Saint John, Johanna

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Johanna St. John Her Booke.

The date 1680 is found on Leaf A 3 and F 7: there are a few additions by late 17th century hands.

Contains the following recipes: The marks Apothycarys use in ther Bills, Cow Piss will cure in a Dog of the Mang washing thir wth [untitled] For the Fations in a Horse never failing, Johanna St John Her Booke, To cure any inward sicknes or desease in a Dog or a man that is bit with a mad Dog For the Itch in man or woman or many in a Dog; For An Ague Mr. Woodhouse For an Ague my Cosen Cutts A wrist medicine for an Ague; For a Tertian Ague For an Ague in any swelling For an Ague For an Ague in a sore a Poltise For an Ague swelling A Polits for the wrists in an Ague For the swelling of the Legs coming of an Ague For an Ague Tertian Dr willis his wrist medsine for an Ague For an Ague or swelling in the Brest Dr Willis to drink in an Ague Another for an Ague; Dr Willis for long Agues wch succeeded a Feavor & caused in them great & hard Bellys a drink & oyntment The Drink For an Ach in the Huckle Bone caled the sciatica For an Ach or Lamenes For any Ach or the sciatica For an Ach in the flesh or Bones For an Ach or numnes or lamenes in the Armes For An Ague For an Ague For an Ague; Dr Tabors Ague medicine; For a Kanker in a womans Breast For a Brest ful of Paine For a Kanker in a womans Brest Dr Mathias for the whites & weaknes in the Back Dr Browns Clary water for the Back For a Bone Ach excellent For Bleeding at Nose; For a Blow or other Bruse in a Brest For milk Quard in the Brests wch causeth sicknes in the stomach Dr Symcotes A Plaster for paine in the Back For any venomus stinging For him that spitteth Blood For Bleeding at the nose For a Blast or the poyson of a Toad To draw a Bite from one place to another For Bleeding at the nose To take out the fire of a Burne speedyly To ripen a sore Brest For to disolve a Brest tho never so hard; A Plaster for a sore Brest Bruse old or new Ach or scatica An admirable thing for a Cancer La Temple Another for the same Lady Honywood For a sore Brest tho broken La St John A Custart for weaknes in the Back For any Knob hardnes in the brest or milk Quard; For Broken Bones or Thornes to draw um out Syrope of Comphry for a weak Back Dr Bates oyntment for Burnes or scalds For sharpnes of Blood & Bleeding A Drink Dr willis prescribed one that had a sore Brest To make Conserve of Hipps For the Bitting of a mad Dog never failing For Bleeding at the nose; For a Bruse in the Bone either by a Blow fal or cold Susan Foot for a Burne or scald Blast Blite or St Antonys Fire The Bleeding at Nose A Draught to sweeten the Bloud To stop the bleeding of Leeches Mr Boyles Balsame of sulphire For Bleeding at nose For the Biting of a mad Dog; For a Cancer in the Breast Another for a Knubb or hardnes in a Breast For a Cancer in the Breast For a Dropsey Bleeding at nose For a Cancerous Knobb in a Breast For the same; The Lady Barkshirs famos Cancer water to prevent For a Burne For Deafnes For a Dropsey To temper and cleans the Bloud; An Excellent Cordial water An Electuary for the Lungues Snayl water for a consumption For a Chine Cough Mrs Hides Powder for a Cough of the Lungs A Fume to be taken in a Pipe A Broth by Dr Bates An Electuary for ulcerated Lungs; Cock Water for a Consumption A Glyster for the wind Colick Snayle Water for a Consumption For Convultions in the Stomach or fitts in general; Adrian Gillberts Cordial Water The Vertues of Gilberts Water Lady Huitts Cordial water; Aqua Mirabiles For Wormes in Children Dr Stephens Cordial Water Vertues For Convultion fitts; For Convultion fitts in Children A Cordial Water of Black Cherrys A Pretious drink for any weaknes For a Cough or Cold Lady Seamore Spirit of Lemons For a Cold For convultion Fitts Cittron Water; For a Consumption For Convultion Fitts in woman & Children Dr Bates his Ptisan drink for a Consumption A Water for Convultion Fitts Dr Bates For the Gripes in the month & to scowr a way the fretts in a child For wormes in children; A cordial plaster A Plaster for disgestian For the Colick For Convultions in the Stomach or Fitts in