Recipe book collection: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

For the shingles Tak a cat and with a stik beat her ear a good while & when you haue so done cut that ear & saue the bloud in a sawcer & with the bloud anoint the place wher the shingles be and use this three timses [...] To ripen a boyl or [puste] & it will draw & heal wher other salue is wanting Tak a spoonfull of hony a spoonfull of wheatflower a spoonffull of turpentine the yolk of an egge mix these alltogether & apply it warme morning & euening as thick as your [littill/littil] finger it is good to ri[p]en a plague sore

To make Docter Knowl: his plaster Take fure fore pound of the best and greenest [sallet] oyl, with A pound of good red lead, and A pound of white lead, beat them well into dust, then then take twelve ounces of castlesope, incorporate all thes well into gether in A well glassed and great earther pot, that the sope may cume upwards set it on A small frie of coales the spease of one hour and a half allwase stirring it with an iron ball or wooden slice or round pommilthen make your fire sum times what bigger until it be the colour of oyl then drop a little on the board, and if it cleave neither to your finger nor the board, then it is enough, then take the mak it in to Roles for that is best clother and make them into what breadth or size you please in searcloth let not your cloth be course but of A reasonable now hollond and when you haue dipped them then rub them with A slick stone it will last two yeares and the older the better as loung as it it will stick it is good The vertues of this plaster

[?] vowed helps for [?] Small pox app[?] in children

To bring them out

you. Take haris houne marigold flowers boyl may put them in possit drink maid of aill and alillib give the party to drink as often as thay [?] [?] desire to drink or if thay desire to drink ale or [?[ bear you may give them a draught or two before thay [?] come out if thus the party continue very Sick and thay doe not com out give them a Spoonfull of treacle walted Let them se if thay can Sweeat a Littill after thay ai[]com out

Keep the patient Indiferent warme but Remember that you doe not Keep the neck and throat hot Let nothing be Lapt about them for the holler thay are Kept the fuller thay will be

To Keep the pox out of the throat

Take cardusbenedictus watter and mix it well with white Suger candy puned to powder and give a spoodfull to the patient at a time and Let him gargle it in his throat if he can before he swallow it also Sa[??] is good to la[?] in possit drink to keep them out of the throat

if the eys be sore , closed with them millk some brest milk into the[?]

To Stope bleeding oft [Noose]

Porre white wine vinegar on a hott[ bri] and [fru] up the Smoke in the nose or dippe a fine cloth in Vineger made Luek warme and putt itt made like {a tont} put into the nose

hogs dunge allsoe putt in to the nose is good c so is the powder of hogs dung [su] afresh nellell rood put into the nostrills is good or the Leaves brused c Layed to any wound will stay the bleeding

ok to bleed into a bason of watter wherin is Roman Wiliroll

For to fetch the fire out of either burn or scald

the Juce of ground [s] with Sallatt oyl are good for ether burn or Scald being applyed continuu ally till the fire is out c then heal it with a plaster of [minuu] viniger or vergull with oyl will get the fire out very well after the fire is out apply the minum plaster

for Paine in the head and knee

Beat bay salt into powder by it self and as much cummin seed by it self and as much common fenill seed by it self then mix them together with allitill rose viniger in a poringer ouer a Chafindish of [conls] and aply it hot as she can abide it to the nap of the neck near the head, the next night, chang it for 2 or 3 nights it [curs] the head ach and the clears the egs sight and drans a way superfluous humers of the head

Conserve of Red Roses is good for today warm to her eye when she goes to bad

For the biting of all kind of venemous beasts Take the [iuice] of vermine and drink it and with this many have been [holpese] alle the black that is of the crabs feet well beaten into powder so very well help the same being drinck for the worms take [wormwood ]seed and [loyso ] it in bear and give it to the child to drinck

Fflour Cake Take 3 pond of flouer well dryed one pond of butter melted in a pint pint of creame one pint of strong ale yest with out hops 7 yolkes and 2 whits of eggs half an ounce of cloves and mace one nuttmag a quarter of a pint of sacke mixe them together and strow a handfull of flower over it Let it by the fire a quarter of an houre then put in 3 pond of corrant well rubed and dried 3/4 quarters of a pound of sugar let it stand in the oven 2 [] hours you may maek a seed cake the sam way to Ice the cake tak 4 or 5 whit of egge and beat them in to a snow tak a £ of dubel Refined sugur sifted very fin mix it with the sugur with a bunch of feathers ice the top of the cake then put it in to the oven to harden

A water for the eyes

Cellendine Bettony Ailhoof eye bright. of each 2 handfulls plaintain veruain sage fennill loos strife or willow weed Ragwort Red Roses Rosemary Rue of each 2 handfulls Roten appls about 20 a pound of hony with a pint of milk put thim all together into a still and still them and to the water put a littill whit suger candy and so keep it for your eyes wash them and let it go in to your eyes

Comphir 2 or this penny worth tied in a little silk and hanged about thair neck is good for the ague _______ Rose Mary is very good for the head and eyes _______ Briony Root is good to lay to the sols of the feet to draw the paine from the head --------

This is good for sore eyes Wood Betony is good for them the powder of the herd tha ma eat in ther broth drink or meat or eat the conserues?) of the heard or floure take a good handful of betony, a quarter so muceh of peneriall and boyl them in a quart of watter or bear ] let them hold tell thay tast well ] ther head ouer of the hearb their ] steme of it strain out the herb and sweeten it with hony is good for the ague and for ther head and eyes to drink in the morning or at any time Both betony and cardus are uery good for the head and eyes and eye bright to tak in all tha eats or drink --------------------