| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: milk and cream of tartar (to make ‘tartar whey’), and [lemon] balm tea.
It recommends to first do some blood-letting, then keep to bed and drink ‘tartar whey’ in the morning and ‘balm-tea’ the rest of the day.
Recipe copied from a medical text published in 1742, this ‘method’ had ‘almost universal success for either preventing or curing the present epidemical distemper’.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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