Recipe book, 1729-1763

Manuscript recipe book in two hands. The first eight pages contain chemical and workshop recipes relating to inkmaking, metalworking, casting, and gunsmithing. The remainder of the volume is in another hand and contains several dozen medical recipes, many identified by their sources, who are often women. There are two recipes each for Daffy's Elixir and opodeldoc; recipes for tinctures, ointments and salves; and numerous remedies for common ailments including sore throat, cough, fever, measles, and dropsy. Some of the recipes concern women's health, such as medicines to "prevent miscarrying" and "to be taken at the change of life" as well as cures for breast injuries and nursing difficulties. In addition, there are detailed directions for a smallpox treatment said to have cured "130 children" in 1763