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Francis Smith medical recipe book, 1704

Page 191

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All these things in it then drink a good draught of it in ye morning fasting and att three a clock in the afternoon. For dropsie or Scurvy Tak 4 Gallons of ale of 2 dayes old put in Brook-lime. water. Cresses water mints with red Stalkes of Each 4 handfulls. Scurvy-grass half a peck-all Clean picked and washed an dryed and shred with a knife put them in a bag then put them in ye ale and stop it close. then take two quarts of water and put in 4 Ounces of Guaiacum two Oonces Sarsparilla one Ounce Saxifrage put it into a pipkin and infuse it upon ye Embers for. 12. houres then..strain it and put it into ye ale as soon as soon as it hath done working. At Seven days old tap it
 
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