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Credit
Receipt Book. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Receipt Book
- Lady Pulston
- Date:
- 18th century
- Reference:
- MS.8048
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
About this work
Description
Medical/cookery recipe book, with recipes written by Lady Pulston, pp.45-74. Some pages appear to be missing; the first page of the MSS is numbered page 45. Pages 57-62 are torn from the top left to bottom right corner, rendering some text illegible. A number of the recipes include the notation "proved". Includes recipes from other individuals, commonly Lady Parsons. Examples of medical recipes: "for the bileing of a snake or any venemous thing: Lady Parsons"; "for the toothach"; "the plague water: Lady Parsons"; "to kill dead flesh"; "an excellent scarcloth: Lady Heath"; "for the scurvey".
Publication/Creation
18th century
Physical description
1 volume
Contributors
Acquisition note
David and Lynn Smith Booksellers, 10/03/2003.
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Recipe books digitisation project. Microfilm reference: AMS/MF/212.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 1132