Take one pound of the best venice turpentine and 3 pints of Sallet oyle
of the best bees wax half a pound one ounce of red sanders in very fine
powder half a pint of red rose water and one pint of malligoe sack
first beat your turpentine in the red rose water till it be white
next beat your Sack and Sallet oyle well together then cut your wax in
small pieces then take a clean brass pan or kittle let your kittle be
twice as big as to hold the quantity of your ingredients then Set it on
a clear charcole fire then first put in your wax and let it melt then
take it off and let it coole a little then put in your rose water and
turpentine then your sack and Sallet oyle, as fast as you can, then let
these boyle softly together a while always stiring it then take it off
the fire and let it stand till it be cold then scrape off the filth
from the bottom of the cake, then clean your pan and melt it again and
let it simmer a while over the fire again, then take it from the fire
and put in your Sanders by degrees keeping it still stiring untill your
Sanders be all in then pour it into a well Glazed strong earthen pot
and keep it stiring till it be quite cold then cover it up very close
with ledd, that no air may get into it, and bury it in a garden deep
in the ground and so let it stand a year round bean blowen time is the
best to make it in.
_The Vertues of it followeth_:
It is good to prevent the plague by anointing the lips and nostrells
therewith tis good for deafness being spert’d into the ears with a
serenge, tis good to heal any wound, inward or outward, inwardly by
the Serenge outward by being pour’d warme into the wound aplying fine
lint dip’d into the same balsame being melted laid upon the mouth of
the wound, it commonly cures in 7 times dressing provided that no other
thing either before or while thats useing be applied thereto, so that
if brains, heart guts or liver be not toucht it will save life, its
good for scaulds or burns either by fire or water, and healeth without
skare. helping the Siatica or any other each proceeding from A cold
cause, in what joynt soever, it is a present remedy for one that is
poisoned by takeing presently the quantity of a quarter of an ounce. it
is good for any swelling anointing the bunches thereof with it warm it
helpeth the stinging of adders snakes and all such venomous creatures
being dranke in warm milk and applied to the place stung it is good for
the infected of the measells or plague, takeing a quarter of an ounce 4
mornings together and swet upon it: it is good inward or outward it is
good for sore brests, being applied hot if broken, otherwise not, and
in case it must be broke this will do it but it must be used ten days
together although it seem worse yet use it: provided it be not a cancer
it must be drest twice a day cheaft gently in with a warme hand keeping
the first cloth to it but if it be broke and run much put a little
piece of cloth over those holes that may be shift’d to keep them from
stikking but not els; it helpeth the wind collicke or stitch in the
side being applied warm a good quantity plaister ways for 4 mornings
together; it helpeth the piles anointing them therewith.