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Emplastrum Divinum. \ CulpepcrJ] I found this receipt in an 



Or, A Divine Plaster. * old manuscript written in the year 1513 



College.'] Take of Loadstone four ounces, i 

 Ammoniacum three ounces and three 



the quantity of the ingredients very little 

 altered. 



drams, Bdellium two ounces, Galbanum, j A Plaster of Gum Elemi. 



Myrrh, of each ten drams, Olibanum nine! College.'] Take of Gum Elemi three 

 drams, Opopanax, Mastich, long Birthwort, ; ounces, Per Rozin, Wax, Ammoniacum, 

 Verdigris, of each an ounce, Litharge, j of each two ounces, Turpentine three 

 common Oil, of each a pound and an half, > ounces and an half, Mallaga Wine so much 

 new Wax eight ounces : let the Litharge in | as is sufficient : boil it to the consumption 

 6ne powder be boiled with the oil to a I of the Wine, then add the Ammoniacum 

 thickness, then add the Wax, which being j dissolved in Vinegar. 



melted, take it from the fire, add the Gums ; Culpeper.~\ The operation is the same 

 dissolved in Wine and Vinegar, strain it, ; with Arcem Liniment, 

 then add the Myrrh, Mastich, Frankin- j A Planter of Lapis Calaminaris. 



cense, Birthwort, and Loadstone in powder, | College."] Take of Lapis Calaminaris 

 last of all the Verdigris in powder, and j prepared an ounce, Litharge two ounces 

 make it into a plaster according to art. j Ceruss half an ounce, Tutty a dram, Tur- 



Culpeper.'] It is of a cleansing nature, \ pentine six drams, white Wax an ounce 

 exceeding good against malignant ulcers, | and an half, Stag's Suet two ounces, Frank- 

 it consumes corruption, engenders newjincense five drams, Mastich three drams, 

 flesh, and brings them to a scar. j Myrrh two drams, Camphire a dram and 



Emplastrum Epispasttcum. \ an half, make it up according to art. 



College.'] Take of Mustard seed, Euphor-j Emplastrum ad Herniam. 



bium, long Pepper, of each one dram and 5 College.'] Take of Galls, Cypress Nuts, 

 an half, Stavesacre, Pellitory of Spain of : Pomegranate Pills, Balaustines, Acacia, 

 each two drams, Ammoniacum, Galbanum, ! the seeds of Plantain, Fleawort, Water- 

 Phellium, Sagapen, of each three drams, j cresses, Acorn Cups, Beans terrified, Birth- 

 wiioie Cantharides five drams, Ship Pitch, J wort long and round, Myrtles of each half 

 Rozin, yellow Wax, of each six drams, jan ounce. Let these be powdered, and 

 Turpentine as much as is sufficient to make j steeped in Rose Vinegar four days, then 

 it into a plaster. ! terrified and dried, then take of Comfrey 



Culpeper."] Many people use to draw > the greater and lesser, Horsetail, Woad, 



blisters in their necks for the tooth ache, or > Cetrach, the roots of Osmond Royal, Fearn, 



for rheums in their eyes ; if they please to | of each an ounce, Frankincense, Myrrh, 



lay a plaster of this there, it will doit. j Aloes, Mastich, Mummy, of each two 



Emplastrum a nostratibus, Flos Unguentorum \ ounces, Bole-ammoniac washed in Vinegar, 



Dictum. I Lap, Calaminaris prepared, Litharge of 



Or, Flower of Ointments. Gold, Dragon's blood, of each three ounces, 



College.'] Take of Rozin, Per Rozin, j Ship Pitch two pounds, Turpentine six 

 yellow Wax, Sheep's Suet, of each half a (ounces, or as much as is sufficient to make 

 pound, Olibanum four ounces, Turpentine i it into a plaster according to art. 

 two ounces and an half, Myrrh, Mastich,! Culpeper.'] The plaster is very binding 

 of each an ounce, Camphire two drams, land knitting, appropriated to ruptures c 

 white Wine half a pf\\ n fJ, boil them into a | burstens, as the title of it specifics, it 

 plaster. [strengthens the reins and womb, slays 



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