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as you will use, and boil it 6. or 7. hours in water, putting in such
things with it as have the virtue to corroborate & comfort the parts, as
also to purify it, like as sage, rosemary, camomell, melilot, tyme, with
other natural herbs. That being done, strain it through a cloth, then
after extinguish it, according to the manner which you shall hear
hereafter; and incorporate it with a little swine’s grease. Being well
compounded, you must melt it on the fire, then taking it of, you shall
perceive the Quicksilver separated from the grease: the excrement
and leaden substance shall remain in the same grease: Having so
done, you shall strain it through a piece of leather, to the end that it
may be very pure, then after, extinguish it again, to the effect that you
may the better incorporate it with other swines grease, or with such
medicaments as you shall hear. If you will haue your ointment white,
and neither black nor gray, you must make it after this order ensuing.
Take your Quicksilver and beat it in a mortar with vinegar and salt,
then pour out that vinegar and salt, and put in new, and so beat it
with 3. or 4. sundry shiftings, and so your ointment shall be white. But
to extinguish the same, you must put into the mortar with it a little
syrup of roses, or oil of petroly, or juice of lemons, or fasting spittle,
or a little ointment wherein Quicksilver has been put, for that is the
best, and will soonest extinguish it. Then beat them together, till such
time as there be not any appearance of the Quicksilver, least that
being not well extinguished, it should return to the old form. So being
well quenched, as is requisite, you shall make your ointment (having
likewise prepared the swine’s grease) in this manner. Melt it on the
fire, and boil it with the herbs before mentioned, or with others of like
virtue, being all chopped small: then all being boiled together, you
shall strain it through a cloth, and mingle with it a little Iris of Florence,
which will take away the savour of the grease, then after, compose
the ointment thus. “Recipe axungiae suilae lib. 1. olei Cammomillae,
et Anetini an vnc. i. Radicum anulae parum contrito, unc. quat.
therebentinae venetae, unc. ss. Argenti viui preparati, unc. quat.
Incorporentur omnia simul spatio viginti quatuor horarum, fiat
linementum ut decet”.’ [Take thou of pig’s lard one pound, oil of
Cammomile one ounce, and dill one ounce, anulae root, a little
bruised, four ounces, Venetian terebinth half an ounce, prepared
Quicksilver four ounces. Incorporate all together over 24 hours, make
a liniment as befits].
‘I use always instead of the swines grease, the ointment called
Rosatum Meseuis, and put to one pound of this ointment, five
ounces of Quicksilver, oil of bayes and aniseed, of either half an