LOCATION | Berkeley, CA, Robbins Coll. |
MANUSCRIPT | Berkeley, CA, Robbins Coll., 105 |
ITEM No. 12 | Medicina |
Medicina
Medicina . Recipe in German, obviously to smoke out rooms or houses where a sick person had died. Red cabbage, other cabbage, a handful of incense three 'Quentchen', one 'Lot' ginger, nutmeg 1 'Lot', 'copper-smoke' 2 'Lot', yellow sulphur 2 'Lot', eleven laurel leaves(?). In middle-high-German: Rotenkal und Gohcal, eyne hantfol Wyroch iii. quentin, i. lot Ingeber, Muschaten i. lot, kuppherrauch ii. lot, Galean swauel ii. lot, xi. larbaum(?) (etc.). Old measures: a 'Quentchen' was the fourth part of one 'Lot'. A 'Lot' weighed ca. 14-18 grams, varying from region to region and from time to time
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