Culpeper's complete herbal ... To which are ... annexed his English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy / Nicholas Culpeper.

Nicholas Culpeper

Date:: 1814

Credit: Culpeper's complete herbal ... To which are ... annexed his English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy / Nicholas Culpeper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Unguentum Anodynum. jounce, Oil five ounces, powder the Oliba- Or, an Ointment to ease pain. | mini and Myrrh, and the rest being melted, College.'] Take of Oil of white Lilies, | make it into an ointment according to art. six ounces. Oil of Dill, and Chamoinel, ofj ]3usilicou, the less. each two ounces. Oil of sweet Almonds one | College.] lake of yellow Wax, fat Rozin, ounce. Duck’s grease, and Hen’s grease, of | Greek Pitch, of each half a pound. Oil nine each two ounces, white Wax three ounces, | ounces : mix them together, by melting mix them according to art. j them according to art. Cidpepev^ Its use is to assuage pains in 1 Cidpeper.] Both this and the former, any part of the body, especially such as Uieat, moisten, and digest, procure matter in come by inflammations, whether in wounds j wounds, I mean brings the filth or corrupted or tumours, and for that it is admirable. \ blood from green wounds : they dense and Unguentum ei' Apio. |ease pain. Or, Ointment of Smallage. \ Ointment of Bdellium. College.] Take of the juice of Smallage | College.] Take of Bdellium six drams,* one pound, Honey nine ounces. Wheat I Euphorbium, Sagapen, of each four drams, flower three ounces, boil them to a just 1 Castoreum three drams. Wax fifteen drams, thickness. S Oil of Elder or Wall-flowers, ten drams, Culpeper.] It is a very fine, and very j the Bdellium, and Sagapen being dissolved gentle cleanser of wounds and ulcers. j in water of wild Rue, let the rest be united lAniment of Gum Uilemi. \ by the heat of a bath. College.] Take of Gum Elemi, Turpen-j Unguentum de Cake. i tine of the Fir-tree, of each one ounce and | Or, Ointment of Chalk, an half, old Sheep’s Suetcleansed tw'oounces, I College.] Take of Chalk washed, seven old Hog’s grease cleansed one ounce; mix | times at least, half a pound. Wax three them, and make them into an ointment | ounees. Oil of Roses one pound, stir them all according to art. | together diligently in a leaden mortar,~the Culpeper.] It gently cleanses and fills up 1 wax being first melted by a gentle fire in a an ulcer with flesh, it being of a mild nature, I sufficient quantity of the prescribed oil. and friendly to the body. | Culpeper.] It is exceeding good in burn- Unguentum Aureum. | ings and scaldings. College.] 7'ake of yellow Wax half a i Unguentum TfialtluB. pound, common Oil two pounds, Turpen-? Or, Ointment of Marsh-mallows, tine two ounces. Pine Rozin, Colophonia, of; College.] Take of common Oil four each one ounce and an half. Frankincense, | pounds, mussilage of Marsh-mallow roots, Mastich, of each one ounce. Saffron one j Linseeds, and Fenugreek seed two pounds dram, first melt the wax in the oil, then thej boil them together till the watry part Turpentine being added, let them boil \ of the mussilage be consumed, then add together; having done boiling, put in the I Wax half a pound, Rozin three ounces, rest in fine powder, (let the Saffron be the; Turpentine an ounce, boil them to the con- last) and by diligent stirring, make them | sistence of an ointment, but let the mussilage into an ointment according to art. | be prepared of a pound of fresh roots Basilicon, the greater. j bruised, and half a pound of each of the Collegef\ Take of w'hite Wax, Pine j seeds steeped, and boiled in eight pounds of Rozin, Heifer’s Suet, Greek Pitch, Tur-js.pring water, and then pressed out. See pentine, Olibauum, Myrrh, of each owQ'Ahe compound. [ob, 36.) 4 z$