A Book of phisick. Made June 1710

A collection of medical receipts in English: with a few additions by later 18th cent. hands.

p. 217 contains 'A receipt for a person to make her husband love her'. At the end of this is written 'probatum est'.

The latest dated entry by the original scribe (1725), is found on p. 20.

There is a newspaper clipping in the front of the volume, followed by an index of recipes and a list of weights and measure. There is another index at the end of the volumn. Comprises the following recipes: For An Ague A very good Remedy Dct Bates For Children or Tender poeple Another; A very Good Receipt for an Ague An Ague Dct Gibbons A very good receipt for an Ague; Plaisters for An Ague A Stronger plaister To draw ye Ague out of any part Dct Vincles preparation of ye Bark the Paris way by one of Dcr Ratclifes Travailing Physicians For An Apoplexy For an Ague Another Mr Ithel, sayes Infallible; Dr Garth Appetite lost & poorness of Blood To Stop Bleeding Bleeding to Stop & Spitting Blood; For Spitting of Blood An Excelent Diet Drink Bct Colbatchs Excellent remedy to Stop Bleeding Inward or outward, wounds or Sores To Stanch Bleeding; Bruises & Falls For an Inward Bruise An excellent remedy to Stop Bleeding Breath Short or Astma For Children in extremity Breath Sweet to make after Fluxing, or taking Mercury; Breath Short Sr Wm Humble Dct Gibbons Exellent Biting of a Mad Dog Sr Wm Humble For short Breath Another; Breast Sore Blood to Cool & Tember Another for Children For the Biteing of a Mad Dog For the Biting of a Mad Dog; Directions for ye Bath For Burnings at ye Bottom Another For a Cough An Excellent Medicine pKW A Cough pKW A Lambative; For a Cough To Stop ye Phlegm & Cause Rest Pills to Rest When they are stuft A plaister to ye pit of ye Stomack An Excellent Syrrup for a Cough Especially in Children To Cut ye Phlegm in Children Dct Wrench An Excelent Lambitive for a Cough p KW A very good remedy for a Cough; For A Chine Cough or Hooping One A plaister to ye feet Dct Wrenches Linctus for a Cough p KW An Excellent Remedy for a Hoarsness For a Consumption A Cock Ale for a Consumption A Syrrup A Quilt to ye Stomack; For A Consumption An Excellent Quilt for the Stomack To make a Medicine instead of Asses Milk Dct Ratclife A pleasant Drink for a Consumption A Water very good For a Consumption An Electuary for an old Cough The Drink Syrrup of Wort, excellent for a Consumption Bishp Ely For a Hectick fever; Dct Gibbons Smoke for A W, for weak Lungs The powder For a Cold & Sore Stomack Dct Gibbons The Diet Drink or Bocket for a Consumption Purging Bolus The Testatious Powders For the Colick An Excellent Glister pKW If the pain is not violent the following Glister A vomit when ye fit is off; For ye Colick An Excellent Remedy For the Colick Dct Gibs For the Colick For the Colick For ye Colick or Loss of Apetite; Concerning Children For a Cough Concerning Children; Concerning Children When ye Navell Starts For the Gripes For Fits For Convulsion Fits For Convulsion Fits; For a Canker in ye Mouth & spitting Blood Another For Coruption of the Blader For a Cancer Lady Barkshires Famous Water has don Wonders; For the Cramp Dct Garth For Corns For A Dropsy Dct Ratt An Excellent Receipt & cured abundance; For a Dropsy Dct Gibbons The Drink The Juice The purge A Glister A Receipt yt cured Mrs Booth For a Dropsy For a Diabetes Dct Short Dct Gibs To stop a Diabetes or Loosness Another; For a Diabetes Dct Ratclife The Bolus For Deafness; To take away ye Dryness of ye Hands or feet For Sore Eyes For darkness of Sight An excellent powder for a pin & webb; For Sore Eyes To cure a man or Beasts Eye cut or hurt by a strip For a Speck in ye Eyes For a Rheum A water for ye Eyes An Excellent Eye water Dct Gibbons; For Sore Eyes A Stronger Stup Another In Hot Rheums La Hobart For a pearle An Oyntment for sore Eyes For Watry Eyes excellent To Eat away proud flesh Felons Felons & Whitloes; For a Fever To promote sweat For a Fever To give a stool & abate ye Heat A pleasent Cordial; For a Fever Sr Ben wrench master 7 yr old For a man or woman For Children A Cordiall for Children A purge for children Dct Wrench for an Astma & Fever For a Fever To Cause Rest An Excellent Electuary to carry of a Lingring light fever Bish Ely For a Lingring or Hectick Fever Dct Gibbons For An intermitting