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The making of Small
balm water

Take a pottle of white wine and as much balme
being finely shredd as will make the wine thick
then take half a pound of Anniseeds picked &
bruised, as much lycorish bruised & scraped, then
lett them all lye insteep in the wine 3 dayes stirring
itt 3 times a day, then distill itt in a still as [you] doe
Roses. Some of this balme water being mingled
with some treacle of [Jaine] is is good for them that
have the small pox, or Meazells, & being mingled
with mithridate itt is good for the plague, & itt is
to bee drunk in the morneing fastinge when you
feele your self not well with any thinge mingled
with itt

The Lady Allens water for the Stomack small
pox; Meazells, surfett, & to drive anything from
the heart, & a great Cordiall in any Weakness
It may be given to a Sucking Child [5] or 6 spoonfulls
to a Man or woman of the Stronger, & 2 or 3 to a
Child according to itts Age, both Stronger & weaker are
to take itt with Sugar, Unless you put sugar into
your whole quantity of water & that is best.

Take of Sage, Salendine, Rosemary, Rew, Wormwood
mugworth, pimpinell, Dragons, scabions, balme, Egre-
monye, scrodium, Centory, Carduus benedictus, bettany
rosa solis of each of them a good handfull, of the roots

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Of Angelica, of the roots of henbane, Tormentill,
Zaduary, Lycoris of each half an Ounce scrape
the roots & slice them thinne, wash the Herbs,
shake them & dry them in a Cloath, & shred them
& steep them in a gallon of white wine 2 dayes &
2 Nights Distill them in an Ordinary Still.

A pretious Oyntment
ffor the Spleen

Take Southernwoods Rosemary tops, Mints, Costmary
Bugloss, Elder leaves, Rew, wormood, Lavender cotton
Brooklime, Camomile, a handfull of Lavender mj fresh
butter 4 pounds black snailes alive 2 pound, first
melt the butter in a [pott] or Kettle, then add your
snailes alive & let them Suffocate on a soft fire
then adde your herbes all very well bruised & let it
boile a while, then putt into itt ffrankincense
finely powdered ℥ij of Cowdung as much as an
Egge, hen doung half as much, & somewhat less
salt, boyle itt up; straine itt allmost cold and
reserve itt. Anoint the spleen with this 3
morneings as occasion serves.

To make an excellent
strong water

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Rx of the best Aqua Vitae a gallon; of Damask
rose water a pinte putt to them a pount of sugar

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kelleysw20

I was not sure whether to make line number 17 a heading, but it wasn't separate like the other headings I've seen, it was more part of the paragraph.

kelleysw20

I think that the soft break between lines 27 and 28 is an older spelling of agrimony, but I am not positive.