General For a Water in the Codd of a Boy Dr Lowr Dr Wright for a chine Cough Dr Clements China Broth for a Consumption; Dr Dickinsons great cordial Powder Feavors & Agues For a Consumption cured my Cos Fabian For the Cramp In a Fitt of the Colick Dr Lower; For sharp Paines in the stomach bowels or Back caused by indisgestian Dr Buttolph for a Cough Almond milk for cooling A Cordial for the Spirits For Stiches & Colick Paines Spirit of Oatmeal good for Consumptive Persons For Fitts in Children For the Colick To take away any mark a child is borne with; A Clarified Whey wch cured Mrs Tilgard when she was goeing into a Consumption For the Colick For a Cough & Consumption Monsrs water For Loseneses & a Cordial For a Consumption For a Consumption; For the Colick For the Colick For the Colick & to sweeten the Bloud For the Colick it cured Mr Brumfeild when all other means would not Aqua Caelestis; For a Cancer in the Breast it cured one Mrs Ernly who had been in most of the best surgions hands and was given over A Poltis for a Cancer in the Breast it cured Goodwife Cooks when the Drs & Surgions had given it over The Water commonly called my Lady Berkshire her Cancer Water; Dr willis Diet Drink for the Scirvies & to purg the Blood to be taken in the Spring A Plaster for Disgestian that should have been here is in C: 10: by mistake To Deliver a woman of a Dead Child For Deafnes Dr Harvie For A Dropsey Another for A Dropsey; For Deafnes an excellent water For the Dropsey wch hath done many great cures A Poltis for a Dropsey to Apply to the Belly Dr Allin For Deafnes; To cure the first cause caled an obstruction To cure the 2nd kind The 3d cause; To cure the 4th For Deafness coming of a cold sudenly Dr Coxes Cock Ale good for Coughs inward Ulcers Consumptions Dr coxes Ale for the scirvie & to strengthen the stomach; A Purging Ale to be taken in the spring in April & september it cures Dropsys Palsys megrims fowlnes of the Lungs paine of the Stomach Ale by Dr Willis when sharp Humors in the Blood cause Convulsive motions in the joynts For a paine in the Eare Chocolatte my Aunt Mashams way For the Dropsey experienced on my Cooke Black Cherry Beer; A Powder for Disgestian Bsp Peter burough & for the Heart Burning Grish Usquebath Dr Parr By mistake I have write two receits For Dropsyes in P: 6 & one in :8: the ;12: A Cordial Ale for the Head; A most Excellent remidy for the Dropsey A Better way to make Chocolatte Dr Twisdens Chocolatte; For a Dropsey Mrs Grimees Chocolatt For A Dropsey For the Dropsey wch I heare cured seven persons some given over Another; Sr Edward Spencer oyntment or my Lady Manchesters for sore & Rhumetick eyes or a Pinn & webb For sore Eyes the best medisin that can be wherby many have been cured & for a pin & webb For the Eyes Lady Peterburough; For Sore Eyes & the megrim it hath brought to sight those that have been blind 8 weeks For Eyes that are faire to look on & cannot see For a pinn & webb in the eye cures in 3 days For a film on the Eye or Bruse or pinn & webb perl or thick skin For sore Eyes Lady St John To draw Ruhm from the Eye For Sore Eyes To recover Sight; For the Eyes A Plaster for Ruhm in the Eyes to draw it back also for a paine in the Head A water for Eyes that have a creamy thicknes growing over them Dr Turberveil for Rhume in the Eyes Dr Gibbs His rare Water for sore Eyes & to strengthn Another very excellent for Rednes about the Eyes For Fractures about the Eyes; Elixer Salutis Mrs Whites Drink for all sore Eyes Elixer Salutis Daffes way For sore Eyes An Excellent water to strengthen the Eyes; The Lady Childes oyntment to strengthen the sight For Eyes that are Red & smarting For a Flux of Blood For Fitts of Convultion & Faling sicknes sredwly For Faling sicknesse fitts of the mother & Convultion Mrs Tillot son; For Faling Sicknes or Convultion Fitts Lady Cropley Dr Willis for a Continual Feavore For the Falling sicknes that never faild A water for the Plague or any malignant Feavor To Make spirit of Carduvs; For the going forth of the Fundament Poltises for the Feet to draw the Feavor from the Head Dr Lower For Convultion Fitts & Giddynes in the Head For the Bloody Flix after