A Book of Simples

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Lewer, Henry William

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English

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TX: Technology: Home economics

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Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 53951

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January 12, 2017

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Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.A BOOK OF SIMPLES
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.A BOOK OF SIMPLES — 1. The Wood-street Cake. — 2. Pectorals for a Colde or Consumption. — 3. The Plague Water. — 4. A very excellent Receipt against Convulsions which cur’d one had 9 Fitts a Day. — 5. To make Ebulum Drinke. — 6. To make Vinegar. — 7. To make Goosbery or Currant Wine. — 8. To make Methegline. — 9. A Plaister for ye Spleen to be made in May. — 10. To make Aquamirabilis the Lady Atkinses way. — 11. To make Small Wine otherwise called Solerion. You may do Rasberry this way. — 12. To make Wigs. — 13. For the Giddiness in the Head. — 14. How to Stue a Rump of Beef. — 15. To make Almond Cakes. — 16. To make Biskit. — 17. To Bake a Rump of Beef. — 18. The Black Seare Cloth. — 19. To make Lemon or Orange Water. — 20. Cowslip Wine aproved. — 21. For the Worms. — 22. For a Cold. — 23. To make Fruit Biskit. — 24. For Mother Fitts. — 25. To preserve Green Aples. — 26. Mrs. Thorps for the Mother Fitts. — 27. To make a Calves Head Hashe. — 28. To make Forced Meat. — 29. For a Cold. — 30. To make a Frigacy of Chicken. — 31. For any Cough old or fresh. — 32. For a Cold. — 33. For a Cough. — 34. For a Cough. — 35. For the Rickets. — 36. For Children that have Wormes. — 37. A Small but very effectuall Cordial Powder. — 38. A Stronger Cordial Powder. — 39. For the Balsame. — 40. To pot Venison to keep all the year. — 41. To make Cowslip Wine. — 42. Another Cowslip Wine. — 43. To make the Eye Water. — 44. For the Rickets. — 45. An Ointment for the Rickets. — 46. To Kill a Canker. — 47. For any Aguish or Hectick Feavour in Children when they grow Weak and Forsake their Meat. — 48. To make Orange Cakes. — 49. A Perfumed Water. — 50. To make Mumme according to the Direction recorded in the Town House of Brumswick. — 51. Quince Wine. — 52. Captain Greens Powder for to make Water for Sore Eyes and Sores, the Powder to be Calcinde. — 53. To make Sirrop of Lemons. — 54. To make Sirrop of Clove-Gilly flowers or any other flowers but Violets. — 55. To make small Mead. — 56. A brewed Drink for Rickets. — 57. The Soveraign Balsame. — 58. To make Biskit. — 59. To make Cakes of Quinces red. — 60. To make clear Cakes of Quinces. — 61. To make Orange Cakes. — 62. To make Apricock Cakes. — 63. To make Sirrop of Violets. — 64. To dry Cherrys. — 65. To make Apricock Marmelade or Cakes. — 66. To make White Quince Marmelade very good. — 67. To make a very good Posset. — 68. To make an Orange Pudding. — 69. To preserve Damsens. — 70. To preserve Rasberrys. — 71. To dry Apricocks. — 72. To make Rasberry Cakes. — 73. To make Sirrop of Clove Gilly Flowers or Violets. — 74. To preserve Rasberrys. — 75. To dry Peaches. — 76. To make Paste of Peaches. — 77. To dry Apricocks or Chips. — 78. To make very good Red Quince Marmalade. — 79. How to preserve Red Quince. — 80. To preserve Ripe Plummes in Jelly White. — 81. To make Clear Cakes of either White Plummes, Red Plummes, Damsens, Grapes, Rasberrys, Currants, or