Exploring CPP MS 10a214: Looking for Anne Layfielde

By Hillary Nunn with Rebecca Laroche In an earlier post (18/10/2012), blog readers were introduced to a recipe book found at the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.  The volume’s ownership inscription reads, “Anne Layfielde / her booke of /Physicke & / Surgery / 1640,” and the entries within it appear … Continue reading Exploring CPP MS 10a214: Looking for Anne Layfielde

Recipes for animals: husbandry and animal medicine in early modern England and Anglo-America

By Dr Leah Astbury One group of actors has been relatively neglected in scholarship on early modern recipe books: non-human animals. And yet, farmyard animals were also members of the household-family, albeit in unequal ways. Whilst there has been some interest in the use of animal bodies and bodily products in culinary and medicinal remedies … Continue reading Recipes for animals: husbandry and animal medicine in early modern England and Anglo-America