Lowdham, Caleb (fl. 1665-1712), surgeon, Exeter

Notebook of medical and culinary recipes compiled by Caleb Lowdham, or Loudham, and Jane Lowdham, his wife or daughter. With a few case histories.

Most of the medical recipes are in the hand of Caleb Lowdham, who signed his name on the opening leaf. Underneath is the signature of Jane Lowdham, dated 1729, who seems to have contributed the cookery recipes. Some of the medical receipts and the case histories are in the hand of a son or daughter of Lowdham.

The bulk of the recipes and case notes are struck through.

f. 2r. 'In Broadhembery about a mile from the Town at a village called staverd lives Wm Somerys in his mead of 2 Acres called Broad mead grows an herb yt unlockt a Horse lock about the legg at least 10 times'.

ff. 3v.-51r. miscellaneous medical, veterinary and culinary recipes.

ff. 52r.-55r. two case histories, 1692-3.

ff. 55r.-57r. medical recipes.

ff. 58r.-59r. case of gangrene in a child at Topsham, 1696.

f. 60r. 'to cure warts'.

ff. 60v.-118r. blank.

ff. 118v.-136v. medical and other recipes from published works.

ff. 137r.-138r. blank.

ff. 138v.-141v. partial list of contents.

Contains the following recipes: [Note on Snow-water for tooth ach] Dr Brownes medicine for paines in the Poynes, knees, & other Joynts For a Consumption Ungt. contra ignem; For the scratches in a horse Another Another For a sore horse back or ach For ye staggers cont. from folio 5, Ungt. contra ignem For a mortified (gangreened) leg or Arm; For the recoverying (or keeping from it) a Hogshead of Cyder, wn Ropey, thongey or Oyley And to recover botles as above said To convert Cyder into Canary wine Esq Evelin Sylva To prepare a new cask for Cyder; If a tainted Cask Another For harsh Cyder, & vinegrish Another Itching Oyntment To stop bleeding Trees For an Ulcer in the bladder For a rumbling & deafness in ye ears For a sore horse back, or Ach; To Clear an Hogs head of muddy Cyder How they boyl bitter-sweet or (as we vulgarly call ym) Bitter-scale in Dorsetshire An Experiment, cont. on folio 10 For ye cure of mad Dogs or men or beasts bitten by by mad Dogs Philos; An Experiment From Aunt Mathew these follow=ing receipts: To preserve Quinces; To preserve Cherrys The Plague water For the Colick pharma. Antiemper Dr Willis his nostru or praparatid of steel; Syrupus Chabybis A cure for tertians & quartans by the following purge & potion Emp. Regale & fontanellis; To preserve Cherrys To preserve Berberrys Tinctura exfolians & ossibus Rx decoct. amar. cu senna Rx decoct. amar. sine senna; To make syrup or Roses, Poppies, Cowslips, Wormwood, Seabious, &c. Against the Jandise Another Another Another To make a powder of Lead; To make short Cakes To make Almond Milk To make a cataplasme To make an Oyntment of fox glove for the Kings evil To make a green oyntment for bruises and aches; To make Cheese cakes To make Syrup of Rue Minii Bulvis utendus in calcul. vesicae Bolis somni##m provocans Ungt. ad somnu provocans Bolus Somnu provocans; Another To make Sugar Cakes Gangraena; To make Cowslip or Gilliflower.- wine, Ad resti h#iendas crines Ut cappilli non iterum crescumt# Ad Epilepsiam Gangraena Agt ye Jaundise; To make Raspis Wine Agt. Tetters, Ringworms, Itchings & to purify ye blood Agt. Tetters; To Candy Angellica stalks To make Carraway Cake To whiten teeth Decoct ad strumas Unguent. Digital; To preserve Oranges Usquebach Ag. Hungarica Potus in Cancro; To make Black berry wine Theriaca Diatesseron Mesuis Bay; Oyl of sweet Almonds To preserve Cyder Caeruleum Emp. Sparadrap; To make Cheese Cakes To make Cyder brisk To make Ale ye same To make Sponge tents Pil. # Gonorhaea Another; A Pessary Agt. Infection; Another A ripning Cataplasm For the Corns; Agt. Lice An approved medicine for the Falling-Sickness; Dr. Jennings his Excellent pouder for a feaver or ye Small Pox, & to drive any thing from ye heart Ad Urinam provocandu; Ad Rachitidem An Attractive pestilentiall plaster; The true preparation of the afore Said Arsenicall-Loadstone; Elder-tree wine The Salt of the Elder-tree; For the Tooth-Ach; For an Erisipelas Decoct. ad morsus Canis rabidi; Et applic. magma loco affecto. Basamum Apoplecticum Balsamum Lucatelli After the gout; The black plaster A drink for the Kings-Evil For an Epilepsy For after pains in a woman; For an Ague For a Sciatica & benumb limbs For the blind Hemorrhoids; A common Restrictive A vulnerary potion Another A Common digestive Ungt Terebinth A maturative Cataplasm; Emp. Hirundinis For boyls & felons To purge Cancerous humours schirrous Tumours, Phagedenick