Medical Recipes.- [Collection of recipes, mostly medicinal], manuscript, 132pp. excluding blanks, in several hands, numerous manuscript recipes (1 in a letter to Sir Jonathan Coryton) loosely inserted or held in place by pins, slightly browned, Arms of Amsterdam watermark, loose in original vellum, soiled and yellowed, upper cover stained and splitting along upper edge, corners worn, sm. folio, n.d., dated in text 1725 & first half of the 18th century.

⁂ Recipes include: "For ye biting of a mad dog, given me by Mr Parson N.B.: this receipt was taken out of Cathorp [Caythorpe] Church in Lincolnshire, ye whole town being bitten by a mad dog, & all that took the medecin did well, & ye Rest dyed madd"; "To make oyle of Charity"; "A water for ye stone"; "To make ye snaile wate"; "To prevent Miscaredg"; "For the Yellow and Black Jaundies"; "To make ye Deans pouder I had it of Madum Bregintine"; "ffor the Small Pox" etc.