| Description Of Item | Copy of a recipe found in A Rich Store-House or Treasury for the Diseased, sixth edition, printed by Ralph Blower in 1616, London. Fol, 32.
Ingredients listed in the recipe are: parsley roots, fennel roots, ‘succorie roostes’ [chicory roots], white wine, ginger berries, and ‘pellitory of spaine’ [Spanish chamomile].
It instructs to boil in white wine, strain it, add the chamomile, and the patient is to drink this morning and evening for ‘eight or nine days’.
For respiratory issues, consumptive cough, or infection of the lungs and throat.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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