The marrow of physicke, or, A learned discourse of the severall parts of mans body being a medicamentary, teaching the manner and way of making and compounding all such oyles, unguents ... &c. as shall be usefull and necessary in any private house ... : and also an addition of divers experimented medicines which may serve against any disease that shall happen to the body : together with some rare receipts for beauties ... / collected and experimented by the industry of T.B.

Ʋnguents. CHAP. XXXII.

To make Vnguentum aureum.

1 R. Yellow Waxe ℥ vi. good Oyle lib. ii. Tur∣pentine ℥ ii. Rosin and Colophoni ℥ i ss. Olibanum, Mastick, ana. ℥ i. Saffron ʒ i. make an Vnguent. First dissolve the Waxe in the Oyle, then put in the rest of the things finely bruised; when they are dissolved take it from the fire, and put in your Turpentine. It doth mildly deterge wounds, aggluti∣nate and safely cure them.

Vnguentum Enulatum.

2 R. Roote of Elecampane sod in Vineger and brui∣sed, lib. i. Hogs grease, Oyle, ana. ℥ iii. new Waxe ℥ i. Quicksilver extinct, Turpentine washed, ana. ℥ ii. com∣mon Salt beaten, ℥ ss. Melt the grease and waxe in the Oyle, then adde the Enula campana, Quicksilver and Salt, lastly the Turpentine, kill the Quicksilver with a little Grease and Turpentine. This ointment is mar∣vellous effectuall against the Itch, or Scabs, either dry or moist.

Vnguentum Populeon.

3 R. Of the buds of Popular fresh gathered lib. i. ma∣cerate them in lib. iii. of fresh swines greace prepared for the space of two months, then R. of the leaves of red Poppy, leaves of Mandrake, leaves of Henbane, tender crops of Brambles, Nightshade, Lettuce, Houseleeke, Stone crop, great Burres, Penny grasse, ana. ℥ iii. good Wine lib. i. bruise them & mixe them with the buds of Popular, then set them in a warme place for eight daies, then adde one pinte of strong Vinegar, and boile them till it be consumed, which may be perceived by casting a little thereof into the fire, then straine it forth and put it up. This Vnguent asswageth Phlegmons, burning of Agues, heat of the Head, and Kidnies, and anointed up∣on the Temples procureth sleepe.

Vnguentum Aegyptiacum.

4 R. Verdigreace ℥ v. good Honey ʒ xiiii. strong Vinegar ʒ vii. all these being boiled together untill it be thick, and of a purple colour, this doth forcibly cleanse ulcers inveterate, and fistulous, and doth con∣sume proud spongious, and dead flesh.

Vnguentum Apostolorum.

5 R. Turpentine, white Waxe, Rosine, ana ʒ xvi. Opponaxe, Verdigreace, ana ʒ ii. Ammoniacum ʒ xvi. long Aristolochia, great Incense ana ʒ vi. Myrrhe and Galbanum ana ʒ iii. Bdellium ʒ vi. Litharge ʒ ix. Oyle lib. ii. make an ointment, mingle the Litharge with two ounces of Oyle, and let them stand five houres, then

boile it gently untill it be thick as Honey, alwaies stir∣ring it, then take it from the fire and put to the Waxe and Rosin, being dissolved with the rest of the Oyle; then whiles it is cooling, put to the rest of the Gummes dis∣solved in Vinegar boiled and incorporated with the Turpentine, then the Aristolochia, Myrrhe, and Frank∣incense are to be mingled, and lastly, the Verdigrease finely powdered, and sprinkled in. This Vnguent doth by detersion purge Wounds and rebellious Vlcers, and Fistulaes, wasteth dead Flesh, and encreaseth new.

Vnguentum Album.

6 R. Cerus ℥ iiii. Litharge ℥ ss. lay them a good space in Rosewater, then put them into a Mortar, and by little and little poure in so much Rose oyle as they can drinke up, continually stirring and tempering them, untill they come to the forme of an Vnguent, then adde thereto a little white Vinegar, and of Camphire ʒ i. ss. It is cooling, asswageth Paine and Inflammation, and is good for Scabs, Itch, and Excoriation.

