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 →

Folk Remedies

An “apothecary” learned the trade as an apprentice. They were trained to recognize the many plants used in preparing medicines Continue reading →

Read More

Norfolk Website: This blog is the daughter of a much larger website, found HERE. There the actual notebooks on which Continue reading →

Our Authors

The authors of the two notebooks of “Receipts” or as we would say today “Recipes” for cures lived in the Continue reading →

Laudanum

Use of Laudanum in Victorian Medicine.   “Receipts”, or Recipes as we now describe them, were medicines to be made up by Continue reading →

Measures

Units of measure. The word “scruple” has been used in these pages but it’s not a word we use today. Continue reading →

Coat condition

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 →

Urine bowls

Urin Bowls, one oz of Confer (Campher?), half lb of niter, half lb flower brimstone, corter (quarter) lb of Jension Continue reading →

Purges

Common purge for a horse, 2 oz of Ginger, 2 oz of Julop, 8 oz of Alloes, one dram of Continue reading →

Worms

For worms in horses, take a glass bottle of Turner’s Ewes (or Evies?), And give the horse it 3 times Continue reading →

Distemper

Distemper in a Dog. Assa foetida half drachma, Alloes one scruple, Sope ten grains, Beat into a small ball with Continue reading →

Colds in horses

Cold or want of appetite in horses. 4 ounces of whites, 1 ounce of canfer (camphor), one ounce of ginger, one Continue reading →