Tractatus de simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus. = A treatise of the nature and qualities of such simples as are most frequently used in medicines,: both purging, and others. Methodically handled, for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine tongue. To which is added: many compound medicines for most diseases incident to mankinde: as also two alphabeticall tables, very necessary for the reader. Together with, the explanation of all hard words or termes of art, whereby the vulgar may the better understand it. / By Robert Pemel, practitioner in physick, at Cranebrooke in Kent. Licensed and enterd according to order.

Against burning by Fire or Water.

Take one pound of the inner bark of Elder, bruise it or cut it small, and put it into two pound of pure Sallet-Oile, or Oile-Olive, that hath been first washed oftentimes with the distilled water of Elder-flowers, let them boile gently a good while together, and afterwards straine forth the Oile, pressing it very hard; set this Oile on the fire againe, and put thereto foure ounces of the juice of the young branches and leaves of the Elder-tree, and as much new Wax, let them boile to the Consumption of the

juice, after vvhich being taken from the fire, put presently thereto two ounces of liquid Vernish (such as Joyners use to ver∣nish Bed-steds, Cubboards, &c.) and afterwards of Olibanum in fine powder foure ounces, and the whites of two Egges being first well beaten by themselves, all these being well stirred and mixed toge∣ther, put it up into a cleane pot, and keep it for to use when occa∣sion serveth. Parkinson Treatise of Plantes, fol. 210, 211. taken out of Matthiolus.