Mrs Austens Salve for grene wound or olde sores

Title: Mrs Austens Salve for grene wound or olde sores
Creator: Mrs. Austen
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A method for making a salve for new or old wounds made by mixing camphor into a mixture of heated oil, beeswax, and white lead, then cooled and rolled into shape.
Transcript: Rx of the best salet oyle one pinte Bees wax half a pound of white led or cerous 4 ounces beaten very well Camphir 2 drams: First take the oyle & make it hot then put in the bees wax and let simber a qrtr of an houre then put in the white led let it continue simbering an oure ceep it stiring all the while then put in the Camphir & let it simber a litele, then take it of & let it stand till it be colde anoint your hands with a litele oyle & so make it up in to Roles
Subject: See all items with this value olive oil; See all items with this value beeswax; See all items with this value white lead; See all items with this value camphor; See all items with this value remedies (health); See all items with this value ointments; See all items with this value wounds
Contributor: Abu-Bader, Nagham; Le, Vincent; Grimm, Stephanie; Bakir, Mehtap
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

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