Unguentum Rosatum. Page 158. in the Latin Book. Or, Oyntment of Roses.
The Colledg] Take of fresh Hogs grease elensed a pound, fresh Red roses half a pound, juyce of the same three ounces, make it into an Oyntment accor∣ding to art.
Culpeper] A. The Colledge give you but a short come off in this Oyntment, they love to be breife and tedious, last time when they were honester, they taught you how to make it, which was thus,
The Colledg.] Take of Hogs grease well clensed from the skins a pound; wash it nine* 1.1 times in warm water, then as often in cold water; fresh red Roses a pound: mix them together and so let them stand seven daies, then boyl them over a gentle fire, and strain out the Roses, then mix with the Oynt∣ment the like quantity of fresh red Roses, and then let them stand together as many daies, then strain them out having first boyled them; at the last ad juyce of red Roses six ounces, boyl them over a gentle fire till the juyce be consumed, then strain it, and make an Oyntment according to art.
Culpeper] A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold, and you shall see it is Oyntment alone without any further making, now compare but this with what I wrote before, and see if they do not love to be breife and tedious.
A. It is of a fine cooling nature, exceeding usefull in all gaulings of the skin, and frettings accompani∣ed with chollerick humors, angry pushes, tetters, ringworms, it mitigates diseases in the head coming of hear, as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver.