A Receipt for Deafness

[ A Receipt for Deafness ] Richard Clarke

Contributors
Contributor Role
Compiler
Contributor Name
Richard Clarke

Date: The church records are for the dates 1786-1792. | 1786/01/01 to 1792/12/31

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Medicine

Symptoms
deafness

Ingredients
salt
black radish

Places
New Brunswick

Source: Transcript of Register A 1786-1792 kept by Reverend Richard Clarke
Institution: New Brunswick Museum Archives and Research Library | Source Origin: Marianne Grey Otty Collection | Sublocation: Transcripts from Gagetown church records, 1786-1841 (9 items) | Reference: S119 - S119B - 1 F106

Description

This recipe appears in a list of baptisms, page 13.  The manuscript is a transcription of the original. Image courtesy of New Brunswick Museum Archives and Research Library.


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Transcription

A Receipt for deafness

Slice black Radishes on a puter Plate

sprinkle fine salt on them from the

liquid it affords wet a wadd of cotten

wool & put it in ye Ear.