A medicinal dispensatory, containing the vvhole body of physick discovering the natures, properties, and vertues of vegetables, minerals, & animals: the manner of compounding medicaments, and the way to administer them. Methodically digested in five books of philosophical and pharmaceutical institutions; three books of physical materials galenical and chymical. Together with a most perfect and absolute pharmacopoea or apothecaries shop. Accommodated with three useful tables. Composed by the illustrious Renodæus, chief physician to the monarch of France; and now Englished and revised, by Richard Tomlinson of London, apothecary.

CHAP. 16. Unguentum Aureum; or, The golden Unguent. D.Mes.

℞ of Oyl lb ij. yellow Wax lb ss. clear Turpentine ℥ ij. Rosine, clarified Rosine, of each ℥ j. ss. Olibanum, Mastick, of each ℥ j. Saffron ʒ j. make it into an Unguent according to Art.

The COMMENTARY.

This Unguent is called Aureous, from its colour; and Regal, from its vertue: for it is flave as Gold, and so eximious, as it is fit for a Prince: it is scarce ever exhibited without success, and yet so easie to make, that the youngest Apprentice cannot erre therein. They act perperously, who for Parsimonies sake, abstract Saffron and

Mastick from it; for so they rob it of its aureous colour, and regal vertue.

If rightly made, it agglutinates wounds with sanity, fills hollow and cleansed Ulcers with flesh, mitigates dolour, if there be any, and quickly perduces them to scars.

The Fusk Unguent, which is made of a pound and an half of Oyl, four ounces of new wax, black Pitch and Sagapene, of each two ounces, Mastick, Galbanum, Frankincense, and Turpentine, of each one ounce, is indued with the same or like faculties; for both are sarcotical, filling Ulcers with flesh, and perducing them to sanity.