105pReceipts of Phisichall

Medecines and Surgerie ;

The oyle of swallows

Take lauinder Cotten wilde time and the stringe of

5Strawberies that come from the rootes , of each a handfull , budds

of the flowers of Saint Iohn worte tow handfull stamp them

verie small ; then take 12 yonge swallows and stamp them

with theare fethers in the saide herbs , then frie them

alltogeither in a good quantetie of may butter and straine them

10thorow a linin cloth , into sume cleare uesill and keepe it close

and let the patient anoint before the fyre ,

A sirrop for the tisick the runinge gout and

generalie for all sorts of ill humors or wormes

Take tow quarts of fountaine water and put it into a new

15well glaced Pipkin , and put into it , halfe a pound of good Seena

of leuant and ruberbe and genation rootes of each 2 ounzes , of

Iuinlios 4 ounzes of Spanish liquoris new anyseeds and

Ellicompanie roots of each one ounze , after these haue infused

24 houres , let them boile a litle verie gentlie , then straine

20the liquor through a cloth and mix 2 pounds of loafe sugar

boile it into a sirrop of a good consistance , you may then take

One ounze or tow or less for yonge Children , for it purgeth ,

/ verie gentlie \