The lady's companion. Containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery: and those the best and the most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe [of T. Sandford and E. Gent] sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water.

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Credit: The lady's companion. Containing upwards of three thousand different receipts in every kind of cookery: and those the best and the most fashionable; being four times the quantity of any book of this sort. With the receipts of Mrs. Stephens for the stone; Dr. Mead for the bite of a mad dog; the recipe [of T. Sandford and E. Gent] sent from Ireland, for the gout; Sir Hans Sloane's receipt for sore eyes; and the receipt for making tar water. Source: Wellcome Collection.