| Description Of Item | Very close to BAJ/1/23, but written in a different handwriting which is instead similar to the last sentence of BAJ/1/23 and BAJ/1/A (‘This I tooke my selfe John Mearewall’).
Ingredients listed in the recipe are:
For the decoction: sene leaves and stalks [casasia or cassia augustifolia], English liquorice, cinnamon, and spring water, then cream of tartar, syrup of vinegar, and ‘balme water’.
For the broth: veal neck, polypodium oak roots, parsley roots, succory root, fennel root, ‘raysins of the sunne’ [grapes], mace [nutmeg tree’s seed’s aril], nutmeg, rosemary.
It instructs to soak the sene, liquorice, and cinnamon in spring water, then stew it over ‘charcoale fire halfe burnt’ while slowly stirring until it is cold, then strain it with a linen cloth.
This decoction should be used within 5 days. It needs to be reheated before use, and other ingredients added to it. Then the patient should lie in a warm bed for an hour but without sweating or sleeping. After a few hours, the patient should have the broth.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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