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A43017	The family-physician, and the house-apothecary containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people usually advise with apothecaries to be cured of, II. Instructions, whereby to prepare at your own houses all kinds of necessary medicines that are prepared by apothecaries, or prescribed by physicians, III. The exact prices of all drugs, herbs, seeds, simple and compound medicines, as they are sold at the druggists, or may be sold by the apothecaries, IV. That it's plainly made to appear, that in preparing medicines thus at your own houses, that it's not onely a far safer way, but you shall also save nineteen shillings in twenty, comparing it with the extravagant rates of many apothecaries / by Gideon Harvey ...	Harvey, Gideon, 1640?-1700?	1678 (1678)	Wing H1065; ESTC R13943	43,731	199

pulp 5. The manner of preparing Sugar of Violets Take two ounces of the juice of Violets and as much Violet-water therein dissolve one pound of white Sugar Boil them in a Preserving-pan over a Chafing-dish of Charcoal until they come to a just thickness which you shall know by these several trials 1. By dropping a drop off the point of a Knife or steel Slice on a Plate and let it grow cold if it prove hard enough so that you may take it off the Plate without sticking it is boil'd enough 2. By taking some of it on the point of a knife and let it drop into the Pan again which if it be enough it will drop a top of the surface and continue raised on it like a knob 3. By letting a little cool on the point of a knife and then see whether it be hard enough Lastly observe while the Violet-juice Water and Sugar are boiling you must oft stir it with a steel Slice or long-handled spoon or knife to prevent it from burning at the bottom The manner of preparing Sugar of Roses Because of the Affinity of this Preparation with the foregoing and that a little father information will serve I thought fit to set down the manner of preparing Sugar of Roses Dissolve a pound of the best white Sugar being powdered and sifted into four ounces of red Rose-water or into two ounces of red Rose-water and as much of the juice of red Roses boil it to a just body mixing it with one ounce of red Rose-leaves dried in the Sun and powdered a little before it be ready to be taken off from the fire How to make the foresaid Sugar of Roses or Violets into Lozenges When your Sugar of Roses or Violets is taken off from the Fire and hath stood a little for to cool put it on a clean smooth Marble-stone whereon you must have dusted a little fine Flour by tying it up in a fine rag and then beating the said rag all over the stone this being done to prevent the sticking of the Lozenges to the Stone afterwards take a small Rolling-pin such as is used for Paste and dust it likewise over with fine Flour with this Rolling-pin smooth the top of the Sugar being almost grown cold then with a Knife cut it into Lozenges of such shape and bigness you fancie best The Prices of Electuary Lenitive The Ingredients of the Decoct 18 d. The white Sugar and Sugar of Violets for the Syrup 18 d. The Pulps 3 s. 2 d. The Sena and Anniseeds 8 d. The whole 6 s. 10 d. For which you shall have five pounds and somewhat more of Electuary Lenitive so that it will not stand you in above sixteen pence farthing the pound and the ounce will come but to one penny The Apothecaries prices The pound four shillings The ounce four pence CHAP. IX Of Pills The Description of Pilulae Rudii or Extractum Catholicon TAke of the pulp of Colocynth six drams Agarick black Hellebore-root Scammony Turbith of each half an ounce Aloës Succotrine one ounce of the powder of Diarrhodon Abbatis half an ounce All these excepting the powder or Species of Diarrhodon Abbatis must be beaten into a gross powder and put into a digesting-Glass viz. a glass Body and blinde Head or into a bolt Head with a wide neck pouring upon them as much Brandy as will cover them and eight fingers breadth higher so let them stand in the Sun to steep for eight days Afterwards in the same manner infuse the powder of Diarrhodon Abbatis in Brandy for four days then strain and press the Liquor or Tincture hard from both the Infusions and mix them pouring them into a glass Body covered with a glass Head and distill off as much of the moisture until the remainder in the bottom of the glass Body come to the thickness of Honey whereof make a mass of Pills and put it up into a stone Pill-pot Exceptions against this Prescription 1. Whoever caused this description to be inserted into the Dispensatory discovered himself very much unexperienced in Chymical Pharmacy by directing the Aloës and Scammony to be infused with the other Ingredients for the Aloës and Scammony immediately saturating or clogging the body of the Brandy hinder its Spirits in attracting