Specification of Edmund Neeler : medicinal belt.

  • Neeler, Edmund.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Edmund Neeler : medicinal belt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sawyer. Neeler s Medicinal Belt. said oyl and wine six or eight days, then put on an easy fire, and keep stirring two hours, take it off, strain it well, after which put to the above materials two pounds of white soap, finely scraped; one pound of white frankincence ; one pound of Yen ice turpentine. Put all into a large resort, lute a receiver to the resort; distil it in sand with a gentle fire, encrease the fire by degrees, from 5 which will come out an oyl, with which mix about twenty pounds j of quick¬ silver, and lett it lye so mixed four or five days, then put to it the white of eggs; beat it all together till it comes to an ointment; spread an ounce of this ointment on list; cover the list with a linnen cloth, put it about the body; wear it two or three months. In so doing these belts cure most dis- 10 tempers incident to mankind. In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Nealer, have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this. EDMUND NEELER. AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of June, 15 One thousand seven hundred and forty-six, the above-named Edmund Neeler came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing above mentioned, and all and every thing therein contained and speci¬ fied, in form above said. And also the said Writing was stamped according to the form of the Statute made and provided in the sixth year of the reign 20 of the late King William and Queen Mary and so forth. Inrolled the said Twenty-sixth day of June, in the twentieth year of the reign of His said Majesty King George the Second. LONDON: Printed by George Edward Eyre and Willi am Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. 1856.