362 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



each three ounces, Camphire one dram, j Tapsivalentia. 



make it into an ointment according to art. College.'] Take of the juice of Mullen, 



CnlpeperJ] It binds and restrains fluxes * Hog's grease, of each as much as you will, 



of humours. j let the grease be cleansed and cut in pieces, 



Unguentum e Solano. \ & 4 Deat li w ' tn lne j u i ce pressed and 



Or, Ointment of Nightshade. | strained as you did the former ointment, 



College.] Take of juice of Nightshade, then kee P lt in a convenient vessel nine or 

 Litharge washed, of each five ounces, ' ten da y s > then beat ll twlce > once Wlth fresl1 

 Ceruss washed eight ounces, white Wax J ulce untl1 ll be S reen > and the second time 

 seven ounces, Frankincense in powder ten I without juice beaten well, pouring off what 



drams, oil of Roses often washed in water 

 two pounds, make it into an ointment ac- 

 cording- to art. 



is discoloured, and keep it for use. 



Tapsimel. 

 College^ Take of the juice of Celan- 



Culpeper.'] It was invented to take away | chne and Mullen > of p ach one part, clarified 

 inflammations from wounds, and to keep ; Honey, two parts, boil them by degrees till 

 people from scratching of them when they l the J UICe be consumed, adding (the physi- 

 are almost well ! cian prescribing) Vitriol, burnt Alum, burnt 



Or, Ointment of Tutty. \ Ink ' |. and t boi j k a ain to an oi ^nt ac- 



_ , _ J j cording to art. 



College.] lake of lutty prepared twoj 



ounces, Lapis Calaminaris often burnt and j == 



quenched in Plantain Water an ounce, $ 



make them, being finely powdered, into an I OINTMENTS MORE COMPOUND. 



ointment, with a pound and an half of oint- j Unguentum Agrippa. 



ment of Roses College."] Take of Briony roots two 



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pounds, the roots of wild Cucumbers one 

 pound, Squills half a pound, fresh English 



Culpeper.~\ It is a cooling, drying oint- 

 ment, appropriated to the eyes, to dry up 



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hot and salt humours that flow down thither, Qrris rootgj three Qun the roots ()f __ 

 the eyelids being anointed with it. j Fern, dwarf Elder, water Caltrops, or Aaron, 



Valentia Scabiosa. \ o f e ach two ounces, bruise them all, being 



College.'] Take of the juice of green fresh, and steep them six or seven days in 



Scabious, pressed out with a screw, and 

 strained through a cloth, Hog's grease, of 

 each as much as you will, heat the Hog's 



four pounds of old oil, the whitest, not rank, 

 then boil them and press them out, and in 

 the oil melt fifteen ounces of white Wax, 



grease in a stone mortar, not grind it, putt- 1 and make it into an ointment according to 

 ing in the juice by degrees for the more | art. 



commodious mixture and tincture, after-} Culpeper.~] It purges exceedingly, and 

 wards set it in the sun in a convenient ves- | is good to anoint the bellies of such as have 

 sel, so as the juice may overtop the grease, > dropsies, and if there be any humour of 

 nine days being passed, pour off the dis- j flegm in any part of the body that you 

 Coloured juice, and beat it again as before, { know not how to remove (provided the part 

 putting in fresh juice, set it in the sun again t be not too tender) you may anoint it with 

 five days, which being elapsed, beat it! this; but yet be not too busy with it, for I 

 again, put in more juice, after fifteen days; tell you plainly it is not very safe- 

 more, do so again, do so five times, after \ Unguentum Amarum. 

 which, keep it in a glass, or glazed vessel. { Or, A bitter Ointment. 



