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Receits of phisick and chirurgery. There are a few cookery receipts at the end.
Inside the cover is written 'The Lady Ayscough Booke Anno Domini 1692'. The first 93 pp. and the 7 pp. of cookery receipts are by the original hand, the remainder is in another nearly contemporary script.
An index at the start and end of the volume, and the following recipes: Mathias Lucantella his Balsome To stop or stanch bleeding; To cause speedy deliverance The milk water For the Piles being outward Balsome of Tobacco of Peru Trithemius his powder For ye canker For ye Ague; Lucatella Balsome Emplaster magistralis For ye stone For A sore throat & mouth A Diet Drink for the scurvy To make Gilly; An ointment for green wounds For A Consumption in ye back For ye wormes To make Perfumes Pills for ye windy Collick The Wound Drink For A Consumption; For spiting of Blood, or pissing of Blood or any other Issue To cause one to vomit fleagm & gross humors To cure ye pin or web in ye Eye & to clear ye sight For A sore Brest For A pearle or A pin or webb in ye Eye For a consumption A Pulltis to break A hard swelling Fomentation A water for ye stone For Griping in ye Gutts For the Scurvy To purge ye Head; The Oyle of Charity For A cough For A Consumpton To make Oyle of Swallow of ye best For A white scald To stay spiting of Blood For A scald head; To make the Green Oyntment The effects of this Oyntment For the canker A Powder for ye Green Sickness To stay the tearms For A Cough For the Plague A Drink to cure ye Dropsie or A consumpton or any weakness in ye body; For the runing of y Reins For A Burneing feaver An excellent salve for A burne For A cut or green sore For ye fellon An excellent plaster for the Gout or to draw humors out of ye head or any place of ye body For ye stone For A Consumption For lameness, Palsies, cramps, & shrinking of sinews Agt ye bloody flux & all other issues of Blood; A Poultace for A sore Brest A water for ye stone To make ye spirit of Clary To Bring Throwes To bring Throwes For ye wormis for A child; A present & approv'd remedy for ye stone For the Stone in ye Reins A Receit for A woman apt to miscarry For the Pleurisy; A medicine against ye Plague An excellent medicine against ye winde wch proceeds from ye Mother wch many times causeth great pains both in the Liver & ye Spleen For A consumption; A medicine for ye stone For A Cough A Cordiall to bring away after birth To make a Drink for ye Biteing of A mad Dog A Broth & Syrrop for A consumption; A Cordiall for A woman apt to miscarry A Pultis for Stt Anthony's Fire For A Burstting either in young or old approved. Mr Wilkins; To make the Comon Oyle of Stt John's wort calld Oleum Hyperiei A receit of Capt. Greens if it be cold humor A Rare & Excellent Salve to heal all burneing by fire Mrs Shaw Powder; Capt Greens Red Plaster for A sore brest To make ye black salve wch is good for Aches Bruises, burnes or A sore brest To make ye compound oyle called Oleum Hypertiei Mrs Tassels Cordiall to bring Away an afterbirth; Sr Walter Rawleigh is Great Cordiall An Approved receit for ye Piles My Lady Listers Baggs agt after pains; Mr Gilberts Water Mrs Shaw's Directions To Bring Throws A Glister for A woman in childbed; To make spirit of mint To make Wormewood water Monsieurs Watter To make Spirit of wine; A fine Pleasing Drink in Weakness when the sick cannot Relish Boar To make Treakle water The vertues of this Water To make A compound of Amber Grease dissolved A Tisanny Drink To Preserve Ellicampane; To make sweets for Lining Aqua Mirabilis M# Cordiall To make white Mead; My Lady Pomander For ye Black Jaundice An Antidote agt any Infections To keep ye smallpox out of ye Throat To make Gascon Powder. Mr Robinson; A Rice Corrdiall for a flux To make Syrrip of Colts foot A Plaster for ye sciatica Extemporary Hippocras A medicine for ye yellow Jaundice; For the small Pox to take ye spots