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"For a cancer in the brest": early modern recipes
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"For a cancer in the brest": early modern recipes

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Nadia Seiler

“For a cancer in the brest” The large penstrokes of this title caught my eye as I was cataloging a recently acquired receipt book (a book of culinary and medicinal recipes). In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we…