| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed: mercury, polypody, [illegible], borage, raisins or grapes, damask prunes, chicken broth, cinnamon, syrup, rose honey, and raw egg.
List some characteristics and uses of spurge [euphorbia], such as purging phlegm, melancholy, or ‘choler’, and preserving ‘the health of the body’.
Text is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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