Folio 2. Page 72. Verso
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Folio 2. Page 72. Verso
Subject
Recipe or Medicine for Goulard, Goulard Cerate and Vegeto Mineral Water. All very poisonous.
Description
Goulard
As many pounds of [Lithrag] Litharge
of gold as 2 quarts of white wine vinigar
put them together in a glaze'd earthen
pipkin & let them boil, or rather simmer
for an hour, taking care to stir them,
during the ebullition with a wooden
spatula, take the vessel of the fire,
let the whole settle; & then pour off
the liquor which is upon the top into
bottles for use- or you may make
it stronger by boling it after se-
-parated from the mass-
Vegeto Mineral water
2 teaspoons of [it]┌Goulard┐added to a quart
of soft water- & four teasponfuls
of Brandy-
Cerate
4 oz of refine’d wax
1 lb of Oil- melt thin over a slow
fire stirring them gently- let them
cool and put 4 ounces of Goulard &
[six] six pounds of water- put the mix-
-ture thus made little by little to
As many pounds of [
of gold as 2 quarts of white wine vinigar
put them together in a glaze'd earthen
pipkin & let them boil, or rather simmer
for an hour, taking care to stir them,
during the ebullition with a wooden
spatula, take the vessel of the fire,
let the whole settle; & then pour off
the liquor which is upon the top into
bottles for use- or you may make
it stronger by boling it after se-
-parated from the mass-
Vegeto Mineral water
2 teaspoons of [
of soft water- & four teasponfuls
of Brandy-
Cerate
4 oz of refine’d wax
1 lb of Oil- melt thin over a slow
fire stirring them gently- let them
cool and put 4 ounces of Goulard &
[
-ture thus made little by little to
Creator
Charlotte Starkie
Publisher
Gillespie Family
Date
1782 to 1808
Rights
Site licence
Format
Handwritten text on a page of a paper document
Language
English
Type
Paper Document
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Goulard Vegeto Mineral water CerateLitharge is a secondary mineral which forms from the oxidation of lead ores.
The term "litharge" has been combined to refer to other similar substances. For example, litharge of gold is litharge mixed with red lead, giving it a red colour;it is another cumulative poison.
Litharge of bismuth is a similar result of the oxidation of bismuth; litharge of silver is litharge that comes as a by-product of separating silver from lead, in fact litharge originally meant the mineral residue from silver refining. The term has also been used as a synonym for white lead or red lead.
A pipkin is a cooking pot with a flat base or three legs and bulbous walls with a spout in the rim.
Msr. Thomas Goulard had quite powerful incentives in his promotion of lead salts as a medicine. He was charging customers what, in today’s prices, would be about £80, for a gallipot of this poisonous muck. The medical profession such as it stood at the time, were able to ask leading questions about this form of treatment and some were noticing that there were poisoning effects behind the use of lead ointments. One can assume the gullible public were unaware of such bickering behind the scenes and continued to kill themselves with it.
The term "litharge" has been combined to refer to other similar substances. For example, litharge of gold is litharge mixed with red lead, giving it a red colour;it is another cumulative poison.
Litharge of bismuth is a similar result of the oxidation of bismuth; litharge of silver is litharge that comes as a by-product of separating silver from lead, in fact litharge originally meant the mineral residue from silver refining. The term has also been used as a synonym for white lead or red lead.
A pipkin is a cooking pot with a flat base or three legs and bulbous walls with a spout in the rim.
Msr. Thomas Goulard had quite powerful incentives in his promotion of lead salts as a medicine. He was charging customers what, in today’s prices, would be about £80, for a gallipot of this poisonous muck. The medical profession such as it stood at the time, were able to ask leading questions about this form of treatment and some were noticing that there were poisoning effects behind the use of lead ointments. One can assume the gullible public were unaware of such bickering behind the scenes and continued to kill themselves with it.
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Charlotte Starkie, “Folio 2. Page 72. Verso,” The Huntroyd Receipts, accessed October 21, 2026, https://huntroyd.co.uk/items/show/122.
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