| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: garlic, tar, honey, and elecampane powder.
It instructs to mix them into a paste, then ‘wrap it in a rag’ and tie it on the horse’s bit, also it recommends to ‘anoint [the] bit with tar’ every morning.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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