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V.a.425
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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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Source Creator:
Longe, Sarah, fl. 1610.
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Longe, Sarah, fl. 1610.
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ca. 1610
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ca. 1610
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page 70 (folio 38 verso) || page 71 (folio 39 recto)
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Transcription:
70
A Diet drinke for the scurvy
and Dropsy.
Take of Sarsaparilla three ounces sassafras and
Elicampane of each six drams wood of Aloes
halfe an ounce, Anniseeds and ounce and halfe
Fennel and Coriander seeds of each halfe
an ounce, leaves of senna an ounce and halfe
Polypody Hermodactills of each an ounce
Agarick two drams Ginger a dram, Nutmeggs
halfe an ounce, Brooklime and water Cresses
of each two handfulls, scurvy grass halfe
a peck, Egrimony, Harts tongue Roman
wormwood and Tamarisk of each one handfull
Scabius, Coltsfoot and Maiden hair of each
halfe an handfull Monks Rhubarb three ounces
Bruise the hearbs, slyce the drugs, and put them
into a bagg, into three gallons of Ale newly
tunn'd vp, after three dayes begine to drinke
a pint therof at six in the morning and a pinte
at four afternoone, vsing moderate exercise.
Mr Tuthill
folio 39 recto
71
39
The kings receipt for the stone
Take of Mastik 2 ounces, Cloues, Nutmegs, Gallingall, Cububees
Iuniper berrys, Lignum Aloes, of each an ounce, beating all to powder
and add to them the best Turpentine 2 ounces & 2 ounces of
white hony, Infuse all these 24 houres in aglass still in two
pints of the spirit of wine, the still being close stopped, & when
the 24 houres are expired you must distill it in balneo
Maria, with a gentle fire Cooling the top of the still often
with a wett napkin, & as the water in the still Consumes, add
more the water being first warmed
Of This water take a spoonefull & add to it two spoonefull
of faire water with a lumpe of loafe sugar, take it in the
morning fasting & about 4 or 5 of the clock afternoon the stomach
being empty.
An Excellent Water for the stomack.
Take of Carduus, mint & Woormwood, of each a like quantity
shred them smal & put them into new milke, then put them
in a still & distill them with a temperate fire, when you
take it sweeten it with sugar or with what syrrup you
please.
A Diet drinke for the scurvy
and Dropsy.
Take of Sarsaparilla three ounces sassafras and
Elicampane of each six drams wood of Aloes
halfe an ounce, Anniseeds and ounce and halfe
Fennel and Coriander seeds of each halfe
an ounce, leaves of senna an ounce and halfe
Polypody Hermodactills of each an ounce
Agarick two drams Ginger a dram, Nutmeggs
halfe an ounce, Brooklime and water Cresses
of each two handfulls, scurvy grass halfe
a peck, Egrimony, Harts tongue Roman
wormwood and Tamarisk of each one handfull
Scabius, Coltsfoot and Maiden hair of each
halfe an handfull Monks Rhubarb three ounces
Bruise the hearbs, slyce the drugs, and put them
into a bagg, into three gallons of Ale newly
tunn'd vp, after three dayes begine to drinke
a pint therof at six in the morning and a pinte
at four afternoone, vsing moderate exercise.
Mr Tuthill
folio 39 recto
71
39
The kings receipt for the stone
Take of Mastik 2 ounces, Cloues, Nutmegs, Gallingall, Cububees
Iuniper berrys, Lignum Aloes, of each an ounce, beating all to powder
and add to them the best Turpentine 2 ounces & 2 ounces of
white hony, Infuse all these 24 houres in aglass still in two
pints of the spirit of wine, the still being close stopped, & when
the 24 houres are expired you must distill it in balneo
Maria, with a gentle fire Cooling the top of the still often
with a wett napkin, & as the water in the still Consumes, add
more the water being first warmed
Of This water take a spoonefull & add to it two spoonefull
of faire water with a lumpe of loafe sugar, take it in the
morning fasting & about 4 or 5 of the clock afternoon the stomach
being empty.
An Excellent Water for the stomack.
Take of Carduus, mint & Woormwood, of each a like quantity
shred them smal & put them into new milke, then put them
in a still & distill them with a temperate fire, when you
take it sweeten it with sugar or with what syrrup you
please.
transcribed_information
70
A Diet drinke for the scurvy
and Dropsy.
Take of Sarsaparilla three ounces sassafras and
Elicampane of each six drams wood of Aloes
halfe an ounce, Anniseeds and ounce and halfe
Fennel and Coriander seeds of each halfe
an ounce, leaves of senna an ounce and halfe
Polypody Hermodactills of each an ounce
Agarick two drams Ginger a dram, Nutmeggs
halfe an ounce, Brooklime and water Cresses
of each two handfulls, scurvy grass halfe
a peck, Egrimony, Harts tongue Roman
wormwood and Tamarisk of each one handfull
Scabius, Coltsfoot and Maiden hair of each
halfe an handfull Monks Rhubarb three ounces
Bruise the hearbs, slyce the drugs, and put them
into a bagg, into three gallons of Ale newly
tunn'd vp, after three dayes begine to drinke
a pint therof at six in the morning and a pinte
at four afternoone, vsing moderate exercise.
Mr Tuthill
folio 39 recto
71
39
The kings receipt for the stone
Take of Mastik 2 ounces, Cloues, Nutmegs, Gallingall, Cububees
Iuniper berrys, Lignum Aloes, of each an ounce, beating all to powder
and add to them the best Turpentine 2 ounces & 2 ounces of
white hony, Infuse all these 24 houres in aglass still in two
pints of the spirit of wine, the still being close stopped, & when
the 24 houres are expired you must distill it in balneo
Maria, with a gentle fire Cooling the top of the still often
with a wett napkin, & as the water in the still Consumes, add
more the water being first warmed
Of This water take a spoonefull & add to it two spoonefull
of faire water with a lumpe of loafe sugar, take it in the
morning fasting & about 4 or 5 of the clock afternoon the stomach
being empty.
An Excellent Water for the stomack.
Take of Carduus, mint & Woormwood, of each a like quantity
shred them smal & put them into new milke, then put them
in a still & distill them with a temperate fire, when you
take it sweeten it with sugar or with what syrrup you
please.
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