Regency Health and Medicine: Nourishing Medicine for Consumptive Ladies

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A rourishing Medicine for consumptive Ladies Take a dozen of cray fish of the smallest fort gut them clean and let them be boiled in barley water until they become of a redish colour then take them out and beat them with the shells in a morter till they are as soft as malh let the juice be poured out and given to the patient in an equal quantity of chicken broth or any other broth that is not too strong

This recipe appeared in The Ladies Best Companion; Or, a Golden Treasure for the Fair Sex (1800).

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