they have been purged For a Fellon or uncom To know a Fistula To know a Fracture or whither the scull be broke A Broth for the Bloody Flux La St John For a secret & Holow Fistula an approved med; To cause a Frantick man to sleep For a Red Face with bumps of Heat A Cordal for Fainting Consumption & Ruhm A Glyster to stay a Flux in great Extremety For the Falling sicknesse For the Falling sicknesse an Excellent Powder For the same & alsoe Convultion Fitts Lady Treavor A Cordial in a Mallignant Feavor Dr. Lowr A Cordial to stop Griping in a Feavor Dr Read For Fitts of convultion wch cured Mrs Sands After many Drs had tryed ther skil; For a Fistula Sr Knelm Digby For Convultion Fitts Woolly Flux Dr Troutbeck For Fitts Dr willis method for Feavors that have malignity To take of the Heat For the Cough wch usualy accompanys the Feavors A Glyster to be given the well day Poltises to be applyd to the Feet an hower before the fitt comes & to be changed ones in 48 howers; A Purge at the End of the distemper For a Consumption if it should folow the Feavor A Drink at the Latter End of the distemper For the Faling sickness Lady Brodrick cured a servant of her own & Knew one Dr Worth cured by it so that he never had more tho he had them from a child For Convultion Fitts in Children For a Flux tho Blood For Convultion Fitts in children has cured many; Prince Ruperts Oyntment for a Flux tho Bloud Alsoe for Burnes & new wounds A good water for Convultion Fitts & the fitts of the mother & Faling Sicknesse For a tickling Rhume Dr Ridgleys Julape in the Epedemick Feavor & Agues: 1680: A Posset Drink for the same For the Faling Sicknes; To Make one Fatt For Fitts of the mother or any other & may be given in Lyeing Inn For fitts especialy Falling sicknes For yong children that dye of Fitts of convultion For Convultions My Lady Beaumonts Water for Palsyes Mother Appoplexes & Convultions & melancholy To take out scarrs out of the face; For Convlultion Fitts wch cured Mr Drax Mrs Shetterden Mrs Lewson for inward Fitts in a child A Poltise to be layd to the Feet in a Feavor For Convultion Fitts or Falling Sicknes For a Fistula under the Eye Fitts For the Blody Flux; For a violent Flux or Losenes & Gripeing For the Bloudy or any Flux For a Losenes Sr St Georges medicine for Fitts; A Glyster for the Green Sicknes For the Gout A Purge for the Goute Sr Theador Meyhern Pills for the Gout wch cured Sr John Davers A Purg in cace of a Griping & Losenes For the Goute; A Cordial after to stay Griping For the Griping of the Gutts & Flux tho Blood For the Twisting of the Gutts For the Green Sickness For the Green Sicknes & such obstructions For a Griping & Losenes For the Gripes For the Green Sicknes A Bitter Drinke Dr Lowr prescribed Betty when she had the Green Sicknes & a Cough & was sweld; An Excellent receit for the Goute To remove the paine of the Goute For the Goute wch has cured many An Excellent Diet Drink for the Goute For the Gripes a Glyster Dr Bates; For the Running Goute & Rumatisme For the Gripes & Bloudy Flux For the Goute in the Stomach; For the megrim Convultion Fitts or Falling sicknes Dr Bates Head Pills For a scald Head For a scald Head; To make the Hands white Dr Willis the Hart Burning Cordials for the Heart Dr Willis For a scald Head Mrs Drax For Pricking at the heart Lady Gauden Dr Willis for an ulcer in the Head wch cured sr walter wch came first by an Impostume Thea For the Head Dr Willis For the Heart Beating; For a scald Head For Continual Head Ach Scald Head Lady Littleton For a swiming in the Head Dr Glyson Sage wine for the Head Dr Ents. Balsame for Appoplexes Epilepses Dizzines in the Head For Paine in the Head For Giddynes in the Head For swiming & Giddynes in the Head proceeding frm the stomach; Mr Howes medicine for a paine in the Head For the Beating of the Heart Dr Lower for the Giddynes in the Head Dr Lowers advice in a Fitt of an Appoplex For Swiming in the Head; Water of swallows for the Head A mead for the Head & all deseases in it For those that ar neare distraction with vapour & cannot sleep Dr Lowers water for the Head For the Heart Burning Mrs Howland For Heart Burning & Heart Beating & Losenes For