Valentia Scabiosæ.
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Culpeper, Nicholas
College.] Take of the juice of green Scabious, pressed out with a screw, and strained through a cloth, Hog’s grease, of each as much as you will, heat the Hog’s grease in a stone mortar, not grind it, putting in the juice by degrees for the more commodious mixture and tincture, afterwards set it in the sun in a convenient vessel, so as the juice may overtop the grease, nine days being passed, pour off the discoloured juice, and beat it again as before, putting in fresh juice, set it in the sun again five days, which being elapsed, beat it again, put in more juice, after fifteen days more, do so again, do so five times, after which, keep it in a glass, or glazed vessel.