AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 



OILS. 



SIMPLE OILS BY EXPRESSION, 



Oil of Sweet dlmonds. 



College.] Take of Sweet Almonds not 



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College.] So is Oil of Been, 

 megs, and Oil of Mace drawn. 

 Oleum Caryinum. 



College.'] Is prepared of Walnut Kernels, 

 in like manner, save only that in the making 

 of this sometimes is required dried, old, and 

 rank Nuts. 



Oleum Chrysomelinum, 

 College^] Is prepared in the same manner 



corrupted, as many as you will, cast the j of Apricots, so is also Oils of the Kernels of 

 shells away, and blanch them, beat them in Cherry stones, Peaches, Pine-nuts, Fistic 



a stone mortar, beat them in a double vessel, 

 and press out the oil without heat. 



Nuts, Prunes, the seeds of Oranges, Hemp, 

 Bastard Saffron, Citrons, Cucumbers, 



Culpeper.] It helps roughness and sore- j Gourds, Citruls, Dwarf Elder, Henbane, 

 ness of the throat and stomach, helps > Lettuce, Flax, Melons, Poppy, Parsley, 

 pleurisies, encreases seed, eases coughs and \ Radishes, Rape, Ricinum, Sesani, Mus- 

 hectic fevers, by injection it helps such \ tard seed, and Grape stones, 

 whose water scalds them; ulcers in thej Culpeper] Because most of these Oils 

 bladder, reins, and matrix. You may j are out of use, I took not the pains to quote 

 either take half an ounce of it by itself, or 5 the virtues of them ; if any wish to make 

 mix it with half an ounce of Syrup of Violets, \ them, let them look to the simples, and there 

 and so take a spoonful at a time, still shak- they have them ; if the simples be not to be 



ing them together when you take them : 

 only take notice of this, if you take it in- 



found in this book, there are other plentiful 

 medicines conducing to the cure of all usual 



wardly, let it be new drawn, for it will be i diseases ; which are- 

 sour in three or four days. Oil of Bays. 



Oil of bitter Almonds. College] Take of Bay-berries, fresh and 



College.] It is made like Oil of sweet ! ripe, so many as you please, bruise them 

 Almonds, but that you need not blanch j sufficiently, then boil them in a sufficient 

 them, nor have such a care of heat in press- ! quantity of water till the Oil swim at top, 

 ing out the oil. < which separate from the water, and keep 



Culpeper.] It opens stoppings, helps such | for your use. 



as are deaf, being dropped into their ears, j Culpeper] It helps the cholic, and is a 

 it helps the hardness of the nerves, and takes i sovereign remedy for any diseases in any 

 away spots in the face. It is seldom or ; part of the body coining either of wind or 

 never taken inwardly. jcold. 



Oil of Hazel Nuts. j College.] Common Oil of Olives, is 



College.] It is made of the Kernels, ! pressed out of ripe olives, not out of the 

 cleansed, bruised, and beat, and pressed like stones. Oil of Olives omphacine, is pressed 

 Oil of sweet Almonds. out of unripe olives. 



Culpeper] You must put them in a ! Oil of Yolks of Eggs. 



vessel (viz. a glass, or some such thing) and j College] Boil the yolks till they be hard, 

 stop them close that the water come not to? and bruise them with your hand or with t 

 them when you put them into the bath, i pestle and mortar ; beat them in an earthen 

 The oil is good for cold afflictions of the I vessel glazed until they begin to froth,, 

 nerves, the gout in the joints, &c. | stirring them diligently that they burn not. 



