Plain and Easy

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Yield
4.0 doses
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (3)
For the patient's treatment after taking the doses
Instructions (6)
  1. Mix the drachms (quantity not specified) well together.
  2. Divide the powder into four doses.
  3. Take one dose every morning fasting, in half a pint of cow's milk warm, for four mornings successively.
  4. After these four doses are taken, go into a cold bath or a cold spring, or river every morning fasting for a month.
  5. Be dipped all over, but do not stay in (with your head above water) longer than half a minute, if the water be very cold.
  6. After this, go in three times a week for a fortnight longer.
Original Text
PLAIN and EASY. drachms. Mix these well together, and divide the powder into four doses; one of which must be taken every morning fasting, for four mornings successively, in half a pint of cow's milk warm. After these four doses are taken, the patient must go into a cold bath or a cold spring, or river every morning fasting for a month. He must be dipt all over, but not stay in (with his head above water) longer than half a minute, if the water be very cold. After this he must go in three times a week for a fortnight longer. N. B. The lichen is a very common herb, and grows generally in sandy and barren soils all over England. The right time to gather it, is in the months of October and November. — Dr. Mead.
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