The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far excels any thing of the kind yet published ... in which are included one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, not inserted in any former edition with a copious index / By a lady [Mrs. H. Glasse].

  • Hannah Glasse
Date:
1796
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Credit: The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far excels any thing of the kind yet published ... in which are included one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, not inserted in any former edition with a copious index / By a lady [Mrs. H. Glasse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘si no) Ct A. orxintise : “MISCELLANEOUS, Containing many ufeful Medica. and other Famizy ‘RECEIPTS.« ; A certain Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog. TE the patient be blooded at the arm nine or ten ounces. in Englifh, afh-coloured, ground liverwort, cleaned, dried, and powdered, half an ounce. Of black pepper, bowdenéd, two drachms. Mix thefe well together, and divide the powder into four dofes, one of which muft. be taken every morning fafting, for four mornings fucceflively, in half a pint of cow’s ‘milk warm. : After thefe four dofes are taken, the patient muft go into the-cold bath, or a cold {pring or river every morning fafte ing fora month. He mutt be dipped all over, but not to ftay in r with his head above water) longer than half a minute, if the water be very cold. After this he muft go in three times a week for a fortnight longer. | N. B.—The lichen is a very common herb, and grows pe= nerally in fandy and barren foils all over England, The right time to gather it is in the months of October and November. [-D. Mead.] Anvther Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog. {pace of an hour 5 then ftrain the ingredients. from the liquor, Give eight or nine fpoonfuls of it warm to a man, ora woman, fpoonfuls for a horfe or a bullock 5 three, four, or five toa. ithe bite: it feldom fails in man or beat. If you bind fome of Redeipt againft the Plague, white wine vinegar, put the whole into a ftone pot, clofely co- vered up, upon, warm wood-afhes for four ay after;which . | * draw