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Francis Smith medical recipe book, 1704

Page 82

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82 Dr. Atkinsons Prefume against the Plague Take Angelica roots and dry them a very little in the oven or by ye fire and bruise them very soft and lay them in wine vinegar to steep being close covered 3 or 4 days then.. heat a brick hot and lay ye same there on every morning; this is excellent to air ye house or any cloths, or to breath over in ye morning fasting. A drink for the plague or pestilent feaver proved by the Countess of Arundel in ye year 1603 Take a pint of malmsey and burn it and put thereto a spoonfull of grains being burised and take four spoonfuls of ye same in a [porringes?] and put them in a spoonful of gean treacle and
 
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