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Nicholas Culpeper : Pharmacopoeia Londinensis

[Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Take a reed ..orke[?], plurke him quirk then/ slitt him down throw & take out all his/entrall, cutt him in quarters & bruise/ him in a morter, put him in an ordinary/ still wth [sic] a botle [?] of sarke, & a quart of/ ... kow's milk ...'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Andrew Greirson      Print: Book

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