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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$College.'] Take of Oil of Rue, Savin, t Unguentum Citrinum. Mints, Wormwood, bitter Almonds, of each ; Or, A Citron Ointment, one ounce and an half, juice of Peach! College.] Take of Borax an ounce, flowers and leaves, and Wormwood, of each 1 Camphire a dram, white Coral half an half an ounce, powder of Rue, Mints, | ounce, Alum Plume an ounce. Umbilicus Centaury the less. Gentian, Tormenlil, ofjMarinus, Tragacanth, white Starch, of each orje dram, the seeds of Coleworts, the j each three drams, Crystal, Dentalis Utalis, pulp of Colocynthis, of each two drams, | Olibanum, Niter, white Marble, of each Aloes Hepatic, three drams, meal of Lupines I two drams, Gersa Serpentaria an ounce, half an ounce. Myrrh washed in Grass j Ceruss six ounces. Hog’s grease not salted, water a dram and an half, Bull’s Gall an j a pound and an half. Goat’s suet prepared, ounce and an half, with a sufficient quan-1 an ounce and an half. Hen’s fat two ounces tity of juice of Lemons, and an ounce and land an half. Powder the things as you an half of Wax, make it into an ointment 1 ought to do both together, and by them- according to art. j selves, melt the fats being cleansed in a Ungnenhim Apostolorum. \ stone vessel, and steep in them two Citrons Or, ointment of the Apostles. ; ^ mean bigness cut in bits, in a warm College.-] Take of Turpentine, yellow | J P“‘ Wax, Ammoniaemn, of each fourteen drams, long Birthwort roots, Olibanum, he Camphjre and Borax be the last X3J 11- c u • J A/r u /-. i Istir them, and bring them into the form of Bdellium, of each six drams, Myrrh, Gil-1 ^ ° V V u u li? 5 an ointment. banum, or each halt an ounce, Opopanax, \ re ^ nr l' ± xr ]. • c u * j T-.1 \ Vunguentum Martiatum. Verdzgris, or each two drams, Litharge 1 n rr i i i i nine drams,Oil two pounds, Vinegar enou|h i to dissolve the Gums, make it info an oint-1Poends and an ment according to art. | half, M^aqoram two pounds. Mints a Culpeper.] It consumes corrupt and i dead ll4h, and makes flesh soft which is|f ’’“'f ** P““<^’ 77?*^ hard, it cleanseswmunds, ulcers, and fistulas, I Pr‘*7 rnPT.n’ and restores flesh where it is wanting. | y*® 7™ ’a f i bruised, boiled, and pressed out as they I ought, make an ointment according to art. Unguentum Catapsoras. College.] Take of Ceruss washed in Pur-1 Culpeper.] It is a great slrengthener of slain water, then in Vinegar wherein wild | the head, it being anointed with it; as also Rhadish roots have been steeped and | of all the parts of the body, especially the pressed out, Lapis Calaminaris, Chalcitis, 5 nerves, muscles, and arteries. of each six drams, burnt Lead, Goat’s blood, of each half an ounce, Quick-silver; Unguentum Mastichinum. Or, An Ointment of Mastich. sublimated an ounce, the juice of House-i CoUege.] Take of the Oil of Mastich, leek. Nightshade, Plantain, of each two 1 Wormwood, and Nard, of each an ounce, ounces. Hog’s grease cleansed three pounds, 1 Mastich, Mints, red Roses, red Coral, Cloves, Oil of Violets, Poppies, Mandrakes, of j Cinnamon, Wood of Aloes, Squinanth, of each an ounce: first let the sublimate and \ each a dram, wax as much as is sufficient exungia, then the oils, juices, and powders, 1 to make it into an ointment according to be mixed, and so made into an ointment j art. according to art. Culpeper.] This is like the former, and (37, 38.) 5 A$