To Make a Salve / To Make a Water

[ To Make a Salve / To Make a Water ] William Chapman

Contributors
Contributor Role
Compiler
Contributor Name
William Chapman

Date: Although the recipe is not dated, the dates in this section of the manuscript are 1776 and 1785. The earliest date in the volume is 1764. | 1764/01/01 to 1785/12/31

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Medicine

Ingredients
beeswax
rosel
salad oil
red lead
turpentine
rock alum
Roman vitriol
white wine vinegar
water

Source: William Chapman Pocket and Account Book
Institution: Mount Allison University Archives | Source Origin: Webster Manuscript Collection Fort Beausejour National Historic Park | Sublocation: Pocket and Account Book Used Originally by William Chapman | Reference: Accession 7001

Description

In a manuscript that begins from both ends, this recipe is on page 14, numbered from the back. Image courtesy of Mount Allison University Archives and Fort Beausejour National Historic Park.


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Transcription

To make a Salve take
Bees wax 1 ounce
Rosel  1 ounce
A pint of Sallit oyl
Ridlead half a pound
Corse Turpetine 1 ounce
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To make a water take
2 ounce of Roachalam
1 Ounce of Roman Vitral
1 gill of White wine Vineker
put to 2 quarts of Water
Seath them Over a fire
till half be wasted
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Boyl the salt till it
be hard as [need] it  Wax
on a slow fire