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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
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Bole-ammoniac, Lapis Calaminaris, of each 
four ounces, Litharge of Gold, Ceruss, of 
each three ounces, Camphire one dram, 
make it into an ointment according to art. 
Culpeper.| It binds and restrains fluxes 
of humours. 
Unguentum e Solano. 
Or, Ointment of Nightshade. 
College.| Take of juice of Nightshade, 
Litharge washed, of each five ounces, 
- Ceruss washed eight ounces, white Wax 
seven ounces, Frankincense in powder ten 
drams, oil of Roses often washed in water 
two pounds, make it into an ointment ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] It was invented to take away 
inflammations from wounds, and to keep 
people from scratching of them when they 
are almost well. 
Or, Ointment of Tutty. 
College.| Take of Tutty prepared two 
“ounces, Lapis Calaminaris often burnt and 
quenched in Plantain Water an ounce, make 
them, being finely powdered, into an oint- 
ment, with a pound and an half of oint- 
- ment of Roses. 
Culpeper.| It is a cooling, drying oint- 
_ ment, appropriated to the eyes, to dry up 
hot.and salt humours that flow down thither, 
_ the eyelids being anointed with it. 
= Valentia Scabiose. 
College.| Take of the juice of green 
Scabious, pressed out with a screw, and | 
_ strained through a cloth, Hog’s grease, of 
“each as much as you will, heat the Hog’s 
= grease i in a stone mortar, not grind it, putt- 
_ ing in the juice by degrees for the more 
-commodious mixture and tincture, after- 
_ wards set it in the sun in a convenient ves- 
sel, so as the juice may overtop the grease, 
1€ days being passed, pour off the dis- 
loured juice, and beat it again as before, 
ss Patel fale, oot Skin, the sum sain: 
which, keep it in a glass, or glazed vessel. 
_ Tapsivalentia. 
College.] Take of the juice of Mullen, 
Hog’s grease, of each as much as you will, 
let the grease be cleansed and cut in pieces, 
and beat it with the juice, pressed and 
strained as you did the former ointment, 
then keep it in a convenient vessel nine or 
ten days, then beat it twice, onee with fresh 
juice, until it be green, and the second time 
without juice beaten well, pouring off what 
is discoloured, and keep it for use. 
Tapsimel, 
College.| Take of the juice of Celan- 
dine and Mullen, of each one part, clarified 
Honey, two parts, boil them by degrees till 
the juice be consumed, adding (the physi- 
cian prescribing) Vitriol, burnt Alum, 
burnt Ink, and boil it again to an ointment 
according to art. 
OINTMENTS MORE COMPOUND. 
Unguentum Agrippa. 
College.| Take of Briony roots two 
pounds, the roots of wild Cucumbers one 
pound, Squills half a pound, fresh English 
Orris roots, three ounces, the roots of male 
Fern, dwarf Elder, water Caltrops, or 
Aaron, of each two ounces, bruise them all, 
being fresh, and steep them six or seven 
days in four pounds of old oil, the whitest, 
not rank, then boil them and press them 
out, and in the oil melt fifteen ounces of 
white Wax, and make it into an ointment 
according to art. 
Culpeper.| It purges exceedingly, and 
is good to anoint the bellies of such as have 
dropsies, and if there be any humour of 
flegm in any part of the body that you 
know not how to remove (provided the 
part be not too tender) you may anoint it 
with this; but yet be not too busy with it, 
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