Cherrys. — 82. To make White Marmelade of Quinces or Pippins. — 83. To make Almond Cream. — 84. To make an Almond Pudding. — 85. To make a Quakeing Pudding. — 86. To make a Carraway Cake. — 87. To make a very good Cake. — 88. To make Marmelade of Oranges. — 89. To preserve Pippins. — 90. To make Small Meade. — 91. To make Sugar Cakes. — 92. To make Little Cakes. — 93. To make Cherry Water. — 94. Almond Puddings. — 95. Quince Cream. — 96. My Lady Ingrams Cream. — 97. To make Pyramid Cream. — 98. To make Gimboles. — 99. Biskit Approvea. — 100. Sugar Cakes. — 101. To make Jelly. — 102. To preserve Green Walnuts. — 103. To make Cheesecakes. — 104. To Preserve Green Apricocks. — 105. To Preserve Goosberrys. — 106. To Preserve Sweet Lemons or Oranges. — 107. To make Black Puddings. — 108. To make White Puddings. — 109. To make a Posset. — 110. To make a Sullibub. — 111. To make a Snow to put on the Sullibub. — 112. To make Clouted Cream. — 113. The Red Surfet Water for any Surfet. — 114. To make French Bread. — 115. To Dry Apricocks. — 116. To make Plumme Gimbols. — 117. To dry Cherrys Red. — 118. To make Bean Cakes. — 119. The Cabbidge Cream. — 120. To make Paste of Apricocks. — 121. Angelicoe Cakes. — 122. To make a Lemon Cream. — 123. A Clouted Cream. — 124. To pickle Mushroms. — 125. To preserve White Quinces whole. — 126. To preserve Goosberrys. — 127. To make Jelly. — 128. To preserve Rasberrys. — 129. To preserve Oranges. — 130. To souce Pigg. — 131. To preserve Apricocks. — 132. A Sweet Bag. — 133. To coller Beef. — 134. Cherry Wine. — 135. Little Cakes to be baked in Pans. — 136. To make a Carrot Pudding. — 137. A Cream. — 138. To make a Flesh Cheese. — 139. A Cordiall Organy Water. — 140. To Salt Hams or Tongues. — 141. Dr. Moors admired Pills. — 142. To make Almond Puddings. — 143. To make Sawcidges. — 144. To make Whipt Sullibubs. — 145. To make a Cordiall Water. — 146. To Candie Angelicoe Stalks. — 147. To Pickle Kidneybeans. — 148. To Pickle Turneps. — 149. To Pickle Oysters. — 150. To Pickle Broom Buds. — 151. To make Rasberry or Currant Wine. — 152. To make Lemon Cream. — 153. To make Almond Cream. — 154. To make Snow. — 155. Sirrop of Buckthorn Berrys. — 156. To pot Beefe. — 157. To make a Cake. — 158. To make Jelly of Currants or any other suteable fruit. — 159. For the Yellow or Black Jaundise. — 160. For Deafness by reason of a Cold. — 161. To take away the Felme out of the Eyes. — 162. For a Swelling in any part. — 163. For a Purge. — 164. To Harden sore Nipples. — 165. For the Biting of a Mad Dog. — 166. For a Child troubled with man wormes which often occasions Convulsions. — 167. Another aproved for Convulsion Fitts. — 168. Cracknell Paste. — 169. Jumble Paste. — 170. Dr. Burgesses Re: ct against Ye Scurvy. — 171. For the Stone. — 172. Pills to kill Wormes and Open Obstructions. — 173. For a Rupture. — 174. For the Megrime in the Head. — 175. For the Dropsey. — 176. Against the Plague. — 177. Dr. Smiths Rare Re ct for Y e Itch. — 178. Aquamirabilis. — 179. For a Sore Mouth or Throat. — 180. For the Yellow Jaundise. — 181. Dr. Burgesses Receipt against Y e Plague. — 182. A Cordiall Water of Dr. Stevens. — 183. For the Sinking of the Pallet. — 184. For an Ache or Bruise. — 185. A Poultise for the Kings Evil. — 186. The Imperiall Water. — 187. The Palsey Water. — 188. The Vertues of the Palsey Water. — 189. To make Veale Collops Jn o Raisyes way. — 190. John Raysies Beefe Collops. — 191. The Lady Buttons Melancholy Water. — 192. The Purge for Winde. — 