Vnguentum Vulpinum, or Ointment of a Foxe.

7 Take a Foxe, and draw out the Entrailes, then take Sage, Rosemary, Iuniper leaves, and berries, Dill, wilde Marjoram of the Garden, Lavender, Camomile, of each halfe a pound, stampe these herbes in a Mortar of stone very finely, then cut the Foxe in pieces, and put him with the herbes into a vessell of eight gallons, and put to foure pintes of Oyle Olive, Oyle of Neats feete one pound, Calves suet, Deere suet, Goose grease, Brockes grease, of each one pound and a halfe, of Sea-water three quarts, and as much of good Malmesey, set all together

on the fire, and boile it till the Wine and Water bee consumed, and that the flesh and bones bee separated asunder; then take it from the fire and straine it, and presse it through a strong Canvasse cloth, and so reserve it to your use as a most precious oyntment against all Aches, and to restore Limms and Ioynts lamed through paine of the Gout.

Vnguent of Saint Cosme and Damian.

8 R. Pimpernell, Vervine, Betony, ana m. i. stampe them, and put to them of white Wine lib. ii. ss. boile them together in a tinned vessell to the wasting of three parts, then straine them, and set the decoction over the fire againe in a glased vessell, then R. Turpentine wash∣ed ℥ vi. Rosin washed lib. i. new white Waxe ℥ iiii. when they are melted altogether in the same glased pot, add to them Mastick powdered ℥ i. of the Milke of a woman giving suck to a Male and a Female Childe ana ℥ ii. boil them to a perfect body, it availeth for all Wounds, and namely of the Sinewes, also for Cankers, Fistulaes, and S. Anthonies fire.

A very good ointment for any Ach, or Bruise, for any Noise in the head, or to draw out a Thorne.

9 R. Rosin, and a little red Deeres suet, and a little Camphire, and a little white Wine, let them boile a walme or two after all the Suet is melted, then straine it into white Wine, and beate it untill it come to an oint∣ment, then put it up in pots, and when you use it you shall chafe the Part before the fire very well, and then anoint it.

An Ointment of the Wormes of the earth, good to strengthen the Back, to coole it, and take away the Ache.

10 R. A great platterfull of long Wormes of the earth, lay them upon Fennell, or such like to scoure, the space of foure and twenty houres, then chop them small, and put to them a quart of Neats-foot Oyle, then take a platterfull of field Daisies chopped very small, all save the rootes, (let them be a platterfull when they are chop∣ped) and put them to the Oyle and Wormes, then boile them together upon a soft fire for two houres, then strain it and keepe it for your use: it is to be made either in April, or about Michaelmas.

An Ointment for a Bruise, and Swelling, also for the Piles.

11 R. Of red Sage ℥ vii. of Rue ℥ iii. of Camomill, Bayes, Wormewood, ana ℥ iiii. of Mutton suet lib. i. bruise all these well together in a Morter, then set them in an earthen Pot nine daies well and close stopped in the earth, then boile them in a quart of Oyle, and strain it forth and keep it for your use.

An Ointment which I used with good successe to a woman who had a paine in her Hip, without any tumour proceeding from the retention of her monthly Visits.

12 R. Camomill, Rosemary, ana m. i. twinings of Vines m. ss. Plantaine p. stamp them together, and put them into a jarre Glasse, and put on it a quart of good Oyle Olive, and let it stand a day or two in the Sunne, then set a skillet of water on the fire, and when it is scalding hot, stop the jarre Glasse close, and put it into

the water, and keepe the water ever scalding hot, but when it hath been in almost an houre, then let it boile a little, and then take it out, and straine it, and annoint the place every night, and after bathing: the manner of the Bath I shall speake of hereafter.

An ointment for the face after the Foxe are dryed, to cause them to fall off without leaving any Markes.

