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Source Title:
Receipt book of Sarah Longe [manuscript].
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Receipt book of Sarah Longe [manuscript].
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Item 2 of 3: Main text, rebound separately by conservator.
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Longe, Sarah, fl. 1610.
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Longe, Sarah, fl. 1610.
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ca. 1610
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page 36 (folio 21 verso) || page 37 (folio 22 recto)
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Transcription:
36.
Amber-greace, 12 graines prepared pearle,
and soe lett the water drop in upon these
things in the glass, mingle the first wa-
=ter and the last both together, and
take 4. sponefulls in the morning fast-
ing, and 4. sponefulls as hour before
supper, and shake it about the glass
before you take the water to drinke.
For a Vomitt.
Take Crocus, Merhelosuse, and put a
drame into a pint of sacke, and soe
keepe, and the night before you giue
it shake the glass, and soe giue six
sponefulls of the wine to one that is old,
and 3. to a Child, or by weight an Ounce,
and to a Child halfe an Ounce.
Another way to make snow.
Take a pint of creame, and a little rose-
water, and the white of 2 Eggs, and as
much sugar as will sweeten it, and soe
wipe it, and take of the froath, but not
into the thing as you wold have it, and
soe lett it stand neere halfe an houre,
till it be settled to the bottome, then
take it out slightly into the thinge
you would have it goe in, and lay it in heapes.
folio 22 recto
37.
22
For the Megrim, or swiming
in the head.
Twenty ground Ivy leaves, and one prim-
-rose roote, cleane washed, and scraped,
stamp them together small, with a spone-
full of womans milke, If the medicine
be for a man, it must be the milke which
a Girle sucks on, if for a woman it
must be the milke w.hich a boy sucks,
straine out the Iuice, and of that
substance take out one drop in a spone,
and sett a quill upon it, and holding
one nostrill with your finger snuffe
it up with one other, and after 3
dayes doe the like to the other nostrill,
and then noe more for a weeke.
For Expulsion of wind.
White pepper, Black pepper, of each a
peny-worth, Time, ginger, anniseeds
of each a spone-full, searched, and made
into fine powder, and a penyworth
of long pepper, the white must be
beaten grossly, Then take a pint and
an halfe of Isopp water, and put into
it 3 quarters of a pound of sugar,
Amber-greace, 12 graines prepared pearle,
and soe lett the water drop in upon these
things in the glass, mingle the first wa-
=ter and the last both together, and
take 4. sponefulls in the morning fast-
ing, and 4. sponefulls as hour before
supper, and shake it about the glass
before you take the water to drinke.
For a Vomitt.
Take Crocus, Merhelosuse, and put a
drame into a pint of sacke, and soe
keepe, and the night before you giue
it shake the glass, and soe giue six
sponefulls of the wine to one that is old,
and 3. to a Child, or by weight an Ounce,
and to a Child halfe an Ounce.
Another way to make snow.
Take a pint of creame, and a little rose-
water, and the white of 2 Eggs, and as
much sugar as will sweeten it, and soe
wipe it, and take of the froath, but not
into the thing as you wold have it, and
soe lett it stand neere halfe an houre,
till it be settled to the bottome, then
take it out slightly into the thinge
you would have it goe in, and lay it in heapes.
folio 22 recto
37.
22
For the Megrim, or swiming
in the head.
Twenty ground Ivy leaves, and one prim-
-rose roote, cleane washed, and scraped,
stamp them together small, with a spone-
full of womans milke, If the medicine
be for a man, it must be the milke which
a Girle sucks on, if for a woman it
must be the milke w.hich a boy sucks,
straine out the Iuice, and of that
substance take out one drop in a spone,
and sett a quill upon it, and holding
one nostrill with your finger snuffe
it up with one other, and after 3
dayes doe the like to the other nostrill,
and then noe more for a weeke.
For Expulsion of wind.
White pepper, Black pepper, of each a
peny-worth, Time, ginger, anniseeds
of each a spone-full, searched, and made
into fine powder, and a penyworth
of long pepper, the white must be
beaten grossly, Then take a pint and
an halfe of Isopp water, and put into
it 3 quarters of a pound of sugar,
transcribed_information
36.
Amber-greace, 12 graines prepared pearle,
and soe lett the water drop in upon these
things in the glass, mingle the first wa-
=ter and the last both together, and
take 4. sponefulls in the morning fast-
ing, and 4. sponefulls as hour before
supper, and shake it about the glass
before you take the water to drinke.
For a Vomitt.
Take Crocus, Merhelosuse, and put a
drame into a pint of sacke, and soe
keepe, and the night before you giue
it shake the glass, and soe giue six
sponefulls of the wine to one that is old,
and 3. to a Child, or by weight an Ounce,
and to a Child halfe an Ounce.
Another way to make snow.
Take a pint of creame, and a little rose-
water, and the white of 2 Eggs, and as
much sugar as will sweeten it, and soe
wipe it, and take of the froath, but not
into the thing as you wold have it, and
soe lett it stand neere halfe an houre,
till it be settled to the bottome, then
take it out slightly into the thinge
you would have it goe in, and lay it in heapes.
folio 22 recto
37.
22
For the Megrim, or swiming
in the head.
Twenty ground Ivy leaves, and one prim-
-rose roote, cleane washed, and scraped,
stamp them together small, with a spone-
full of womans milke, If the medicine
be for a man, it must be the milke which
a Girle sucks on, if for a woman it
must be the milke w.hich a boy sucks,
straine out the Iuice, and of that
substance take out one drop in a spone,
and sett a quill upon it, and holding
one nostrill with your finger snuffe
it up with one other, and after 3
dayes doe the like to the other nostrill,
and then noe more for a weeke.
For Expulsion of wind.
White pepper, Black pepper, of each a
peny-worth, Time, ginger, anniseeds
of each a spone-full, searched, and made
into fine powder, and a penyworth
of long pepper, the white must be
beaten grossly, Then take a pint and
an halfe of Isopp water, and put into
it 3 quarters of a pound of sugar,
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