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A55352 To all the noble and warlick nations of Great Brittain Ponteus, John. 1656 (1656) Wing P2804E; ESTC R219498 2,347 4

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TO All the Noble and VVarlick Nation of Great Brittain Reader I Have spent fourty years in a continual practice of Chymical Remedies and the Rare and great Experiences I have shewed publickly in London in the Year 1629 1630 1631. are yet in Remembrance with many thousands of you and the last Year that I have again publickly produc'd my self in Smithfield open place and to my thinking pleas'd many of you in my last Experiments I cannot doubt of your acceptation of this Last Endeavour of mine which is to requite so many Kindnesses from you during Thirty Two years of mine abode in England and chiefly from this Noble and Great City of London these few Remedies being truly good whereof I do present unto you the Composition in this Sheet will be a Monument of my Love to the Publick in after-Ages and chiefly to your valiant Souldiers to whom these Remedies will be very useful and cheap and shall I hope put in your Memory the Name of In London April 2. 1656. Your Loving Friend and Servant John Puntaeus The Tenth Edition The Artificial Balsamum for new Wounds cold Aches Strains Bruises Gouts c. As it was made publickly upon Smithfield place before many hundreds of good people the 20 and 21. of October 1651. By John Puntaeus A Chymical Physician TAke of your Garden herbs of good and strong smell namely Sage red and green Wormwood Herbgrasse Penny real Marjoram Hyssope Neep Motherwort tansey time-savoury as also Rosemary and Bay leafes abrotanum clare balm mince c. as also of those hot herbs of the fields as mugwort calamentum white Horehunt Origanum melilot serpillum camomil germandry Nettleseed Fennel seeds and leafs Item of the vulnerary or healing herbs rs the season of the year will afford as your Panacea or Clownswort Camphory of all sorts Bugula Prunella St. Johns wort golden rode perwinkle Sanicle Long plantain c. take of as many sorts as you can have of each a like quantity and put all being neatly cleans'd in half Sallet Oyl and half Linseed Oyl as much as conveniently you may guesse to be enough to hold your herbs adding a quarter part of good Sack to it meaning a quart of Sack if your Oyl be 4. quarts steep all together warm a whole night and afterward boyl it till the Sack and moisture of the Herbs be consumed then strain it and in the oyl so strain'd for every pound of it adde two ounces of Beeswax clear Turpentine one ounce black pitch white pitch Gum Elemy Rosen and Goose-grease of each half an ounce red Oyl of Turpentine or colophony jonce storax liquid Spick oyl Rosemary oyl Amber oyl spirit of Salt of each a quarter of an ounce Gumme ammoniacum first dissolved with white wine about also a quarter of an ounce and as much of Sagapenum and Opopanax Benjamin styrax calamites myrrhe and aloes of each a dram and of the Oyles made of the herbs abovesaid the more the better within a quarter of an ounce for every pound of the former Sallet and Linseed Oyles observing to put to an account all the Oyle first and last that you may be sure to compasse your wax and gummes and pitches to the weight of all the Liquors weighed together as well as your Sallet and Linseed Oyl otherwise your Balm should be too liquid and not healing enough and if you put Chymical oyls of your herbs aforesaid so much the better wax oyl and brick oyl be also excellent in it a dram in the pound Sugar-loaf and Honey I have often put in it but it will not mix among the herbs afore the straining two drams also of each in the pound How to use this excellent Composition the printed Pape sheweth it The Oyntments for Burnings and Scaldings as it was tryed upon Smithfield place Octob. 17. 1651. Take according to the time of the year more or lesse of the herbs underwritten as Nightshades Umbilicus veneris hemlock white and black poppy leafs porcelan Laituces Sorrel of all sorts Henbane green Colworts Housleek great and small Laenticula pallustris Violet and Mallowes leafs wild tansey ●●ramonium and Mandragora leafes if possible could be to have all together green and the like Item of the green inward ring of the Elder tree of all a like quantity and as much fresh butter as may serve to boyl easily the aforesaid herbs and a little 〈◊〉 in every pound of butter with as much or a little 〈…〉 of an Asses dung or for the want of it take horse dung ●oyl all together till your Butter be very green which will be the sooner if you bruise or chop your herbs very small boyl it till you see the moisture of your herbs almost vapour'd and strain it in a napkin adding for every pound of the said Oyntment half a dram of salt of Lead or Saccharum Saturnii dissolved in a little water and wine vineger stirring it with a stick when your oyntment is almost cold and so keep it close to be us'd according to the printed Note An Excellent Remedy for Sore Eyes Take Roche Allum dissolve it in plantain water upon an easie fire and when it is cold put the white of an Egge to it and stir it much with three or four sticks together then filtre it by the brown paper or at the least strain it softly by a napkin and then by evaporation in an earthen vessel dry your allom softly and begin the same work again with eye-bright or sweet Fennel water then when your Allom is so dryed again adde as much Ireos or Oris in powder and that powder so mixed when you have any occasion to use it steep it in rose-Rose-water a dram of the powder is enough for two ounces of Rose water c. The Sear-cloath for Corns Take Gum Elemy white Pitch and black pitch Bees-wax Rosen and Turpentine of each a like quantity onely the black pitch may be doubled melt all together upon a soft fire and so make Sear-cloath according to Art The Medicine for Tooth-Ache procee●●●● 〈…〉 old can 〈…〉 Take Angelica roots Spanish Pelleto●●…●…lov●●●… 〈◊〉 Ginger of each a like quantity and with the Muscilage of Gum Tragagant dissolv'd in Mugwort water adding a little starch ma●● 〈…〉 paste and pastilles to hold upon the aking Teeth c. 〈◊〉 if the pain proceedeth from a hot cause with infl●●●… 〈◊〉 then take the root of Henbane slice it and boyl it in wine Vineger then strain it and hold in your mouth the said vineger warm and it will put you in admiration how quickly it will cure you the seed of the same Henbane may be used alike but the root is better FINIS