the virtue out of the other purgative Ingredients there being not a third part of their virtue extracted 2. The Powder of Diarrhodon Abbatis is not only troublesome but chargeable to be prepared and when it is prepared signifies no more to the correcting of those strong Purgatives than water to the washing a Blackmore white Wherefore instead of this Fobcorrective rather adde to those Purgatives one dram of Cinnamon Clove-bark two scruples both reduced to a gross powder and put in with the other Ingredients The volatile Salts and Spirits of those Spices being united with the Spirits of the Brandy do not only render them more potent to extract the virtue of the other Simples but also qualifie them through their subtile particles to maturate and digest the gross impure Sulphurs of those violent Purgatives whereby they become more milde and less offensive to Nature and heightned in their virtues The true manner of preparing the foresaid Pilulae Rudii 1. BReak the Colocynth-Apples and take out the white soft Marrow flinging away the grains or kernels Then put the said Marrow into your brass Mortar dropping into it a few drops of Oyl of sweet Almonds or of sweet Salade-oyl and beat it to powder 2. The Agarick will not be beaten into powder but must be grated on a Tin Grater 3. The black Hellebore and Turbith may be beaten together into a powder 4. Put all these Ingredients together with the Spices beaten to a gross powder into a digesting-Glass and then pour the Brandy upon them having dissolved into it one dram and a half of Salt of Tartar When the Liquor is sufficiently tinctured strain it and press it hard out into a low glass Body to which you are then to adde the best Scammony and Succotrine Aloës which needs no other purification each by it self grosly powdered and sifted from the stalks and other heterogeneous bodies that are usually incorporated with them After this distil off the moisture until it comes to the thickness of Honey Twenty grains of this Preparation is more safe and yet not less effectual than fourty grains of the other The Prices The Colocynth 5 d. or 6 d. Agarick 3 d. Black Hellebore ½ d. Scammony 5 d. Turbith 3 d. Aloës Suc. 6 d. Spec. Diarrhodon Abbatis 6 d. Bourdeaux Brandy 15 d. Charcoal 4 d. The whole 3 s. 11 d. ½ d. For which you shall have about two ounces of Pil. Rudii The ounce comes to one shilling eleven pence three farthings The dram comes to three pence The Apothecaries prices The ounce at four shillings The dram at six pence The Description of the Mass of Pills of Hiera with Agarick TAke of the powder of Hiera Picra the preparation whereof hath

together and pour on them the Wine and Briony-juice This Water when it is distilled as it ought to be is not good enough to wash your hands and consequently of little vertue to be taken inwardly for not a quarter of the strength of the Ingredients doth come over the Helm Wherefore let me advise you rather to prepare this Water against Fits thus Instead of the Juice of Briony Take dried Briony-roots beaten to a gross powder two ounces the rest of the Herbs being all dried and the other Ingredients poudered gross and in the same quantity as they are set down before Instead of three pints of Canary take a quart of the best Nants Brandy Put them into a Glass and let them steep six days in warm Ashes then strain the liquor off and keep it in a glass Bottle cork'd up for your use An half ounce of this Liquor doth contain more vertue than half a pint of the other distilled Water What this Liquor or Water will stand you in is not difficult to compute by what is informed you before therefore I shall spare the pains of summing it up here The Apothecaries prices are three shillings six pence or four shillings the pint and three pence or four pence the ounce The Description of Aqua Limacum Magistralis or the London Snail-water against Consumptions THis compound Water is so ridiculous that I am ashamed to see it in any Dispensatory for the chief thing aimed at is through the cool clammy and glutinous substance of the liquor of Snails 1. To cool the heat of the Hectick Fever 2. To repair the parts consumed 3. To facilitate Expectoration that is to make the matter come up easie by Cough through its lenifying quality whereby it sweeteneth the humors by allaying those gnawing Salts that prey on the Lungs Now in distilling of the Snails there is no part of their unctuous or glutinous Liquor passeth the Alembick but a meer Elementary Water The same may be said also of the Hogs Blood For this and other reasons I do commend to you this following Liquor of Snails Take of Garden-snails especially those off a Vine with their shells a pound first wash them well with water and a little salt then wash them once or twice more with fair water to wash off the salt bruise them with their shells in a stone Mortar to a