the Palpitation of the Heart a Dutch Dr Prepared; For the Palpitation of the Heart by a Dutch Dr For the Jaundice or yalownes of the skin after an Ague or fitt of sicknes Snayl Water for the Black & yalow Jandice colick in the stomach consumption For the Jandice Sr Evan Lloyd; For Impostumes Bruses & inward Inflamations To ripen an Impostume To ripen & clens an Impostume A Purge for the Itch For the Jandice For an Impostume in the Stomach For the Itch infalable For the Jaundice For the Itch in man or Beast For the yalow Jaundice; Sage Wine For the Itch Mrs Beal For the Jaundice & Green sicknes Mrs Parr For the Black & yallow Jaundice Lo Burlington; For the Dropsy and Jaundis For the Jaundis For the Jandis For the Jaundis For the Head Lime Tree Flower water For the Jaundis; To Make Gascon's Powder To Make Jelly of Snakes Skins; For an Ach in the Knees For an Ach in the Knees For an Ach or swelling in the Knees coming of cold For the Kings Evel unbroken to disolve it Oyle of Toads for the Kings Evel For Kings Evel Gout or Consumption Dr Bates For the Kings Evel; For the Stone in the Kidneys a rare secret Lady Everard for the Kings Evel For the Kankers so never failing a one that I need adde noe more if it be the Kankers it fales not For the Kings Evel For the Kings Evel For the Kings Evel or any sore or Rhume Kibes & chilblaines For the Kings Evel approved; For the Kings Evel Kings Evel or white swelling A Purging drink for the Kings Evel; Dr Bates Licorish Cakes for the Lungs & a cough An Excellent Syrope for a Consumption; For a Cough of the Lungs wch has cured thos that have died one generation after another La Honywood An opening syrope for a Cough For a Cough of the Lungs For a Hoorsnes A Glyster for a Loseness in a child Extract of mault for the Lungs Dr Bates Juyce of Licorish for the Lungs & roughnes of the throte For the Bleeding of the Lungs Dr Coxes advice for a man in a deep consumption spitt blood & matter found an inward rawness & Burning in his brest Griping in his stomach faint sweating his flesh wasted breath very short & a violent cough swelled in his Belly & the continuance some years; For Leggs that are sweld & ful of Paine Dr Coxe An Excellent Syrope for a Cough tho a consumption or Hecktick Dr Willis for an Ulcer in the Lungues For a whooping Cough; An Excellent mixture to strengthen the Lunges Dr Willis For Oliver Shropshire wch Dr Willis prescribed him for an ulcer in his Lungues by Bleeding & a Consumption A water to strengthen the Lungues A syrope For a Consumption or Cough of the Lungues To strengthen the Lungs Dr Willis For a cough of the Lungs Mr Pellings emmultion for ullcerated Lungs; For the Lungs Dr Welman For sore Leggs that have Holes & stink The way Dr Willis taught Dr Treavor to make make Powder of sulphir for the syrope for Coughs For spitting Blood For the Lungs an Excellent Balsamick syrope by Dr Lower in s:15: My Lady Warwicks Juyce of Liquorish; For spitting Bloud For a Cough & Flegme La Rannelagh For a cough of the Lungues Mrs Archer Mrs Turners Rare Balsame for a Consumption wher with great cures have been done; For a Cough of the Lungues most Aprroved For the Ptisick or Astma For Wheesing of the Lungues & shortnes of Breath Dr Radcliff For an Asthma Dr Needham; For Shortness of Breath; For infection & malignity Dr Coxes Apperative syrope For Melancholly & Feavors For a sore mouth or thrush or any inflamation Dr Coxe Another by Dr Coxe for a sore mouth To prevent Miscarying For the Mother & Spleen For the mother; A medecine For Madnesse if taken in time For a Thrush in a Childs mouth in the month For the Mother Faling down For Fitts of the Mother For the mother For a sore Mouth of a Child in the Month Another For Fitts of the Mother Dr Coladon For Melancholly & madnes; For vapors even to madnes For a Thrush in the Mouth or Throat For the Biting of a madd Dog For Melancholy the medicine wch cured my Lady Bernard My cosin Lane for a canker in the mouth or elcewhere This cured one Mrs Lope who was in a dispairing way many yeares; To skin a Sore Nipple For Chopps in A nipple when a child sucks For a Numness in the Tongue For the Pricking with an Needle in the Joynt For