| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: ‘roots of bete’ [beetroots].
It instructs to take two or three roots, and after washing and drying to grind them and, straining them in a cloth, to extract the juice from them. Using a quill, let a few drops fall into the nose. It is very efficient to ‘purge the head and brest … of all slime, flem, or filth’.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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