Image 179, sixth book, folio 91a, receipt 1
| The sixthe booke. .fo. 91. | ||||
| Heere beginneth an excellente booke of playsters, salves, diet | ||||
| drinkes, purgations, potions, etc. | ||||
| 1. Paracelsus* his playster called implaistrum | ||||
| fodicationum* Paracelsi, good for a great num- | ||||
| ber of diseases, heere mentioned in the end of ye | ||||
| receipte thereof, which heere followeth, trasla– | ||||
| ted of the Latine into Englishe by Thomas | ||||
| Potter* esquire: 1583. | ||||
| Take of these fowre gummes, that is to saye, galbanum*, oppoponax*, of | ||||
| each an ownce, ammoniacum*, bdelium*, of each twoe ownces: Let them | ||||
| be beaten all very small, and put them into an earthen pot leaded or | ||||
| glazed, powring upon the same very good vineger of wine, & let them | ||||
| so remayne a daye and a nighte, then boyle them in the same vineger | ||||
| upon a gentle fire of coales, that the gummes may melte: and when | ||||
| they be throughly melted, powre the same out hot into a bagge, & wringe | ||||
| or presse well the same, that they may be clensed from theire dregges, | ||||
| which dregges must be caste awaye. Take the sayd lycor so strayned | ||||
| out, & let it boyle in a pot untyll the vineger be all sodden* awaye, and | ||||
| utterlye evaporated: and in the boylinge, you must continually stirre it | ||||
| without ceaseinge, least the gummes be burned, keepe this verye cleane, | ||||
| and close covered, that nothing fall into it, then take oyle olive 2 pound, | ||||
| new waxe halfe a pownde, and let them be put into an earthen pot well | ||||
| leaded or glazed, such a one as is of sufficient bignes: Set the same over | ||||
| a fire of coales, and let them melte softlye & by leysure: At ye lengthe, | ||||
| put into it lythargie* beaten into very fine powder, a pownde and an halfe, | ||||
| styrringe it continuallye with a sticke, or spatula, or such like, by litle & | ||||
| litle untyll the thinges be well & throughly mixed together, & the matter | ||||
| bee of a tawnye coloure: afterwarde take of the foresayde gummes that | ||||
| were first boyled the quantity of a nut, and put the same into the sayde | ||||
| matter, & so by litle and litle at severall times put into it such a like | ||||
| quantitye of the sayd gummes at each time, tyll the sayd gummes be all | ||||
| put in, and be well mixed with the other thinges, & melted. And you | ||||
| must take heede withall, least the matter beinge overmuch heated, doe | ||||
| boyle over, and runne into the fire: for it is very hot of it selfe. After- | ||||
| warde put into it these thinges followinge: Take of the twoe kindes | ||||
| of aristologia rotunda*, calaminaris*, myrrhe*, frankencens*, of everye | ||||
| of them an ownce: Beate them into very fine powder, that are to be made | ||||
| in powder, & put them into the sayd matter, and powre upon the same of | ||||
| oyle of bayes an ownce, and lastlye put therein pure & fine turpentine | ||||
| fowre ownces: let them boyle, and stirre them aboute continuallye with | ||||
| very greate diligence: and when you will knowe whether they be well & | ||||
| sufficientlye | ||||
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Transcribed by GB and KS