| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: crumbs of white bread, ‘forpensine’ [penstemon?], anise, cummin, honey, and white wine.
It instructs to set those in white wine, and make a plaster to place on the breast and the lungs of the patient as warm as possible.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22. |