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INTRODUCTION. 
Ounces : melt and mix them well together , and 
put the Mafs into Gaily Pots for ufe. 3. The 
fecond way by Infolation. Take fuch Roots , 
Herbs , flowers , Seeds, die. which arc hot and dry , 
of very thin, fubtil and volatil parts , bruifed, 
eight Handfuls • Lard , four Pounds : Beat 
them well together in a Stone Mortar, with .a 
Wooden Peflle -, put the Mafs into a broad Stone 
or Earthen Glazed Pot , tye it over with a Paper , 
and infolate it for 1 4 Days, or for want of a 
hot Sun, digefi it as long m a mild Sand heal , 
that the Lard may be all that time perfectly 
melted and w hi /ft hot , firain out the matter by 
prejfing. Repeat this Infolation or Digefi ion , 3 
or 4 times, in the fame manner and. at length , 
take the expreffed Subfiancc , and add thereto-, 
Venice or Srrasburg Turpentine , Bees Wax, of each 
8 Ounces : melt and mix them over a gentle 
Lire without boiling, and keep the Ointment for 
ufe. 4. The third way , by Cot/ion or boiling 
Take of the bruifed Ingredients 8 Handfuls -, 
Hogs Lard, 4 Pounds, boil over a gentle Lire to 
Cnjpnefs , and J 1 rain out by prejfing : Repeat this 
work 3 or 4 times and lafi/y , to the expreffed 
Matter, add Turpentine, Bees Wax, of each 8 
Ounces-, boil and mix, and keep the Ointment for ufe. 
5. Sometimes Loaders are added to Ointments for 
particular Ufes, the chief of which, are of Aloes 
Birthwort -Roots, Campbir , Coloquintida , Option 
Rofin , Scammony, Stavefacrc , Tobacco, &c. of Mi- 
nerals, burnt- Alum, burnt -Lead, blowers of Sul- 
phur, Mcrcurius Dulcis, Saccharum Saturm, Tur- 
bith Mineral, Red Precipitate , White Precipitate, 
Vcrdigrife, &c. 6 . Liniments, They are Soft Oint- 
ments, and made in all refpetts as Ointments are , 
faving, that they are generally made without Wax-, 
or with only the half quantity of Turpentine and. 
Wax. 
IV. BALSAMS, t . Thefe are Artificial, 
and made in Imitation of the Natural, by mixing 
fucb Ingredients together as may confiit'utc a body 
of equal Denfity or Subfiancc. 2. Take Oil of the 
Ingredient you\ would add to your balfam, as firong 
011 of Hyper iron, or firong Oil of the yellow of Orange 
Peels by Inflation, id Pints-, Oil of Nutmegs by 
Exprejfion , Balfam of Peru , choice Chio Turpen- 
t ine, of each 4 Pounds •, mix, melt over a gentle 
Lire, and keep it for ufe. 3. Take Oil of Ben, 
1 2 Pounds -, Chio Turpentine, 6 Pounds -, Balfam 
of Peru, 5 Pounds Oil of Nutmegs, 4 Pounds : 
mix and melt over a gentle Lire , and keep it 
clofe fiopt for ufe. 
V. POUDER S. 1. Thofe intended in this 
place, are only finch as are for External ufe, ap- 
plicable to l he Eyes, Jlopping Blood, Wounds, Ul- 
cers , &c. 2. 1 hey are made of Ingredients per- 
fel/ly dried; and then reduced to a fubtil kind 
of blower, either by grinding in a Mill, or beat- 
ing in a Mortar , and Jo paffed thro ’ a fine 
Scarce. 3. Ponders for tlx Eyes , as A/abafier 
calcin'd and levigated, or Lapis Calaminaris cal- 
lin' d and levigated, or blints calcin'd, beaten and 
levigated any of which Ponders being blown into 
the Eye , con] u me Pearls, Films, &c. Jo alfo fine 
Ponder of Rice , which with ones Linger may be 
daily and fcveral times a day rubbed upon bilms 
Pearls , die. which in tune wears than off. 
4. Ponders for flopping Blood, are chiefly Cate- 
chu, Vitriol calcin'd with fine Bole and Camphir, 
Louder of Puffs or Lufs Balls, of Mans Blood, of 
Alcanet Root , &c. 5;. Ponders for digefi ing, 
cleanfing, and healing old Ulcers , as Aloes , of 
Rnjia, of Scammony, of Tobacco, &c. which two tali 
things arc without comparjon. 
