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Francis Smith medical recipe book, 1704
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To drive out the Small Pocks Take of distilled Taragon-water eight Spoonfuls and put thereto six grains of bezor or unicorns horn or for want of these put so much saffron but the other is better let it be warm double the portions as you see cause take nothing an hour before nor an hour after A medicine that the Small pocks be not seen in the face When the Small pocks are cleanly come forth and they begin to dry take Sperma Ceti and warm it in a Saucer and with a feather anoint all the places often times in the day as often as it dryeth up
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To drive out the Small Pocks Take of distilled Taragon-water eight Spoonfuls and put thereto six grains of bezor or unicorns horn or for want of these put so much saffron but the other is better let it be warm double the portions as you see cause take nothing an hour before nor an hour after A medicine that the Small pocks be not seen in the face When the Small pocks are cleanly come forth and they begin to dry take Sperma Ceti and warm it in a Saucer and with a feather anoint all the places often times in the day as often as it dryeth up
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