54vThe Jngredients
Take a pounde of Venus Turpentine halfe
a pounde of yellow wax unurought 45 ounce or
3 pints of sallet oyle of the purest and sweetest that may
5be founde one ounce of redd-sanders. of these jngredients
only this oyle is made. yet should there be added a considerable
quantity of sack a pint or as you shall judge fit
The makinge whereof is this
First you must wash the Turpentine with cleane water
10three times with rose water vntill it become as white
as snow • Then you must take vn earthen pot some three
handfulls high from the bottome wherein there must be
made a little hole with a sharpe Bodkin and it must be
stopped with Paper: Then put the oyle into this pott wherein
15also you must poure some cleare water to wash the oyle
and this water and oyle you must put ouer the fire
which must be made of charkrcoale.There let it boyle
halfe a quarter of an houre or lesse: Then take the wax
and put it into a brasse skillet and melt it ouer the fire
20and the Turpentine with it then takinge it of from the
fire stirre it with a spoone vntill the wax and the
Turpentine become a mingled oyle: Then takinge of
the earthen pott take away the Paper in the bottome
thereof and let the water runne pvt into a platter
25then put in the sallett oyle into the brasse skillet and
stirre and mingle it ouer the fire then put in the
sanders beaten vnto powder and searsed and let it boyle
a little then take it of and put it into the earthen
po<tt> that it taste <n>ot of the brasse • And so the oyle
30is made:
Note that when the oyle is could and hard which
will be after it hath stood vntill the next day there
will remaine allways some water in the bottome which
you cannot see and therefore make a hole in the midst
35of the oyle • Take /some\ this water and puttinge the pot vnto the
fire againe let it abide vntill it become liquid and then take
it of and stirre it vp and doune vntill it be could:
And if you will haue it become excellent indeed put
the earthen pot deepe into the earth and couer it well
40with leade and woode and let it abide there for the space
of 3 months and your oyle you may vse auoidinge vnto
the receipt •
The vertues of this Oyle
1 Jt is good to heale any inward or outward wounde • Jf
45inward to be squirted warme into the sayd wounde • Jf
outward to be applyed with fine lint: Also anoint the parts
there abouts and it will not only take away the payne but
keepe it from inflamation drawinge away any broken
bones or any other thinge that ells might putrify or fester
50it so the braines or inwards as the heart gutts or liuer be
not touched and it will heale it in 4 or 5 times dressinge
so that no other thinge be applyed thereinto
2 It also healeth any burninge or scaldinge either by
fire water or any other means • likewise it healeth
55any bruise or cutt beinge anointed first with the sayd
oyle warme and lint dipped therein • Then lay it unto
the place and it will heale it without a searre remayninge