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the perfect body of a plaster. It is pre- 
pared without Vinegar thus, take of red 
Lead one pound, Oil of Roses one pound 
and an half, Wax half a pound, make it 
into a plaster according to art. 
Culpeper. It is a fine cooling healing 
plaster, and very drying. 
Emplastrum Metroproptoticon, 
College.]| Take of Mastich one ounce 
and an half, Galbanum dissolved in red 
- Wine and strained, six drams, Cypress Tur- 
_ pentine two drams, Cypress Nuts, Galls, of 
each one dram and an half, oil of Nutmegs 
by expression one dram, Musk two grains 
and an half, Pitch scraped off from old 
_ ships two drams and an half, beat the Gal- 
banum, Pitch, Turpentine, and Mastich 
gently in a hot mortar and pestle, towards 
the end, adding the Oil of Nutmegs, then 
the rest in powder, last of all the Musk 
mixed with a little Oil of Mastich upon a 
marble, and by exact mixture make them 
into a plaster. 
Emplastrum Nervinum. : 
College.] Take of Oil of Chamomel and 
Roses, of each two ounces, of Mastich, 
Turpentine, and Linseeds, of each an ounce 
and an half, Turpentine boiled four ounces, 
Rosemary, Bettony, Horsetail, Centaury 
the less, of each a handful, Earth-worms 
washed and cleansed in Wine three ounces, 
tops of St. John’s Wort a handful, Mastich, 
Gum Elemi, Madder roots, of each ten 
_ drams, Ship-pitch, Rozin, of each an ounce 
and an half, Litharge of Gold and Silver, of 
each two ounces and an half, red Lead two 
ounces, Galbanum, Sagapen, Ammoniacum, 
of each three drams, boil the roots, herbs, 
and worms, in a pound and an half of Wine 
till half be consumed, then press them out, 
and boil the decoction again with the Oils, 
Suets, Litharge, and red Lead, to the con- 
sumption of the Wine: then add the Gums 
dissolved in Wine, afterwards the Turpen- 
tine, Rozin, Pitch, and Mastich, in powder, 
and make them into a plaster according to 
art. 
Culpeper.| It strengthens the brain and 
nerves, and then being applied to the back, 
down along the bone, it must needs add 
strength to the body. 
Emplastrum Oxycroceum. 
College.] Take of Saffron, Ship-pitch, 
Colophonia, yellow Wax, of each four 
ounces, Turpentine, Galbanum, Ammonia- 
cum, Myrrh, Olibanum, Mastich, of each 
one ounce and three drams. Let the Pitch 
and Colophonia be melted together, then 
add the Wax, then (it being removed from 
the fire) the Turpentine, afterwards the 
Gums dissolved in Vinegar, lastly the Saf- 
fron in powder, well mixed with Vinegar, 
and so make it into a plaster according to 
art. 
Culpeper.] It is of a notable softening 
and discussing quality, helps broken bones, 
and any part molested with cold, old aches, 
stiffness of the limbs by reason of wounds, 
ulcers, fractures, or dislocations, and dis- 
sipates cold-swellings. 
Emplastrum Stephaniaion. 
College.| Take of Labdanum half an 
ounce, Styrax, Juniper Gum, of each two 
drams, Amber, Cypress, Turpentine, of 
each one dram, red Coral, Mastich, of each 
half a dram, the flowers of Sage, red Roses, 
the roots of Orris Florentine, of each one 
scruple, Rozin washed in Rosewater half 
an ounce, the Rozin, Labdanum, Juniper 
Gum, and Turpentine, being gently beaten 
in a hot mortar, with a hot pestle, sprin- 
kling in a few drops of red Wine till they 
are in a body; then put in the powders, and 
by diligent stirring make them into an exact 
plaster. 
Emplastrum Sticticum. 
College.| Take of Oil of Olives six 
ounces, yellow Wax an ounce and an half, 
Litharge in powder four ounces and an 
half, Ammoniacum, Bdellium, of each half 
an ounce, Galbanum, Opopanax, Oil of : 