mash adde to them Ground-Ivie Speedwell Lungwort Scabious Burnet Coltsfoot and Nettle-tops of each a handful English Liquoris half an ounce Dates stoned twelve in number of the four greater cold Seeds and Marshmallow seeds of each one dram and half Saffron a scruple Put them into a new glazed Pipkin and pour on them a quart of Spring-water fasten the Cover close to the Pipkin by pasting it round with Dough. Let it stand twelve hours upon hot Cinders or rather in a Kettle of hot water over the fire then strain and press out the Liquor dissolving into it while it 's warm a quarter of a pound of clarified Honey put it into a Glass and keep it in the Cellar Note That the Herbs must be shred the Seeds bruised and the Liquoris cut small What concerns the other compound Waters described in the Dispensatory they either agreeing in vertue with some of these forementioned or being not very aptly composed or other Medicines being at hand that instead of them may immediately according to the Prescription of your Family-Physician be prepared with far greater profit and benefit to the Patient for those reasons I have omitted setting down any more of the said Dispensatory-Waters CHAP. III. Of Syrups The Description of Syrupus Altheae or Syrup of Marshmallows TAke Marshmallow-roots two ounces Grass-roots Asparagus-roots Liquoris raspt and Raisins stoned of each half an ounce red Cicers one ounce the tops of Marsh-mallows Mallows Pellitory Burnet Plantane Wall-rue and Maidenhair of each one handful the four greater cold Seeds and the four lesser cold Seeds of each three drams Boil them in three quarts of fair water unto two quarts strain the Liquor into your Syrup-pan and dissolve into it three pounds and half of good Bahi Sugar which will go as far as four pounds of Barbadoes and preserve the Syrup much better The manner of Preparing The Marshmallow-roots by scraping with a knife must be freed from those strings that hang about them likewise their hard cordy substance must be taken away from them then wash them well and bruise them in the Mortar Also wash the Grass-roots and Asparagus-roots and bruise them scrape off the black outside from the Liquoris and bruise it into strings or rasp it wash the Herbs clean for cleanliness in preparing of Medicines is wholsome and no less commendable than it is in Cookery First then put into your Pipkin being placed on a clear fire and containing three quarts of water the Marshmallow Asparagus and Grass-roots because they require longest boiling a while after put in the Cicers and not long after that put in the Herbs being shred the next you must put in are the Seeds Liquoris and Raisins being sufficiently boil'd strain and press the Liquor out and then clarifie it The manner how to clarifie Decoctions and Apozemes you shall be informed of at the end of this Chapter Having dissolved your Sugar to the Decoction boil it gently until it comes to the due thickness of a Syrup Note The four greater cold Seeds are these 1. Pompion 2. Cucumber 3. Gourge 4. Melon-seeds The four lesser cold Seeds are 1. Succory 2. Endive 3. Lettice 4. Purslain-seeds The Prices The Ingredients come to 9 d. The Sugar 21 d. Fire 3 d. or 4 d. The whole amounts to 2 s. 10 d. For which you have five pints eight ounces allowing the fourth part waste which evaporates in the boiling it up to a Syrup so that it will stand you in about three farthings the ounce The Apothecaries prices By the pint two shillings By the ounce three pence The Description of Syrupus Garyophyllorum or Syrup of Gilliflowers TAke fragrant Gilli flowers cut off from their white strings one pound pour on them a quart of Spring-water and let them stand all night Then strain the Liquor and being gently warmed dissolve therein four pound of the whitest Sugar without boiling it The manner of preparing 1. Buy the most fragrant Gilliflowers that are newly gathered at ten or twelve pence the peck 2. Put them into a large pewter Flagon or a new earthen glased Pipkin and pour the Water being warmed upon them then stop your Flagon or earthen Vessel very close and place it all night in the Cellar 3. Strain off your tinctured liquor without much pressing the Strainer in regard you are not to clarifie it as other Liquors are for Syrups for that would occasion a great loss of those fragrant Cordial Spirits 4. Place your Syrup-pan over a very gentle charcoal-Charcoal-fire burning clear without the least smoak and let your liquor be only luke-warm then put in the Sugar being

