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A Singular Emplaster well
Approued off very Effectuall for
these things ffollowing

First it is good for old and new wounds it
cleanseth very well, & it is excellent incarnative
it healeth Impostumes in the head or Ears or in
any part of the Body, swellings or chafeings in
any Member; sinews, cutt, stark, or strain'd. It
draws out Thornes it helpeth venomous biiteing of
Dogs, snakes; or such like, likewise the pricking
of Nailes, thornes or bones in any Joynts all manner
of botches or boyles & doth alsoe serve very well
for a soar [cloath] and to take away some kind of
Anguish & paine in joynts; this is well approued

The manner of Makeinge

You shall take of pure Rosin & Collophone
& Burgandy pitch half a pound : virgins wax
and Olibanum of either a Quarter of a pound
Mastick one ounce [harls] Tallow or sheep suit
purified a quarter of a pound Camphire 2 drams
make your Gummes in fine powder and searce
it then melt your wax with your suitt upon a
small Charcole fire, & put your powder therein
by little and little over stirring it gently till it be
well boyled then straine it through a cloath into
a [pottle] of white wine; & when it is boild bloud
warme put into 2 drams of Camphire in

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Powder with a Quarter of a pound of venice
Turpentine over stirring it till it be cold then
then when it is soe cold that you may handle itt
work it with your hands anoynting your hands
with oyle Olive; or oyle of bitter Almonds &
draw it soe long as the shooemakers doe their
wax till it be to your mind, then make it up
in Rowles upon a smooth table, & let them lye
in the Wind till they be cold, & keep them
for your use If you will you may roule them
in white paper as the Apothecaryes doe the like
From Mrs Hone
Probat

For the Greensickness
Take dewe wormes & slitt them & wash of all
the dirt within them & wash them well in white
wine dry them in an Oven, and beat them to
powder; take as much as will lye upon 6 pence
in Possitt Ale, and walk upon itt. Probat

For thee Yellow Jaundyes
Take of your knottds great wormes slitt
them & wash them cleane in water dry them
to powder & drink it in Tamarisk & saffron
boyld together in possitt drink & then putt in
your powder of wormes as much as will lye
upon a shillinge