245. _A Poultise for Burns or Scaulds._

Take half a pint of milk 2 spoonfulls of grat’d white bread take

Singreen and cut off the red edge and pound it and take 2 spoonfulls

of the juice and put into ye milk and bread and a spoonfull of damask

rose leaves shred mixt and let it boyle altogether very well to the

thickness of a poultise then take it off the fire & put into it a

spoonfull of civill or Sallet oyle. this poultise must be laid upon ye

foregoing ointment till ye flesh is grown even & then leave off this

poultise and use only y^e ointment to skin it.

If the sinews are injured take Snails with their house & prick them

whence will come a water with which anoint y^e wound with a feather

before you lay on the poultise, change y^e poultice twice a day.

If any watery humour feeds ye wound then make a plaister with y^e white

of an egg wheat flour bole-armeniack & vinegar and lay it above the

wound.

To bring the skin to the couler again Take a handfull of parsley roots

washt & scraped very clean & shred very small boyle them in half a pint

of cream and anoint therewith.

If the Scauld or burn is on the head when the wound is well anoint it

with honey to make ye hair grow again.

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