Note 28 — Chapter II
Reading edition
The black wash now so generally used by Surgeons is a prescription of Sir Theodore Mayerne’s, by the use of which he performed a great cure upon Sir Kenelm Digby. His formula is this:—
℞. Aquæ calcis ℥vj.
Mellis rosati ℨii.
Mercurii dulcis ℨi. M.