The secrets of Alexis [pseud.]: containing many excellent remedies against divers diseases, wounds, and other accidents. With the manner to make distillations, parfumes ... and meltings ... / [Girolamo Ruscelli].

  • Girolamo Ruscelli
Date:
1615
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Credit: The secrets of Alexis [pseud.]: containing many excellent remedies against divers diseases, wounds, and other accidents. With the manner to make distillations, parfumes ... and meltings ... / [Girolamo Ruscelli]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To make an ointment, the moft excellent in the wotlde,whole vertues are infinite, as wee will declare afterwarde. Which Princes ought to command to bemade and kept in their co» monwealthes : and that it fhould bee made in the prefence ofPhifitians , asTriade is made: or at the leaft euerieman oughttohiue itinhishoufe , andfpcciallie bccaufeaman may make a great quantiticofit: and the longer it is kept, thebetterit W3xeth. T^kefirfiopleftofefjfbeopleofbioleffes, the ople of Ne¬ nuphar, ople of^pike, ot’lc of ttjc heatrbe calleQ Coftum, commonltecalleoCocus, o?HcrbaMarix,tbeopleof ISaie, epic of $utmeggcs , the ople of the bloffomesoflafemin, of each of them a pouno. Klje ople of $utmegs ano of t&ina* mou, is ntaoe in Teething /]5utmcgges 02 gdnamon knell ttampeo in ople £Dltue. 0no in the like matter ye map make theople 02Oecoctton OfXilobalfamum, of Carpobalfitmutn, of Lignum Aloe, of ^irrhCi of Jfrankencenfe, ofthegumme of 3(uie,of$gattttk, ano ofCloaes,anD it flbalt fufftfe oaelie to put in the ople of tljcfc false fpteest, halfe as mnehc as each of the other mountethbnto , that is to fate , halfe a pounce. Etkefoife mutt pc make ople of Camphor, hut onlic inarm the ople ©line in a little pan, ano ponre it fo Open the Cam* pher a gmo toap off front the Src: then mutt pou fueoenlp to- uer it: fo? the Campher is fo fine ano Oelicate, that it tuouloe incontinent bjeath out ano bamft atnaie: ano therfoje Oeoth the Campher tleaue Onto the liooe ano Goes of the pan , be* taufe it cannot get out. pou mutt put onlie halfeanbnceof Campher fo? eucrie tioo 0? tb?ee pouno of the foboie quan* titie of the other oples together: then aooe to it a pouno of theople of turpentine,maoe hpoittillation, ano th?de knees of the ople of Stcrax liquida: anoafter this put all thefe oples fo miugleo together, into a great cauo?on 0? kettle tinneo lanthin, tohtch mutt be high ano nerrotoe,tothe enoe that all the things that pe toll put in, map afterttmro be tollcoue* rso toith the faio oples : ano the fatoe tauO?on ought to baue - . a