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COOKERY, HOUSEHOLD & MEDICINAL Collection of over 500 cookery, household and medicinal receipts, written in Monsieur Pomet's, A Compleat History of Druggs, London, 1712, [late eighteenth-early nineteenth century]
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COOKERY, HOUSEHOLD & MEDICINAL RECIPES
Collection of over 500 cookery, household and medicinal receipts, written in ink on the endpapers, blank leaves, reverse of plates, and in the margins of the English translation of Monsieur Pomet's, A Compleat History of Druggs (2 vol. in 1, 86 engraved plates, ink ownership inscriptions "Captain H Jervis, 1821", and "Wm Jervis" on title-page, [ESTC T113762], 1721), the receipts including:
"Thieves Vinegar", "For One Poisoned ("1 or 2 Grains of distilled Verdigrease & it will Vomit in an Instant")", "For Perspiration ("take it hot going to bed")", "Cream Sauce for a Hare", "To extract Thorns from the Flesh", "For The Itch ("Wash the Part affected with Strong Rum")", "To preserve Game in Hot Weather", "Cement for Broken China", "Lemon Solid", "Ducks stewed with Green Pease", "Ale Posset", "New College Pudding", "Treacle Beer", "To Perfume Hair Powder", "Bath Cakes", "To make New Writing look Old", "Bald Heads Hair Restore – 2 July 1832", "For Relaxed Bowells", "For the bite of a Mad Dog", "For Disease taken by drinking Cold Water while Hot ("It is a known cure")", "To take Grease out of Leather Breeches", "To polish Shells – Sea Shells", "To prevent Sea Sickness", "Scurvy,", "Cholera Morbus ("Toasted Oaten Bread")", "Sure cure for Sting of a Wasp in The Throat", etc.; some attributed, "Captn Coles Receipt for a Violent Cough", "Monsieur Rueles' Receipt for a Cancer", "Rews Diruetic Horse Balls", "Lawrences' Blister", "Convulsion Fits (Mrs Jervis of Cheswardine)", "Captn Jervis's Lip Salve", "Wedding Cake – Peplow", "Dr Seville's Receipt for a Soup for a Weak Person", "Dr John Wesley – Preacher – for Rheumatism", "Yellow Jaunice Dr Johnson", 16-page manuscript index (titled "Index to Captn Jervis's Recipe's"), loose printed pamphlets (Directions for Using the Medicines Contained in a Sea Medicine Chest, E. Cox, 1811, Instruction du Comité de Paris... Coléra-Morbus, Lille, 1832), manuscript prescriptions and receipts, samples of leaves and seaweed, c.470 pages, some leaves and plates loose, dust-staining and discolouration, small tears, pages creased and frayed, embossed brown calf, worn and cracked, some losses, joints cracked, portion of spine missing, rest coming loose, [late eighteenth-early nineteenth-century]
"Thieves Vinegar", "For One Poisoned ("1 or 2 Grains of distilled Verdigrease & it will Vomit in an Instant")", "For Perspiration ("take it hot going to bed")", "Cream Sauce for a Hare", "To extract Thorns from the Flesh", "For The Itch ("Wash the Part affected with Strong Rum")", "To preserve Game in Hot Weather", "Cement for Broken China", "Lemon Solid", "Ducks stewed with Green Pease", "Ale Posset", "New College Pudding", "Treacle Beer", "To Perfume Hair Powder", "Bath Cakes", "To make New Writing look Old", "Bald Heads Hair Restore – 2 July 1832", "For Relaxed Bowells", "For the bite of a Mad Dog", "For Disease taken by drinking Cold Water while Hot ("It is a known cure")", "To take Grease out of Leather Breeches", "To polish Shells – Sea Shells", "To prevent Sea Sickness", "Scurvy,", "Cholera Morbus ("Toasted Oaten Bread")", "Sure cure for Sting of a Wasp in The Throat", etc.; some attributed, "Captn Coles Receipt for a Violent Cough", "Monsieur Rueles' Receipt for a Cancer", "Rews Diruetic Horse Balls", "Lawrences' Blister", "Convulsion Fits (Mrs Jervis of Cheswardine)", "Captn Jervis's Lip Salve", "Wedding Cake – Peplow", "Dr Seville's Receipt for a Soup for a Weak Person", "Dr John Wesley – Preacher – for Rheumatism", "Yellow Jaunice Dr Johnson", 16-page manuscript index (titled "Index to Captn Jervis's Recipe's"), loose printed pamphlets (Directions for Using the Medicines Contained in a Sea Medicine Chest, E. Cox, 1811, Instruction du Comité de Paris... Coléra-Morbus, Lille, 1832), manuscript prescriptions and receipts, samples of leaves and seaweed, c.470 pages, some leaves and plates loose, dust-staining and discolouration, small tears, pages creased and frayed, embossed brown calf, worn and cracked, some losses, joints cracked, portion of spine missing, rest coming loose, [late eighteenth-early nineteenth-century]
Footnotes
'WASH THE PART AFFECTED WITH STRONG RUM': A COMPREHENSIVE RECEIPT BOOK BELONGING TO CAPTAIN HENRY JERVIS OF CHESWARDINE.
An ownership inscription on the title page and internal evidence indicate that this volume was in the possession of Captain Henry Jervis (b.1774), son of Henry Zachariah Jervis (1739-1821) and Sarah Pigot of Cheswardine, Shropshire. He married Mary Wilcox in 1802, much to the disapproval of his father, who altered his will to prevent him inheriting the estate, which was sold after his father's death. When the militia was disbanded after Waterloo and after a failed attempt at business in Stourbridge, he returned to live at Vicarage House in Cheswardine. His financial difficulties continued, however, and he fled with his family to France in the 1820's to escape his creditors. His son, Henry Zachariah Jervis, a solicitor, regrettably inherited his father's financial acumen. He was declared bankrupt in 1843, and in 1857 was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment with hard labour after being found guilty of financial fraud, and for claiming to be the son of Admiral Sir John Jervis, to whom he was only very distantly related.
Volume One of the English edition of A Compleat History of Druggs, written by Monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the French King, includes a materia medica derived from plants, including discussions of cacao, sugar and tobacco, with the second volume discussing materia medica derived from animals, metals and minerals, including information on the bezoar stone.
Provenance: Thought to have been inherited or purchased by Kenneth Doulton (1882-1974), scion of the Doulton family of Doulton & Co. Ltd; thence by descent to the present owner.