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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
sprinkle them with Aromatic Wine, and 
press out the oil according to art. 
Culpeper.| It is profitable in fistulas, 
and malignant ulcers, it causes the hair to 
grow, it clears the skin, and takes away de- 
formities thereof, viz. tetters, ringworms, 
morphew, scabs. 
SIMPLE OILS BY INFUSION AND 
DECOCTION. 
_ Oil of Roses omphacine. 
College.| Take of red Roses before they 
be ripe, bruised in a stone mortar, four. 
ounces, oil Omphacine one pound, set them 
in a hot sun, in a glass close stopped, a 
whole week, shaking them every day, then 
boil them gently in a bath, press them out 
and put in others, use them in like manner, 
do so a third time: then keep the Oil upon a 
pound of juice of Roses. 
Oil of Roses complete. 
Is made in the same manner, with sweet 
and ripe oil, often washed, and red Roses 
_ fully open, bruised, set in the sun, and 
boiled gently in a double vessel, only let 
the third infusion stand in the sun forty 
days, then keep the roses and oil together. 
In the same manner is made Oil of 
Wormwood, of the tops of common Worm- 
- wood thrice repeated, four ounces, and 
three pounds of ripe oil; only, the last time 
_ put in four ounces of the juice of Worm- 
wood, which evaporate away by gentle 
: Oil of Dill: Of the flowers and leaves of 
_ Dill four ounces, complete oil, one pound, » 
thrice repeated. 
ae _ Oil of Castoreum: Of one ounce of Cas- 
toreum oil one pound, Wine four ounces, 
which must be consumed with the heat of a 
i of Chamomel (which sions thas one 
with a thin linen cloth, set in the sun, 
pressed out, and three times repeated. 
Oil of Wall-flowers, as oil of Dill. 
Oil of Quinces: Of six parts of oil 
Omphacine, the meat and juice of Quinces 
one part, set them in the sun fifteen days in 
a glass, and afterwards boil them four 
hours in a double vessel, press them out, 
and renew them three times. 
Oil of Elecampane: 
roots of Elecampane bruised, and their 
juice, of each one part, and of generous 
Wine half a part, which is to be evaporated 
away. 
Oil of Euphorbium: Of six drams of 
Euphorbium, Oil of Wall-flowers, and sweet 
Wine, of each five ounces, boiling it in a 
double vessel till the Wine be consumed. 
Oil of Ants: Of winged Ants infused in 
four times their weight of sweet oil, set in 
the sun in a glass forty — and then 
strain it out. 
Oil, or Balsam of St. Yohn’s Wort simple, 
Of ripe oil, and the . 
is made of the oil of seeds beaten and © 
pressed, and the flowers being added, and 
rightly set in the sun. 
Oil of Jesmine, is made of the flowers of 
Jesmine, put in clear oil, and set in the sun 
and afterwards pressed out. 
Oil of Orris, made of the roots of Orris 
Florentine one pound purple. Orris flowers — 
half a pound: boil them in a double vessel 
in a sufficient quantity of decoction of Orris 
Florentine, and six pounds of sweet oil, put- — 
ing fresh roots and flowers again and again; — 
the former being cast away as in oil of 
Roses. 
Oil of Earthworms, is made of half a— 
pound of Earthworms washed in white — 
Wine, ripe Oil two pounds, boiled in a~ 
double vessel with eight ounces of good © 
white Wine till the Wine be consumed. 
Oil of Marjoram is made with ‘four 
; Comoees of the herb a little nd adapta white 
