OIRXCTIOlfS FOR MAKING 8TEUP8, kc 40t 



% Of oils, some &re simple, and some are compound. 



S. Simple oils are such as are made of fruits or seeds by 

 expression, as oil of sweet or bitter almonds, linseed and 

 rape seed oil, &c of which see in my dispensatory. 



4. Compound oils are made of oil of oliyes, and other 

 amples, imagine herbs, flowers, roots, &c. 



5. The way of making them is this; haying bruised the 

 herbs or flowers you make your oil of, put them into an 

 earthen pot, and to two or three handfuls of them pour a pint 

 of oilj cover the pot with a paper, set it in the sun about a 

 fortnight or so, according as the sun is in hotness : then hav- 

 ing warmed it very well by the fire, press out the herb, &c 

 very hard in a press, and add as many more herbs to the 

 same oil ; bruise the herbs (I mean not the oil) in like man- 

 ner, set them in the sun as before ; the oftener you repeat 

 this, the stronger your oil will be ; at last, when you con- 

 ceive it strong enough, boil both oil and herbs together, till 

 the juice be consumed, which you may know by its leaving 

 its bubbling, and the herbs will be crisp ; then strain it 

 while it is hot, and keep it in a stone or glass vessel for 

 your use. 



6. As for chemical oils, I have nothing to say here. 



7. The general use of these oils is for pains in the limbs, 

 roughness in the skin, the itch, &c as also for ointments 

 and plaisters. 



8. If you have occasion to use it for wounds or ulcers, in 

 two ounces of of oil, dissolve half an ounce of turpentine, the 

 heat of the fire will quickly do it ; for oil itself is offensive 

 to wounds, and turpentine qualifies it 



CHAPTER VL 

 0/ EUciuariei, 

 Physicians make more a quoil than needs by half about 

 electuaries. I shall describe but one general way of mak- 

 ing them up ; as for ingredients you may vary them as you 

 please, and as you find occasion, by the last chapter. 



1. That you may make electuaries when you need them. 

 It if requisite that you keep always herbs, roots, flowers, 

 •eeds, &c ready dried in your house, that so you may be in 

 readiness to beat them into a powder when you do need them. 



2. It is better to keep them whole than beaten ; for being 

 beaten, they are more subject to lose their strength, because 

 the air soon penetrates them. 



3. Ifthev oe not dry enough to beat into powder when 

 you need them, dry them by a gentle fire till they are so. 



4. Having beaten them, sift them through a fine tifiany 

 •earce, that no great pieces may be found in your electuary. 



5. T ? one ounce of your powder add three oudcsjh of clan- 



