Put 8 ounces of the best olive oil into a wide-mouthed bottle, add
two ounces of the small parts of alkanet-root.
Stop up the bottle, and set it in the sun; shake it often, until it
be of a beautiful crimson. Now strain the oil off very clear from
the roots, and add to it, in a glazed pipkin, three ounces of very
fine white wax, and the same quantity of fresh clean mutton suet.
Deer-suet is too brittle, and also apt to turn yellow.
Melt this by a slow fire, and perfume it when taken off, with forty
drops of oil of rhodium, or of lavender. When cold, put it into small
gallipots, or rather whilst in a liquid state.
The common way is to make this salve up into small cakes; in that
form the colour is very apt to be impaired.
This salve never fails to cure chopped or sore lips, if applied
pretty freely at bed-time, in the course of a day or two at farthest.