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Francis Smith medical recipe book, 1704

Page 51

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51 A marvolous Secret to Preserve a man from ye plague and hath been proved in England of all ye physitians [an?] yt great and Vehement plague in ye yeare 1348 which crept through all ye Land there was never any which used this secret but hee was preserved from the plague. Take Aloe Opaticum or Sicotrine fine Sinamon and myrrhe of each of them three drames Cloves mace Lignum Aloes, Masticks Bole Arino mack of Each of them half a dram - let all these thngs be well Stamped in a cleane mortar then mingle them together and after keepe them in some close Vessel and take of it Every morning two penny weight in half a glase of white wine with a little water and drinke it in the morning
 
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