A medicine ffor the piles in the ffundament being red soare akinge bleedinge especially when they goe to the stoole & that with greate paine ... / Wellcome Library.

One of 4 postcard-sized colour cards with a paper wrapper ("Don't try this at home: hints from the Wellcome Library's household recipe collection) showing a reproduction of written text of a recipe for a haemorrhoid cure involving sitting over a steaming basin of a herbal concoction. "From a recipe book belonging to Anne Bromwich, Rhoda Hussey and Ursula Fairfax, Fanshawe c.1625-1700 (MS.160, p.51)" in the Wellcome Library, London.