powdered and sifted gradually stirring it about very gently with a long Steel Spatula or slice which you may buy big enough for your turn for ten pence at the Rasormakers As soon as you finde the Sugar all dissolved take it off immediately without letting it boil or be hot The Description of Syrupus Papaveris erratici or Syrup of Red Poppies TAke Red Poppy-flowers newly gathered two pound steep them one day and night in two quarts of warm water strain and press out the liquor which you must not clarifie but adde to it three pound and half of good Bahi-sugar and boil it gently to a Syrup The better way to make this Syrup is thus Take two pints of the Iuice of Red Poppy-flowers clarifie it after the same manner as shall be taught you at the latter end of this Chapter put to it a pound and three quarters of Bahi-sugar and boil it gently to a Syrup The Price It will come to three farthings the ounce The Apothecaries price By the ounce three pence Which is the common price of most Syrups excepting Laxative Syrups and Syrup of the juice of Pomgranates which are sold at six pence the ounce By the Instructions set down here in this Chapter you may easily attempt the making any Syrup and therefore I shall adde no more In the preparation of the Syrup of Marshmallows the manner of clarifying Decoctions was referred to the latter end of this Chapter which is thus Having strained your Decoction being only warm not hot through a canvas or woollen Strainer pour about a pint thereof into a Bafon wherein you have put before two whites of Eggs beaten with a Rod of small twigs and their shells crusht with your hands mix them well together by stirring them with a spoon or rather beating them into a froth with the foresaid Rod of twigs then put in another pint of the Decoction and mix it as before This done set it over the fire and let it boil a little until you see a scum a top then take it off and let it cool a little and then strain it and let it run through without squeezing or pressing it Note That two Whites of Eggs with their Shells are sufficient for clarifying a quart or three pints of Decoction The manner of clarifying Apozems is only thus Having clarified the Decoction as before is set down you heat it again and when it beginneth to boil mix the Syrup with it and let it continue on the fire until it casts up a scum then strain it twice or thrice being half grown cold The manner of clarifying Honey or Sugar will be inserted in another Chapter below CHAP. IV. The manner of making Conserves Conserve of Roses TAke a pound of red Rose-flowers gathered in a dry season before they are quite spread and their yellow bottoms clipt from them with a pair of Sissers bruise them well in a stone Mortar into an even smooth Mass like a Pulp adde to it two pound of white Sugar mixing it by degrees with the Roses by grinding them together with a wooden Pestle until all the Sugar be thorowly incorporated with the Roses Then put the Conserve into a stone pot covering it only with a paper and let it stand a fortnight or three weeks in the Sun stirring it about once or twice a week with a steel Slice or Spatula The manner of making Conserve of common Wormwood TAke of the tops only of common Wormwood freed from its stalks half a pound beat them in a stone or marble Mortar to an exact pulp mixing with it a pound and half of the best white Sugar in the same manner as was directed in making Conserve of red Roses Most Conserves are made the same way adding a double quantity of Sugar to the pulp of what Flowers or Herbs you intend to conserve excepting onely some sower and bitter Herbs and Flowers which require somewhat more Sugar The price of Conserves at the Apothecaries is two pence the ounce and two shillings eight pence the pound excepting some few as Conserve of Rosemary-flowers which is six pence the ounce and suchlike If you prepare the Conserves your self you will save above two Thirds in the price and probably may prove much better for usually Apothecaries put up their Conserves crude or raw without digesting them by the heat of the Sun for which defect they neither keep so long nor are they so safe to be used CHAP. V. The manner of making Lozenges Trochisci albi pectorales or the common white Lozenges TAke of the best white Sugar half a pound white Sugar-candy and Penide Sugar of each two ounces Florence Orris-root half an ounce Liquoris six drams of the finest Flour or Starch-flour six drams with the mucilage of Gum-dragant extracted in Rose-water make them up into small Lozenges The manner of preparing 1. The white Sugar the Sugar-candy and Penide Sugar must be pounded and sifted 2. Penide Sugar is prepared thus Dissolve the best Bahi Sugar in water over a gentle fire then clarifie it with Whites of Eggs in manner as hath been told you next strain it through a cloath and let it stand again over a gentle fire and boil away until it comes to such a bodie that it will stick to your Teeth then being almost cooled pour it on a Marble Stone being a little anointed over with Oyl of sweet Almonds keeping it together in a bodie as near as you can with your fingers being dusted over with a little Starch-flour When it is grown almost quite cold and ropie