| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: ‘serpentine’ [artemisia dracunculus, also called tarragon].
It recommends to take the juice of this herb and to pour it in the nostrils or to dip a linen cloth in it and place it on the sore.
This sickness was also known as hidden cancer, or cancer absconditus, and caused skin ulcers.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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