https://huntroyd.co.uk/files/original/4/96/F2P50V.JPG 2eb1f976a4fb992b6249f711ab952f12 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Huntroyd Receipts. Folio 2. The Medicine Pages. Subject The topic of the resource The "medicines" of Folio 2. Description An account of the resource Page 32 was the final recipe page in the folio. The folio was then turned upside down and writing started from the other end.  In a normal book this would be Page 78. Page 78 is the rear cover of the folio. The pages will still follow on from Page 32 but we will show them the right way up to make it easier to read. <h2 style="color: red; text-align: center;">DANGER!<img src="https://huntroyd.co.uk/files/original/skull.jpg" alt="DANGER" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="276" height="260" />Do NOT under any circumstances try out any of these "medicines". The plants and ingredients may be toxic or fatal.</h2> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gillespie Family Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gillespie Family Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1782 to 1808 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Site licence Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Paper documents Relation A related resource The Huntroyd Receipts. Folio 2. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Gillespie Family Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. To add skull image <img src="https://huntroyd.co.uk/files/square_thumbnails/skull.jpg " alt="alt text on image " style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="any" height="any" /> Text Any textual data included in the document Less formal version of text of document but not a transcription. This box is more fluid in useage. Can look pretty. Glossary <img src="admn image link " alt="alt text on image " style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="600" height="any" /> <img src="https://huntroyd.co.uk/files/square_thumbnails/skull.jpg " alt="alt text on image " style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="any" height="any" />1. (Recipe)Take pill.  Buffered with Calomel, mixed with powdered (pulverised) Castor leaves. Mass. a quart of oil of Juniper, Chalybeate mixed or formed into Mass pills and you take two bits (Rx Pil. Bufi; Calomel pp pulv Castor Mass: a qt. ij. ol: Junip: Ch.:[.j} mf(mix)Pil. ij-) 2. (Recipe)Take pill. Gumossas 1 ounce, buffered with powdered Castor leaves. half chalybeate water with sulphur(powder?). Mxed with 3 and a half drams of Oil of Succini made into a Mass pill For Miss Yatman by Dr Mushel Rx Pil. Gumos: ℥i- Bufi: Pulv:Castor:B.- Chalyb.  cum sulph: pp a ʒss ol: Succini  ℈┌xx┐. x mf.Pil: xxx- for Miss Yatman- Dr Mushel- 3. (Recipe)Take pill. Buffered 2 scruples, 2 of Castor. Buffered  with 1 scruple of  (illegible) and (.. alizat). Half a scruple of Lavender, 4 Quarts of elixir of Myrrh, Compounded with a quart of Assafoetida made into a Mass pill of 3 ounces  with 2 of Juniper and taken each alternate night. Rx Pil.. Bufi ℈ij: Bufi:Ji Castor: Bufi: ℈i {.....}:{...alizat}: ℈ss..ol laven: qt iv Elix: myrrh: Comp{.}.{.}.{..}:mass: in Pil aa┌-┐ ʒ{┌.┐} iij form..d- Juni ij: ℈{...}[..}. qq nocte alt fo Miss Yatman  Dr Storer- - ʒ=dram.  pp=prepared? ℥=ounce. ℈=scruple Latin abbreviations  ij =2. = iij=3 etc β= half. ss= half mf=mix? qq=each Interpretation is very difficult Calomel is mercury chloride Calomel was available in Pills or Masses.  The blue mass was a solid form of calomel in which a piece could be pinched off and administered by a physician or other medical provider.  It seems as if Miss Yatman was asked to pinch off 2 bits' Gumossas aka Gummosis(Devils Dung) is  a combination of foetid gums in which asafoetida is predominant, Asafoetida  is the dried latex (gum oleoresin) exuded from the rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula (F. foetida and F. assa-foetida). Ii grows to a height of around 2 metres. Oil of Succini is Oleum Succini Rectificatum. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 50V Subject The topic of the resource Medicine /prescription for Miss Yatman <img src=" https://huntroyd.co.uk/files/original/Ferula_assafoetida.jpg" alt="alt text on image " style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" height="any" /> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Gillespie Family Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Gillespie Family Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Site licence Language A language of the resource English Description An account of the resource Rx Pil. Bufi; Calomel pp pulv Castor Mess: a qt. ij. ol: Junip: {Chalybeate.}:{┌x┐j} mf(mix)Pil: ij- Rx Pil. Gumos: ℥i- Bufi: Pulv:Castor:B.- Chalyb.  cum sulph: pp┌~┐a┌_┐ ʒss ol: Succini  ℈┌xx┐. x mf.Pil: xxx- for Miss Yatman- Dr Mushel- Rx Pil.. Bufi ℈ij: Bufi:Ji Castor: Bufi: ℈i {.....}:{...alizat}: ℈ss..ol laven: ʒ{┌.┐}iv Elix: myrrh: Comp{.}.{.}.{..}:mass: in Pil aa┌ - ┐ ʒ{┌.┐} iij form..d- Juni ij: ℈{...}[..}.qq Nocte alt for Miss Yatman  Dr Storer- - Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource To be completed Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1782 to 1808 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Handwritten text on a page of a paper document Type The nature or genre of the resource Paper Document