193. A purge for Spleen and Winde. — 194. To make a Pretious Ointment for y e Eyes. — 195. To make Currant Wine. — 196. Mrs. Herbert a Midwife her Receipt against Miscarrying. — 197. Mr John Ashfields Re ct against a Cold. — 198. The Black Plaister good for Sprains Aches Wens Sores new or old. — 199. To make Sack thin when it is Ropy. — 200. Against the Stone in y e Kidneys or Bladder. — 201. Dr. Butlers Powder against the Stone. — 202. For the Goute. — 203. For a Sore Throat. — 204. For a Cold. — 205. For the Piles inwardly. — 206. A Glister for the Piles inwardly. — 207. How to dry Flowers. — 208. An Aprov’d Diet Drink to be taken every Spring and Fall from the First of September to the 1 st of October & from y e 1 st of April to the Last. — 209. For Proud Flesh. — 210. To dry a Hamm the best Way. — 211. To wash Poynt or any Sort of Lace. — 212. A Diet Drink for the Kings Evil. — 213. To make Counterfeit Nants Wine. — 214. A Varnish for Deal Floor’d Rooms. — 215. To make an Oatmeal Pudding very good. — 216. For Mother Fitts in a Woman. — 217. The Milk Water. — 218. For Deafness. — 219. A Water for any Sore or Sore Eyes. — 220. For Convultion Fits. — 221. Another for Convultions. — 222. The Water for the Fits. — 223. For very strong Fitts or Fitts in Great People. — 224. Another for Convultions if that should faile. — 225. For Cankers in Man Woman or Child. — 226. To draw up the Pallet. — 227. A Water for Fits. — 228. For a Purge that works upward. — 229. A strong Vomit for the Falling Sickness. — 230. A Pomatum for the Face. — 231. A Pectoral Drink for a Cough. — 232. To make Black Cherry Brandy. — 233. For a Looseness in a Lyeing Inn. — 234. For the Palsey and Giddiness in the Head. — 235. For the Wind in the Blader. — 236. An Ointment for the Gout or any Swelling. — 237. A Stagg Powder for Fainty or Hot Bloomes & Tremblings at Heart. — 238. For Deafness. — 239. For an Imposthume or Gathering. — 240. For a Sore Throat. — 241. For the Stone Collick, or Gravell in ye Kidneys. — 242. For ye Same when ye Person is much weakened by pain. Dr May. — 243. To make a Fume to fetch up the Mouth. — 244. For Scalds Burns or Childblains. — 245. A Poultise for Burns or Scaulds. — 246. To make Pidgeons increase. — 247. For the Palsey. — 248. To keep the Skin from breaking where y e Dead Palsey is. — 249. To draw out Fire when tis just burnt. — 250. For the Stone. — 251. For the biteing of a Madd Dog. — 252. For a Poisoned Dog. — 253. To Rost a Leg of Mutton. — 254. To make an Orange Pudding. — 255. To make a Tansie. — 256. Sauce for Boyled Fish as follows. — 257. To make a Quakeing Pudding. — 258. Pickle for Brawn to last a Quarter of a Year. — 259. To stew Eels. — 260. To bake a Bullocks Head. — 261. A Goosberry Fool. — 262. To dress Soales a fine way. — 263. A Pasty Crust. — 264. Puff Paste. — 265. Sauce for Boyled Mutton. — 266. Sauce for Rost Shoulder of Mutton. — 267. A White Pot. — 268. A Sauce for all Stew’d Meats. — 269. To make Almond Puddings. — 270. To make Puddings 4 in a Dish. — 271. To stew Pidgeons. — 272. To Boyle a Powder’d Haunch of Venison. — 273. To Rost a Carpe. — 274. A Chicken Pye w th Sweet Seasoning. — 275. To coller Eels. — 276. To pickle Trouts or Salmon. — 277. A Lumber Pye. — 278. To make Spanish Biskits. — 279. To pot Hare. — 280. To wash Gloves. — 281. Eye Water. — 282. A Rich Cordiall. — 283. The Lady Ashfields Angellot Cheese. — 284. Angellot Cheese. — 285. A Thick Cheese. — 286. Almond Butter. — 287. To Fat Poultrey. — 288. S r William Buttons for