seventeenth-century manuscript page with a remedy for measles and smallpox

This seventeenth-century measles "remedy" hits a little different in the US at the moment. #HistMed #EMROCTranscribes #MedHums #HistSci #HistFood #EnvHums

Another excellent year of #EMROCTranscribes, this year at Birkbeck with a great group who enjoyed Zooming with transcribers @rcphysicians.bsky.social & elsewhere and the thought-provoking talk on the history of #earlymodern abortion from @maryfissell.bsky.social. Thanks as always to EMROC … (1/2)!

"effectual expeller of winde" #EMROCTranscribes 💨

Manuscript page of medical remedies.

These recipes from RCP 688 are full of beans! Remedies for a sore leg and for the gout. #EMROCTranscribes #HistMed #envhums

Can anyone help us figure out this word, plz?

"To engender heate in the ? partes."

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If only St. Sebastian knew about this cure for expelling arrows. #EMROCTranscribes

Pro tip if you need some empty snail shells: "Take garden snayles and lay them by the fir side the hete whereof will cause the snayles to creepe out" No guidance for what to do, then, with the unhoused snails (from a recipe for kidney stones) #EMROCTranscribes #HistSci #HistFood #HISTSTM #EnvHums

MS688 Book of surgerie and phisick : Andrewe Plowden : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Handwritten recipe book from the collections of the Royal College of Physicians. Begone the yeare of Our Lord 1601. Written by Andrewe Plowden, Servant to...

Lots of good therapeutic uses for different fabrics in archive.org/details/ms-6... Just found one asking for medicine to be applied to a canker with "a fyne piece of silke" Still time to join the fun emroc.hypotheses.org/transcribath... @rcpmuseum.bsky.social #EMROCTranscribes #HistMed #skystorians

Had to step away from #EMROCTranscribes as the screenwork seemed to be calling forth a migraine. I did not want to try any of the #EarlyModern remedies for it either. My favourite involved a bunch of worms being turned into a plaster for the head, to be worn all night. Shudder. #HistMed

Another to provoke urine involves baking then breaking snails' shells. Take the amount that fits on a knife point and add to white wine... Again, the breaking of stones/shells. Plus the delightful measurement! #EarlyModern #HistMed #EMROCTranscribes

some advice in case you're bit by a "madd dogge" #EMROCTranscribes #OberlinCollege

Oberlin College reporting for duty! #EMROCTranscribes

OK. I love this remedy 'to break the stone', which has some literalness. The main ingredient is dried 'clawes of a hogg', which are then filed down and added to a drink. #HistMed #EMROCTranscribes

A wonderful #EarlyModern remedy for toothache in Henslow-- full of the senses! How to dry green bark by the fire or on a gridiron, keeping the ashes on the hearth and wetting them before putting them into a linen bag and laying it under the ear on the sore side. #HistMed #HistSTM #EMROCTranscribes

Early modern handwriting saying 'Liquerice'.

Oh, at last. My first licquorice! #EMROCTranscribes

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Fun finds from #EMROCTranscribes! I've just finished one for a flux in the womb and choler (PMS?). #WmnsHist #skystorians #WomensHistoryMonth

Jackson uses what seems a modern way of thinking of time -- a "space of 8 or 10 days" -- in our #EMROCTranscribes manuscript from the Wellcome. Come joint us to discover more surprising bits of timekeeping and more!

Looking forward to hearing @maryfissell.bsky.social speaking in twenty minutes on 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women and Abortion in #EarlyModern England' in 20 minutes! #EMROCtranscribes #WomensHistoryMonth

new favourite #EarlyModern spelling unlocked: cowetoorde. #EMROCTranscribes

I've been here nearly an hour and not had a weird licquorice spelling yet :( #EMROCTranscribes

Early modern handwritten recipe 'For the falling evil'. Recipe starts 'Take the manes of 3 greate froggs'.

Any ideas what the 'manes' of frogs would be in a 1642 medical recipe for the falling sickness (ie epilepsy)? #EMROCtranscribes

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Excited to be joining #EMROCtranscribes this morning doing my annual binge of early modern recipe transcription. Nothing like a recipe using grilled beef to staunch excessive bleeding to get you ready for the day 🗃️

Lots of chatter about abortifacients, as well as herbs bad for the hands. #EMROCTranscribes chatter is fascinating! #HistMed

Ah, one of my favourite #EarlyModern spellings has appeared-- chickin. #EMROCTranscribes

We are now transcribing two manuscripts from @rcpmuseum.bsky.social and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social ! Please find all you need to join us today: emroc.hypotheses.org/transcribath... #EMROCTranscribes #WomensHistoryMonth #skystorians #HistMed #HistFood #EarlyModern

In case you're unsure of your skill at transcribing, my Yr 6 daughter tried reading the old handwriting in these books last week and surprised herself at being able to do it! #EMROCTranscribes #EarlyModern

#EMROCtranscribes come join for hot recipes like the one @maggiesimon.bsky.social is looking at: lay the young of a hogg or dog to the sore... #HistMed

#EMROCTranscribes please say hello if you're transcribing today. Waving to you from London UK!

Hiding in Plain Sight: Women and Abortion in Early Modern England Join author and Professor in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Mary Fissel to discuss abortion in the early modern era.

#EMROCTranscribes is excited to welcome @maryfissell.bsky.social to celebrate her 🔥new book🔥 Abortion: A History. She is talking about 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women and Abortion in #EarlyModern England' 4pm GMT/ 12pm EDT, 14 March. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hiding-in-...