take it up with a steel fork to make it hang in ropes which with your hand being dusted with fine flour you may twine into what shape you please This being so prepared is called Penide Sugar 3. The Orris-roots must be powdered and sifted likewise the Liquoris powdered in this manner Take dried Liquoris scrape off the brown with a knife round about then cut it into small bits with a knife that is made of the same Metal which Shoemakers knives are made of These put into a brass Mortar and beat into powder Observe It being very troublesome to beat Liquoris into powder you may buy it ready poudered at the Druggists at a very small rate which you may read in the Catalogue of Prices belonging to this Treatise 4. The Starch-flour must be gently rubbed into a powder in a Mortar and then mix all of them together in the same Mortar by stirring the Pestil round about then pour to it as much mucilage of Gum-dragant as will suffice to bring the Powders into a Paste and beat it well together The Paste being rolled into long round Bodies or little Columns of the bigness of your little finger cut them into small round pieces like Parsenips are cut when they are to be eaten buttered 5. The mucilage of Gum-dragant is made only by steeping a little of the said Gum in Rose-water so long until it become thickish which it will do in twelve

shillings By the dram three pence or as much as they can get CHAP. VII Of Electuaries The Description of Diascordium TAke Cinnamon Cassia Lignea of each a quarter of an ounce Scordium or Water Germander half an ounce Dictamnum Creticum or Dictander of Candia Gentian Tormentil Bistort Galbanum Gum-arabick of each two drams of the best Opium two scruples and five grains Storax two drams and fifteen grains Sorrel-seeds two scruples and five grains Bole-armene six drams Terra Lemniae two drams clarified Honey one pound and a quarter Sugar of Roses or rather Conserve of red Roses half a pound Canary-wine a quarter of a pint Make them up into a soft Electuary Notwithstanding I have with good reason left out the Ginger and Pepper yet the Composition seems to me very confused but be it as it is I will shew you how to prepare it The manner of Preparing The Cinnamon Cassia Lignea Dictamnum Creticum Tormentil Bistort and Sorrel-seeds may be powdered and sifted together The Germander-leaves dried and stript from their stalks must be powdered and sifted by it self The Bole-armene and Terra Lemnia must be powdered and rubbed or grownd with a Pestle into a very smooth powder wetting the bottom of the Mortar and end of the Pestle with a little Rose-water or other distill'd water The Gum-arabick must be powder'd in the same manner as Gum-dragant is powder'd in the preparation of the black Lozenges or else you may dissolve it into a Mucilage in the Canary-wine that is to be added to the Composition The Storax must be powder'd by it self rubbing the bottom of the Mortar and end of the Pestle with a slit Almond The Opium cut into thin slices and thorowly dry in the Sun or over the Fire so that it may crumble between your fingers then powder and sift it The Sugar of Roses must also be powdered and sifted Mix all these powders well in a Mortar in that manner as hath been said before Then adde the clarified Honey to it by degrees incorporating it thorowly with the powder by stirring the Pestle about In the same manner put in gradually your Canary-wine of which put in so much as will bring it into a body of a soft Electuary The Prices The Ingredients of the whole Composition weighing almost two pounds will stand you in three shillings and six pence which is near two and twenty pence the pound The Apothecaries Prices By the ounce four pence or six pence or as much as they can get By the pound five shillings and four pence or six shillings The Description of Electuarium Lenitivum or Lenitive Electuary TAke Polypody of the Oak new Currans pickt from their stalks Sena of each two ounces common Mercury-leaves one handful and half Iujubes and Sebestens of each twenty in number Maidenhair Violets and Perl-Barley of each half a handful Damask-Prunes stoned Tamarinds of each six drams Liquoris half an ounce boil them in two quarts of water until a third part be boil'd away strain the Liquor and therein dissolve of the pulp of Cassia Tamarinds new Prunes and Sugar of Violets of each six ounces of the best Sugar two pound At last add to them of Sena powder'd one ounce and half and to every pound of Electuary two drams of Anniseeds powdered and so afterwards bring them into the body of an Electuary The manner of Preparing 1. The Polypody-roots being wash'd clean must be bruised in a Mortar or cleft with a Knife into four parts and afterwards cut into small pieces like as Sarsaparil is cut These with the Perl-barley must be put in somewhat longer than a quarter of an hour before the