those w ch make Bloody Water. — 289. A Purge of the Lady Binions. — 290. Another of hers for the Green Sickness. — 291. Mr. Walldrons ye Surgeons Cure for Green Wounds. — 292. Mrs. Hellen Parrys Receipte for a Cold. — 293. An Electuary for the Green Sickness or Pain in ye Stomach. — 294. To Recover or Strengthen a Weak Eye Sight. — 295. Mr Gaskins Cordial Powder. — 296. The Lady Marquese Heartfords Re ct for all Agues. — 297. An Excellent Powder to Cure a Defective Memorie Gidieness in ye Head or any other Distemper in the Brain. — 298. An Ointment for the Giddiness in the Head or any other Distemper in Ye Brain or Deffect in the Memorie. — 299. Mrs Skillins Re ct for the Yellow Jaundise. — 300. The Lady St Johns Aproved Re ct for the Stone. — 301. For a Cough a Drink by Dr. Bauyer. — 302. An Aproved Rect. for a Consumption. — 303. An Aproved Re ct for the Wind. — 304. For Convultion Fits in Man Woman or Child. — 305. A Cordial Water of any Cherries. — 306. S r Roger Pallmers Teeth Powder. — 307. Dr. Feners Strengthening Broth to Thicken any Sharpe Humour. — 308. A Wash for the face after y e Small Pox. — 309. To make Runnet Cream. — 310. To make Egg Cream. — 311. To make Plumme Cream. — 312. To make Apple Pasties. — 313. To make fresh Cheese and Cream. — 314. To make Dutch Waffers. — 315. To make Cracknells. — 316. The Lady Jenkinsons Ointment for ye Pain in ye Stomach. — 317. To stop vomitting for one in a Consumption. — 318. The Lady Jenkinsons way to preserve Barberries. — 319. To make Sugar Cakes. — 320. To make Biskit. — 321. To make Cheese Cakes. — 322. To make Almond Loaves. — 323. Mrs Daniells Re ct to make White Metheglin. — 324. Another of Hers to make White Metheglin. — 325. To make a Silliebube. — 326. To make a Posset without Milk. — 327. To make Sugar Puffs. — 328. The Lady Jenkinsons Plumme Cake. — 329. To make Light Bread the French Way. — 330. The Lady Buttons Almond Butter. — 331. The Lady Bidollyps Rasberry Wine. — 332. The Lady Ashfields Metheglin. — 333. The Marleborow Cake. — 334. To make ye Spanish Cream. — 335. A Cabbidge Cream. — 336. My Lord Howards Re ct for Sherbett. — 337. To keep Damsons all the Year. — 338. Oyster Porrage. — 339. To make Pancakes. — 340. The Lady Seymours way to Coller Beefe. — 341. To boyle a Rump, Surloine, or Rearing of Beef. — 342. To preserve Oranges or Lemons. — 343. To preserve Pippins Green. — 344. To preserve Cherries. — 345. The Carraway Comfit Cake without Fruit in it. — 346. The Lady Marquess of Worcester’s Re ct to sugar all Sorts of Sharpe Fruits or Herbs to dry or Flowers. — 347. To preserve Chyna Oranges. — 348. A Cake for Ordinary Uses. — 349. Madame Brewen’s French Way to make ye Runnet or Trifle Cream. — 350. Cowslips into Plummes to make Wine. — 351. My Lady Seymours Pancake. — 352. My Lady Ffosters Metheglin. — 353. A Metheglin to be made at Barthollemew Tide. — 354. To preserve Grapes for all the Year. — 355. A Marrow Pudding. — 356. To Candie Irringoe Roots. — 357. To make a Sweetmeat like Rashers of Bacon. — 358. To Preserve Oranges in Jelly. — 359. Mathew Cariers Ollio or Pottage. — 360. To make Sugar Jumballs. — 361. To make Gooseberry Wine. — 362. Balls to take Stains out of Linnen. — 363. To Pickle Green Ashen Keys, Elder Buds, Broom Buds, or ye like. — 364. To Preserve White Pear Plummes Green. — 365. To Candie Flowers. — 366. A Sack Posset. — 367. To make Barberrie Wine. — 368. To make Apricocke Wine. — 369. To make a Conserve of Clove Jilly Flowers as an excellent Cordiall. — 370. Apricockes