A book of simples.

Date:
1908
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Credit: A book of simples. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    water till it be white next beat your Sack and Sallet oyle well together then cut your wax in fmall pieces then take a clean brafs pan or kittle let your kittle be twice as big as to hold the quantity of your ingre- dients then Set it on a clear charcole fire then firft put in your wax and let it melt then take it off and let it coole a little then put in your rofe water and turpen- tine then your fack and Sallet oyle, as faH as you can, then let thefe boyle foftly together a while always Hiring it then take it off the fire and let it ftand till it be cold then fcrape off the filth from the bottom of the cake, then clean your pan and melt it again and let it fimmer a while over the fire again, then take it from the fire and put in your Sanders by degrees keeping it ftill Hiring untill your Sanders be all in then pour it into a well Glazed Hrong earthen pot and keep it Hiring till it be quite cold then cover it up very clofe with ledd, that no air may get into it, and bury it in a garden deep in the ground and fo let it Hand a year round bean blowen time is the beH to make it in. The Vertues of it followeth: IT is good to prevent the plague by anointing the lips and noHrells therewith tis good for deafnefs being fpert’d into the ears with a ferenge, tis good to heal any wound, inward or outward, inwardly by the Serenge outward by being pour’d warme into the wound aplying fine lint dip’d into the fame balfame being melted laid upon the mouth of the wound, it commonly cures in 7 times dreffing provided that no other thing either before or while thats ufeing be applied thereto, fo that if brains, heart guts or liver be not toucht it will fave life, its good for fcaulds or burns either by fire or water and healeth without fkare. helping the Siatica or any other each proceeding from A cold caufe, in what joynt foever, it is a