out of ye face or keep ym from pitting The Countess of Oxons Juice of Liccras; The great Palsey water for an Apoplexy Roles for Mrs. Ayscough; Diascordium Receit for A Consumption My Lady Allens water good for stomack Surfitt or small pox; To Help After pains For soreness A Medicine to draw or heal any sore also to heal Chilblanes An Excellent water for convulsion fitts For A stroke in the Eyes if their Grow pain theirby or if you be pricked in ye Eyes by any Panes To help great After pain; For the Scurvy An excellent green Ointment maid made in may, good for any straine or sweeling in any part of ye body To make Cowslip water Water to wash sore mouth's; Our stone Water A Plurisie & A medicine when A man is past letting Blood An Ale for ye Lungs For a sore Brest A poltis that will draw & heal as sore Brest For a sore Brest For ye yellow Jaundice; The Lady Ellinor Robert's Juice of Liquorish A Plaster for ye wormes in man, woman, or child For ye falling of ye fundament Dr. Pikes Cordiall to be#sd for ye small Pox in ease the kindly rise wett; To Make the Sacred Tincture A Powder for Convultions falling Sickness or fitts of ye mother For A Plurisie; A Medicine for ye stone For the Stomack For ye Ricketts or a great weakness in ye Joynts Dr Godards receit for ye Ricketts A Posset Drink for ye stone; The Dyet Ale to be prepar'd as soon as conveniently itt may be done For ye Runing of ye Reins A medicin for A pin or web in y Eye Lime water to cleance A sore; Sr Adrian Pillburn Cordiall water My unkle Woolies Searecloath To stay Bleeding; Cordiall Water A cure for A glandred horse or one broken winde For ye Bitte of A mad Dog A Glister to draw wind from ye head; To make cock. tle Syrrop of hartstounge To make Juniper water; To make Oyntment for ye Eyes To Prepare Steel Dr. Dikes Lime Water; A Plaister for ye Ruhme to lay behind the ears To take away ye pearle of ye Eyes. Mrs Nesbeet A very good Remedy agt ye falling evill or Convultions How to make Sirrup of malt For ye stone; Directions to make ye Drink for ye stone The stone water by Dr Barker; A Diet Drink For the Scorvy A Receipt for ye stone The snale water; To make compound Tentian water For ye Dropsie, or for swelling of ye belly by reason of winde Pills for ye stone or Gravill For ye Bowells stoping & loosness For ye stone; For any weakness To cure grease in Horse Leggs For ye collick The steel pills For ye stone. Mr. Gunter; To cure ye colick in ye Gutts or bowells For ye Collick For a fistulla; Mr John Wooddalls receit to cure all Itchings in the Eyes smartings immoderate heumes and Ophach almies at ye beginning wch doth well strenghten ye Sight For a wheizing in ye Pipes or Lungs; Mr Mathias his Palsey water alsoe for ye Apoplexy; Mr Mathias his other water for ye Palsey of less price and Charge An Electuary for ye cough of Lunges approved. Mrs Slones For a burne or scald. Gooddy Pakeman For a sprant now done To keep one Soluble; Lightness in the Head Another for the same To comfort the Braine For a noise in ye Head or Deafness Another Palsey. Mr Mattins; For a cough a Streitness of the Brest For a Wenn A Cordiall To make Snaile Water for a Consumption A comfortable a cooling Electuarye; Another To cleanse the Reines. Mrs Hone To Take ye Ague out of any place or for bruises or spraines; For burning or scalding or to take out the Fire. Mrs Hone To make Wallnutt Water For the Mother For ye riseinge of ye Lights; To refresh the spirit or the or ye stomake For ye Yellow Jaundies Wind Collicke Another. Mr Shade Sore Throat or Mouth; Water to restore ye sight lost either by chance or Sickness. Sister Witts For a whit blow or fellon For a fellon or to draw out a thorne Hard travaile in Child birth; Ague. Dr Lodge The red Balsome An oyntment for numness in ye Joynts For Lask or Fluxe Another For scurf in a childs face; A diet Drink prescribed by Dr Wright to Sr Rob: Quarless being sick of the Goute in his feet The Bagge How