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Medical Recipe Collection
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Medical Recipe Collection

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Recipe for delivering a still-born child, image is of a child in a cradle. Collection of medical recipes [written in the area of Worcestershire, first quarter of the 15th century]. Coloured drawings serve as extravagant decoration for the catchwords. Folio 7, verso.

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