The Duchess of Northumberland's Little Book of Poisons, Potions and Aphrodisiacs E-Book

The Duchess of Northumberland

• Herausgeber: The History Press
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Combining the fascinating archive of the first Duchess of Northumberland with the expertise of Jane, the present duchess and the creator of the famous Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle, this gift book contains a collection of wonderful medicinal recipes passed down through generations. The reader will learn the secrets of the poisonous and curative properties of these plants and the more unusual varieties that have been cultivated and planted for centuries, and will discover how 'to make teethe whyte' and how 'to make heare growe'. Beautifully illustrated, The Duchess of Northumberland's Little Book of Poisons, Potions and Aphrodisiacs is the ideal gift for those with an interest in the wild plants of Britain, and for those with an interest in poisons and potions… The Duchess of Northumberland was responsible for the £35 million restoration of the 12 acres of walled garden at Alnwick Castle, which now includes the largest treehouse in the world and the famous Poison Garden. The Poison Garden remains one of the few places to have obtained permission from the Home Office to grow cannabis, opium poppies and catha edulis for display.

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Title

Introduction

Edith Beale’s Book of Recipes, 1576

For Sleepe

To Purge the Heade of Melancholie

Of Stinkinge Breathe of the Nostrelles

The Stinckinge of the Mouthe

To Make Heare Growe

For the Colde

A Medicine for a Sore Brest

For a Bathe

To Make Gratia Dei

A Sirupe to Purge Choler and Melancholie

To Make a Man or Woman Sleepe

To Make Manus Christi

To Make a Good Bathe for Women that have Softe Fleshe and Harde Brestes

Stone, Crampe, Freckles

Giddines

A Medicine for the Colde

An Electuary to Cause a Man or Woman to have a Good Memorye

To Make Teethe Whyte

Of Terrible Dreames and Feare in the Sleep

Chafinge of the Skinne

A Water for all Maner of Spottes, Pimples, Tetters Readnes and Wormes in the Face or Other Partes of the Bodye

Oyle of Frogges

To Make one Vente Downewarde

For the Fever

Against the Plague

For the Stone in the Reines

For the Strangurie

To Kill Wormes in the Handes and the Feete

A Graunge Water

For the Canker or Anye Wounde

For St Anthoines Fire which Gathereth Round about a Sore Like a Ringe

For a Man that Hath a Bone Broken in his Heade

For Men that be Broken

To Slea a Canker Worme

To Kill the Goute Wheresoever it be

For a Sore Legge that Hath Bene Longe Sore

A Medecine for to Drincke for the Morfewe

A Sirupe for the Pleurisye

For the Grene Sicknes

A Medicine for a Fellon

For a Swelling

For a Fellon

For a Swellinge in the Legges or Feete and to Drawe Out the Water Humour

3rd Duke’s Book of Recipes

Pomade Divine

To Preserve a Horse in Health and to Make his Coat Fine (Mr Lavenders)

Deafness from Hard Wax (Mr Sharpe)

To Stop Bleeding at the Nose

For a Fistula or the Piles

18th-and 19th-Century Recipes Collected by the 7th Duchess

Timbale D’asperges [Aphrodisiac]

For a Feverish Sweating

18th Century Recipe for a Scented Candle

Lady Grey’s Receipt for an Inflamation in the Eyes

An Infallible Receipt for a Sore Throat by Dr W. Duncan

La Gabriella’s Recipe for Hoarseness

To Extract Honey

A Certain Speedy Remedy for Pimples

Miscellaneous Recipes

To Make Good Liquid Shoe Blacking (John Barnes)

To Compose a Love Letter

To Cure Love

A Receipt for a Homes Cold

Receipt for Cows (Mr Palmer)

How to Get the Stains of Ink out of Linnen (Wilkinson)

Copyright

INTRODUCTION

BY THE DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND

When I opened the Poison Garden at Alnwick in 2005 it raised a few eyebrows, but I knew that my own interest in the poisonous power of plants would be shared by many others, adults and children alike. So it has proved to be with huge numbers of visitors coming each year to share my fascination with the poisonous, aphrodisiac and curative properties of herbs and plants.

There are over 100 plants of varying deadliness grown in the Poison Garden. Some of the plants are beautiful despite being deadly. Take Ricinus communis, for example, from which castor oil is made; a benevolent and nostalgic sounding remedy, yet a single seed can kill an adult in the most horrible way.