to make the Balsome; The Virtues of ye Balsome An oyntment for an old sore in the Legg or else where Gout Wind & Wind Collick; Consumption A restorative Broth A very pretious and wholesome Water To disolve pearles. Dr. Franke; For ye Flowing of Flowers. Mrs Hone Another. Lady Harrison An other. Mrs Hone A Glyster for ye Wind in a Child For the Collick For the wormes or wind in a child; For any Sore The Emplayster For a Looseness Another To bring forth ye Poxe; To bring or prevent ye Poxe from pilling To preserve ye eyes in the poxe For the throate in ye poxe For ye spotts yt remaine after ye poxe For ye Megrim or giddiness of ye Head For a giddiness or swimming of ye head; For ye Weakness of ye Memory For ye Tooth Ach For a Ticklinge Cough A Diet drink for a Consumption To make one sleepe; For an Ach To cure a Rupture For a sticth or wind in ye stomack A very sweet perfume; To bring up tough flegm and sopping in the brest. Doct: Wright For a Consumption Dropsie, Timpany Cough of ye Rheume and to keep ye Liver from putrefaction An oyntment for Bruises. old Beades Emplastrum de Minio; A singular Emplaster well Approved of very Effectuall for these things following The manner of Makeinge from Mrs Hone For ye Green sickness For ye Yellow Jaundyes; Another. The Lady Beades Another for ye Greene Sickness or for a Bruise. The Lady Bartlett For a stitch in ye side For a Tetter For a stitch to a Woman newly brought a bed A good Conserve to help digestion. Dr Smith An excellent Receit for the swelling in the Neck wch commonly falls out to bee Kings Evill . Dr Wilkinson; Hard travell or fainting. The Lady Wade A soveraigne Medicine or water to remove any disease from ye heart or stomack, be it ye plague small pox Measles, or such like it will expell it presently it is cald ye Plague water For bleeding att ye Nose; A Remedie against ye Plague A good plaister to break the sore & draw out ye Infection A Recete to make a wound drink. Mrs Sadler; The Termes Stopped. Mrs Hone To Stanch ye bleeding of a wound or cutt. The Lady Capell For ye stopping of the pipes. Dr Lodge A Defensive for any Wound; The Water for a Wound. Mr Adia A ripeing Poultiss For Pissing of blood For the Liver to rectifie it from Obstructions. Dr Anthony; An Oyntment for swelling either by stinging or otherwayes in Man or Beast, or for a sweld bagge in a Codd For one yt cannot hear. Ms Hone A Drink to cure the Consumption Dropsey, dead palsey, and most inward Diseases of the Bodie; For the shakeing of the hands or head; Falling sickness to cure Understand, or vitall spiritts to strengthen Vomitting of blood to stay Urine hott to, to coole For a Consumption; Swelling to Asswage. Mr Dr Bonham Spotts of small pocks to take away Lungs suffocated to help; A Drink for the scurvye To Fasten the Teeth For a cold if Fleum oppress For a sore Throat For coldness of ye Head For noyse in the Eare; For a Tetter For to make syrrup of Rhubarb For the Wind For the Spleen; Dr Sam: For the Ricketts; For ye Ricketts For ye Ricketts A sirrupe for ye Ricketts. Mrs Love; For to much Another for ye same An approved Remedy for ye Ricketts For ye Ricketts. Mrs Mede; For to Much Another for the Same A Medicine for the Tooth Ach To take away ye Itch; For the Collick For the Spleen. Lady Aborganony For to Much An approved Medicine for one that cannot make water but in great paine For a Tetter riseing in the Face A medicine for the stich and windie Stomacke; For a Rupture For the pallit of the Mouth The Lady Brooke perfect Medicine for ye Yellow or Black Jaundies & ye Collick in the stomack and for the Ague giving 4 spoonfulls thereof with as much Methredate as a Nuttmegg, before the fitt swealing after itt; For a soare Breast. Mrs Hone For a Breast wherein the Milk is wharled & knotted. Mrs Hone; A playster for a sore throate. The Lady Wade Mr Gascoynes Powder To distill a most Excellent Water called cherry water which is very Cordiall and soveraine