APPENDIX. 335 



How to prepare Egyptiacum. 



Boiling water, three pints ; 



Clarified honey, five pounds ; 



Macerate the rose-leaves in the water for six 



hours ; 

 Then mix the honey with the strained liquor, 



and boil to a proper consistence. 



The use of honey of roses in this treatise is 

 chiefly confined to wounds near some tender part, 

 as the eye. See Recipe, (No. 71, p. 108.) 



EGYPTIACUM. 



TAKE^-Honey, three pounds, and melt it over a fire ; 

 then add, 



Blue vitriol, and verdigrease, in fine powder, 

 of each three ounces ; 



Boil them over a slow fire till they have ac- 

 quired a due consistence, and of a reddish 

 colour. 



Another method of making Egyptiacum, 



Take — Verdigrease, in powder, five ounces ; 

 Honey, fourteen ounces ; 

 Vinegar, seven ounces ; 

 Boil them over a gentle fire to the consistencr 

 of an ointment. 



