TAke of your Garden herbs of good and strong smell, namely Sage red and green, Wormwood, Herbgrasse, Penny real, Marjoram, Hyssope, Neep, Motherwort, tansey, time-savoury, as also Rosemary and Bay leafes, abrotanum, clare, balm, mince, &c. as also of those hot herbs of the fields, as mugwort, calamentum, white Horehunt, Origa­num, melilot, serpillum, camomil, germandry, Nettleseed, Fennel seeds and leafs. Item, of the vulnerary or healing herbs rs the season of the year will afford, as your Panacea or Clownswort, Camphory of all sorts, Bugula, Prunella, St. Johns wort, golden rode, perwinkle, Sanicle, Long plan­tain, &c. take of as many sorts as you can have, of each a like quantity, and put all being neatly cleans'd in half Sal­let Oyl, and half Linseed Oyl, as much as conveniently you may guesse to be enough to hold your herbs, adding a quar­ter part of good Sack to it, meaning a quart of Sack, if your Oyl be 4. quarts, steep all together warm a whole night, and afterward boyl it till the Sack and moisture of the Herbs be consumed, then strain it, and in the oyl so strain'd for every pound of it adde two ounces of Beeswax, clear Turpentine one ounce, black pitch, white pitch, Gum Ele­my, Rosen and Goose-grease, of each half an ounce, red Oyl of Turpentine, or colophony, jonce storax liquid, Spick oyl Rosemary oyl, Amber oyl, spirit of Salt, of each a quarter of an ounce, Gumme ammoniacum first dissolved with white wine about also a quarter of an ounce, and as much of Sagapenum and Opopanax, Benjamin styrax calamites, myrrhe and aloes, of each a dram, and of the Oyles made [Page 3] of the herbs abovesaid, the more the better, within a quar­ter of an ounce for every pound of the former Sallet and Linseed Oyles, observing to put to an account all the Oyle first and last, that you may be sure to compasse your wax and gummes, and pitches to the weight of all the Liquors weighed together, as well as your Sallet and Linseed Oyl, otherwise your Balm should be too liquid and not healing enough; and if you put Chymical oyls of your herbs afore­said so much the better, wax oyl, and brick oyl be also ex­cellent in it, a dram in the pound, Sugar-loaf and Honey I have often put in it, but it will not mix among the herbs afore the straining two drams also of each in the pound; How to use this excellent Composition, the printed Pape sheweth it.

The Oyntments for Burnings and Scaldings, as it was tryed uponSmithfield place, Octob. 17. 1651.

Take according to the time of the year more or lesse of the herbs underwritten, as Nightshades, Umbilicus veneris, hemlock, white and black poppy leafs, porcelan, Laituces, Sorrel of all sorts, Henbane, green Colworts, Housleek great and small Laenticula pallustris, Violet and Mallowes leafs, wild tansey, [...]ramonium, and Mandragora leafes if possible could be, to have all together green, and the like. Item, of the green inward ring of the Elder tree, of all a like quantity, and as much fresh butter as may serve to boyl easily the aforesaid herbs, and a little [...] in every pound of butter, with as much, or a little [...] of an Asses dung; or for the want of it, take horse dung, [...]oyl all to­gether till your Butter be very green, which will be the soo­ner, if you bruise or chop your herbs very small, boyl it till you see the moisture of your herbs almost vapour'd, and strain it in a napkin, adding for every pound of the said Oyntment half a dram of salt of Lead, or Saccharum Saturnii [Page 6] dissolved in a little water and wine vineger, stirring it with a stick when your oyntment is almost cold, and so keep it close to be us'd according to the printed Note.

An Excellent Remedy for Sore Eyes.

Take Roche Allum, dissolve it in plantain water upon an easie fire, and when it is cold, put the white of an Egge to it, and stir it much with three or four sticks together, then filtre it by the brown paper, or at the least strain it softly by a napkin, and then by evaporation in an earthen vessel dry your allom softly, and begin the same work again with eye-bright, or sweet Fennel water; then when your Allom is so dryed again, adde as much Ireos or Oris in powder, and that powder so mixed when you have any occasion to use it, steep it in Rose-water; a dram of the powder is enough for two ounces of Rose water, &c.

The Sear-cloath for Corns.

Take Gum Elemy, white Pitch, and black pitch, Bees­wax, Rosen and Turpentine, of each a like quantity, onely the black pitch may be doubled; melt all together upon a soft fire, and so make Sear-cloath according to Art.

The Medicine for Tooth-Ache procee [...] [...]old can [...].

Take Angelica roots, Spanish Pelleto [...] [...]lov [...] [...] Gin­ger, of each a like quantity, and with the Muscilage of Gum Tragagant dissolv'd in Mugwort water, adding a little starch, ma [...] [...] paste and pastilles to hold upon the aking Teeth, &c. [...] if the pain proceedeth from a hot cause with infl [...] [...], then take the root of Henbane, slice it, and boyl it in wine Vineger, then strain it, and hold in your mouth the said vineger warm, and it will put you in admi­ration how quickly it will cure you; the seed of the same Henbane may be used alike▪ but the root is better.