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Home Remedies

Title: Home Remedies
Date: ca. 1750
Description: 8 x 4", manuscript
Subject: Danbury (Conn.)--History; Deeds; Cookbooks
Publisher: Western Connecticut State University Archives
Identifier: MS054_01_32
Abstract: "receipt for ointment take
one handful of wormwood
one handful of rue
one handful of suren wood
one handful seneca
make it in deerweed water
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one ounce of butter,
[del?] divide it off into two parts
take one half and slice it thin
and put into half a pint of warm over night
in the morning squeeze it out. Put in as much honey or sugar as will make
into a syrup. Put it over the fire.
Boil very easily stir it while boiling
stir it while a boiling down to the
thickness of new honey. That painful morning and evening while taking the
above mixture for [the not constant?] drink
tar water for the [constant?] drink all four

all [add?] salt grease and all [add?] spirit mead wine and water"