Ointment of Bays common

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Historical use wording: tumours, imposthumes, Culpeper My opinion of this ointment

Source: The complete herbal, to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with display of their medicinal and occult qualities; physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind : to which are now first annexed the English physician enlarged and key to physic, with rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature. Forming a complete family dispensatory, and a natural system of physic. by Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654; Royal College of Physicians of London (1842), narrative-offset-1332166.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• Bays common: of Litharge of Gold College.] Take of Bay leaves bruised j finely powdered, half a pound, Vinegar one pound, Bay berries bruised half a \ one pound, Oil of Roses two pounds, grind pound, Cabbage leaves four ounces, Neat’s- 1 the Litharge in a mortar, pouring to it foot Oil five pounds, Bullock’s suet two ; sometimes Oil, sometimes Vinegar, till by jxmnds,

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: It cures tumours, imposthumes, Culpeper My opinion of this ointment, : wounds, ulcers, gun-shot, stinging with is (briefly) this: It was invented for the i nettles, bees, wasps, hornets, venomous itch, without quick-silver it will do no good, | beasts, wounds made with poisoned arrows with quick-silver it may do harm. | &c- Unguentum Laurinum commune. \ Unguentum Nutritum , seu Trifarmacum Or, Ointment of Bays common. j College.] Take of Litharge of Gold College.] Take of Bay leaves bruised j finely powdered, half a pound, Vinegar one pound, Bay berries bruised half a \ one pound, Oil of Roses two pounds, grind pound, Cabbage leaves four ounces, Neat’s- 1 the Litharge in a mortar, pouring to it foot Oil five pounds, Bullock’s suet two ; sometimes Oil, sometimes Vinegar, till by jxmnds, boil them together, and strain them, | continual stirring, the Vinegar do no more that so it may be made into an ointment \ appear, and it come to a whitish ointment, according to art, ' Cidpeper.] It is of a cooling, drying AND ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED.

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