| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: red herrings, tar, brown bread.
It instructs to cut two red herrings, then extract their ‘back bones’, it is unclear if the herrings or only their bones should be warmed and then applied to the soles of the feet, twice a day. If after three or four days the head is still ‘distempered’, then toasts of brown bread, with tar spread on them, should be applied in the same manner to the soles of the feet.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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