Salve of a Sea crab shell

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Historical use wording: Ye King’s Evil & 1st for the drink

Source: A Book of Simples by Henry William Lewer (1908), narrative-offset-311668.

Ingredients or materials as extracted

• a Sea crab shell: castle soap and temper it with barme &

Method as extracted

1. Mix according to the source passage: _Direction to cure Ye King’s Evil & 1st for the drink._ Take agremoney mugwort march sanicle liverwort Kingswort coltsfoot maiden hair scabious harts tongue of bittony of each of all these a small handfull to be boyled in 6 quarts of spring water with half a pound of raisons of the Sun Stoned a quarter of a pound of currants 8 figgs better than half a pound of annyseeds one stick of liquorish boyle all these together til it be consumed to 3 quarts then strain it through a hair sive & cool it and so put it in a pot and let the patient drink it in the morning fasting and again about 4 a clock in the afternoon. If it must be broken take castle soap and temper it with barme & apply it till it break when it is broken apply the same as long as you shall think there is anything to be drawn forth of the wound then heal it w^{th} the following Salve: _A healing Salve for ye King’s Evil._ Take groundsell vallerian elder buds or in the winter the inner rind of ye elder tree Issope brown Sage a good handfull of each sort half a pound of clarified butter 3 ounces of beeswax one ounce of rozin half a pound of sheeps sewit 2 ounces of hog’s lard chop these herbs small and boyle them in those liquors softly a quarter of an hour then strain it and stir it till it be almost cold and then apply it to the sore but if you think the sore doth breed a worme then take the powder of a Sea crab shell & all together baked in an oven and so made to powder the powder also of frankinsence of oyle of wormwood an ounce and the oyle of 6 eggs put off ye powder of crab as much as will fill a thimble half as much of the powder of frankinsence stir it together into ye oyle and with a feather put some of it into the wound under the plaister.

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