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 \