13 R. Of Oyle of bitter Almonds ℥ ii. put thereto of Parmacetae ℥ ss. and anoint the face with a feather.

Another for the same, and which mightily cleares the skin.

14 R. Of fat Bacon lib. i. cut it in thin slices, and hang it in a string before the fire that it may melt, and let it drop into a quarter of a pinte of Plantaine water, and when it is all melted let it coole, and then beate it out of the water with a cleane spatula, and wash it in three or foure severall waters more of Plantaine, then put to it a peny weight of Parmacetae, and a penniworth of white Rose water, and beate them well together, and annoint the face with a feather.

An ointment for Aches and Bruises, Stitches, Goute, and Lamenesse.

15 R. Sage, Rue, ana lib. i. crops of Wormwood, Bayleaves, Rosemary ana m. i. Sheeps suet cleane pick∣ed from the skin lib. ss. Oyle Olive a pottle, shred the hearbes and suet small, and then stamp and work them together very small, then put in the Oyle, and temper them well, and let them stand close stopped the space of seaven daies, then set it to the fire, and as it melteth

stir it till the hearbes are parched, then take it off and straine it, and with this anoint the place.

An ointment for a burne or scald.

16 R. Incontinently the white of an Egge beaten with Oyle of Roses, Omphacine, and a little juice of Plantaine, Night-shade, and Houseleeke, and with a feather anoint the place.

Vnguentum de Calcantho, good for old Vlcers, Mundi∣fieth evill flesh, and Incarnateth.

17 R. Of Swines grease, Calves, and Cowes suet, ana lib. ss. Celidony, Alleluia, Plantaine, Woodbine, Houndstongue ana m. i. Lime thrice quenched with water lib. ss. Calcantum Pulverizatum ℥ i. Verdigrease, ʒ x. stamp them, and leave them together seaven daies, then put thereto water of Plantaine, Wine of Pome∣granates, ℥ iiii. then seethe them with a soft fire till the Water and Wine be consumed, and so straine them with a thick cloth, then put to it Litharge Auri & Ar∣genti ℥ iiii. Bolearm. Terr. sigillat. Minii, ana ℥ i. cleere terebent ℥ iii. let them seethe againe, and make a blacke ointment with sufficient white Waxe.

An ointment for an Ache.

18 R. Two or three nests of quick Swallows, ten∣drings of Straw-berries, Rue, Lavender-cotton, Bay-leaves, Wormwood, Horehound, Rednettle crops ana m. i. the gall of an Oxe, black Snailes, n. 6. Oyle Olive halfe a pinte, then stamp the Swallows whole feathers and guts with all the aforesaid things very small, then

you shall melt a quantity of May-butter in a frying pan, and then put in all the other things, and fry them well together, alwaies stirring it that it may not burne; Lastly, straine it through a linnen Bagge, and you have the ointment.

A precious Oyntment against all Pains, and Griefes.

19 R. Rosemary leaves, Sage, Time, Polimountaine, Hyssope, Marigolds, Rue, Wormewood, Marjoram, Valerian, Mouseare, Harts-tongue, Bloodwort, Merch, Seagreene, gather these Hearbes with the Flowers, and Blowings of each m. iij. seeth them in iij quarts of Wa∣ter, untill the Water be consumed to a quart, then put to them a pound and a halfe of Barrowes grease, Deeres Suet, lib. i. Dogges fat lib. ss. Cats fat, lib. ss. Rosewater pint i. Aquae composita ℥ vi. seeth these a good while, stir∣ring them well, then strain them through a rough cloth, and take off the scumme with a Feather, and let it stand till the morrow, then seeth it once againe, and straine it, and keepe it for thy use.

A good Oyntment to cleanse a Sore, both old, or new.

20 R. Turpentine ℥ ii. washed well in Barly water, lib. ss. put to it Yolkes of new laid Egges, nu. vi. Hony of Roses, or, common Honey, ℥ iiii. mingle them, and make the Tents, or Pledgets therewith.

An Oyntment for Scabbes, Ring-wormes, or any other breaking out.

