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V.a.452
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A book of choice receipts collected from several famous authors a great part in monasteries and often experimented as to a great number of them [manuscript].
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A book of choice receipts collected from several famous authors a great part in monasteries and often experimented as to a great number of them [manuscript].
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Source Creator:
Sheppey, Thomas, fl. 1675.
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Sheppey, Thomas, fl. 1675.
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ca. 1675
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page 134
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Transcription:
The prices. orientall pearl 18. d , Crabs eyes. 1d . red corall 2d .
white amber 3d . harts horn 1/4 d . Orientall bezoar 6d 10sh Crabs
claws 6d . The whole composition 3 13 sh. 1s. farthing : for
which you may expect 2 ounces and 5 drams, allowing about 2
drams for waste. The ounce will stand you [som] in something less
then 13 d 5sh the dram at 3 half pence 7d . The Apothecaries prices,
The ounce 40 sh . dram 5. sh . graine. a penny ./
This powder may be prepared at a farr lower rate,
for the poorer sort, & for ought I know, more Effectually;
thus: in stead of Prientall pearl, take Occidentall, and pro-
bably the finest sort of Mother of pearl, exceeds either. ie,
if prepared as it ought to be. In lieu of Orientall Bezoar
take Occidentall: which being much cheaper, doth not so
much incourage fraud ul ent people to counterfeit them:
& therefore certain occidentall Bezoar, is to be preferred
before the uncertain orientall: But what if the Bezoar
be wholy left out, & double the proportion of pearl that is
putt in; where is the damage? So that the dram of
Gascoignes powder, will come under 3 halfpence . Idem./
X A True receipt of Gascoigns Cordiall powder.
Rx raggs of pear or seed pearl, red corall, harts horn, white
amber, of each a like quantity, being all severally beaten to
powder & searced through a fine searce. Then take as much
Crabs eyes, and tops and toes of the clawes, as of all the
rest of the powders, for it is a main agent in the Work.
beat & searce them as you do the rest. Beat them severally
& take as much more of the Crabs eyes & claws, as of all
the rest: mix them together & make them up into balls,
with jelly of hartshorn, wherin you may infuse some safron
more or less, as you would have them colourd: let them ly
till they be fully dry and concocted, then use them on Occasion.
If you can gett the crabs before they are boyled, it is much
better; they must be in season: that is in May or September.
The powder finely scraped with a Knife may be taken in a
spoonfull of Dragon or Carduus water, or any other
Cordiall water or posset drink, 10 grains at a time for
a Man or Woman: 2 graines for a yong Child.
It prevents the small pox, or setts them from the heart:
It is good in all violent feavers, poysons, plague, Agues,
trembling or passion of the heart. It preserves from
diseases & infections: it lasts long & decayes not. Note
The stones that are taken from the eyes of Crayfish are
the right crabs eyes. MS. L. Byr ./
white amber 3d . harts horn 1/4 d . Orientall bezoar 6d 10sh Crabs
claws 6d . The whole composition 3 13 sh. 1s. farthing : for
which you may expect 2 ounces and 5 drams, allowing about 2
drams for waste. The ounce will stand you [som] in something less
then 13 d 5sh the dram at 3 half pence 7d . The Apothecaries prices,
The ounce 40 sh . dram 5. sh . graine. a penny ./
This powder may be prepared at a farr lower rate,
for the poorer sort, & for ought I know, more Effectually;
thus: in stead of Prientall pearl, take Occidentall, and pro-
bably the finest sort of Mother of pearl, exceeds either. ie,
if prepared as it ought to be. In lieu of Orientall Bezoar
take Occidentall: which being much cheaper, doth not so
much incourage fraud ul ent people to counterfeit them:
& therefore certain occidentall Bezoar, is to be preferred
before the uncertain orientall: But what if the Bezoar
be wholy left out, & double the proportion of pearl that is
putt in; where is the damage? So that the dram of
Gascoignes powder, will come under 3 halfpence . Idem./
X A True receipt of Gascoigns Cordiall powder.
Rx raggs of pear or seed pearl, red corall, harts horn, white
amber, of each a like quantity, being all severally beaten to
powder & searced through a fine searce. Then take as much
Crabs eyes, and tops and toes of the clawes, as of all the
rest of the powders, for it is a main agent in the Work.
beat & searce them as you do the rest. Beat them severally
& take as much more of the Crabs eyes & claws, as of all
the rest: mix them together & make them up into balls,
with jelly of hartshorn, wherin you may infuse some safron
more or less, as you would have them colourd: let them ly
till they be fully dry and concocted, then use them on Occasion.
If you can gett the crabs before they are boyled, it is much
better; they must be in season: that is in May or September.
The powder finely scraped with a Knife may be taken in a
spoonfull of Dragon or Carduus water, or any other
Cordiall water or posset drink, 10 grains at a time for
a Man or Woman: 2 graines for a yong Child.
It prevents the small pox, or setts them from the heart:
It is good in all violent feavers, poysons, plague, Agues,
trembling or passion of the heart. It preserves from
diseases & infections: it lasts long & decayes not. Note
The stones that are taken from the eyes of Crayfish are
the right crabs eyes. MS. L. Byr ./
transcribed_information
The prices. orientall pearl 18. d , Crabs eyes. 1d . red corall 2d .
white amber 3d . harts horn 1/4 d . Orientall bezoar 6d 10sh Crabs
claws 6d . The whole composition 3 13 sh. 1s. farthing : for
which you may expect 2 ounces and 5 drams, allowing about 2
drams for waste. The ounce will stand you [som] in something less
then 13 d 5sh the dram at 3 half pence 7d . The Apothecaries prices,
The ounce 40 sh . dram 5. sh . graine. a penny ./
This powder may be prepared at a farr lower rate,
for the poorer sort, & for ought I know, more Effectually;
thus: in stead of Prientall pearl, take Occidentall, and pro-
bably the finest sort of Mother of pearl, exceeds either. ie,
if prepared as it ought to be. In lieu of Orientall Bezoar
take Occidentall: which being much cheaper, doth not so
much incourage fraud ul ent people to counterfeit them:
& therefore certain occidentall Bezoar, is to be preferred
before the uncertain orientall: But what if the Bezoar
be wholy left out, & double the proportion of pearl that is
putt in; where is the damage? So that the dram of
Gascoignes powder, will come under 3 halfpence . Idem./
X A True receipt of Gascoigns Cordiall powder.
Rx raggs of pear or seed pearl, red corall, harts horn, white
amber, of each a like quantity, being all severally beaten to
powder & searced through a fine searce. Then take as much
Crabs eyes, and tops and toes of the clawes, as of all the
rest of the powders, for it is a main agent in the Work.
beat & searce them as you do the rest. Beat them severally
& take as much more of the Crabs eyes & claws, as of all
the rest: mix them together & make them up into balls,
with jelly of hartshorn, wherin you may infuse some safron
more or less, as you would have them colourd: let them ly
till they be fully dry and concocted, then use them on Occasion.
If you can gett the crabs before they are boyled, it is much
better; they must be in season: that is in May or September.
The powder finely scraped with a Knife may be taken in a
spoonfull of Dragon or Carduus water, or any other
Cordiall water or posset drink, 10 grains at a time for
a Man or Woman: 2 graines for a yong Child.
It prevents the small pox, or setts them from the heart:
It is good in all violent feavers, poysons, plague, Agues,
trembling or passion of the heart. It preserves from
diseases & infections: it lasts long & decayes not. Note
The stones that are taken from the eyes of Crayfish are
the right crabs eyes. MS. L. Byr ./
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