For the Plurisies Take an apple that is of a sweete sente and taste in it a hole taking out the core so that the hole goeth not thorow and put into the hole 3 or 4 graines of frankincense of the male kind, otherwise called olibanum, then cover againe the saide hole with the little pece of apple that you tooke of first and rost it apon the embers so that it burne not but that it may waxe tender then take it from the fire.
and breake it into fower parts with all the frankencense in it and so give the patient it to eate. It will by and by make the impostume to break and heale him. Don Alexis 50. A water of marvellows and excellent vertue to bring the sight of the eies to him that hath lost it or deminished by siknes Take ʒ iii of tutia mad in powder very smale and as much aloe epaticum in powder, ʒ ii of white suger
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)