the best way to preserve in Jelly. — 371. To pickle Violets for Sallets. — 372. To preserve Goosberrys in Jelly. — 373. To preserve Goosberries. — 374. A Pippin drink. — 375. To make Vinegar of Unripe Grapes. — 376. A Re ct of Harts Horne Jelly. — 377. The Countess of Kents Lozenges for a Cold. — 378. To make Cherry Wine. — 379. The Portugal Cake. — 380. To Cure the Heart Burning. — 381. A Cream Cheese. — 382. The Lady Ashfields Almond Puffs, Jumballs Beaten Small with Rose Water or Orange Flower Water. — 383. The Lady Fusts Hipoccras. — 384. To Pickle Oysters. — 385. To make Elder Vinegar. — 386. To Dry Orringo Roots. — 387. To Dry a Gamon of Bacon. — 388. To Dry Neat’s Tongues. — 389. To make Almond Jomballs. — 390. To Dry Apricocks. — 391. To Ice Cakes. — 392. To Preserve Grapes Green. — 393. To dry Peaches. — 394. To make Almond Cake. — 395. To make Jockallato drink. — 396. To make Sugar Cakes. — 397. To make Almond Tarts. — 398. To make Jellies. — 399. Friccasies or Veal Collops. — 400. S r Edward Gust’s Cordiall for Old and Young. — 401. A Oringe Pudding or Lemon. — 402. The Lady Long’s way of drying a Gamon of Bacon. — 403. To frye Venison. — 404. To order Venison to keep it cold a year round w th y e Gravey in it. — 405. To make Wigs. — 406. To dry Goosberryes Plummes or Angelicoe. — 407. To Roste a Haunch of Venison. — 408. To make the Cockleshell Sweetmeat. — 409. To make Red Currant Wine. — 410. To make Aquamirabilis. — 411. To make Vinegar. — 412. A Pickle for Brawn. — 413. For Fits. — 414. A Cordiall Tincture for the Collicke by ye Lady Fust. — 415. Hysterick Electuary the Lady Gerrard’s Re ct . — 416. To Pickle Kidney Beans. — 417. To Pickle Cucumbers. — 418. The Lady Lees Sore Breast Poultise. — 419. The Lord Bristoes Contraerva, or Counter Poison. — 420. A Sweet Water. — 421. The best way to make Sirrop of Violets. — 422. To make Oringe Water. — 423. To Preserve the Water Mellon. — 424. To make Paste of Gennaye the true way. — 425. To make Marmalade of some of these Quinces. — 426. To make Paste of Oringes and Lemons. — 427. To make Paste of any tender Plummes. — 428. To make Conserve of any of these Fruits. — 429. To make any Conserve of tender Fruits. — 430. To make Quidony of the Liquor you kept of your Plummes before. — 431. To make Paste Royal of any Fruits. — 432. To preserve Fruits Green. — 433. To preserve these Plummes when ripe. — 434. To preserve Damosens Red or Black Plummes. — 435. To preserve Grapes Barberryes or Goosberrys. — 436. To preserve Quinces white. — 437. To keep Quinces raw all the year. — 438. To candy Barberries Grapes and Goosberries. — 439. To make Clear Cakes. — 440. To Dry any Fruit after they are Preserved. — 441. To Dry any Fruit without Sugar. — 442. To candie the Clear Rock Candie. — 443. To sucket Candie Oringes Lemons Pome-Citerons & Lettice Stalks. — 444. To candye Flowers the Spanish Fashion. — 445. To make Lozenges of any of these Flowers. — 446. To make a March Payne Ice it Garnishe it & Gild it. — 447. To make Sugar Plate. — 448. To make Wallnuts Artificial. — 449. To make Muskedyne Cumfits. — 450. To make Italyan Biskit. — 451. To make French Biskit. — 452. To make Macaroons. — 453. To make Naples Biskit. — 454. To make any Artificial Fruits, as Oranges, Lemons, Cucumbers, Radish, Herrings, Sprats, Oysters, or Mushells. — 455. To boyle Sugar to a Manus Christi. — 456. To boyle Sugar to a Candy Hight. — 457. To make a Pomander. — 458. To make a Perfume to burn in a Chamber. — 459. A Perfume to perfume Starch. — 