Digital Image File Name:
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123221
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Source Call Number:
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V.a.140
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Source Title:
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Receipt book [manuscript].
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Image Details:
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image rotated 90� clockwise
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Source Created or Published:
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compiled ca. 1600
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Physical Description:
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folio 33 recto
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Digital Image Type:
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FSL collection
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Hamnet Catalog Link:
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http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=231384
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Transcription:
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*
Though there is noe one sure or generall way other to prevent
the sicknes but keepinge far from infected places and persons,
much lesse any certaine waie or generall to cure all, yeat
vsinge ordinarie good meanes there is better effect founde.
than where those meanes are not vsed.
That which I have vsually given and advised for prevention is
that makinge a mixture of conserves of red roses and
wood sorel of each iij ounces and on ounce of Andromacy
treacle I give every morninge the quantety of a large
filbert or litel nutmeg of this mixture and cause them
to drinke a draught of posset drinke after it with good
store of sorel boiled in it and a fewe slices of zedoarie
and angelica roote of both together the weight of vid
or viijd
And when the party beginneth to complaine we give a grote
weight of mithridate or the former treacle in
a draught of carduous or dragon water and cause
the sick party to swete after it [th] an hower: the swete
beinge dried with clothes and the bodie quieted we give
broth made with borage bugless: sorel [may] and
marigold leaves or flowers and so againe after
page break
six or viij howeres, causing them to swete oute in a
day as beefore: many declininge treacle or mithridate
where the feaver is stronge ^give as much of the confection
caled confectio & hyacintho or such like as of mithridate
When the sore cometh hardly out we many times applie cup=
pinglasses to helpe drawe it out: or a plaster of galbanum:
or yf it offer it self well, a like roote rosted and a
tosted figg or to, with a fewe elder budes stamped together
some mixinge a litell turpentine and a litel yoalke of
an egg with them: the sore being thus ripned and opened,
or eles yf this doe it not speedily we advise to open it
with a lancet, or caustick ^ it beinge ripe and drawe it as an ordinarie
sore or bile keepinge it open till the corruption be
spent and the party well in his health:
you are to note that [may] many times we are dewe to
varie in owre advise accordinge the quality and
condition of the plague, and the distemper and acci=
dentes that doe accompany the sick: but this is the ordi=
narie and a good waie.
ffor my Ladie
Pittes
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Credit:
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Transcriptions made by Shakespeare’s World volunteers (shakespearesworld.org), participants in EMROC classes and transcribathons (emroc.hypotheses.org), participants in Folger paleography classes and transcribathons, and Folger docents.
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