Place of Origin

England

Date of Composition

1780

Description

This 156-page volume contains 220 recipes for food, drink, household products, and medicines, all written in the same hand. The medical recipes include remedies for bladder ulcers, palsy, dropsy, scurvy, consumption, cough and shortage of breath. Entry #49 is the recipe for Walker's ointment, given in memory of the widow of Edward Walker of Stenhill. Entry #145 is the Duke of Berwick's physician's concoction for preservation against the pestilence that his soldiers contracted when they robbed infected houses in Marseilles.