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