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A booke of medicines. With other medical receipts, and a number of cookery receipts by Joan Gibson and by a second Joanna Gibson.
On the first leaf 'John Gibson 1634. A booke of Medicines', below this 'Joanne Gibson. Ars longa, vita brevis. 1669', and under this 'Joanna Gibson 1708'. On the verso of the last leaf 'Liber Joannis Gibsoni Anno Domini 1632', and inside the lower cover 'Pretium 1s'.
The last entry, by Joanna Gibson, is dated 1717.
Comprises the following recipes: For the winde Collicke Another for the Same For the Bluddie flix For one that is thicke of hearinge; For: to cause easy passage in the yeard, when one is troubled with the stone For a Consumption The Cordiall; To Stay a Scouringe For the Stone A powder for the Stone; To make the Stone slippe downe the narrowe passage betweene the Kidnese and the bladder; For the Stone causinge one to make water freelye To make a posset drinke against the stone L:Dss: For the collicke and to bringe away gravell and the stone from the kidneys; A posset ale to ease the collicke or stone; For the raginge paines of the Stone To cure a bloodie water; To cure the Scoldinge passage of the urine; A midicine for a greene wound A posset ale for an Ague; An oyntment for a cutt or a sore An oyntment for an Ache; An oyntment for a burne A water for a Canker A blacke Salve for an Ache; For the Pyles To take a way heate spotts in the face; An other medcine for red spotts To cleare the blood For an ache; An approved excellent plaister for many infermityes; The vertues of this plaister aforesaide; An electuary for the cough of the lungs A dredge for a cough; A water for ye Lungs An excellent Cordiall A Julipp for the Lungs; For ye dropsye or swelling in ye bodye; For a soareness in ye throate For the swellinge of the leggs by dropsie; A bathe for the swellinge of the leggs caused by a dropsie Oyle of Sugar candy good for a consumption W. cold; A generall purge for grosse humors A drinke for a Consumption; A Gellye for a Consumption; For a coalde or hoarse Cough; Another for hoarsenes For ye Greene sickness or ye obstructed stomake; A strengthning broth for a Consump A restorative in a Consumption; A fowmentation, & an oyntment for a Coalde; To make stomake pills For a broaken veyne within when ye blood cometh up att ye mowth To make ye Clystar For ye scorbye; For ye running eyes or coald humor If ye eye be swelld & ye humor hott; To make a sweet bagg To procure sleep For ye weakness of ye Reyns in Man or Woman A pulltise to drawe, & break a swelling; A drinke to dissolve fleame downeward; To make Respes water To make good whep to drinke all times of sumer; For burninge or scaldinge For burninge in the face with gunpowder To heale any manner of burninge though it be with gunpowder; Sir Walter Raleiges receipt for the Plague For the Sweatinge Small Pox, Measells and Surfetts; For winde in the Stomache For bloody Urine; To make Gingerbread; To make Aquamirabilis To make Cowslip Wine; To make aquamirabilis the best way; How to make apricocks cakes; Aquadechedray; How to presarve quinces Red; How To make quince cakes; To candy angilcoa; To Preserve Grapes green; To make lemmon Marmalad; How to preserve Goosberries; How to Preserve Damsons; How to presarve Currans; How to make Biskits How to maike kings Cakes; How to make Spanish Bisket How to make sugar Cakes; How to maike Cheas Cakes; How to make Cheese Cakes. C S How to make Cheese Cakes Mrs. S.; To make Gumballs To make Almond Gumballs Another way; How to make Jelley as clear as Cristall; How to mak Almond Butter; How to make Almond Cream; To make oring butter To make oring cream; To make Aprycock wine; To mak oring wine; How to make Biskits. Mrs. Finch 1709; To make oringe wine. Ju: 19 1715; To make Lemon Chese cakes. Mrs. Foulis 1708; How to make Lemon sillibubs Mrs. Foulis 1708; Whipt Silebubs; How to make oring cakes. Sis Thomas 1702; Oring cakes A:T How to make oring Marmalad. H 1713; How to make Lemon Cream. Sis Ednard; How to make Lemon Cream. Mrs. Rowes at Rath 1702; To make Ciltron water with Lemons. Lady Davey 1717; Physicall Prascriptions.

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