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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



being hot, put them in a linen bag, and 

 sprinkle them with Aromatic Wine, and 

 press out the oil according to art. 



Culpeper.~] It is profitable in fistulas, 

 and malignant ulcers, it causes the hair to 

 grow, it clears the skin, and takes away de- 

 formities thereof, viz. tetters, ringworms, 

 morphew, scabs. 



away, cut, bruised, and the vessel covered 

 with a thin linen cloth, set in the sun, 

 pressed out, and three times repeated. 

 Oil of Wall-flowers, as oil of Dill. 

 Oil of Quinces : Of six parts of oi 

 Omphacine, the meat and juice of Quinces 

 one part, set them in the sun fifteen days in 

 a glass, and afterwards boil them four hours 

 in a double vessel, press them out, and re- 

 new them three times. 



SIMPLE OILS BY INFUSION AND! Oil of Elecampane : Of ripe oil, and the 

 DECOCTION i roots of Elecampane bruised, and their 



j juice, of each one part, and of generous 



Oil of Rosex omphacine. f Wine half a part, which is to be evaporated 



College."] Take of red Roses before they j away. 



be ripe, bruised in u stone mortar, four j Oil of Euphorbium : Of six drams of 

 ounces, oil Omphacine one pound, set them \ Euphorbium, Oil of Wall -flowers, and sweet 

 in a hot sun, in a glass close stopped, a whole; Wine, of each five ounces, boiling it in a 



week, shaking them every day, then boil 

 them gently in a bath, press them out, and 



double vessel till the Wine be consumed. 

 Oil of Ants: Of winged Ants infused in 



put in others, use them in like manner, do i four times their weight of sweet oil, set in 

 so a third time: then keep the Oil upon at the sun in a glass forty days, and then 

 pound of juice of Roses. 



Oil cf Roses complete, 



Is made in the same manner, with sweet 



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strain it out. 



Oil, or Balsam of St. John's Wort simple, 

 is made of the oil of seeds beaten and 



and ripe oil, often washed, and red Roses > pressed, and the flowers being added, and 

 fully open, bruised, set in the sun, and j rightly set in the sun. 

 boiled gently in a double vessel, only let j Oil of Jesmine, is made of the flowers of 

 the third infusion stand in the sun forty j Jesmine, put in clear oil, and set in the sun 

 days, then keep the roses and oil together. I and afterwards pressed out. 



In the same manner is made Oil of Worm- 1 Oil of Orris, made of the roots of Orris 

 wood, of the tops of common Wormwood | Florentine one pound, purple Orris flowers 

 thrice repeated, four ounces, and three j half a pound : boil them in a double vessel 

 pounds of ripe oil; only, the last time put in [ in a sufficient quantity of decoction of Orris 

 four ounces of the juice of Wormwood, i Florentine, and six pounds of sweet oil, put- 

 which evaporate away by gentle boiling. j ing fresh roots and flowers again and again ; 



Oil of Dill: Of the flowers and leaves of \ the former being cast away as in oil of 

 Dill four ounces, complete oil, one pound, i Roses. 



thrice repeated. 



Oil of Castoreum : Of one ounce of Cas- 

 toreum oil one pound, Wine four ounces, 



Oil of Earthworms, is made of half a 

 pound of Earthworms washed in white Wine, 

 ripe Oil two pounds, boiled in a double 



which must be consumed with the heat ol a j vessel with eight ounces of good white Wine 

 bath. I till the Wine be consumed. 



Oil of Chamomel (which more than one \ Oil of Marjoram is made with four 

 call Holy) of complete oil, and fresh Cha- jounces of the herb a little bruised, white 

 momel flowers, the little white leaves taken/ Wine six ounces, ripe oil a pound, mixed 



