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CllAl»rER X, 

 0/ OirUmniU, 



L VariouB are Ui*) ways of making uiiitmeots, which au- 

 thors have left to posterity, and which I shall omit, and 

 quote one which is easiest to be made, and therefore most 

 beneficial to people that are ignorant in physic, for whose 

 lake I write this. It is thus dune : 



Bruise those herbs, flowers, or roots, you will make an 

 ointment of, and to two handfuls of your bruised herbs add 

 tpound of hojif's f^^rease dried, or cleansed from the skins, 

 beat them very well together in a stone mortar with a wood- 

 en pestle, then put it into a stone pot, (the herb and grea.se 

 I mean, not the mortar) cover it with a paj^r, and set it 

 either in the sun or some other warm place, three, four, or 

 five days, that it may melt; then take it out and boil it a 

 little, and whilst it is hot strain it out, pressing it out very 

 bard in a press ; to this grease add as many more herbs as 

 before, let them stand in like manner as long, then boil them 

 as you did the former. If you think your ointment not 

 strong enough, you may do it the third and fourth time ; yet 

 this I will tell you, the fuller of juice the herbs are, the sooner 

 will your ointment be strong : the last time you boil it, boil 

 it so long till your herbs be crisp, and the juice consumed, 

 then strain it, pressing it hard in a press, and to every pound 

 of ointment aidd two ounces of turpentine and as much wax. 

 because grease is offensive to wounds as well as oil. 



2. Ointments are vulgarly known to be kept in pots, and 

 will last above a year, sometimes above two yeara, 

 CHAPTER XI. 

 Of PlaUtert. 



1. The (ireeka made their piaisters of divers simples, and 

 put metaU into most of them, if not all ; for having reduced 

 their metals into powder, they mixed them with the (atty 

 substances whereof the rest of the plaister consisted whilst 

 it wa.o yet hot, continually stirring it up and down lest it 

 should sink to the bottom ; so they contmually stirred it till 

 it was stiff*; then they made it into mils, which when they 

 needed for use, they could melt it by the fire again. 



2. The Arabians made up theirs with oil and fat, which 

 needeth not so long boiling. 



3^ The Greeks' eiuplaisters consisted of thene ingredients, 



metala, stones, divers 8<)rts of earth, foeces, juices, liquors, 



•eecU, root«, excrements of creatures, wax, ro^in, and guma. 



CHAPTER XII. 



0/ Poultices. 



Ividuoo* are thonp kind of things which the Latim cail 



