Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
Balme spearmints, wormwood, of each 6 handfulls 12 handfulls of cardus
all Shred lay these all night to steep in 6 quarts of new milk and the
next morning draw it off. Ye Lady Downs adds angelicoe & to every
still full an ounce of liquorish & sweet fennell seeds.
218. _For Deafness._
Put ground Ivy one leafe into each ear rowle it up but not too hard put
it in fresh morning and evenings.
219. _A Water for any Sore or Sore Eyes._
Take 2 ounces of allume one ounce of white copperis, half an ounce of
baysalt, boyle these in 2 quarts of runing water till half be wasted
and when tis cold put into the bottle with it one penny worth of
camphire then stop it close and twill keep 7 years.
220. _For Convultion Fits._
Take single piony roots take of the out side and cut them as thin as
Groats Dry them on a sheet of paper in a fire pan, pound and search
them fine and give to a child as much as will lay on a silver 2 pence
in a spoonfull of small beer and give another after it give this twice
a day, 3 days after the change and full of the moon, and if continue
make a Issue in the arme if the convultion be in the head Take a grain
of musk divide it into 2 parts put it into a little linnet and tye
it up in fine rags and put them into the ears and let it stay there
a month. Take featherfew and wormwood of each a like quantity stamp
them and take the juice put to it a little Crab vinegar and shave in a
little assafetita wet 2 pieces of old cloth in this and put them over
ye ears & let them come out over ye face to reach the nose that the
child may always smell it.
221. _Another for Convultions._
Take a Cat of a quarter old or younger (for a boy a She cat for a Girl
a he cat) cut off the head and hold the head in one hand and the body
in the other over a bason that you may catch the blood that comes out
of both parts, then take the breast milk of a healthy woman (if for a
boy a girls milk and if for a girl a boys milk) then take a little of
the blood alone and anoint the stomach with it, then put 2 spoonfulls
of ye milk and mix it well with the rest of the blood, then set it on a
Chaffendish of coals till tis warme then take it off and strain it and
give the child as much as it will drink and fast an hour after it give
this but once and that as soon as a fit is past let the child have a
little assafetita ty’d in a rag & hung about the neck, dip it in Crab
vinegar often.
222. _The Water for the Fits._
Take rue feverfew wormwood of each a like quantity and now & then when
fainty or in a fitt sweeten it with Sirrop of Jilly flowrs give 2 or 3
spoonfulls.
223. _For very strong Fitts or Fitts in Great People._
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