60 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Unguentum Diapompholygos. \ Unguentum de mini? sive rubrum Camphora 



College.'] Take of Oil of Nightshade j Or, Ointment of red Lead, 



sixteen ounces, white Wax, washed Ceruss, j CoU -, Take of Qil f Roses Qne 

 ot each tour drams, Lead burnt and washed, | d ^ an ha]f red Lead three Qu 

 Pomphohx prepared, of each two ounces, | g th twQ Qunce ' ^^ ^ ounce ^ 

 imrclrankmcenseoneounce: bring them an ha if; Tutty ^^ drams Camphire tw 

 into the form of an ointment according to j drams? Wax Qne ounce and an ha] {- make h 



^, , -, mi i T/. ; into an ointment according; to art, in a pes- 



Culpeper.-] This much differing from the| tle and mortermade o f Lead, 

 former, you shall have that inserted at latter j CI</WWT ;J This ointment is as d ; M 

 end, and then you may use which you j a man sha]I J usually read of one; and^al 



56 ' j cooling, therefore good for sores, and such 



Unguentum Emtlatum. | ag are g oubled ^ defluctions . 



Or, Ointment of Elecampane. TT , 7 . . 



CMfeg*.] Take of Elecampane roots! Unguentum e Aicotana, sen Peto. 



boiled in Vinegar, bruised and pulped, one ' Or ' Omtment of Tobacco, 



pound, Turpentine washed in their clecoc- \ College.'] Take of Tobacco leaves bruised, 

 tion, new Wax, of each two ounces, old j two pounds, steep them a whole night fn 

 Hog's grease salted ten ounces, old oil four \ red Wine, in the morning boil it in fresh 

 ounces, common salt one ounce, add the | Hog's grease, diligently washed, one pound, 

 Turpentine to the grease, wax, and oil, being! till the Wine be consumed, strain it, and 

 melted, as also the pulp and salt being! add half a pound of juice of Tobacco, 

 finely powdered, and so make it into an I Rozin four ounces, boil it to the cons-amp- 

 ointment according to art. ! tion of the juice, adding towards the end, 

 Unguentum Enulatum cnm Mercurio. > round Birthwort roots in powder, two 

 Or, Ointment of Elecampane with Quick- 1 ounces, new Wax as much as is sufficient 

 silver, i to make it into an ointment according to 



College.'] Is made of the former oint-jart. 



ment, by adding two ounces of Quick-silver, : Culpeper. ,] It would take a whole summer'? 

 killed by continual stirring, not only with I day to write the particular 1 virtues of this 

 spittle, or juice of Lemons, but with all the | ointment, and my poor Genius is too wenk 

 Turpentine kept for that intent, and part of \ to give it the hundredth part of its ditc 

 the grease, in a stone mortar. I praise: It cures tumours, imposthumes. 



Culpeper.'] My opinion of this ointment, ; wounds, ulcers, gun-shot, stinging with 

 is (briefly) this : It was invented for the : nettles, bees, wasps, hornets, venomous 

 itch, without quiet-silver it will do no good, ; beasts, wounds made with poisoned arrows 

 ivith quick-silver it may do harm. i &c. 



Unguentum Laitrinum commune. Unguentum Nutntum, seu Trifarmacum 



^ Or, Ointment of Bays common. College.'] Take of Litharge of Gold 



College.'] Take of Bay leaves bruised i finely powdered, half a pound, Vinegar 

 one pound, Bay berries bruised half a : one pound, Oil of Roses two pounds, grind 

 pound, Cabbage leaves four ounces, Neat's- 1 the Litharge in a mortar, pouring to it 

 foot Oil five pounds, Bullock's suet two ; sometimes Oil, some-times Vinegar, till by 

 pounds, boil them together, and strain them, | continual stirring, the Vinegar do no more 

 that so it may be made into an ointment appear, and it come to a whitish ointment, 

 according to aru Culpeper.'] It is of a cooling, drying 



