356 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Oleum de Capparibus. j Wine, boil it in Batneo Marice till the Win? 



Or, Oil of Capers. j be consumed. 



College^ Take of the bark of Caper j Culpeper.~] It heats, opens obstructions, 

 roots an ounce, bark of Tamarisk, the leaves \ strengthens the nerves, and all nervous parts, 

 of the same, the seeds of Agnus Castus, j as muscles, tendons, ligaments, the ventricle; 

 Cetrach, or Spleemvort, Cypress roots, of { besides these, it strengthens the liver, it 

 each two drams, Rue one dram, oil of ripe : keeps the hairs from turning grey, and gives 

 Olives one pound, white Wine Vinegar, and t a good colour to the body. I pray you 

 white Wine, of each two ounces, cut them \ take notice that this and the following oils, 

 and steep them, and boil them (two days \ (till I give you warning to the contrary) 

 being elapsed) gently in a bath, then the I are not made to eat. 

 Wine and Vinegar being consumed, strain Oleum Crocinum, 



it, and keep it. Or, Oil of Saffron. 



CulpeperJ] The oil is opening, and hrat-| College.'] Take of Saffron, Calamus Aro- 

 ing, absolutely appropriated to the spleen, j maticus, of each one ounce, Myrrh, half an 

 hardness and pains thereof, and diseases jounce, Cardamoms nine drams, steep them 

 coming of stoppings there, as hypocondriac | six days, (the Cardamoms excepted, which 

 melancholy, the rickets, Sec. \ are not to be put in till the last day,) in nine 



Oil of Castoreum compound. j ounces of Vinegar, the day after put in a 



College^] Take of Castoreum, Styrax j pound and an half of washed oil, boil it 

 Calamitis, Galbanum, Euphorbium, Opo-j gently according to art, till the Vinegar, be 

 panax, Cassia Lignea, Saifron, Carpobal- \ consumed, then strain it. 

 samum or Cubebs, Spikenard, Costus, of I Culpeper ^\ It helps pains in the nerves, 

 each two drams, Cypress, Squinanth, Pep- land strengthens them, mollifies their hard- 

 perlongand black, Savin, Pellitory of Spain, i ness, helps pains in the matrix, and causes 

 of each two drams and an half, ripe Oil four > a good colour, 

 pounds, Spanish Wine two pounds, the five] Oil of Euphorbium. 



first excepted, let the rest be prepared as| College.'] Take of Stavesacre, Sopeworl, 

 they ought to be, and gently boiled in the; of each half an ounce, Pellitory of Spain 

 Oil and Wine, until the Wine be consumed, j six drams, dried Mountain Calami n I one 

 mean time the Galbanum, Opopanax, and -ounce and an half, Castus two drams, Cas- 

 Euphorbium beaten in fine powder, being j toreum five drains, being bruised, let them 

 dissolved in part of the Wine, and strained, be three days steeped in three pounds and 



let them be exquisitely mixed with it (while! an half of Wine, boil them with a pound 

 the oil is warm) by often stirring; the boil- land an half of Oil of Wall-flowers, adding 

 ing being finished, put in the Styrax and \ half an ounce of Euphorbium, before thr- 

 Castoreum. j Wine be quite consumed, and so boil it 



Culpeper.'] The virtues are the same with i according to art. 



the simple. $ Culpeper.] It hath the same virtue, only 



Oleum Castinum. \ something more effectual than the simple. 



College. ~\ Take of the roots of bitter! Oleum Excestrense, 



Castus two ounces, Cassia Lignea one ounce, 

 the tops of Marjoram eight ounces, being 



Or, Oil of Exeter. 

 College.'] Take of the leaves of W T orm- 



bruisecl, steep them two days in twelve wood, Centaury the less, Eupatorium, Fen- 

 ounccs of sweet white Wine ; then with I nel, Hyssop, Bays, Marjoram, Bawm, Nep, 

 three pounds of sallad oil washed in white j Pennyroyal, Savin, Sage, Thyme, of each 



