Catalogue description MONSIEUR J. G. to [JOHN PRIDGEON ?]

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Details of 8ANC8/59
Reference: 8ANC8/59
Title: MONSIEUR J. G. to [JOHN PRIDGEON ?]
Description:

--Directions for preparing and taking certain physic.

 

Endorsed by Pridgeon :--"From Mons. J. G. in 1648."

 

Tied up with the letter are recipes for purges and cooling drinks, and directions for their use, in Pridgeon's hand.

 

"For a chancer," the prescription is bread poultices twice a day, with the prescribed wash, purge and diet drinks.

 

"The Countesse of Holdernesses receipt for the small-pox" is as follows:--

 

"If the partie should have the small-pox, which you may guesse by his heavines, burninge and cough, lett him lie warme in his bed, but moderately, keepeing his throate pretty coole, givinge him burnt wine with saffron till you see there will no more come forth. Take fresh butter, a quarter of a pound and melt it on the fire, as much refined suger searved (?) through tiffeney or lawne, and beate it with a spoone till it come to be so thicke as Pomato; then take a fine feather (when it is melted) and dip it in (beinge luke warme) and annoynt his face and handes twenty times in a day and night, nott sufferinge the party to scratch himselfe, nor rubb them too hard against his pillow or anythinge else, nor to clippe them or the like, keepinge the places still anoynted till you see them shill off, alwayes beinge extreame carefull to keepe him in a temperate heate, but rather warme than cold, by all meanes, for if he should take cold, it would endanger his life; now if he should have them in his eyes or throate, take a little brest milke, a little saffron and a little white suger-candy, melt them together in a saucer, and lett him swallow a little of this att a time, beinge warme, for his throate when you see them first appear; then take a feather and dip it in the same, and draw it through his eyes lidds, and by the grace of God it will preserve his sight."

 

To take away the holes in the face. "Take the quantity of a pound of veale and putt it in some corner in a seller where it may best putrifie and breede maggotts; then take those maggotts, beinge well growne, put them on a wire and rost them before the fire, having somethinge to preserve the drippinges of them, which you must take and anoynt the party's pitts in his face, and it will take away the holes therein. Given by an Italian."

Date: 1648
Held by: Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 page.

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