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To make Oyle of Camoxmell

Take Camoxmell flowers 1 pd, bruise them in a
Mortar infuse them in a pd of sweet Oyle, & lett them
stand in the sunn 20 days, then straine it & keep it foure your
use, it is good to asswage paines of the joynts and
corroberate the Sinews

Fore the cough of the Lunges

Take maiden hairs & maiden Isop & Coltsfoot of
each a handfull, Fennell seeds, Anniseeds &
Liquorish of each a spoonfull bruised, half a pd
of Raisons of the sunn, stoned, a quarter of a pd [?]
Figgs sliced, put all this into a pott of Running
water in an earthen Pipkin let it stand upon the
embers all night, the next morning straine it through
a strong cloth, then putt into this Liquor 5 Ounces
of Browne sugarcandy then boyle it to the halfs, scum it
as long as scum ariseth, & so drink a spoonful when you
feele yourcough come upon you :: Probatum est

A good Oyntment four any bruise or squatt

Take a good quantity of honey, & as mcuh Wormwood
as you think good stamps it & strains it into your honey
& then boyle it, & then put it into a gally pott or glasse,
& it will be an Oyntment, it will keep all the year