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Stuffing in the Lungs

Stuffed Lungs - Add Sugar

“Take white sugar-candy powder’d and sifted two ounces, China roots powder’d and sifted one ounce; flour of brimstone one ounce. Mix these with conserve of roses, or the pap of an apple; and take the bigness of a walnut in the morning, fasting an hour after it; and the last at night, an hour after you have eaten or drank”

Source: *From The Gentlewoman’s Companion, by Hannah Woolley (1670)

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