Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay ColonyDow, George Francis
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Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dow, George Francis
Massachusetts -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
Take Sallet oyle and Read Lead and boyle it well together and dipe
peces of Lining Cloath in it Keep them for use
_For The Ague_
Take the Drye shell of a Turtell beat smale & boyled in water while
2 thirds of the water be consumed & drinke of it 2 or 3 times when
the Ague Cometh
_Probatum Easte January the 10 1681_
The Greene Oyntment that m^s Feeld did Vse to make[89]
[89] _Sympathetick Oyntment._ Boars grease, brains of a Boar, powder
of washed Earth worms, red Sanders, Mummy, Bloodstone, a. [oz]i,
moss of a dead mans Skul not buried [dram]i, make an Oyntment, S.A.
All wounds are cured by this Oyntment, (provided the nerves and
arteries be not hurt) thus: Anoint the weapon that made the wound
daily once, if there be need, and the wounds be great; otherwise
it will be sufficient to annoint it every other day. Where note.
1. that the weapon be kept in clean linnen, and in a temperate
heat, lest the Patient be hurt; for if the dust fall, or it be
cold, the sick will be much tormented. 2. that if it be a stab, the
weapon be anointed towards the point descending. 3. if you want the
weapon, take blood from the wound upon a stick, and use as if it
were the weapon; thus the Tooth ach is cured by pricking the Gums,
and anointing the instrument.--_Compendium of Physick_ (_Salmon_),
London, 1671.
_Earth Worms._ These are often used in Compositions for cooling
and Cleansing the Viscera. They are good in _Inflammations_ and
_Tubercles_ of the Lungs and in Affections of the _Reins_ and
Urinary Passages. _Syrup of Snails._ Take Garden-snails early in the
morning, while the dew is upon them, a pound; take off their shells,
slit them, and with half a pound of fine Sugar put into a Bag hang
them in a Cellar, and the Syrup will melt, and drop through, which
Keep for Use. This is not kept in the shop, but is worth making for
young Children inclining to Hectics and Consumptions. A Syrup of
Earth-worms may be made in the same manner for the like Intentions.
_Frog's Spawn._ This another Cooler, but it is an insipid Phlegm,
and good for nothing more than common Rainwater; and will not
Keep long without mothering and stinking.--_English Dispensatory_
(_Quincy_), London, 1742.
Jt Cureth all Spraines and Aches Cramps and Scaldings and Cutts
healeth all wounds it doth suple molyfy Ripen & Disolues all Kind of
tumors hot and Cold and it will heale olde Rotten Sores and bites of
Venemos Beasts itch and mangenes and stench bloud it Easeth Swelling
and paines of the head and throate Eyes and Eares Gout and Seattica
and all outward Greefes
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