[. . .] [. . .] [Nitre] [. . .] Salt Venus Salt Armonieck A Crucible Tarter Mars Vitreoull Mercury Urin Saturn Fire Sulfer Aire Jubiter, tinn [. . .] Water Sol, the Sun, Gould Earth Luna, the Moon, Silver Day Arsenick Night [. . .] [. . .] Vineger Distilled Vineger Crocus martis Sublimate mercury
2. Being good for the [. . .] plague, bruses, poysons, cr Tak clene wax a quarter of a [pound] cut it into smale peces. Put it into a pint of good sack. Put it all into an earthen pott and sett it over the fire. Melt the wax then put into it 1/2 [pound] of Venus tirpintine and a pint and half of sallat oyle. Let the tirpintine be washed in rose water, boyle al together till they be incorporated or till half a pint or more be wasted. Pour of the water and p[ut] into it an ounce of red sanders [of] very fine [p]owder then stir them together till they be colde. The dose is as much as a nutmeg or an ounce, acording to the age, strength of the patient or the disease, given in a cup of good sak. This is good also for smale pox or measels, for strangury or ulcers in the blader.
Symbol | Name | TR (*) | ME (*) | ||
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lb, li, libr. | libra, pound | apothecary's pound | 373.243 g | ||
ss | semis | half | half | ||
℥ | uncia, ounce, unce | apothecary's ounce | 31.103 g | ||
Q | quarta | quart | between 0.95 and 1.16 liters | ||
ʒ | dragma, dram | dram | 3.888 g | ||
G | grana, grain | grain | 0.065 g (65 mg) | ||
A | ana | of each one | of each one | ||
lb ss | libr. semi | half an apothecary's pound | 186.623 g | ||
℥ ss | semuncia | half an apothecary's ounce | 15.552 g |
Name = Name in Text
TR = Translation
ME = Modern Equivalent (approx.; in grams and liters)