CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL,

AND

ENGLISH PHYSICIAN;

The way of making and keeping all necessary compounds.

CHAP. XI.

Of Plaisters.

    1. The Greeks make their plaisters of divers simples, and put metals into most of them, if not all; for, having reduced their metals into powder, they mixed them with that fatty substance whereof the rest of the plaister consisted, whilst it is yet hot, continually stirring it up and down, lest it should sink to the bottom ; so they continually stirred it till it was stiff; then they made it up in rolls, which, when they needed for use, they could melt by fire again.
    2. The Arabians made up theirs with oil and fat, which needeth not so long boiling.
    3. The Greek emplaisters consisted of these ingredients, metals, stones, divers sorts of earth, faeces, juices, liquors, seeds, roots, herbs, excrements of creatures, wax, rosin, gums.