doth heal it, heall all windi sores ould ulceres, and for the palsy let the party vj dropes morning and evening in four spoonfulls of win. Probatum este."