A Balme for greene wounds or payne | ||||
in the body | ||||
Take oyle of Mintts : 2: pound white wyne :3: |
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pintes the fat of man* :2:ounces oyle of | ||||
Lavender 3:ounces ground pine and rose | ||||
leaves a like quantity of each 3:ounces | ||||
greene Colwort*leaves :6: bruse the | ||||
leaves and boyle them in a pipkin* wth | ||||
whyte wyne untill the wyne be halfe | ||||
consumed then put to it the oyles and | ||||
boyle them them together untill the | ||||
wyne be quite consumed soe strayne | ||||
it: It is good for all paynes & aches | ||||
in the body & bruses but you must first | ||||
annoynt it and wash the sore place with | ||||
with a feather lay upon it a Colwort | ||||
leafe & a peece of lynnen Cloth thus | ||||
morneing & evening you must dresse | ||||
it | ||||
A plaster for woundes | ||||
Take yellow waxe: Sytharige* of gold & silver | ||||
white lead Turpentine a like quantity of these | ||||
4: oz oyle one pound and halfe put the wax | ||||
Sytharige and the white lead and boyle | ||||
them a good space they being made in fine | ||||
powder last of all put in the Turpentyne | ||||
continually stirring it untill it become | ||||
of a blackish Colour when it is cold make | ||||
it into rowles spread it upon leather | ||||
this cureth wounds and taketh away | ||||
paynes in a cold cause in any part |
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Transcribed by LF and JW