| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: Armenian bole, aluminium, honey, crab verjuice, and ‘smithy water’ meaning ‘coal trough water’.
It instructs to boil the ingredients together then add honey once the preparation has cooled down. It then recommends to wash ‘the place’ with the water that has separated, before rubbing in the salve.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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