Take groundsell vallerian elder buds or in the winter the inner rind
of ye elder tree Issope brown Sage a good handfull of each sort half a
pound of clarified butter 3 ounces of beeswax one ounce of rozin half
a pound of sheeps sewit 2 ounces of hog’s lard chop these herbs small
and boyle them in those liquors softly a quarter of an hour then strain
it and stir it till it be almost cold and then apply it to the sore but
if you think the sore doth breed a worme then take the powder of a Sea
crab shell & all together baked in an oven and so made to powder the
powder also of frankinsence of oyle of wormwood an ounce and the oyle
of 6 eggs put off ye powder of crab as much as will fill a thimble half
as much of the powder of frankinsence stir it together into ye oyle and
with a feather put some of it into the wound under the plaister.
To wash it you must take warme white wine or crab verjuice, if these
things heal not then take the oyle of the finest tar stir’d with a
stick the oyle will come upon the top which take with a feather and
apply to ye sore.