First Things
This new site will contain the contents of two notebooks from the 19th century. They reveal the fascinating, bizarre and sometimes Continue reading
This new site will contain the contents of two notebooks from the 19th century. They reveal the fascinating, bizarre and sometimes Continue reading
An “apothecary” learned the trade as an apprentice. They were trained to recognize the many plants used in preparing medicines Continue reading
Norfolk Website: This blog is the daughter of a much larger website, found HERE. There the actual notebooks on which Continue reading
The authors of the two notebooks of “Receipts” or as we would say today “Recipes” for cures lived in the Continue reading
Use of Laudanum in Victorian Medicine. “Receipts”, or Recipes as we now describe them, were medicines to be made up by Continue reading
Units of measure. The word “scruple” has been used in these pages but it’s not a word we use today. Continue reading
For the coat in the spring, 1/4 pound of braces? of Antimony, 1/4 pound of cream of tartar, 1/4 pound Continue reading
Urin Bowls, one oz of Confer (Campher?), half lb of niter, half lb flower brimstone, corter (quarter) lb of Jension Continue reading
Common purge for a horse, 2 oz of Ginger, 2 oz of Julop, 8 oz of Alloes, one dram of Continue reading
For worms in horses, take a glass bottle of Turner’s Ewes (or Evies?), And give the horse it 3 times Continue reading
Distemper in a Dog. Assa foetida half drachma, Alloes one scruple, Sope ten grains, Beat into a small ball with Continue reading
Cold or want of appetite in horses. 4 ounces of whites, 1 ounce of canfer (camphor), one ounce of ginger, one Continue reading