460. To perfume Gloves. — 461. To make a Mothes Powder to lay amongst your Linnen or Wollen Clothes. — 462. A Water to make the Breath Sweet. — 463. A Powder to make the Teeth White and Sweet. — 464. An excellent Water to clear Hands and Face. — 465. Sr. George Horseyes Green Ointment for Aches proceeding from a Cold Cause for Shrunke Sinews in Man, or Beast, & for Strains it it’s incomperably good & holds Perfection 40 years. — 466. To make Thin Cheese. — 467. To make Angelot Cheese. — 468. To make Pastills. — 469. For Fine Linnen. — 470. Perfumes to Burn. — 471. For Ordinary Linnen. — 472. To destroy Moths & preserve Cloths untouch’d. — 473. To destroy Moths in Chairs & Stools & to refresh ye Colour. — 474. To scoure and refresh the Colour of Cloth Carpets, Silk Curtains, or any Stuff y t is Stain’d or Soil’d. — 475. To scoure & refresh ye Colour of Gold & Silver Lace or Fringe. — 476. To scoure or refresh ye Colours of Pictures y t are Stain’d or Soil’d. — 477. To dress & order Thin & Old Bedtikes to make y m keep in their Feathers. — 478. To perfume Bedtikes for Down or other Bedtikes w n y e Feathers smell Strong and Mustie. — 479. To make Butter Cheese. — 480. To keep Oringes fresh all y e Year. — 481. To make Quince Marmalade. — 482. An excellent Pommander. — 483. To make Mince Pyes. — 484. An excellent Water for ye Head & for Sleep called ye Emperour Charleses Water. — 485. The Lady Drakes Re ct to cure the Stone. — 486. Cere Clothes. — 487. Almond Custards. — 488. Macaroons. — 489. A Ragou of Veal. — 490. For a Tickling Cough or Rhume. — 491. For Flegme when it sticks that it cannot come up. — 492. For a Cold newly taken. — 493. To keep damosens all ye Year. — 494. For a Healing Ointment. — 495. For a Drawing Salve. — 496. For a Tenting Salve. — 497. A Poultise. — 498. A Cordiall or Surffit Water of Poppies. — 499. To make a Surfit Water. — 500. For a Sinew Strain in Man or Beast. — 501. To make Juice of Liquorish as a special Cordiall. — 502. To make a Powder for the Stone used by Pope Silvester ye 2d. — 503. For an Ague. — 504. For Agues of all Sorts. — 505. An Ointment for Eyes. — 506. A Puff Paste. — 507. A Water for Wounds and Old Sores. — 508. The Wound Drink. — The vertues of it. — 509. The Black Cere Cloth. — 510. The White Cere Cloth. — 511. Direction to cure Ye King’s Evil & 1st for the drink. — 512. A healing Salve for ye King’s Evil. — 513. To raise a Blister. — 514. Swallows Ointment. — 515. The Lady Biddolphs Green Oyle to be made in May. — The vertue of it. — 516. To stop Bleeding if a Veine be cut asunder. — 517. For the Jaundice. — 518. Dr. Willis his electuarie for a Dead Palsey. — 519. His Whey for ye same Palsey. — 520. An Eye Water. — 521. To make Wigs. — 522. Pills for Vapours of Spleen & Fits of ye Mother to Suppress and cure them. — 523. For a Cold. — 524. For the Scurvy. — 525. To make the Convulsion Water. — 526. For the Yellow Jaundice or Collick in the Stomach or the Consumption, Obstructions in ye Liver Spleen & especially for ye Falling Sickness. — 527. An Oyle for any deep wound or wounds through the Body or wounds made w th an envenomed Weapon, or Sinews Prickt. — 528. The Countess of Bristolls Black Salve. — 529. An Ointment to cure old Sores, to search Fistolas, to eate Dead Flesh and to dry up Wattery Humors. — 530. To make Milke Punch. — 531. For the Farcy in a Horse. — 532. To cure the Grease in a Horse.
6. 6.THE TABLE
7. 7.GLOSSARY
8. 8.BIBLIOGRAPHY — Transcriber's Notes

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