21 R. Oyle of Roses, ℥ iiii. Waxe iiii. d. weight, melt them together, then take Litharge of Gold, Ce∣ruse ana. ℥ ss. Powder them and mingle them with the Oyle, and Waxe in a Morter, then put thereto the white of a new laid Egge, and halfe an ounce of Quicksilver mortified, and use it every Morning and Evening.

To mortifie the Quicksilver you shall put it into a Violl with fasting Spittle, and worke it up and downe untill it become like ashes, then put it to your stuffe.

A good Oyntment for the Spleene.

22 R. Bryony rootes, the pith taken out, Marsh Mal∣low rootes, or red Holly-hocke rootes, the pith taken out ana. lib. i. seeth them in Water untill the Rootes be soft, stampe them in a Morter, and straine them through a Strainer till the thicknesse be come through, then take of sower leavened Bread ℥ iiii. Bores grease li. ss. mingle them altogether well in the Morter, with white Wine Vinegar iiii. spoonefuls.

First in the morning rub your Spleene with a course warme Cloth, untill the skin wax red, then lay upon it a peece of blue wollen cloth, wet in the Water of a man childe, as hot as may be suffered, and when the Cloth waxeth cold, take it away, and dry the Skin with a warme cloth, and annoint the place with some of the ointment aforesaid, warmed in a Sawcer, and rub it well in, then lay upon it a Quilt of blacke wooll, and doe thus every morning till it be well.

An Ointment for burning or scalding.

23 R. Sweet Creame q. i. Ferne rootes m. i. washed and cut in small peeces, boyle them in the Creame in an earthen Pot, untill they jelly; when you will use it chafe a little in your hand with a Spatula, and apply it to the Sore untill it be whole.

Vnguentum Aleblastrum.

24 R. Crops of the red Bryer stamped small, m. vi. adde thereto of white Wine one pottle, of Rue, m. i. of the flowers or leaves of Camomile, ℥ i. powder of Ale∣blaster ℥ ii. Fennell seed ℥ i. Oyle of Roses lib. ss. Wax ʒ ss. put all together except the Camomill and the Waxe, then put them on the fire to infuse, and when it seethes put in the Waxe and Camomill, and boile it well untill the Wine be consumed, and when it is cold, take the whites of five Egges and mingle them with all the aforesaid things, and then straine it through a faire linnen cloth, and put it into a cleane vessell. It is good for webbs in the Eyes, Megrim, and Headache, if a wo∣man have paine in her Matrice let her take thereof as an Electuary, and it will help her, also for those that are diseased in the Stomack, let them anoint the Stomack, Hands, Feet, and Reines therewith, anoint the Temples for the Megrim, it is also good for the Gout.

An Ointment to asswage paine, and coole.

25 R. Of white Cerate ℥ iiii. Oyle of Roses ℥ x. red, and white Sanders, red Roses, Myrrhe, Olibanum, Ma∣stick, ana ʒ ii. Camphire ʒ ss. Turpentine ℥ ii. ss. make an Vnguent in a leaden Mortar.

To make Flos Vnguentorum.

16 R. Rosin, Perosin, ana lib. ss. Virgins waxe, Frank∣insence, ana ℥ iiii. Mastick ℥ ss. Harts suet, ℥ iiii. Cam∣phite ʒ ii. melt those that are to be melted, and pound those that are to be pounded, and searce them finely, then boile them altogether over the fire, and strain them into a pottle of white Wine; then let it coole, and when it is no more then blood warme, put to of Turpentine ℥ iii. ever stirring it untill it be cold, then worke it well in the hands, and make it up in rolls.

It is good for old Wounds, cleansing them, and en∣gendring good Flesh, and wasting evill Flesh; it is good for all manner of Impostumes in the head, or in the bo∣dy, and for strained Sinewes, and it draweth out any Thorne or broken Bone, and it healeth all manner of Botches, it is good for a Canker, or Noli me tangere, it is good for Seareclothes for the Gout, Sciatica, and other Aches, and for pestilent Botches.