Ptåochopharmakon, seu Medicamen miseris, or Pauperum pyxidicula salutifera. Help for the poor collected for the benefit of such as are not able to make use of physitians and chiurgians, or live remote from them. Also an appendix concerning letting blood in the smallpox. By Robert Pemel, physitian of Crane-brook in Kent.

For Burning, Scalding, Itch, Sore-Nipples, Piles both in∣ward or outward, Kibes or any inflamation, as also for a green wound.

TAke half a pound of Litharge of gold, in as few pieces as you can finde them, burn it in a clear fire till it glow like burning coal; then beat it into fine powder, and put to it three pints of white wine Vinegar; boyl it to a quart, then let it stand seven hours, afterwards pour it all off (from the gravel or dross) into a pint of Sallet-oyl. Beat them well together into a Salve.

For burning and scalding it must be laid on with lint or linnen cloth, and changed every two hours, till the fire be out.

Where the skin is much off in burn∣ing or scalding, it will cause pain and smarting. Wherefore in such cases work a little more oyl into the oynt∣ment, to allay the sharpness of the vi∣negar.

If the Litharge be very small pie∣ces or in powder, you may burn it in a fire-shovel, and it will be of equal vir∣tue with the larger pieces.

This is commended from long ex∣perience in divers families of acquain∣tance, with the Printer of this Trea∣tise, who dwelleth at the Gilded-Lion in Pauls-Churchyard.