Mrs Katharine Palmer, 'A Collection of ye best Receipts'

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'A Collection of ye best Receipts most approved and fittest in Cookery, preserving, and all manner of Housewifery, physick  & Chirurgery. Carefully selected from ye best & ye most choice & authentick Manuscripts. Anno 1700. Of which you will find ye exact Tables in ye End of this book. By Mrs Katharine Palmer'
Two Tables (indexes) at end to cookery and medicinal recipes respectively, 2pp of  tables of weights and measures,  and on the final leaf extra remedies in several different hands, 'Bolus Arthriticum', 'For ye Bite of a Mad Dog', 'For ye bite of a Viper' (the latter 'published in ye Dayly Advertiser of July 24, 1734'). A few loose recipes,  including 'For a dropsy', as reported 'in 'The London Dayly Post June 15, 1739'. A number of recipes are dated much earlier (1617), possibly copied in from other sources. Additions in several other hands.
Includes numerous attributed items. Named physicians include Dr Willis (several recipes), Dr Stevens, Sir Theodore Mayerne (several recipes), Dr Short, Dr Hamey (several recipes), Dr Bates, Dr Hatton, Dr Meveril, Dr Deodatus, Dr Tresham, Dr Denton, Dr Ratcliffe, Dr Bathurst,  Dr Lower, as well as 'Mrs Herbert (ye great Midwife)'. Members of the aristocracy named are Anne, Duchess of York, the Duchess of Lauderdale (several recipes), Lady Rowston, Lady Robinson, Lady Glanvil,  Lady Katherine Seymour, Lady Lucy Bright, Lady Down, Lady Keelyn, Lady Jacobs, Lady Clark, Lady  Clark, Lady Fermanagh,  Lady Norcliffe, Lady Falmash,Sir William Courtney,  Sir George Whitmore, Mrs Ernle, Mrs Fettiplace,  Mrs Tresham, Mrs Anne Marriott of Hampton Court (and Mr Marriott) and others are also mentioned.
'To make Oil of Swallows' p 199 and several  recipes for snail-water, p 80, p 211, p 225; 'An Excellent Water for ye Jaundice' , pp 113-114, also features snails and earthworms.

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