Manuscripts on materia medica, 17th-18th century. 1976-77/m/21, Countway Library of Medicine.

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Contains eleven pages of notes on medicine and recipes in multiple hands, primarily from the seventeenth century, and several patient case histories from the eighteenth century. Also includes a typed twentieth century note on the contents of the material.

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Take Conserve of red roses, Conserve of maregold flowres, Conserve of gill flowres, London [?] ana ℥ij [mit?] Ʒiij mirrhe ℥/8 powder of Angellica, Turmentill, [?] albi ana ℥i fine gold in powder ℥/8 n's as much Syrup of Viniger as is sufficient to make it an Electuary The dose is a quantity of a small nut [fasyng?] & drink a draught of beere made [damaged]

Take Roman wormwood ana m Juniper berrys ℥i Shred and bruise them grossely [?] [?] [?] on 2 quartes of [?] [?] beere & staund 12 [?] or more before you use it

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To make Balsom / Lucatilla

Take a pint of Sallett oyle a qter of a pound of yellow waxe slice it small, and putt it wth the oyle into a skillit or pipkin then take one handfull of rosemary, [asumoh?] [?], & [asumoh?] [?], & [asumoh?] Bayes one oz of Sanders and putt them to the oyle and wax, then sett them on a gently fier, and stirr them with a stick and lett them boyle up three tymes, then streyne them thorough a cloathe, Then take foure oz of [E?], and two oz of storax liquida, and washe them in 4 or 5 [thea?] water then take some rose water, & some plantaine water & washe them twice therein, then sett the Balsom ovre the fyer, and let them allmost boyle the take it of and putt therto the the storax liquida and venice Turpentine, then take one oz of sanguis [Iratoms?] and half an oz of Mummy, and putt them in by degrees, and stur them well together, and let it boyle well, then streyne them thorough a cloathe, then lett it coole, then sett it on the fire againe, and when it is well melted take it of, and putt therto two oz of oyle of [Exevikin?] wth one oz of Balfoure and stur them well together: finis

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A salt of erbes

Take erbes a great quantety beat it in a morter of ston seeth it in a great vesell in a greeat quantity of wator untill half be consumed strayn it and cool it then set it over weed hony and then put it in a glast vesell and set it in a could place for sertayn dayes and a salt and a salt will gather to the botom ticke salgeme pour of the wator only Rer and wash the salt with the wator of the same erbes and drye it

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