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Recipe 57-59
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57. Cancer Take the Corns that grows upon the four Leggs of a Stone Horse, wash 'em very clean in White Wine dry em in an oven, then powder & sift 'em thro' a fine sieve, then powder some Mace & sift it, take of each of this ten grains and mix it well together in 2 spoonfulls of Malmsey Sack or Good old Malago, take 2 spoonfulls of Sack after it; take it in a Morn fasting an hour after it, take it & the same goeing to Bed & Continue it till you find the humour disperst, Take a Gentle purge once in ten day or a Fortnight & Bleed as often as Strength will admit 58. Black or Yellow Jaundice An oz: of the best Rhubarb, half a pound of Blew Currans, washt & pickt, pound Rhubarb & Currents together Take the quantity of Walnut, nine or eleven Days together morn: fasting an hour after dinner & going to bed 59. Rheumatism A Red Cabbidge, sliced & shred small, cover it with the strongest Ale Lager you can get, let it stand 24 hours, take 3 spoon fulls in the morn:, the same afternoon, you may continue it 3 or 4 Weeks, if you find the pain Continue, drink nor eat nothing salt when you take it
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57. Cancer Take the Corns that grows upon the four Leggs of a Stone Horse, wash 'em very clean in White Wine dry em in an oven, then powder & sift 'em thro' a fine sieve, then powder some Mace & sift it, take of each of this ten grains and mix it well together in 2 spoonfulls of Malmsey Sack or Good old Malago, take 2 spoonfulls of Sack after it; take it in a Morn fasting an hour after it, take it & the same goeing to Bed & Continue it till you find the humour disperst, Take a Gentle purge once in ten day or a Fortnight & Bleed as often as Strength will admit 58. Black or Yellow Jaundice An oz: of the best Rhubarb, half a pound of Blew Currans, washt & pickt, pound Rhubarb & Currents together Take the quantity of Walnut, nine or eleven Days together morn: fasting an hour after dinner & going to bed 59. Rheumatism A Red Cabbidge, sliced & shred small, cover it with the strongest Ale Lager you can get, let it stand 24 hours, take 3 spoon fulls in the morn:, the same afternoon, you may continue it 3 or 4 Weeks, if you find the pain Continue, drink nor eat nothing salt when you take it
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