Recipe Book compiled by William Ordway

This material is held atThackray Museum of Medicine

Scope and Content

Formula book compiled possibly by William Ordway. The book contains recipes for Aqua, Aqua Mirabilis, Almond Cream, Asthma, Bite of a Mad Dog, Bitten Draught, Colic, Consumption, Cough & Chin Cough, Cordial Water, Cinnamon, Cheese, Cement, Diet Drinks, Diascordium, Dropsy, Daffey Elixir, Drinks instead of Beer, Eye Sores, Fever. Fits, Flu, Fish Sauce and Milk Water for a Fever, and cures for Gout and Ricketts. The book also has examples of handwriting exercises in the front pages.

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