a sore nipple to cure or prevent it A sore nipple Mrs Brittan; Mr Boyles Excellent remedy For Bleeding at the nose or any other or Flouding weomen; Oyl of Exitar or my Lord Dennys oyntment For spranes Aches Gout sciatica Bruse & For a cutt sinnue in Horse or man Oyl of Toads; Oyl of Aliblaster Vertues The most Pretious Oyl of Balm Vertues Vertues of it; Oyl of St Johns wort Lady St John stomach Oyntment An oyntment for wind in the stomach; The Brused Oyntment A Strengthning Oyntment that brought to use a mans Arme that had lost the use 8 yeares Oyl of Charity Mrs Howlands way to make oyl of Charity; Madam Le Coques Balme or Balsame to be made in may The vertues of the French Balm; A Plaster for all manner of greifs & pains so soon as it is warme on the flesh the paine ceaceth for the Gout Bruses sceatica old Aches where the skin is not broke For the Piles or Hemarodes A Poltis for any Swelling; Palsey Ballsame Lady Barington The vertues The Palsy Water Pills to purge the Head clens the Head & stomach open the Liver To purge coller cool the blood & thicken it clens the Kidneys; To make Imperial Powder An Excellent Purg to clens the matrix & bring those Pills for the Stomach Mr George Ivies remedy for the Piles Gascons Powder Another An Excellent Purge in the Spring for Palsy & wind in the veines Dr Butlers Plague water To wash the Face when the Smal Pox is shealing of to keep them from Pitting & take out the rednes; A Gentle Purge for a Man Dr Cox for the smal pox or measles when a loseness hinders there coming out especialy children A purge for a weake child when phisick is apt to over worke Dr Buggses Antidote for the Plague To Cure the Plague Dr Buggs A Drink Dr Willis ordred a little child that had the Palsy & the use of one Arine taken away Purging medicines Dr Willis For the smal Pox Feavors or Measles wormes & a paine in the stomach Pills I took when I had the spleen by Dr willis advice; Dr Willis his direction to us in the last great Plague To prevent & Alsoe to cure A Receipt of my Lady Kents Powder given me by Dr Willis To cause sleep in the smal pox or Measles My Lady Ganden to a child that had a losenes & vomiting in the smal Pox & was a year & a halfe old; For to bring out the smal Pox & Fill them For the Trembling & shaking of the Hand To bring out the Smal Pox after they are Faln Dr Bates his red Powder For Feavors Agues Smal Pox Measles & such diseases whre in Gascoin Powder is good A Dropsy Lady Littleton Dr Lowr & to purge water & for a Dropsy Mr Thurland the Bone Setters strengthening Plaster For the Faling of the Palet or Uvila For the Piles For the smal Pox in cace of a Losenes; Pills for obstructions Dr willis An Excellent Poltis for any swelling For Poyson Mr Boyle A Purge for Bleeding at the nose For the smal Pox Dr Willoughbys Pills for the Palsye Convultion Fitts that affect the Head Fitts of the Mother & Stopages For the Piles or Hemrodes For the Palsy tho the speech be lost; The true scotch Pills given by the Author of them to my Lord Duke of Lotherdale Mrs Archers way of makeing my Lady Kents Powder Banisters Powder by Dr Bates; St Theodore Coladons Powder to sweeten the Bloud & For all Fluxes; An opening Drink for the Ricketts Dr Bates My Aunt Mashams Ricket Oyntment An opening drink for the Ricketts; A Plaster for a Rupture Lady Burton for a Rupture For a Rhumetisme A Restorative for any Faintnes To make Boyld Conserve of Red roses for Ruhm & Consumption; For the Ricketts a great Cordial To strengthen the Back in the Rickets For a watry Rupture in the Codd of a Boy For a windy Rupture For a tickling Ruhm to thicken it Sr Edward Greaves An Oyntment for a Rupture Cos Cutts For a tickling Rhume by mistake ther is a drink writte in F:b: For Rhumes For a Rumatisme Lady Falkland; The old womans Oyntment for Livergrown children & great Bellys & hardnes after Agues Alsoe for Aches & Sprains La Lovelace A Purging Powder for the Ricketts by the same For a Rupture most extraordinary Mrs Howland For a Rhumitisme aproved by William Williams; For a Rumetisme; A Poltis to aswage any swelling & festred sore A poltis to disolve Break & draw any swelling & for a sore Brest To disolve break & draw any Hard swelling & for a sore Brest To strengthen the stomach Sr Edward Greaves For the Scirvies For Scabbs to cure them in 5 days; Paine in the side coming of wind A Poltis to Break any swelling For a Paine in the Stomack For wind in the Stomach For a Swelling in the Legs thighs or codds For the stone Captain Greens Red Plaster for a Fistula or any other Sore in the Breast or elce where Cap Greens Red Powder for the same cure; Dr Frigg to ripen any Swelling A Poltiss for any Boyle tho a Plague Sore To dry up wounds & fil them up with new flesh tho the bones be seen To take Dead flesh out of any wound For a Sprane or Bruse To Make Red Harrys Plaster For a Sprain in the Bones or Sinues A Poltis for a swelling or rankling Lady St John; Dr Dorislaws Syrope of Roses Spirit of Saffron Dr Bates Sirfit Water For the Stone & stopage of urin; Dr Wrights Spirit of Mint Cold Sirfit Water Dr Bates The Yalow Salve or Flower of oyntments A Water for the scirvies The syrope to take with the water Mrs Pratts salve for sore Breasts Aches or to strengthen For the Scirvies or Swelling of the Gumms Dr Bates; For a Paine in the Stomach Dr Micklewait For the Strangury For an old sore or Canker For a Prick in the sinues For a sting or suden swelling For any great Scabb or Itch To Cool a Sore A Salve to bring Akeing & rankling wounds to ther kind to Ease ther burning & Eate away dead flesh Dr Willis for Sharp & salt humors in the Bload Dr Dikes Drink which cured Mrs Lamberd of the Green sicknes The Powder by the same Dr for the same; Dr Willis for the Spleen Dr Willis for sharpnes of Bloud wch causes Bleeding at nose or any fluxes Dr Willis A Drink for the Scirvies wch caused Lamenes sweating Agueishnes & Feavorishnes A Drink for a Schrrus To Make Spirit of Elder Berrys For the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder Lady Rannelah For the Scirvies; An Excellent Water for the stone or wind in the body or colick or illnes in the stomach My Grandmothers Clowns wound worth salve To open a wound falce Healed Spirit of Oranges For the shingles To dry up any runing Sore A Comfortable Bawm Water for the spirits; Syrope of Corral Spirit of Lemmons Lady Compton For the stone The Dutches of Lotherdales Spirit of Cittrons The syrope to put into the water when you drink it For the Scirvies in Children To Strengthen a weak childs Stomach For any Red swelling or inflamation A Paine in the side or Stomach; Spirit of Harts Horne Mr Boyls way A Salve for a swelling in the Throat to disperce it For a paine in the side For the stone A most Excellent receit for the stone in the Kidnys For Sweating Dr Willis; For Sirfitts Dr Willis For the Scirvies Dr Willis way to Make all syropes Lozenges when I had sharp Humors in my Bloud by Dr Willis For A Sirfitt For great gripings after a Sirfitt Dr Willis For a Broken Shinn A Black Salve for Aches & Sprains La Devonshire; Dr Trigg For a Dropsy Dr Willis for an Impostume in the stomach wch voyds much bloud by vomitts & by stoole For the Scirvies Dr Willis For to Strengthen the Stomach Dr Trigg For the Scirvies The Bishop of Peterburough for the Scirvies Mrs Stones Diet Drink for one that had a leg that did not thrive; Dr Willis his directions for the Stone [At any time when you are trobled with strangury paines or stopage of urin presently take a glyster wch] The Bole The Pills For a paine in the Stomach For a Spraine A syrope for Bleeding & Flooding For the Stone in the Kidneys For Scabs in the Face; To make Juyce of Dend DeLeon for the Scirvies Lady Bernards Medicine for the Stone For Aches paines Sceatica or Hip Goute to prevent miscarying a plaster to the back & Belly paine in the back or Joynts or any thing coming of cold To Strengthen a weak Member Mr Freeman A Bitter Drink for the Green sicknes & paines in the Stomach A Water for the Same For Stomach wormes For a Sore that will not Heale Dr Lower; Syrope of Steel Dr Lower gave me & wch he uses The spirit of Ivory is admirable for Feavors The Balsamick syrope for the Lungs to coole & secure them from danger by all defluctions upon them Dr Lower Dr Lower prescribed a woman for the Scirvies The water to take with the balsamic syrope; An