Fever, when ye Bark purges For a Continuall Fever; Falling Sickness An excellent Receipt for ye Falling Sickness Mrs pearson For the falling Sickness or Convulsion fits To Clear the face of Freckles To Kill Black worms in ye Face For womens Fluxes Another Medicine; For the Green Sickness Mrs Latin An Excellent Remedy Steel pills Sr Tho Brown For the Green Sickness Dct Gibions Steel pills; Gripes & Loosness An Excellent Remedy for a flux or Bloody flux A very good Remedy for a Bloody Flux Another An Excellent Glister for a violent Loosness; Grips & Loosness or Bloody flux For a Continuall Loosness Dct Gibbons Dct Bambridge To heal the Bowells after a flux Dct Gibbons For a Bloody flux For the Gout An Excellent Receipt for ye Gout in extream pain; For the Gout An Oyle A Scear Cloth For the passion of the Heart & Heart Beating Another For the Hickup; For the Heart Burning For the Heat of the Liver Hair to Make Grow To take of superfluous Hair For the Head Ache For a little feverish Disorder Heat of the Stomack; Deseases of the Head To draw Humours out of ye Head To purge ye Head For a stink in ye Head For a Weak Head For a shooting in ye Head Jaundice Yellow & Black An Excellent Receipt for ye yellow or Black Jaundice p KW; For the Yellow Jaundice Another Dct Gibbons 1711 Mrs Windham For the Itch; For the Itch To Make an Issue Imposthums In the Ear; For the Kings Evill To Make ye Hony of Roses For the Kings Evill A very good salve for ye Evill For ye Kings Evill; For Kibs & Chilblains For chilblains in ye fingers prov'd KW Legs to Clean in Winter For ye Measles; Dct Pridian For melancoly Melancoly & distraction Dct Bewicks & Dct Sloans Method; For Mother Fits & Vapours; J & R Blackmore pKW For Mother fits & Vapours & melancoly An excellent powder for fits of ye mother & fainting & Hard Labour Dct Gibbons p KW For vapours & poorness of Blood pills Gently purging For Vapours Sr RB For Vapours & Melancoly When ye Nerves are affected with Twitchings or Leapings Sr RB Another more powerfull; Morphew of Both Kinds; For Numbness & pain in ye Limbs body feet Ect & aking pain A Bath or Stupe Numbness of the Head For the overflowing of ye Gall & sowerness of ye stomack For the pallet fallen An Excellent Remedy for a Rheum yt falls on ye wind pipe & throat to take away ye speech has cared when all other remedys have failed; Dct Bates For the Plague For the palsy; For the palsy the same as on ye other side For a Plurisy A Glister for a plurisy For a plurisy or Rhumatism Excellent A Glister; For A Great pain in ye Back For Weakness in ye Back A Broth to restore Weakness For pain or a weak Back, to restore strength For a viollent pain in ye Back For ye piles For the piles; Dct Wilis For pain in ye Stomack & convulsions Poyson to Expell For the Biting of An Adder An Excellent Receipt to preserve health p KW The vertues; For a Rheumatism A good water For a Rheumatism A purge for a Rheumatism To stop Urine; For the Rickets Then give ym ye following drink the best I ever knew p KW For ye Rickets Mrs Chilcocks famous Receipt for ye Rickets The powder; For a Rupture An Excellent Receipt yt never failed Ringworms & Tetters For a Quinsy A Gargle to hold in ye mouth till it grows hot & yh spit out, to be used now & then An Emultion; For the Stone A posset For the stone & strangury & stopage of Urine For the Stone in the Kidneys Excellent Another Excellent; For the stone in extreem pain A good water for the stone For the Gravell For the Gravell stone in the Kidneys & heat in the Back For the Gravell a very good remedy; For the Small pox; For the Small pox In a flux For the Small pox; For the Scurvy A very good Remedy A most Excellent Receipt for the Scurvy For the Scurvy A good Remedy for ye poor The Scurvy is Known For the scurvy Dct Gibbons The purge; For the spleen A very good remedy p KW For the swelling of the Liver or spleen when one side of ye belly is biger yn ye other To Cause sleep Dct Gib An Excelent Quieting draft For a stich in ye side For any violent pain in the Back side or stich; For a Scald Head Swelling & wind in ye Joynts A Swelling to Disolve For a Sprain p KW For a sprain in the Back Sleep to Cause Dct Gibions A W; A Bath to Loosen Sinewes shrunk & nourish ye part pKW To provoke sweat St Anthonys fire Soluble to Keep the Body p KW; For a Scald or Burn; Throat Sore Throat Sore; Throat anything