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Emplastrum Divinum. \ Culpepcr.'] I found this receipt in an 



Or, A Divine Plaster. jold manuscript written in the year 1513. 



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College.] Take of Loadstone four ounces, 

 Ammoniacum three ounces and three 

 drams, Bdellium two ounces, Galbanum, 

 Myrrh, of each ten drams, Olibanum nine 



the quantity of the ingredients very little 



altered. 



A Plaster of Gum Elemi. 



College.] Take of Gum Elemi three 



drams, Opopanax, Mastich, long Birthwort, ! ounces, Per Rozin, Wax, Ammoniacuni, 

 Verdigris, of each an ounce, Litharge, j of each two ounces, Turpentine three 

 common Oil, of each a pound and an half, j ounces and an half, Mallaga Wine so much 

 new Wax eight ounces: let the Litharge injas is sufficient: boil it to the consumption 

 fine powder be boiled with the oil to a j of the Wine, then add the Ammoniacuni 

 thickness, then add the Wax, which being \ dissolved in Vinegar. 



melted, take it from the fire, add the Gums \ Culpeper] The operation is the same 

 dissolved in Wine aiitl Vinegar, strain it, ; with drceus Liniment, 

 then add the Myrrh, Mastich, Frankin- j A Plaister of Lapis Calaminaris. 



cense, Birthwort, and Loadstone in powder, j College.'] Take of Lapis Calaminaris 

 last of all the Verdigris in powder, and { prepared an ounce, Litharge two ounces 

 make it into a plaster according to art. | Ceruss half an ounce, Tutty a dram, Tur- 



Culpeper."] It is of a cleansing nature, | pentine six drams, white Wax an ounce 

 exceeding good against malignant ulcers, land an half, Stag's Suet two ounces, Frank- 

 it consumes corruption, engenders new! incense five drams, Mastich three drams, 

 flesh, and brings them to a scar. \ Myrrh two 'drams, Camphire a dram and 



Emplastrum Epispasticum. ian half, make it up according to art. 



College.] Take of Mustard seed, Euphor-j Emplastrum ad Herniam. 



bium, long Pepper, of each one dram and \ College.'] Take of Galls, Cypress Nuts, 

 an half, Stavesacre, Pell itory of Spain of 1 Pomegranate Pills, Balaustines, Acacia, 

 each two drams, Ammoniacum, Galbanum, ! the seeds of Plantain, Fleawort, Water- 

 Phellium, Sagapen, of each three drams, \ cresses, Acorn Cups, Beans terrified, Birth- 

 whole Cantharides five drams, Ship Pitch, j wort long and round, Myrtles of each half 

 Rozin, yellow Wax, of each six drams, Jan ounce. Let these be powdered, and 

 Turpentine as much as is sufficient to make | steeped in Rose Vinegar four days, then 

 it into a plaster. Uorrified and dried, then take of Comfrey 



CulpeperJ] Many people use to draw j the greater and lesser, Horsetail, Woad, 



blisters in their necks for the tooth ache, or j Cetrach, the roots of Osmond Royal, Fearn, 



for rheums in their eyes ; if they please to j of each an ounce, Frankincense, Myrrh, 



lay a plaster of this there, it will do it. j Aloes, Mastich, Mummy, of each two 



Emplastrum a nostratibus, Flos Ungiientorum \ ounces, Bole-ammoniac washed in Vinegar, 



Dictum. JLap, Calaminaris prepared, Litharge of 



Or, Flower of Ointments. ' Gold, Dragon's blood, of each three ounces, 



College.'] Take of Rozin, Per Rozin, j Ship Pitch two pounds, Turpentine six 

 yellow Wax, Sheep's Suet, of each half a j ounces, or as much as is sufficient to make 

 pound, Olibanum four ounces, Turpentine * it into a plaster according to art. 

 two ounces and an half, Myrrh, Mastich, \ Culpeper] The plaster is very binding 

 of each an ounce, Camphire two drams, i and knitting, appropriated to ruptures or 

 white Wine half a pound, boil them into a j burstens, as the title of it specifies, it 

 plaster [strengthens the reins and womb, slays 



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