Excellent receit for the Spleen & Melancholly A Powder of Dr Willis for the Scirvie For a paine in the Stomach The water with wch Dr Winn cured charlses Leg wch was a grevious sore Sr Theadore Meyhern for the Scirvies; For the Stone For the Sciatica or Hipp Gout or any paine coming of cooleing to soon For the scirvies For waterishnes in the stomach For paine in the stomach; Dr Coladons Digestion Powder for the Stomach Sr Theador Meyherns steel For Paine in the stomach Dr Debote For sharpnes & paine in the Stomach Pills for the same Dr Palmers Electuary for the stone; Mrs watts Powder for the Green Sicknes For the Green Sicknes For the Green sicknes Dr Lower Liguid Ladanum The Red water for old or new sores For the stone; For the Stone For the Stone in either Kidnys or Blader For an old Sore For the Shingles For the Stone Infalable as tis said; A Cold Poltis for any Soar For the Stone For the stone Ciprianus a famos man for cutting for the stone Mrs Highlords Breast Salve; For An Ordinary Sore Throat A Poltis if it be swelled much outwardly To Fasten Teeth For the Tooth Ach & Head Ach For the Faling of the Almons of the Eares A Squinsey in the Throat inwardly or outwardly; Dr Bates to Make the Teeth White Teeth from losening For a thing growing under the tongue that looks like a cocks comb For the Scirvie in the Gumms Dr Lower For an Ulcer in the Throat; Those that cannot hold ther Urin For sharp urin To Molifie Sharpnes of urin For one that cannot Make Water To Stay Vomiting Lady St John Ulcer in the Kidneys; To Make Vomitts of Crocus To Make the Crocus For a Stinking Ulcer or canker in the Leg or elcewhere Those that cannot hold ther Water If a Vomit work to much To make a child make Water For Vomitting madicines Dr Willis For the Faling of the Uvila or Pallet or Almons of the Eares For an Ulcer in the Lungs A veine inward Broken Dr Clark those who make Bloudy & thick & Black urin; For the relacsation of the uvila or Pallet when it will not keep up For such as cannot hold ther water For vapors extreordinary good For a Diabetus For Vapors Lucatellas Balsame for new wounds inward ulcers the stone the whites wasting of the Lungs Bruses Dr Wilsons Broth to prevent miscarying; For a weak Back in a woman with child & to prevent miscarying The Jelly to be taken for the same after the Pills & Electuary For warts Infalable Ballsamum Xylandrinum or the Fryers Ballsame The vertues Follow on the other side the Leafe; Mr Cartwrights Commendation ofe & directions about the Fryers Ballsame Cakes for the Wind Lady Treavor; To Make a woman have Easy Labor Mrs Tassels cawdle to bring away the After berth or any part left behind For After pains if the party be not subiect to a losenes For a Sore or Ulcer especialy the French Desease To Prevent miscarying after any fright or hurt or disorder Lady Honywood to prevent miscarying To deliver a woman in two Howers For Chest wormes A Drink of incredable efficacy which within 3 days cures the Fistula & takes away the filth The water of Froggs Spawn for green wounds & stench Bleeding; An Excellent Balme For all Deep wounds made by a smal weapon it heals without Tenting Paracelcus Plaster; An Excellent Entreat to be made at midsomer For the Spleen a Cordial & for the wind For any part of the Afterberth left A Cordial for Wind Dr St Barbs water for all deseases proceeding from disaffecton of the womb for distilations & pains in the Head or Stomach; For any weakenes or a Consumption The Black Candy is good for the green sicknes yalow Jaundice & Flux & Dropsye The yalow is for Consumptions to make one strong breaks all windy causes in the stomach in a smal time The water of wild Thime stilled drunk warm is very good for the wind Colick Lady Goreings Water for pains in the Head & Stomach For Feavors & Sirfitts A Wound Drink Plague or my Lady Alleins Water Treacle Water Dr Bates his Cinomon Water To clarifie a Bone if a member be cutt ofe & hang only by the skin; Lady Roberds to prevent Miscarying A Cawdle to prevent Miscarying Tobacco Salve To clens the Mother & cause Conception Dr Row For a Rankled wound Dr Sheafs water for an old sore Syrope of Wormwood for the wind Colick; To Cure