Sticks pin or bone To Draw a Thorn out Twisting of the Guts Tooth Ache When Children breed their teeth hard; For the Tooth Ashe Vomits To prepare crocus Metalorum A vomit for an Ague for Man or Woman, pKW; Vomiting to Stop To stay vomiting & Comfort ye Stomack To make one urine, yt canot For the Stopage of Urine For sharpness of urine For an Inward Ulcer; Vertues of venice Treacle The vertues of paracelsus For the Sting of a Wasp or Bee; Wormes Wormes Another very good & more safe Dct Gibions for Wormes A purge; For the Litle White Worms in ye Fundament A worm oyntment for Children Dct Gib For Wind When children are swelled with Wind; For Wind An Ague For Whitloes Weakness in the Fundament Weakness in the Knees excelent, Dct Monroe; Dct. Gibions for obstructions of the Liver. De 1711 Inflamation of the Lungs Dct Gibons Diet Drink for me Dct Gibions for me Sept 1713 An excelent Gargle to Stop a Rheum going to bed Dct Gibions purge to be taken twise a week very gentle, 1719 A Stronger The Electuary, 1719 The Julip; Dct Gibions for Coll Windham for ye Gout & wind Dct Medes Bitter for Coll Windham Dct Gibion for Coll Windham Child of Grips & Loosnesse a month old p KW The Cordiall to be given a spoonfull at a time Mr Dashwoods Excelent Receipt for a Farsy Horse Mr Tods Famous Receipt for Greace in ye Heels To young Horses When a Sadle has Hurt a Horses Backe When a Cow has got a Blane The best purge that is for Horses; Dct Lower For a Cough & Indigestion A Meade For ordinary drinke To make you Expectorate For A Dropsy; Dct Cheyny for Master Windham Jan 1721 Dct Chenys Milk of Steel, or Lac Martis; Dct Hopman for my Cough 1725 An Emultion The pills to take 4 or 5 twise a day For a Hooping Cough; Waters The Palsy Water The Vertues; The Lady Hewits Water The vertues An Excelent Cordiall Water, called plauge water The vertues; An Excelent Surfet Water The Vertues Dt Stephens Water The Vertues Dt Hawes Cinamon Water The Vertues; Lady Hobarts Black Chery Water The vertues To make a popy Water for Surfets To Make Stourtons Elixer To Make Orange Water To make the Lime Water The vertues; Aqua Mirabilis The vertues Fever Water To make spirit of Cardus or popys The vertues; To make a Cordiall milk Water The vertues To Make Barly Water L Townshends Aniseed Water Spirit of Elder Berys for a Dropsy To Make the Great Snale Water The vertues An Excelent Snale Water The vertues; To Make Lily Valy Water The pearle Cordiall The plurisye Water Instead of Barly Cinamon & as good The Burnt Hartshorn drink A Good Water for ye Face Dct Chambers Excelent Water; To Make Aqua de Cedro To draw spirits of Any Hearbs For Fainting Fitts Dct Noan A good Surfeit Water, & proper for ye Gripes; Syrups Syrup of Clove Gely Flowers Surup of Wood Sorell Surup of Pipens Surup of Turneps; To Make Surup of Violets Surup of Elderberys Surup of Mulberys Surup of Couslips Surup of popys To Make Surup of Tolu, vide To Make Surup of Steel To Make Surup of Buckthorn To make Surup of Buckthorn; To Make the restortive Surup for a Consumption, Excelent for a Cough pKW An Excelent Surup for ye greatest Cough An Excelent Surup for a Cough Especially in children, p KW The pleasent Surup of Tolu, & the same vertues as on ye other side To Make surup of Garlick Mr pitts A Surup for an Astma Surup of Hore Hound; To Make Conserve of Roses To Make Suger of Roses; To Make Juice of Licorish; Powders To Make Sr Walter Rawleighs Cordiall The vertues To make Gaskins powder The Vertues Testatious powders; To Make Hiera pichra The Red powder Excelent in Fevers To provoke sweating, & the plauge The Species of Hiera Picra according to ye new Dispensatory A Good preparation of the Bark, Sr Ben W An excellent remedy for ye Green Sickness, or Shortness of Breath, & want of appetite in young persons; Drinks Dct Hawes Diet Drinke very good for ye Scurvy, to purge after ye Itche or Breakings out to take spring & fall pKW A good Diet Drinke for Gout or Reumatisme A very good diet Drinke for a hot Constitution L Townshends Rare Diet Drinke for the Gout & sharpnesse of Blood A purging Ale for Grosse humours Itche or Breakings out of Scurvy or Leprous humers; Dct Lowers directions for Scorbutick Humours & Scurfe A Diet Drink for ye same The Bitter Drink purging The White drink, p KW; To Make the Biter Steel The opening Fig drink For a Cough To make Almond