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Take of tobacco leaves 2 pound. fresh hogs grease one pound.
Let the herbe beinge bruised be infused all night in red
wine, in the morneinge Let it boyle with a gentle fyre
to the consumption of the wine, straine it and adde to the
oyntment of the Juice of Tobacco clarified halfe a pound.
Rozin fower ounces boyle it to the consumption of the Juice
addinge towards the end round Birthworte rootes in powder
2 ounces. new waxe soe much as is sufficient to make it
into an oyntment.

The Virtues
It cures. tumours. Imposthumes. woundes, vlcers
gunshotts; Botches, scabs, Itch Stinginge with netles Bees
waspes hornets. venemous beasts, woundes made with
poysoned arrowes. It helpes scaldinge though made with
oyle, burnings though with the Lightning and that without
any scar. it helpes nasty rotten stinckinge putrified
ulcers. though in the legges. whether the humours are most
subiect to resort, in fistulas though the Bone be afflicted
it shall it out without any instrument and bringe the
up the flesh to the very bottome, would you be faire your
face beinge annoynted with this, soone will the rednesse
pimplus sunnburnninge vanish. a wound dressed with the
this will never putrifie, a wound made with so small
a weapon that noe instrument nor tent will follow
annoynte it but with this and you need feare noe dange-
=ger, if your head ake annoynt your temples with this
and you shall have ease, the Stomocke beinge annoynted
with this noe infirmitye dares harbour there, noe not
Asthmaes, nor the consumptions of the lunges, the
bellye beinge annoynted with this helpes the collicke
and Illiake possion; the roumes and what not it helpes
the hemorrheids or piles and is the best oyntment that
is for the goutes of all sortes.

{the yalow flowes is made by this receipt}The flower of all salves called Flowes
Unguentorum good for all sores & swellings

Take rosin & perrosin of each halfe a pound
Virgens wax an francumsens of each a quarter
of a pound of mastick an ounce of harts tallow
& sheeps tallow of each a quarter of a pound 2 drames
of Camfeire melt the talow & clense it put it to
the wax melted then put in the gumes finly beaten
& let all melt together then strayne it into a potell
of white wine boyle the wine & the other things to-

gether a good space then take it of the fyre & let it
stand a leitell then put therto a quarter of a pound
of turpintine always stiring it till it be cold
then makeing it up with in roles keep for your
use for the most precious salve that can be made.

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The Greene Ointment good for Aches Paines
Bruses Swellings Scauldings, or Burns good
also to annoint the Stomacke for Digestion and
it must be maid in May:

claw cla

Take a pound of the Leaves of red Sage as much of Rew or Hearbygrace, halfe
a pound of Bay Leaves, as much Wormewood two handfulls of Camamile, as much
Rosemary, shred the Bay leaves and Rosemary together, and the rest of the Hearbes very
small. Then take three pounds of sheepe Suit warme out of the sheepes bellye, shred it
amongst the hearbes, then beate all together in a Morter, Then put them into a great
and earthen Pott, put to itt a Pottle of the best Oile oliue; And worke them well
together with your hands, Cover it close, and lett it it stand in some lowe Sellar
or in the earth tenn dayes, then take it up, and put it into a cleane Pann.
And lett it boile on a soft ffyre, foure houres; when it is well boiled, take it up
& straine itt thorough a course cloath, and keepe for the uses aforesaid, Dipp wooll
in itt, & applye it to the place greeued when it is halfe boyled put in 4
ounces of the Oyle of Spike.
Stirre it continually while it is
boiling.
A plaster to heall a burne & to fech out the fyer aproued
Take of the best english honey melt it anoynt the burne all over with a fethe[...]
diping a lane rage in the sayd honey & aplye it to the sad sore never take
it of but allways anoynt the top of it with a feather with the sade
honey untill it be whole

Mathias his pretious oyntment of Balsimud

Take 2 pints of sallet oyle fiue or six spoonfulls of sacke
and mingle them very well together in a little panne Take
also of Venice turpyntyne one pound wash the same very well
in rose water 2 or 3 severall tymes, then put it into the oyle
and sacke put thereto halfe a pound of yellow waxe and then
boyle them all together, in the sayd panne with a very soft
and temperat fire, for the space of one hour and halfe
after put to it one ounce of reed sanders, and then lett it
boyle againe untill it be a perfit oyntment but bee
sure that all these thinges bee of the very best that you can
gett.

i This pretious oyntment or Balsimud is approved to be good
for these thinges followinge; first it will heale any greene
wound or old wound etc. inwarde or outward, if the wound be
inward, that is deepe in the body the oyntment is to be spouted
into the wound bloud warme, if it be outward or not deepe it
is to be applyed with fine lint or lininge cloath, annoyntinge
the parts offended is to with the oyle melted, and it will both
take away the payne and keepe the wound from inflimations
and draw out all Corrupt things which other way would putrify
or fester the wound; soe that the inward parts as the liver, Brayne
or such like be not already perished and it will cure the same
in xxiiii tymes dressinge, especially if that many other
medicines have not beene applyed unto this before.
2 It healeth any cut or gash the same beinge first annoynt[...]
with the said oyle and then the Lynninge cloathes diped ther-
=in and Layed warme to the cutt will heale it without
leavinge any trace behinde.
3 It will also heale a fisteloue or other [.] Vlcers, if it be
applyed as aforesaid to the cutt and the same manner of
applyinge.
4 It will likewise serve to heale Cancers.

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Stephen

There's a similar recipe for Flos unguentorum here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Sk809ibqhvkC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=flos+unguentorum&source=bl&ots=qUIxvXJLda&sig=ACfU3U0BkjWspOx75JsXGvBIGi3riwGObg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisk9-Bu4_6AhWYM8AKHfH6DuQQ6AF6BAgcEAM#v=onepage&q=flos%20unguentorum&f=false