364 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



not a whit inferior to it ; it strengthens the 

 stomach being anointed with it, restores 



in Violet Water six ounces, oil of Sweet 

 Almonds four ounces, oil of Chamomel 



appetite and digestion. Before it was called : and Violets, white Wax, of each three 

 a stomach ointment. jounces, Hen's and Duck's greese, of eadi 



Unguent urn Neapolitanum. j two ounces, Orris roots two drams, Saffron 



Colltge.] Take of Hog's grease washed! half a dram: The two last being finely 

 in juice of Sage a pound, Quick-silver ? powdered, the rest melted and often washed 

 strained through leather, four ounces, oil of: in Barley or Hyssop water, make an oint- 



Bays, Chamomel, and Earthworms, of each ! 



ment of them according to art. 



two ounces, Spirit of Wine an ounce, yellow ( CulpeperJ] It strengthens the breast and 

 Wax two ounces, Turpentine washed in ; stomach, eases the pains thereof, helps 

 juice of Elecampane three ounces, powder ; pleurises and consumptions of the lungs, 

 of Chamepitys and Sage, of each two | the breast being anointed with it. 

 drams, make them into an ointment accord- | Unguentum Resumptivum. 



ing to art. College-] Take of Hog's grease three 



Culpeper] A learned art to spoil people: jounces, the grease of Hen's, Geese, and 



hundreds are bound to curse such oint- { Ducks, of each two ounces, Oesipus half 



ments, and those that appoint them. i an ounce, oil of Violets, Chamomel, and 



Unguentum Nervinum ! Dill, fresh Butter a pound, white Wax six 



College.] Take of Cowslips with the jounces, mussilage of Gum Tragacanth. 

 tlowers, Sage, Chamepitys, Rosemary, < Arabic, Quince seeds, Lin-seeds, Marsh- 

 Lavender, Bay with the berries, Chamomel, | mallow roots, of each half an ounce. Let 

 Rue, Smallage, Melilot with the flowers, j the mussilages be made in Rose water, and 

 Wormwood, of each a handful, Mints, j adding the rest, make it into an ointment 

 Betony, Pennyroyal, Parsley, Centaury the J according to art. 



less, St. John's Wort, of each a handful, j Culpeper.'] It mightily molifies without 

 oil of Sheep's or Bullock's feet, five pounds, j any manifest heat, and is therefore a fit 

 oil of Spike half an ounce, Sheep's or | ointment for such as have agues, asthmas, 

 Bui lock's Suet, or the Marrow of either, two; hectic fevers, or consumptions. It is a 

 pounds : the herbs being bruised and \ good ointment to ease pains coming by in- 

 boiled with the oil and suet, make it into an ? liammations of wounds or aposthumes, 

 ointment according to art. I especially such as dryness accompanies, an 



Culpeper.] It is appropriated to the ; infirmity wounded people are many times 

 nerves, and helps their infirmities coining of; troubled with. In inward aposthumes, as 

 cold, as also old bruises, make use of it in i pleurises, one of them to anoint the ex- 

 dead palsies, chilliness or coldness of par- I ternal region of the part, is very benefical. 

 ticular members, such as the arteries per- ; Unguentum Splanchnicum, 



form not their office to as they ought ; forj College.] Take of oil of Capers an 

 wind anoint your belly with it ; for want of jounce, oil of white Lillies, Chamomel, 

 digestion, your stomach; for the cholic,your; fresh Butter, juice of Briony and Sow- 

 belly ; for whatever disease in any part of 1 bread, of each half an ounce, boil it to the 

 the body comes of cold, esteem this as a : consumption of the juice, add Ammoniacum 

 jewel. {dissolved in Vinegar, two drams and an 



Unguentum Pectorale. j half, Hen's grease, Oesypus, Marrow of a 



Or, A Pectoral Ointment. \ Call's Leg, of each half an ounce, powder 



College.'] Take -of fresh Butter cashed : of the bark of the roots of Tamaris and 