against Melancholy John Hanworths powder for ye stone. Dr Alme; For the Splen For to Heale Nipples For to little after Delivery A Soveraigne Oyntment for a Ache wrinch bruise or swellinge. Lady Burgoyne For a child troubled with ye Gripeing of Wind Aliter; A Prepervation for ye Lungs and to strengthen ye Voice For a weakness in the Back Aliter Aliter. Mrs Hone; Mrs Hone For to Much . Mrs Hone A most excellent plaister for ye Wormes. Mms Raye An approved Medicine for ye Wormes Aliter To asswage the swelling of Womens Papps A Medicine for ye Piles; Aliter To make a Syrrope for one that is short winded For one yt is in a Consumption of Nature. Dr Sam: Aylme A Restorative Water in Weakness The Green Oyntment; For Mouth Water To make a most excellent sear cloath good for any thing; The Vertues of itt To take away an Ague For a white scald Alister For the chine Cough Aliter; A colel or Cough. Dr Lodge To stanch the Bleeding of a wound For the Purples A restorition water for a deep Consumption. Sr Simon Baskerfield A great Cordiall against Poyson; An excellent Julipp for feavours and for Wormes in Children; for Livergrow, and riseing of Lightes and for the Ricketts For a soar throate caused by a congealed humour which will lye & burne in the throate Aliter For a Canker either in Mouth or else where in Man or beast; Another for the Throate Almonds fallen to help A Remedye for the fallinge sickness yt cured one of 60 yeares of Age after he had had itt 15 years An Oyntment for one that is Livergrowne The drink for the same For heate in the stomack burneing up to ye head & hindering sleep; For ye stone & strangury For the Dropsey To make the spiritt of common salt The use of itt; A secrett to expell Poyson . Mrs More To stopp to much Vomiting An excellent secrett for ye help of such as one troubled with ye mother Experienced. Mr More To make the spiritt of salt Peter; A true Note of Mr Halls his powder for a Fistula The Oyntment for the same A water for a pimpled Face To prevent the Breast from cankeringe; To coole #tre# Blood Palseye. Mr Mattins For a paine in the head or in a Feaver For the Cramp For the Palsey of the Heart For the bruises codd To put up the Uvala To make Gilliflower water; Frecles in the face Morphew sun burning Itch Redface Aliter #atica to help. Mrs Niller Mr John Hanworth his most Excellent water for the stone either in Kidney or Bladder; The use of itt An effectuall restorative water for a Consumption A restorative water for a deep consumption approved by Sr Simon Baskerfield; Consumption of the Lungs To Procure Throwes A Glister for the Winde For Diseases in Children For ye consumption. Mr Askue For a paine at the stomacke; For a weak Bakk approved Mrs Moores excellent Cordiall A Diett drink for a salt Rheume breaking into pimples. Dr Morgerne Angina cald the Quinzey; For the burning of the Mouth & throate Dentifrice :j:e: powder to rubbe the teeth with all For a sore brest A ripeing Powltiss. Mer Adey a good purge; A purge for choller and the Liver A purge of A garick yt wch cleanseth the Brest & head of all superfluous humours To Purge Watery Humors A Pectorall Drink A pill for the Bloody fluxx Doctor Wrights Pescription to Mrs Strode being troubled with a great Rheume and a tickling Cough, very weak with Child; Bloody Flux A Generall remedy for all Fluxes The Vertue The Termes stopped; Another for the Same. Dr Anthony An outward Medicne for the stomack to help Digestion. Askue To strengthen and comfort the stomacke. Askue For a stopping and wheezing at the stomack & to prevent a consumption. Mr Buttler A secrett for the Tooth Ache; A most rare Powder which the Countess of Barkes paid after the rate of ten pound the ounce The Vertues Broth to strengthen the Back Biteings of a mad Dogge To help the stoppage and sharpness of Time; Strangury Sore Eyes. Lady Capell For the Ricketts. Mrs Midleton A Jelly for the restoreing of a weak body without any annoyance