Dublin.
_Wild Plants and their Names_ (Vol. vii., p. 233.).--_Cowslip_, "Palsy
Wort." Culpepper says:
"Because they strengthen the brain and nerves, and remedy palsies, the
Greeks gave them the name _paralysis_." "The flowers preserved, or
conserved, and the quantity of a nutmeg taken every morning, is a
sufficient dose for inward disorders."
For the ointment he gives the following receipt:
"Bruise the _flowers_; and to two handfuls of these, add a pound of
hog's grease dried. Put it in a stone pot, covered with paper, and set
it in the sun or a warm place three or four days to melt. Take it out
and boil it a little; strain it out when hot; pressing it out very hard
in a press. To this grease add as many herbs as before, and repeat the
whole process, if you wish the ointment strong.--Yet this I tell you,
the fuller of juice the herbs are, the sooner will your ointment be
strong; the last time you boil it, boil it so long till your herbs be
crisp, and the juice consumed; then strain it, pressing it hard in a
press; and to every pound of ointment, add two ounces of turpentine,
and as much wax."