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

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    From the creator of the world-famous Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle 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 illustrated gift book tells the story of the poison found within the plants that grow wild across Britain's countryside and the medicinal potions that derive from them. Based on the information gleaned from the Poison Garden and the Household Books of the first Duchess of Northumberland, the reader will learn the secrets, past and present, of the poisonous and curative properties of these plants and the more unusual varieties that have been cultivated and planted for centuries. Beautifully illustrated, this is the ideal gift for those with an interest in the wild plants of Britain and for those with an interest in poison and potions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateJun 14, 2013
    ISBN9780752497259
    The Duchess of Northumberland's Little Book of Poisons, Potions and Aphrodisiacs
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    The Duchess of Northumberland

    Jane Northumberland is married to the twelfth Duke of Northumberland and is mistress of Alnwick Castle. The earls and dukes of Northumberland have lived in Alnwick Castle for seven hundred years. The Duchess has spent the last fourteen years creating beautiful public gardens in the grounds of the castle and, because of her fascination with and knowledge of poisons, has created the world-famous Poison Garden. Alnwick Castle and the Alnwick Garden are the most popular tourist destinations in the north of England, attracting more than 800,000 visitors each year.

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

      Apothecaries’ Measures

      = ounce = 8 drams = 31.1g

      = dram = 60 grains = 3.89g

      gr. = grain = 64.8mg

      ana = same amount of each

      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

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