A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man or Beast, M.F.K. Fisher

First US edition, published by Little, Brown & Company, Boston 1961, 178pp.

Condition: very good, protective plastic cover on book jacket

A collection of essays in which M.F.K. Fisher, best known as a food writer, presents "lore about odd restoratives and remedies - medicines, nostrums, herbs, oils, powders, charms, poultices, liquors, brews and miscellaneous cure-alls" she has collected and muses on their (in)effectiveness and origins along with reflections and anecdotes from her well-traveled life.