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A Book of Simples
Henry William Lewer
The Plague Water sits a few pages from the Wood-street Cake. Gathered from old English household manuscripts, these simples mix supper and pharmacy: pectorals for a cold, a receipt against convulsions said to have cured nine fits a day, directions for making Ebulum drink. Half kitchen, half apothecary, entirely another world. Step into a stillroom where dinner and medicine shared one shelf.
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541 chapters
- 1A BOOK OF SIMPLES
- 2INTRODUCTION
- 3A BOOK OF SIMPLES
- 41. The Wood-street Cake.
- 52. Pectorals for a Colde or Consumption.
- 63. The Plague Water.
- 74. A very excellent Receipt against Convulsions which cur’d one had 9 Fitts a Day.
- 85. To make Ebulum Drinke.
- 96. To make Vinegar.
- 107. To make Goosbery or Currant Wine.
- 118. To make Methegline.
- 129. A Plaister for ye Spleen to be made in May.
- 1310. To make Aquamirabilis the Lady Atkinses way.
- 1411. To make Small Wine otherwise called Solerion. You may do Rasberry this way.
- 1512. To make Wigs.
- 1613. For the Giddiness in the Head.
- 1714. How to Stue a Rump of Beef.
- 1815. To make Almond Cakes.
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