User:Miamelba/Jane Jackson

http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/guest-post-houseleeks-and-garden-worms.html "Jane Jackson’s book is a great example. She carefully compiled her Method of Phisicke and Chirurgery just as Civil War began in England in 1642, and included hundreds of carefully written recipes dealing with everything from common aches, wounds and agues to plague."

http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTL039966.html Sources Guide: Domestic medicine and receipt books – 16th & 17th century

http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29=%27MS.373%27%29 "A very shorte and compendious Methode of Phisicke and Chirurgery Containeinge the Cures inwardly and also the Cureinge of all manner of woundes on the bodie together with remedies for the stone and the causes and signes thereof, etc. As also the making of Sirrups and all manner of oyles and waters whatsoever."

On the fly-leaf, "Jane Jacksone her Booke: written in the yeare 1642".