514. _Swallows Ointment._

Take lavender cotten, spike, knot grass, Ribwort barme vallerian,

rosemary tops alehoofe, strawberrystrings woodbine tops, vinestrings,

french mallows the tops of tutsan, plantin leaves, walnut leaves, the

tops of young bays Issope, violet leaves, Sage of virtue, fine Roman

wormwood of each of these one handfull of redroses and cammomile 2

handfulls of each 10 young swallows alive one quart of neats foot

oyle or may butter 2 ounces of cloves pound all these together in a

morter small then put them in an earthen pipkin and stop it close with

a piece of dough that no air get in then set it in a seller or coole

place 9 days then take it and open it and add thereto a pint of sallet

oyle a quarter of a pound of yellow wax then set it over ye fire in a

kettle of water and let it boyle 6 or 7 hours then take it off the fire

and strain it into your pot to keep it for your use keeping it close

cover’d. it is good for a sprain or wrinch or ache of long continuance.

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