E R S ,aniC E R A T S, 
0> 9 ,, v k CL O T H S. 1 . Emp/aficrs are 
made lirj! with OilOhve. Secondly with Hogs Lard 
or feme other Fat or Grcafe , adding the other prol 
fer Ingredients. 2. Firft with Oil. Take Oil Olive 
“ cA' r !' J 0me f rofer Gum or Gums, from 10 to 
16 Ounces, bees Wax 4 Ounces , melt , mix, ani 
boil to the Confidence of an Emphjler. 5. Where 
turpentine , ani any proper Venders of Vegetables 
are added, Bees-Wax will be nccdlefs , and if any 
proper Juices be added, it is to be boiled to the 
conjumption of the Juices. 4. Some Mineral Pon- 
ders, as Red Lead, White Lead, Litharge, Sic. 
bang aided to the Oil with Vinegar, will fufficie nth 
bring the °,l to the Body of an Emphjler, without 
tj-e addition of Gums or Wax, by a pretty longboil- 
vtg and conflantly Jlirring, wan a wooden Spa- 
tula till , t is perf died. 5. Secondly with Hoes 
Lard, or fame other Vats or Gr cafes. It is made 
altogether as the former, favc in ibis cafe it needs 
much lefs boiling, and a J. mailer quantity of Gums 
« c Cerats °J Cerecloths. They are 
J jt Emplajiers, which will fpread without melting 
tn a Pan or the Ifelp of l -ire? being for the molt 
part made with Oil Olive , and in a much larger 
quantity, q. The Emphjler being brought to its 
due lonfjtcncy, it is then made up into Rowls 
ani Jo kept for Ufe. 
VII. CATAPLASMS, or PULTICES. 
Ivey are made with Oil or bats, adding the boiledPulps 
oj Roots , or Pigs, and the other proper Ingredients 
accoidmg to the Intention • as baked or boiled white 
Lilly Roots, Turneps, Onions, Garlick , Leeks , 
C omjrcy Roots, die. and fo bringing it to a due Con- 
fiflency with blower of Oatmeal, Barley-blower 
0 rob ns- Meal, Crumbs of White Bread, Milks &c 
boding all to a due foftnefs. 2. Some Pultices arc 
made to difeufs Tumors which ' will not probably 
break-, fome to cafe Pain, fomc to allay Infia- 
mations , and Jo me to Maturate Tumors which 
tend to breaking 5 fo that according to the Intention 
of the Cataplafm, fuch ought the Ingredients to be 
to anfwer the fame. -3. It ought to be laid on as 
hot ai the Patient can well endure it -, and to be 
renewed 2 or 3 'times a day, or as often as the Na- 
ture of the Ala lady ajfii fling requires it. 
VIII. CLYSTERS. 
VIII. CLYSTERS, i. They are Liquids 
made with Poffet drink, or Meat Broths, with the 
addition of fuch other Ingredients as are proper to 
the Intention of Cure. 2. The chief Purpofes 
for which they are ufed are, Firft, to cafe Pain in the 
Bowels from the Colick or /harp Humors. Secondly 
for the Cure of Fluxes of the Belly, and Bloody Flux- 
es. Thirdly, to remedy Coftivenejs , Fourthly, to purge 
the lower Bowels. 3. Clyfters tor eating Pain, are 
made with Carminative DecoUions adding half 2 
quarters, or an Ounce of Strasburgh Turpentine 
well mixed with 1 or 2 Talks of Eggs, and then with 
the DecoUton , andfo exhibited [omelhing more than 
Blood warm. 4. For the Cure of the Bloody Flux 
or other Fluxes of the Belly; to a ftrengthening 
DecoOion in Whey, a quarter Part of Brandy ought 
to be added, and the C/yfter to be feveral times re- 
peated : If the Flux is Inveterate , and not eafy to 
be fiopt, 6 , 1 , or 1 o Grains more or lefs of Lau- 
danum, ought to be diffohed in the Brandy and 
mixt with the DecoJion. 5. For an extreamCo- 
ftivenefs. The Clyfter ought to be made of Lu- 
brific alive s , as a Vecvlfion of Althea Roots m 
which 
