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And let them rest a little while & put them together in the great, & lett them all boyle a little space, but be sure you stirr them well together, then take an earthen Bason, and Streine it through a fine Cloth when e bason is cold There is a Water under it t is good for any scalding or burneing and other things
The Virtues of e Balsome
1 It is good for any wound being applyed as a Salue 2 It is good for burning or scalding 3 It helps e head ache anoynting e temples & nostrill 4 It cures any Catarrh or ache in the bones 5 It is good against e Wind Collick or a stich in e side drink a quarter of a pinte of Sack with half a quarter of an Ounce of Balsome fiue mornings fasting lukewarme 6 It helps a fistule or Ulcer; though never soe deep being applyed as to a Cutt; 7 It is good against Worms or a Canker 8 It is good against Vermine 9 It helps digesture, being applyed to e pitt of e Stomacke; anoynting well; 10 It helps e dropsey, takeing it in posset drink 11 It is good against e [plage] onely anoynting e lipps and nostrills
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12 It helps being drunk inwardly with Sack & anoynting the place 13 It helps e bleeding of e Nose onely anoynting the Nostrills, & drinking it with Sack or posset Ale 14 It cures e Bloody ffluxe
e biteing of Scorpions & AddersAn oyntment for an old Sore in the Legg or else where
Take smallage, sothernwood, and sallendine boyle these in May butter till the herbs be Crispe, and soe use it
Gout
Take Verjuice and Riemeale, and in summer e leaves, and stalks of Burdock, in Winter e rootes and stalks pithed and shred small & boyled to e thickness of a poultiss after it is boiled put in a good Quantity of Deer Suet and let it dissolve in it and soe keep it
Wind & Wind Collick
Take Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an Ounce diacalimine half a dram mingle them together and eat a little of it when you are troubled with wind
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