other Ingredients next put in the Mercury-leaves and Maidenhair being washt clean from sand or dirt and shred a little after put in the Jujubes stoned Sebestens Currans Prunes Tamarinds and Liquoris bruised in the Mortar at last put in the Sena and so let them boil in six quarts of water until one quart be boil'd away Then strain the Liquor while it is warm into a glased earthen Pan or copper tinned Preserving-pan dissolve in it the white Sugar and the Sugar of Violets or instead thereof put in the same quantity of white Sugar and boil it gently to the thickness of a Syrup This done put the pulps of Cassia and the other pulps into a brass Mortar and adde to them about the third part of your powder of Sena and Anniseeds and pour on them about the third part of the forementioned Syrup while it is yet warm and mix them very well together with a steel Slice or Spatula or a Pestle then adde another third part of the powders of Sena and Anniseeds mixing them well together and so at last put in the remaining third part of Powders and Syrup which being also well mixt toghether makes up your Lenitive Electuary This put up into a stone Electuary-pot 2. I must shew you how to extract the pulp of Cassia Take a pound and half of the best Cassia in Canes crush them into pieces that you may take out all the inside together with the Grains which put into a hair Sieve and hold it over the steem of warm water wherein a few Anniseeds have been boil'd or over the Decoction being warm which was prepared for the Lenitive Electuary so that the steem thereof passing through the Sieve may moisten and dissolve the marrow of the Cassia While this is doing you must with the back of a spoon stir and press the said marrow through the Sieve and gently with the hollow of your spoon take it off on the other side and so continue to do until all the marrow is passed through Moreover if your Cassia be very dry you may moisten it a little with the warm Decoction that it may pass the easier On the other hand if the pulp of the Cassia be too moist or liquid when it is passed you must put it on a Tin Plate or a flat earthen glased Pan and set it over a Chafing-dish to dry the superfluous moisture from it until it come to the thickness of an Electuary About a quarter of a pound of good Cassia or somewhat more in Canes is usually found to yield an ounce of pulp 3. You are to know the manner of extracting the pulp of Tamarinds Put a sufficient proportion of Tamarinds into a Mortar and pour to it as much warm water as will but just soften it and a little dissolve it for otherwise they being sticking and glewie the pulp will not pass through the Sieve Then with the Pestle gently move and stir the Tamarinds about that the warm water may incorporate with them This so done put the Mass into a Sieve and press the pulp through in the same manner as hath been taught you in the extracting of the pulp of Cassia 4. The manner of extracting the pulp of Prunes Boil the Prunes in water until they are pretty soft then put them into a Sieve and press through the

said grease thus twice or thrice is sufficient for this Oyntment but for the Oyntment of Roses Vnguentum Album and Vnguentum Pomatum where whiteness is required to make the Oyntment look neat and very white you must wash it in the manner aforesaid eight or nine times The Hogs grease being wash'd put it into the Mortar and mix the aforesaid Herbs with it by stirring the Pestil oft about then put them into a clean Pipkin and let them stand about a month or so long until the other Herbs can be got which then must be also bruised in the Mortar and mixed with the grease and Poplar-buds this done set them in the Sun for eight or nine days stirring them now and then about with a Spatula At last put them into your Pan pour the Rose-water upon them and let them boil until the superfluous moisture be boil'd away then strain and press them hard out and put them into an Oyntment-pot The Apothecaries sell this Oyntment for two pence an ounce The Description of Unguentum Album TAke Oyl of Roses nine ounces White Lead three ounces Wax two ounces Camphor two drams make them up into an Oyntment The manner of preparing this White Oyntment Cut your Wax into lumps and melt it together with the Oyl of Roses in a glas'd earthen Pan or a tinn'd Pan but not in one of brass because that will spoil the whiteness of the Oyntment Being melted and mixed together with a Spatula take it off when it 's grown half cold put in the White Lead being washed and very finely powdred gradually mixing it as it 's put in by stirring it about with a wooden Spatula Being grown almost quite cold mix in like manner the Camphor being powdred and grownd into a smooth even powder dropping a few drops of Oyl of sweet Almonds into the Mortar to anoint the bottom and end of the Pestle Note Oyl of Roses is prepared by