ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasises that, sharply critical as Culpeper often was, he did not take issue with mummy recipes. In his own Directory for Midwives Culpeper also repeats the enduring powder for epilepsy, adding specifically that this is a great disease, and kills for the most part young children, and also presenting a version of the medicine which is intriguingly akin to a kind of blanket vaccination. The chapter also dicusses that Christopher Irvine was a strong believer in the idea of curing disease by the transfer of spirits. It examines even with the greater democracy of the Civil War and Interregnum, what we have just examined has been exclusively male. Thus chapter finds that Boyle, in addition to his considerable influence on eighteenth-century scientists, also helped to spread a cannibalistic recipe in the same way as did Elizabeth Grey and other authors or compilers of popular medical self-help books.
