The Early Modern Matter of Fecal Medicines
Whilst perusing some seventeenth century recipes for medicines I stumbled across a few curious ingredients. Granted, many of the ingredients found in Johanna St. John's recipe book - aside from now common herbs and spices like cinnamon or saffron - might look odd to the modern eye. Some of the...
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ftopenedition:oai:hypotheses.org:recipes/552 2023-05-15T18:26:39+02:00 The Early Modern Matter of Fecal Medicines Jonathan Cey 2012-12-11T11:32:41Z http://recipes.hypotheses.org/552 unknown The Recipes Project http://recipes.hypotheses.org/552 post 2012 ftopenedition 2017-03-10T22:17:03Z Whilst perusing some seventeenth century recipes for medicines I stumbled across a few curious ingredients. Granted, many of the ingredients found in Johanna St. John's recipe book - aside from now common herbs and spices like cinnamon or saffron - might look odd to the modern eye. Some of the ingredients that struck me were spermaceti (sperm whale fat); the sole of an old but clean shoe, burnt to ashes; a crab's eyes, and the black tips of its claws. As I read I couldn't help but assume that. Other/Unknown Material Sperm whale OpenEdition |
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Whilst perusing some seventeenth century recipes for medicines I stumbled across a few curious ingredients. Granted, many of the ingredients found in Johanna St. John's recipe book - aside from now common herbs and spices like cinnamon or saffron - might look odd to the modern eye. Some of the ingredients that struck me were spermaceti (sperm whale fat); the sole of an old but clean shoe, burnt to ashes; a crab's eyes, and the black tips of its claws. As I read I couldn't help but assume that. |
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