Ulcers & fistulaes; An Oyntment for a burn or Scald An Excellent Remedy for ye stone; Troch. de Mineo Pul Sperniola Compound Crollius A Cataplasm for ye Eye The Corrosive stone; A Cordiall water A worthy Lady A Medicine for ye Scurvy; A Catapl. for any contuss. about ye Eye A powder for ye wind In partu difficili Balsama Vulneraria Contra Anguinam; Catapl. ad suppressionem puerpurae For Spitting of blood For ye Head-ach For a Herpes; For ye plague For ye tooth ach A Cataps. for a Bubo A plaster to ripen & break a Bubo; Another Agst. Infection; Ad Hydropem Ad partus difficultatem Rx cinamom. opt. troch. de Myrh. Croc. Aristelochia cu Myrh. & pipere pota Aqua Cinamomi in accelerando; Olei Cinamomi Rx Succin. Alb. Rx dictamni alb. succin Rx Succin. Alb. Rx Gallitricki, q.s. Rx Sem. Lavandul. Rx Cineris Urachi Rx Conf. Alkerm, & pulv. supra dict. Rx Borac officinarum; Rx pul. testiculor Rx Succin. alb. & fimi Accipitris albi For a Flux To stop blood To make Oyl of Elder; The Cramp Oyl; Mr Boyl of specifick Remidys in Rx Worms Heat of Urine For Childrens Coughs Kings Evil [Report on tooth pulling]; [Report on tooth cure and protection]; A Contussion, Inflamation, and Excoriation by long lying in Bed; Gangraena, vel Cancer Oris faciei, Nasi in puerilis; [Report on medicine for a newborn child's head] Lenetiv. Opt.; To make Cock water; Gangraena vel Cancer Oris; To cure warts; A past to set upon ye Edge of ye Glass of a Mariners Compass, to keep out Air, water, &c. yt will not be dissolved in water or molted by fire In Psora & Lepra Pecudum, &c. Ink; [Note on a family crest], [Note on silver polishing] Of ye Re-animation of Simples wn (by reason of ye great distance of places) ye Plant cannot be trans=ported; A fulminating powder To take out Ink To make ye Phylosophers Tree; Aqua Magnetica [Note on Mr Boyls medicine for Eyes] Secretum Mirum ad transeri=bend os libros ad Imagines ari incisas; Ad Veneris Languores For ye Worms Blew paint To make artificial Amber Aqua Magnetica; For poison [Note on Nambuguacu leaves for the shingles] For the Stone [Note on Parcelsus as a Diuretick] Sudorificks Siriasis Tinnea purorus; For Emetick, vid. Cathartick For the Itch, vid. Erisipelas For Melancholy, vid. Emeticks Antidote for Mercury, vid. Epilepsy For Narcotick, vid. Bilious Diarrhaea vid. Quartan Agues For obstructions, vid. bleeding For Opthalmick, vid. for ye Eyes For poison, cid. feavers For ye shingles, vid Erisipelas For ye stone, vid. Nephritick pains For Sudorifick, vid. feavers Ad Veneris Languoru, vid. Diuretick For malignant feavers, vid. Erisipelas vid. for ye Eyes For Ulcers in ye Leg, vid. Tinea puerorum For venereal Ulcers, vid. for ye plague A wash for ye face, vid. Cosmeticks For the Itch For the Menses For Nephritick pains for ye Plague; For feavers Gonorrhaea For the Gout To fetch off Hair To make Hair grow For Histerical fits; Emetick Epilepsy Erisipelas For the Eyes; Cosmeticks Cramp Dentrisices For bilious Diarrhaea Diuretick Dropsey; Agt spitting of blood For fractures Cathartick [Note on the fruit of Nambuguacu purge] Cordial; Medicines taken out of Dr Giews Abortion raritys Quartan Agues Anodine medicine Another For ye bitings of a mad Dog For ye Biting of venemous Beast For bleeding; Sir Walter Rauleigh A water for a fustula, & all manner of wounds, & Swellings, or old Ulcers, Cankars, Tetters, Boyls, or Scabes, in any place, or green wounds Bol. Armen.; For killing worms For stanching blood To cure Dysenteries For fits of the mother For Phthysicall consumptions [Note on the Livers & Galls of #els for women in childbirth] The Irish Lithotomists Rx for ye stone in the bladder; The Lapis Nephriticus A man cured of a Scirrhous lienis and a drospy by long use of sponges wth strong comon lime water I my self was cured of a quotid. Ague [Note on millefolium or yarrow against Agues] The cure of ye Yellow Jaundice An obstinate consumption or marasmus For a Paronichia For ye Kings evill For warts; The Enetick properly of Asarum may be taken away The Juice of Horse dung For incipient cataracts & the stone in the bladder To stanch bloud, hamorrhages To make a syrrup of #.q. of fine sugar & the strongly exprest juice of 12 hand fulls of plantaine leaves Balsamu Sulphuris For the Epilepsy; Receipts out of Boyls usefullness of experimental Philosophy, For the stone in the Kidneys & bladder The distilled water of persicaria or Arsmart An Egg steeped in strong vinegar The liquor which drops in the beginning of the spring The almost insipid liquor yt weeps in March or ye beginning of April For Nephritical distempers