Pharmaceutical recipes [manuscript], ca. 1690, ca. 1750-ca. 1870.

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Pharmaceutical recipes [manuscript], ca. 1690, ca. 1750-ca. 1870.

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Pharmaceutical recipes interspersed with cookery and household recipes and a few (19th century) knitting directions. Many are attributed to different people, some well-known. One refers to Virginian snake root, (Part I, p. 115). The earlier part of the book opens with the words "Several receipts transcribed from a book of the Earl of Chesterfields". The compilers seem to have lived in Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire. Several of the surnames are those of families in these counties. There are references to a person from Melbourne, [Derbyshire], and to another from Nottingham, while 3 loose sheets mention a Mr. Tabberer, surgeon, Repton, a Francis Fox of Derby, ca. 1760, and a fund raising drive for Melbourne Church, 1862.

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