a Wenn An Oyntment to stay water in any sore & to allay the Oyle of roses To draw out any broken bones out of any part of the body or from a wound For an ulcer that is ful of Dead flesh A Defensive To draw Brused Bloud our of any place A Cordial for a woman neare the time of Delivery To hasten delivery For a losenesse in a Childbed woman Another by Dr Cox for the same For an imoderate flux of the Redds A Glister to be given in Labor To settle the Mother after delivery Mrs Shaw To bring forth a Dead child or Afterberth; A Water to Cure Sores Old or new Festred A good Entreat for drawing clensing & healing of wounds sinues Joynts Impostumes Kankers Drawing out thornes & Iron Mrs Slade to bring pains in a woman Dr Willis for one that had a Falce Conception For a lying Inn Weoman For a losenes in lyeing Inn Dr Willis Julape for one that Floods after she is delivered Dr Willis his Bath to clense the Mother; Sr Theodore Meyherns Cinomon Water which may be used to a Lying Inn Woman for a losenes Dr Willis A Plaster for the Back if a woman be with child & alsoe to be applyd to the navel A snayl water Dr Willis prescribed me when I was with child for sharpnes in my bloud For those that have to many of the whites when they are with child Dr Willis For a new Cutt A Drink by Dr Willis to correct & dry up sharp humores & prevent miscarying & good against the whites To stop flooding & bring paine if such a cace happen to a woman Dr Willis Dr Willis for Flouding after delivery To cause Conception; To Cause Conception Mrs Patricke Conceived Twice together with it & she advised it to one that had been 9 years marryed on whom it had the same effect To prevent Miscarrying To make five quarts of strong Water Sr Tho Ivie To make the Perfume for Sr Tho Ivies Water For a Feavor & wormes in Children Dr Willis A Water for the spleen & scirvies Dr Willis To make a woman have easy labor For Wormes in Children; Hysterical water for Fitts of the Mother Dr Willis for one that lyes Inn or has miscaryed when ther clensings smel & to bring away any thing left A Powder for a woman in Labor to bring paine A Tanzy to bring away a dead child or any thing left; For the Green Sicknes or Stopage of those For Wormes in the Stomach For a wound that is Gangreend or any Gangreen given by a Dutch man to a Phisition that had done him a kindnesse in returne & will doe For weoman that have those Immoderately Another for the same Another for the Green Sicknesse Mrs Shatterton For a Bearing downe of the Mother; Lime Water For the Green Sicknes A Powder for the wormes For those that come in extremity & in Flouds but not Lyeing Inn weoman; Dr Coradons Powder to cause paine when a woman is in Labor Staggs Head water for Weomen in labor & in childbed Dr Coladon Mrs Howland to bring away the Afterberth To bring paines in Labor & bring any thing away wch is left behind; For Cancers Wounds & the Kings Evel For the Whites experienced by Mrs Lenton a Midwife Cinomon water A Dutch way; The Consumption Syrrup; For the mang in a Dog; For any swelling in a Horse by a Bruse a certain cure For a Horse sick of the Plague in the gutts For a Galed Horse Back excelent [A woman who bred much Poltry told me that she never lost a chick after she gave them when sick]

Publication/Creation

1680

Physical description

1 volume 219 ll. + 51 bl. ll. + 2 ll. 4to. 23 × 18 cm. Original calf binding worn: stamped 'I.S.' on each cover. Leaves numbered W 14, W 15 cut out.

Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's 28/2/1944, Lot. 141.

Biographical note

The compiler of this collection of medical receipts is perhaps Johanna St. John, daughter of Oliver St. John [1598-1673], Lord Chief Justice. She married a kinsman Sir Walter St. John, third Baronet, M.P. for Wiltshire [1621-1708], and was grandmother to Henry St. John, first Viscount Bolingbroke [1678-1751].

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Location of duplicates

In addition, a microfilm copy is held as AMS/MF/217.

Notes

Hashmarks (#) are used in the list of recipes to indicate where the indexers were unable to read the original text.

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  • 92688