to the stomack or inflameing the Liver; An Injection for deafness To preserve and strengthen the Memorye For ye extremitie of ye whites For the after Burden For the Mother ; Another for the Another Dr Buttlers Generall Dyett drink. Dr Buttler To Take away freckles of the or Morphew, or sunne burne. Dr Ailmer To prevent the small pox; To prevent pitting in the small pockes To strengthen ye braine and help Giddiness To fasten ye Teeth and keep them White An excellent Ippocrass to purge melancholly and cold Humours To clarifie whey, good to open and coole ye Liver and help a stopt spleen; A sage an effectuall Vomitt For a Fellon on the Finger Mrs Prices Jelly for the Ricketts This a most excellent approved Medicine for a paine in ye back proceeding from wind or cold; To make a searcloath to take away the paine out of a bone that hath been broken. Mr Brest Canker. Hone In case a purge or vomitt work extreamly to stay itt give this potion following. Gam: Pittsie Fistula Drink A neck plaister to draw Rhewm from the eyes of a head; Brest curdled with Milk to help An excellent astringent sirrupe. Dr Hone A pill of very good vertue To strenghten ye Head to one yt may not take any openers; To strengthen ye sight To stay a Cough To make ye Juice of Liquorice For one yt cannot hold his water A most approved Julepp which helpeth ye inordinate Menses though in great extremitie of ye Patient often approved. Mrs Ailmer; A Medicine against ye stinging of an Adder snake or or any other venemous beast. Lady Capell Another for the same To discuss cold humours that are stuffed in the head and to strengthen ye Braine To expell ye Pox and preserve ye heart; A Receite for a Consumption Piles to help To draw back Rheum from ye Eyes A Very gentle and strengthening glyster very fitt for Children For the stone. Dr Hone; Wind to help Paine of the Eares to ease Convulsion fitts in Children to helpe For one that spitteth blood; To stay ye bleeding at the Nose To stanch blood that goeth out of veine with blood letting Bleedinge at the nose to help To draw out a Thorne To break a boile push or Carbuncle in a short time An excellent plaister; For the sciatica or any Ache in ye bones For the biteinge of a madd dogge Blacke wool dipt in ye Gall of an hare and put into ye Eare hath been approved in a deafness To cause sleepe in a Feavour or lyinge A good mollifieing Poultise For ye Jamdice in case a woman lyes in; To help a tickling Cough To make a water against ye wind in ye stomacke. Mrs Bambridge A most excellent Medicine for ye wormes which is best to be made in May. Mrs Bambridge To open obstuctions and to cure all manner of Wind and soe very good for the Spleene; The making of Small balm water The Lady Allens water for the stomack small pox; measells, surfett, & to drive anything from ye heart, & a great Cordiall in any Weakness A pretious Oyntment for the Spleen To make an excellent strong water; An excellent plaister to prevent Miscarriage. Cousin Thornton A plaister yt strenghens ye Liver and knitts ye mouthes of its veines is that which the Apothecaryes call Ceratum Diatrion Santalorum spread upon Leather For one that is stuft in the Head To purge the Head of any that hath a mixture of choller with fleame To strengthen the sight; For Goodwife Feere For the falling of the Mother And itts impurity The plaister called Emplastrum ad forniam cum Tacamatiaca Let her use to drink often the juice of Motherwort A powder against the Wormes To stay ye spreading of any sharp fretting sore; To stay the Cough To coole the Kidneyes How to Roast A large Eale. Parkyns; To make forcd meat for Balls To make Frigote white or Browne; How to pickle Mushrom's To stew A brest of veal mutton or lambe To make Aqua marabilis A Receit to make mead; To make Scotch collop's of veal To make A calf head hash To make Scotch Collops; A Receit to make Raspe wine How to Rost A Pike

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