3,54 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



being hot, put them in a linen bag, and 

 sprinkle them with Aromatic Wine, and 

 press out the oil according to art. 



away, cut, bruised, and the vessel covered 

 with a thin linen cloth, set in the sun, 

 pressed out, and three times repeated. 



Culpeper.~] It is profitable in fistulas, { Oil of Wall-flowers, as oil of Dill, 

 and malignant ulcers, it causes the hair to j Oil of Quinces: Of six parts of or 

 grow, it clears the skin, and takes away de- j Omphacine, the meat and juice of Quinces 



formities thereof, viz. tetters, ringworms, 

 morphew, scabs. 



SIMPLE OILS BY INFUSION AND 

 DECOCTION. 



one part, set them in the sun fifteen days in 

 a glass, and afterwards boil them four hours 

 in a double vessel, press them out, and re- 

 new them three times. 



Oil of Elecampane : Of ripe oil, and the 

 roots of Elecampane bruised, and their 

 ! juice, of each one part, and of generous 

 Oil of Rosej omphacine. $ Wine half a part, which is to be evaporated 



College.'] Take of red Roses before they j away. 



be ripe, bruised in a stone mortar, fourj Oil of Euphorbium: Of six drams of 

 ounces, oil Omphacine one pound, set them \ Euphorbium, Oil of Wall-flowers, and sweet 

 in a hot sun, in a glassclose stopped, a whole j Wine, of each five ounces, boiling it in a 

 week, shaking them every day, then boil j double vessel till the Wine be consumed, 

 them gently in a bath, press them out, and \ Oil of Ants : Of winged Ants infused in 

 put in others, use them in like manner, do ! four times their weight of sweet oil, set in 

 so a third time : then keep the Oil upon a ! the sun in a glass forty days, and then 

 pound of juice of Roses. \ strain it out. 



Oil cf Hoses complete, Oil, or Balsam of St. John's Wort simple, 



Is made in the same manner, with sweet ; is made of the oil of seeds beaten and 

 and ripe oil, often washed, and red Roses j pressed, and the flowers being added, and 

 fully open, bruised, set in the sun, and j rightly set in the sun. 

 boiled gently in a double vessel, only lct{ Oil of Jesmine, is made of the flowers of 

 the third infusion stand in the sun forty j Jesmine, put in clear oil, and set in the sun 

 days, then keep the roses and oil together, t and afterwards pressed out. 



In the same manner is made Oil of Worm- j Oil of Orris, made of the roots of Orris 

 wood, of the tops of common Wormwood j Florentine one pound, purple Orris flowers 

 thrice repeated, four ounces, and three j half a pound : boil them in a double vessel 

 pounds of ripe oil ; only, the last time put in | in a sufficient quantity of decoction of Orris 

 four ounces of the juice of Wormwood, ? Florentine, and six pounds of sweet oil, put- 

 which evaporate away by gentle boiling. * ing fresh roots and flowers again and again ; 

 Oil of Dill : Of the flowers and leaves of: the former being cast away as in oil of 

 Dill four ounces, complete oil, one pound, j Roses. 



thrice repeated. \ Oil of Earthworms, is made of half a 



Oil of Castoreum : Of one ounce of Cas- j pound of Earthworms washed in white Wine, 

 toreum oil one pound, Wine four ounces, ripe Oil two pounds, boiled in a double 

 which must be consumed with the heat of a j vessel with eight ounces of good white Wine 

 bath. \ till the Wine be consumed. 



Oil of Chamomel (which more than onej Oil of Marjoram is made with four 

 call Holy) of complete oil, and fresh Cha- Bounces of the herb a little bruised, white 

 raomel flowers, the little white leaves taken j Wine six ounces, ripe oil a pound, mixed 



