| Description | 1. Remedy from Daniel Carroll for the piles.
2. Two recipes for remedies for unknown ailments.
3. Remedy to cure "an humour in a dog's foot".
4. Letter and recipe for using "balsame of pilewort" which the sender has enclosed (commonly used for haemorrhoids).
5. Two recipes for the remedy of piles, one dated 23 Jul 1715 from Colt Turner, signed Roberto. The second is given by Mrs Mildmay.
6. Two remedy recipes for ointment for the arm. On the back are odd phrases one is "how vile" and what seems to be the beginning of an unfinished letter concerning a disappointment.
7. Recipe for an ointment using pilewort root and spermaceti.
8. A recipe for the piles from Mr Thomas Walker using Sal Mirabile Glauberi (sodium sulphate).
9. Part of a remedy which includes syrup of snails.
10. Two recipes, one (partly torn) for curing stomach pains and one for an apricot syrup.
11. A recipe for piles supplied by Comte de Tournon, 1718, involving the use of mealworms.
12. A diet for a lady.
13. Instructions for taking powders and medicines.
14. Instructions for purging medicines to take after letting blood.
15. 5 Nov 1740 Prescription and instructions for medicines.
16. Two recipes from R Holland for pea soup.
17. Recipe from John Devey to Henry Davenport for pilau rice and a bill.
18. Recipe for "Mrs Wiseman's Bisket".
19. Two recipes, one for Tansey and another for collops.
20. A list of drinks "moved out of the Store Closet into the Green Room".
21. Three recipes for piles; two from Lord Fitzwilliam and one from Lord Orkney. |