| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in recipe are: white-amber, mace, ale.
‘Rx’ for ‘women sounding fits after Delivery of child’, take 1 drachm of powder of white amber put into a warmed pint of ‘mace-ale’.
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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