steeping four ounces of red Roses before they are quite opened in a pint of Oyl of Olives that was pressed out before the Olives were ripe and setting it in the Sun six or eight days Then strain and press the Oyl from the Roses and put fresh red Roses to the Oyl and steep it again in the Sun the same do again the third time This Oyntment will not stand you in two farthings the ounce Apothecaries sell it at two pence the ounce and some at three pence CHAP. XII Of Emplasters The Description of Emplastrum Diachylon cum Gummi TAke of the Oyl of Mucilages two pound Lithargyr of gold one pound pouring to them about a pint of water boil them until they come to the thickness of a Plaister then adde to them yellow Wax a quarter of a pound Gum-ammoniac Galbanum Opopanax Sagapenum all dissolved in Vinegar of each two ounces Therebinthin a quarter of a pound make them up into an Emplaster The manner of preparing this Plaister The Lithargyr must be powdred very fine and sifted then put it to the Oyl and Water and boil them stirring them continually until they come to the thickness of a Plaister then put to them the Wax cut into lumps which being melted put in also the Gums which you must first have dissolved over the fire in as much Vinegar as will swim a-top two fingers breadth this strain through a Canvas and evaporate it until it come to the thickness of Honey These being well mixt with the Oyl and Wax adde to them the Therebinthin which being also well mixt take them off and keep constantly stirring gently with your Spatula until it is almost grown cold then make it up into great Rowls between your hands being anointed with a little Oyl of Roses or other sweet Oyl Observe That the Gums will not mix so well unless the Oyl of Mucilages be a little cooled The Description of Emplastrum Sticticum Paracelsi TAke Oyl of Olives six ounces yellow Wax one ounce and half Lithargyr powdered four ounces and a half Gum-ammoniac Bdellium of each half an ounce Galbanum Opopanax Oyl of Bays Lapis Calaminaris of both the sorts of Aristolochia Myrrhe Frankincense of each a quarter of an ounce Therebinthin one ounce The Oyl Wax and Lithargyr must be boil'd together until it doth not stick to your fingers Afterwards the mass being a little cooled put the Gums to it being dissolved in Vinegar which by boiling let evaporate from it being strained and pressed hard through the Strainer at last put in the Powders Therebinthin and Oyl of Bays so make it up to an Emplaster I need not adde any thing for the instructing you in making of the Plaister since the directions set down in the manner of preparing the Diachylon cum Gummi will sufficiently guide you The Description of Emplastrum Diapalma or Diachalciteos TAke unsalted Hogs grease cleansed from its skins one pound Oyl of Olives pressed out before the Olives are ripe Lithargyr of Gold powdered fine and sifted of each one pound and half white Vitriol burn'd and powder'd two ounces the Lithargyr Grease and Oyl must be boil'd together on a gentle fire pouring to them a little Plantane-water and stirring them continually with a Spatula until they come to the body of a Plaister wherewith being almost cold you are to mix the Vitriol and so make it up into a Mass. Besides the instructions given you before you are onely to observe when this or any other Emplaster is boiling to drop now and then off of the Spatula wherewith you stir the melted Mass of Emplaster a drop thereof upon the backside of a Plate and let it cool and thereby you may judge whether your Plaister be boil'd enough This Plaister is sold by the Apothecaries at two pence the ounce Observe That in defect of the foregoing Paracelsus Plaister melting of two thirds of Diachylon with one third of Diapalma will very well serve for the same intent and purpose if not better The Description of the Emplastrum Opodeldoch of Felix Wurtz so much cryed up among Surgeons beyond-Sea TAke of the best Wax two pound Venice Therebinthin one pound Genoa Oyl of Olives three ounces melt them together pouring thereunto of the Iuices of Celandine Oak-leaves Starwort and Speedwel of each one ounce and half boil these until all the moisture be consumed then put to them Gum-ammoniac Galbanum Opopanax dissolved in Vinegar strained and evaporated in the same manner as was directed in preparing the Diachylon of each six drams Colophony one ounce and half Amber half an ounce Mastich Myrrhe Frankincense Sarcocolla of each three drams prepar'd Magnet one ounce and half Crocus Martis two ounces Crocus Veneris one ounce prepared Tuthia Lapis Calaminaris of each ten drams of the red sweet Earth of Vitriol as much as will make the Plaister red The manner of Preparing Observe That the Crocus Martis and Veneris Tuthia Lapis Calaminaris and Earth of Vitriol must be put in last when the Plaister is almost grown cold 2. The Magnet is