Treatments and remedies transcribed from a working Physician's handbook published in the 17th century. Check out the Introduction
Medicines for the Face. For a red Face full of Pimples
Take and distill Water of Salendine, and dissolve Camphire in it, as is afore written, with Vineger, and with this wash thy Face; this did make a maid whole in twenty days, that had a marvellous great heat in her Face. Also there was a Farmers Wife in Berk-shire, which had her Face full of white Scales, and was cured with this that followeth: she took Honey Suckle Leaves, and distilled them, and washed her Face often with the Water, and it never came again. Also there was a Woman which had such a grief in her Face, that if she had been by the Fire but a little while, and then gone abroad into the Aire, her Face would have risen full of red spotts, as though she had been drunk, which was helpt with this which followeth: She took Frankincense, and Saffron, and then made them to Powder, and then cast this Powder upon a Chafingdish of Coals, and receieved the Smoke with open Mouth, and using it often, was helped.
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