18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY, HISTORICAL TREKKING, AND PERIOD WILDERNESS LIVING.
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Saturday 26 October 2019
National Shooting Council's report card: The first 6 months
But still no representation for muzzle-loader users from the National Shooting Council!!! Firearms owners are divided & we shall fall!!!
Thursday 24 October 2019
Monday 14 October 2019
The story of Old London Bridge, the iconic landmark which vanished from the capital’s skyline
A reconstruction drawing of London Bridge in about 1590 by Stephen
Conlin, specially commissioned by Country Life Magazine. © Stephen
Conlin. All Rights Reserved. www.pictu.co.uk
Friday 11 October 2019
Australian Survival and Preppers..: How The NSW Government Has Turned Objects Into Tim...
Australian Survival and Preppers..: How The NSW Government Has Turned Objects Into Tim...: The dangers of producing legislation on whim, without adequate stakeholder scrutiny are clear to us all, but not apparently to the NSW Go...
I am posting this link here because this could affect any living historian using dummy ordinance even from the 17th & 18th centuries!!!
Tuesday 8 October 2019
17C American Women: 17C & 18C Slaves & Rice Cultivation in Georgetown ...
17C American Women: 17C & 18C Slaves & Rice Cultivation in Georgetown ...: Salves and Rice Cultivation in Georgetown County, South Carolina The intricate steps involved in planting, cultivating, harvesting, and pr...
Monday 7 October 2019
17C American Women: Women in 17C New England
17C American Women: Women in 17C New England: In 17C New England, women usually arrived with family members to band together in cooperative religious communities organized for the collec...
Thursday 3 October 2019
17C American Women: The Unhealthy 17C Chesapeake - Desperate for Women...
17C American Women: The Unhealthy 17C Chesapeake - Desperate for Women...: Life in the American wilderness was nasty, brutish, and short for the earliest Chesapeake settlers; malaria, dysentery, and typhoid took a c...
Medical Use of Honey in the 17th & 18th centuries. Documentation.
18th Century Medicinal Uses for Honey.
‘A poultis for a Swelling by My Aunt Dorothy Pates’, for
example, used honey as a binding agent. Another
recipe, said to be ‘approved by the best doctars [sic]’ used a clove of garlic
saturated in fine English honey and put in the ear for eight days to cure pain
and restore hearing.
Abigail
Smith and others, ‘Collection of medical and cookery receipts’ (c. 1700).
Wellcome Library, London, MS 4631, f. 7r.
Ibid.,
f. 23 v
“Cut the white heels from some red rose buds, and lay them to dry in
a place where there is a draught of air; when they are dried, put half a pound
of them into a stone jar, and pour on them three pints of boiling water; stir
them well, and let them stand twelve hours; then press off the liquor (liquid)
and when it has settled, add to it five pounds of honey; boil it well, and when
it is of the consistence of thick syrup, put it by for use. It is good against
mouth sores, and on many other occasions.”
‘Honey of Roses’
and The Family Herbal by Sir John Hill 1759.
The leaves being applied with honey to running sores or ulcers, do
cleanse them.
SYRUPS MADE WITH VINEGAR AND HONEY.
The Project
Gutenberg EBook of The Complete Herbal, by Nicholas Culpeper
17th Century.
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Wednesday 2 October 2019
Tuesday 1 October 2019
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