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OILS. 
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SIMPLE OILS BY EXPRESSION, 
Oil of Sweet Almonds. 
College.] Take of Sweet Almonds not 
corrupted, as many as you will, cast the 
shells away, and blanch them, beat them in 
__ astone mortar, beat them in a double vessel, 
and press out the oil without heat. 
Culpeper.| It helps roughness and sore- 
ness of the throat, and stomach, helps 
pleurisies, encreases seed, eases coughs and 
hectic fevers, by injection it helps such 
whose water scalds them; ulcers in the 
bladder, reins, and matrix. You may either 
take half an ounce of it by itself, or mix it 
with half an ounce of Syrup of Violets, 
and so take a spoonful at a time, still shak- 
ing them together when you take them: only 
take notice of this, if you take it inwardly, 
let it be new drawn, for it will be sour in 
three or four days. 
Oil of bitter Almonds. 
College.] It is made like Oil of sweet 
Almonds, but that you need not blanch 
them, nor have such a care of heat in press- 
Ing out the oil. 
Culpeper.| It opens stoppings, helps 
Such as are deaf, being dropped into their 
€ars, it helps the hardness of the nerves, 
and takes away spots in the face. It is sel- 
dom, or never taken inwardly.. 
Oil of Hazel Nuts. 
College.] It is made of the Kernels, 
cleansed, bruised, and beat, and pressed 
like Oil of sweet Almonds. 
Culpeper.| You must put them in a ves- 
sel (siz. a glass, or some such thing) and 
Stop them close that the water come not to 
them when you put them into the bath. 
The oil is good for cold afflictions of the 
nerves, the gout in the joints, &c. 
College.| So is Oil of Been, Oil of Nut- 
Oleum Caryinum. 
College.| Is prepared of Walnut Ker- 
nels, in like manner, save only that in the 
making of this sometimes is required dried, 
old, and rank Nuts. 
Oleum Chrysomelinum. 
College.], Is prepared in the same man- 
ner of Apricots, so is also Oils of the Ker- 
nels of Cherry stones, Peaches, Pine-nuts, 
Fistic Nuts, Prunes, the seeds of Oranges, 
Hemp, Bastard Saffron, Citrons, Cucum- 
bers, Gourds, Citruls, Dwarf Elder, Hen- 
bane, Lettuce, Flax, Melons, Poppy, Pars- 
ley, Radishes, Rape, Ricinum, Sesani, Mus- 
tard seed, and Grape stones. 
Culpeper.| Because most of these Oils 
are out of use, I took not the pains to quote 
the virtues of them; if any wish to make 
them, let them look to the simples, and there 
they have them; if the simples be not to be 
found in this book, there are other plentiful 
medicines conducing to the cure of all usual 
diseases ; which are— 
Oil of Bays. 
College.| Take of Bay-berries, fresh 
and ripe, so many as you please, bruise 
them sufficiently, then boil them in a suffi- 
cient quantity of water till the Oil swim at 
top, which separate from the water, and 
keep for your use. 
Culpeper.] It helps the cholic, and is a 
sovereign remedy for any diseases in any 
part of the body coming either of wind or 
cold. 
College.| Common Oil of Olives, is 
pressed out of ripe olives, not out of the 
stones. Oil of Olives omphacine, is pressed 
out of unripe olives. 
Oil of Yolks of Eggs. 
College.] Boil the yolks till they be hard, 
and bruise them with your hand or witha 
pestle and mortar; beat them in an earthen i 
vessel, glazed until] they begin to froth, — - 
stirring them diligently that they burn not, : : 
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