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Carr family cookbook, 1741-1753
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Worm Plaster Put a peice of sheep leather in the shape of a heart and spread it thin over with honey then take a penney worth of capone greese, one penny worth of oyle of mace & spread them upon the honey, then of the oyle of wormwood and oyle of savin together one pennyworth & drop them all over the plaster then take two pennyworth of alloase finely beaten to powder and strow it over the plaster, two pennyworth of saffron rubed & strowed over the other things. When you lay the plaster upon the stomach warm it on the wrong side if you find it don't stick put more of the powder of allows upon it. this plaster is good in the measles smal pox agues & fevours
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Worm Plaster Put a peice of sheep leather in the shape of a heart and spread it thin over with honey then take a penney worth of capone greese, one penny worth of oyle of mace & spread them upon the honey, then of the oyle of wormwood and oyle of savin together one pennyworth & drop them all over the plaster then take two pennyworth of alloase finely beaten to powder and strow it over the plaster, two pennyworth of saffron rubed & strowed over the other things. When you lay the plaster upon the stomach warm it on the wrong side if you find it don't stick put more of the powder of allows upon it. this plaster is good in the measles smal pox agues & fevours
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