ABSTRACT

This essay examines the use of guaiacum and sassafras in the manuscript recipe collections of Grace Mildmay, Lady Mildmay (1552–1620). Although Milday is now a fairly well known seventeenth-century domestic medical practitioner, her recipes have not received significant scholarly attention. To trace the history of these two ingredients, which had great cachet in the early modern Atlantic world, the essay looks at the earliest European herbals, travel narratives, and medical texts that reported on the use of these plants as medicines by Taino and Timucua people in the Americas. The essay argues that when these ingredients appear in Mildmay's recipes, Indigenous knowledge remains the foundation for their use, persisting in the chopping, grating, and decocting techniques that the recipes detail. The English household emerges as a site in the Atlantic world where the violence of colonial contact intersects with the gendered hierarchies of knowledge framing English women’s medical practice.

摘要

这篇文章探讨了在 Grace Mildmay, Lady Mildmay (1552–1620) 的手稿食谱集中使用愈创木和黄樟。尽管 Milday 现在是 17 世纪家喻户晓的医生，但她的食谱并没有受到学术界的广泛关注。为了追溯这两种在早期现代大西洋世界享有盛誉的成分的历史，本文着眼于最早的欧洲草药、旅行记述和医学文献，这些文献报道了泰诺人和蒂姆库亚人将这些植物用作药物在美洲。这篇文章认为，当这些成分出现在米尔德梅的食谱中时，土著知识仍然是它们使用的基础，并坚持食谱详述的切碎、磨碎和煎煮技术。