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tle feed beaten with old oyl, or the leaves with bear's grease, XXII. 13. Panos helxine beat with goat's sewet and cyprus wax. XXII. 17. the root and leaves of heliscopium boil'd with goat's sewet. XXII. 21. Ægineta says wonders of thymus, oreganum, satureia, calamintha, and those herbs full of a hot penetrative, volatile oyl, in the case. Aetius gives the history of one cured by application of the flash of oysters with litharge and henbane leaves beat together in old oyl. tetrab. 3. serm. 4. c. 28. he much recommends salt mixt with oyl. tet. 3. serm. 4. c. 21. Trallian us'd mustard seed. Fonseca commends the oil lapis lazuli. The late learned Physician and Antiquary Dr. Musgrave in his Belgium Britannicum, p. 165. mightily commends distill'd oyl of Gatates lapis, apply'd to the gout. Dioscorides mentions the like before, V. 9. Hidanus cent. 1. epist. 35. wonderfully praises an unguent made of salt, oleum lumbricorium and vulpin. Colbatch uses and commends much a balsam of oyl of olive ℥viii. and oyl of vitriol ℥ii mix'd, and says it deserves to be written in letters of gold, being the balsamum rubicundum: the balsamum arthriticum of Dr. Quincy; 'tis taken from Schroder but he adds adeps humanum to it. Colbatch says he has known it take off a fitt without any internal medicin, and that with-