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Title
R. for the sciatica [manuscript], c. 1700.
Description
1 sheet ; 14.5 x 20 cm
Associated name
Mosay, M., creator.
Scope and content
A late 17th or very early 18th century handwritten sheet of instructions to a patient for a plaster to treat sciatica in his foot listing the ingredients (bees wax, cleare resin, burgundy), the method of making it, and with details on its use, instructing him to keep it in place for 15 days.
Note
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Source of acquisition
Ken Spelman Cat 83, item 2 - same provenance as items purchased from Spelman cat. 83 (other items) and 85 PO 8819.
Genre/form
Manuscripts (documents)
Cookbooks.
Cookbooks.
Item Details
Call number
X.d.750
Folger-specific note
Adopted by Caroline Kenney, to Edward and his wretchedly smelly feet, Acquisitions Night 2017.
Folger accession
269143