Unguentum Laurinum commune
Or, Ointment of Bays common

College : Take of Bay leaves bruised one pound, Bay berries bruised half a pound, Cabbage leaves four ounces, Neat's-foot Oil five pounds, Bullock's suet, two pounds, boil them together, and strain them, that so it may be made into an ointment according to art.

Unguentum de minie sive rubrum Camphora
Or, Ointment of red Lead

College : Take of Oil of Roses one pound and an half, red Lead three ounces, Litharge two ounces, Ceruss one ounce and an half, Tutty three drams, Camphire two drams, Wax one ounce and an half, make it into an ointment according to art, in a pestle and mortar made of Lead.

Culpeper : This ointment is as drying as a man shall usually read of one, and withal cooling, therefore good for sores, and such as are troubled with defluctions.

Unguentum e Nicotiona, seu Peto
Or, Ointment of Tobacco

College : Take of Tobacco leaves bruised, two pounds, steep them a whole night in red Wine, in the morning boil it in fresh Hog's grease, diligently washed, one pound, till the Wine be consumed, strain it, and add half a pound of juice of Tobacco, Rozin four ounces, boil it to the consumption of the juice, adding towards the end, round Birthwort roots in powder, two ounces, new Wax as much as is sufficient to make it into an ointment according to art.

Culpeper : It would take a whole summer's day to write the particular virtues of this ointment, and my poor Genius is too weak to give it the hundredth part of its due praise. It cures tumours, imposthumes, wounds, ulcers, gun-shot, stinging with nettles, bees, wasps, hornets, venomous beasts, wounds made with poisoned arrows, &c.

Unguentum Nutritum, seu Trifarmacum

College : Take of Litharge of Gold finely powdered, half a pound, Vinegar one pound, Oil of Roses two pounds, grind the Litharge in a mortar, pouring to it sometimes Oil, sometimes Vinegar, till by continual stirring, the Vinegar do no more appear, and it come to a whitish ointment.

Culpeper : It is of a cooling, drying nature, good for itching of wounds, and such like deformities of the skin.

Unguentum Ophthalmicum
Or, An Ointment for the Eyes

College : Take of Bole-ammoniac washed in Rose water, one ounce, Lapis Calaminaris washed in Eyebright Water, Tutty prepared, of each two drams, Pearls in very fine powder half a dram, Camphire half a scruple, Opium five grains, fresh Butter washed in Plantain Water, as much as is sufficient to make it into an ointment according to art.

Culpeper : It is exceeding good to stop hot rheums that fall down into the eyes, the eyelids being but anointed with it.

Unguentum ex Oxylapatho
Or, Ointment of sharp-pointed Dock

College : Take of the roots of sharp-pointed Dock boiled in Vinegar until they be soft, and then pulped, Brimstone washed in juice of Lemons, of each one ounce and an half, Hog's grease often washed in juice of Scabious, half a pound, Unguentum Populeon washed in juice of Elecampane, half an ounce: make them into an ointment in a mortar.

Culpeper : It is a wholesome, though troublesome medicine for scabs and itch.


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