Milk To make a Nourishing Almond milke; To clarifye Whey The Wound Drinke An Excelent Drink for a Cancer; Balsams An Excelent Balsam The vertues Lucatelus Balsam The vertues An Excelent Balsam Mrs Finch; Dafys Elixer; Purges Elixer Salutis The vertues Hyera pichra ye Infusion A purge on Any occasion A strong purge in Desperate Cases & Apoplexes A purge for a Dropsy or any watery humour A purge for Kings Evill humours, scald heads & any Breakings out A purge for a child A Gentle purge after a fever or Hot distemper A purge for a Dropsy or any watery Humour, that is p KW; Dct Gibion A very good purge for a weak constitution after feavour of small pox p KW Another weaker Dct Gib Another Gentle purge Dct Gib An excelent purge for poor Blood in a tender constitution to purge & strengthen Dct price for Mrs Eliza Windham p KW The Biter Decoction is A purge for Reumatick pains in ye Joynts The best purging pills yt are made In Breakings out & Stubern humours they are more efectuall as follows Hyera pichra pills Rhubarb bear for Children; To Make Carirosteina Dct Gibions best preparation of Hyera pichra The species of Hyera Pichra the new way A pleasent Purge A purge Another for wormes & to Strengthen the stomacke A purge for Breakings out & all Humours A purge after a Feavour Another Comon purges For Wormes; Oyles To Make Oyle of Roses Oyle of St Johns Wort Oyle of Eggs Oyl of Elder To Make oyle of Exceter for the Palsye La Hob An oyle for Aches Cold Swellings Bruises obstructions or swelling of ye sinews Oyle of Camomile is made the same way; Oyntments An Excelent oyntment for a swelling either in the breast, or face, or any part of ye body Flos unguentorum or Angell salve La Hob The vertues My Excelent Green oyntment p KW A M The Vertues p KW; Cold Cream The vertues A good pomatum for ye Face A Cooling oyntment for scurfe in ye face A very good forehead Cloth An oyntment for a Cancer in ye Breast An oyntment for heat of the Liver To Make oyntment of Charity; Waters in Surgery The Thistelo Water p KW The vertues The Blacke Water p KW The vertues; Plasters & Salves To make my Black salve p KW My Excelent salve where drawing is required for sore sprain bruise or sore breast or Thorn or old wound, p KW; My White Lead plaister p KW The use Coll Harbords Rare Salve p KW The vertues The Spleen plaister, & other distempers The vertues; To Make a Good Healing Salve A Salve for a Sore throat swelling or sprain, to be made in may To make Blister plasters A very good salve for Isues where a hot humour afends ym An Excelent Receipt for a burn p KW A plaster for a Consumption to be put Just at ye pit of ye stomack A very good Yellow Healing Salve; Lady Bedingfelds Excelent Salve for Sore breasts The Vertues The Lady Hussys Excelent Salve for Breasts PKW A Rare Salve for a Consumption to lay to ye pits of ye stomack, good for a cough, pain in the stomack or Backe The devine plaister La Hob The vertues; Poultises An Excelent Ripening poultice Another for ye same A poultise to aswage a Swelling caused by a fall or sprain A poultice Excelent for a swelled Leg or arm yt ye humours fall down to it p KW A poultice to draw ye Ague out of Any part A very good poultice for All things A very good poultice for Bruises & falls An Excelent poultice An Excelent poultise for to abate a swelling in ye Breast or other part; Mr Barnet ye Surgions prescription for a Tendon hurt by Bleeding p KW The fomentation The plaister The Linement A Bath to Loosen shrunk Sinews to Loosen & nourish ye part An Excelent oyle to Loosen shrunk sinews & nourish ye part Excelent Peas for Issues; Mr Brown ye Surgions way of Dressing wounds Mr Browns Excelent Oyntment A Bath or Stupe, for Numbness & pain in ye Limbs La Charlott Herns Excelent Oyle for a Lame Arme; The Unparallel'd Balsam Its Virtues An Excelent Glister to Draw away any Humous you fear may be gathering inwardly, or for an Inward Strain or Bruise An Excelent Glister for the Colick Another A Glister for a violent Loosness A Glister for a plurisy A Gentle Glister A Gentle Glister for ye wind Dct price; A Glister for a Dropsy Dct Gibions A Glister to Strengthen the the Bowells, & in a Loosness Cattell For a Blane in a Cow When a Sadle has nipt a Horses backe The best purge yt is for a Horse proved For the Farcy For Greace; A Receipt for a person to Make her Husband Lover Her