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diseases as lie in the passages of the body, 5 fruits or seeds by expression, as oil of sweet 

 as the stomach, bowels, kidneys, passages i and bitter almonds, linseed and rape-seed 

 of urine and bladder, because decoctions j oil, &c. of which see in my Dispensatory, 

 pass quicker to those places than any other j 4. Compound oils, are made of oil of 



form of medicines. 



5. If you will sweeten your decoction 

 with sugar, or any syrup fit for the occasion 

 you take it for, which is better, you may, 

 and no harm. 



6. If in a decoction, you boil both roots, 



olives, and other simples, imagine herbs, 

 flowers, roots, &c. 



5. The way of making them is this : 

 Having bruised the herbs or flowers you 

 would make your oil of, put them into an 

 earthen pot, and to two or three handfuls of 



herbs, flowers, and seed together, let the them pour a pint of oil, cover the pot with 

 roots boil a good while first, because they \ a paper, set it in the sun about a fortnight 

 retain their virtue longest ; then the next in \ or so, according as the sun is in hotness ; 

 order by the same rule, viz. 1. Barks. 2.? then having warmed it very well by the fire, 

 The herbs. 3. The seeds. 4. The flowers. : press out the herb, &c. very hard in a press, 

 5. The spices, if you put any in, because \ and add as many more herbs to the same 

 their virtues come soonest out. i oil; bruise the herbs (I mean not the oil) in 



7- Such things as by boiling cause j like manner, set them in the sun as before ; 

 sliminess to a decoction, as figs, quince- j the oftener you repeat this, thestronger your 

 seed, linseed, &c. your best way is, after | oil will be ; At last when you conceive it 

 you have bruised them, to tie them up in a j strong enough, boil both herbs and oil 

 linen rag, as you tie up calf s brains, and so j together, till the juice be consumed, which 

 boil them. j you may know by its bubbling, and the 



8. Keep all decoctions in a glass close j herbs will be crisp ; then strain it while it 

 stopped, and in the cooler place you keep j is hot, and keep it in a stone or glass vessel 

 them, the longer they will last ere they be 5 for your use. 

 sour. 6. As for chymical oils, I have nothing to 



Lastly, The usual dose to be given at one I say here. 



time, is usually two, three, four, or fivei 7. The general use of these oils, is for 

 ounces, according to the age and strength | pains in the limbs, roughness of the skin, 

 of the patient, the season of the year, the j the itch, &c. as also for ointments and 

 strength of the medicine, and the quality of; plaisters. 



the disease. j 8. If you have occasion to use it for 



; wounds or ulcers, in two ounces of oil, 



\ dissolve half an ounce of turpentine, the 



Of Oils. \ heat of the fire will quickly do it ; for oil 



1. OIL Olive, which is commonly known j itself is ^ ens . ive to wounds ' and the tur P en - 

 by the name of Sallad Oil, I suppose, be- tlne C l uahfies lL 



cause it is usually eaten with sallads by: CHAPTER vi. 



them that love it, if it be pressed out of j 



ripe olives, according to Galen, istempe-i Of Electuaries. 



rate, and exceeds in no one quality. PHYSICIANS make more a quoil than 



2. Of oils, some are simple, and some are j needs by half, about electuaries. I shall 

 compound. | prescribe but one general way of makin 



3 Simple oils, are such as are made of -them up; as for ingredients, you may 



