Balsamum Podagricum, or a Balsam for the Gout.
Take juyces of Housleek, Rosemary, Gourd, Tabaco, Henbane, Germander and Vervain, of each six ounces; Vitriol calcined till it be yellow, white Tartar, Sea-salt calcined, of each three ounces; the Fat of a wild Cat, of a Goose and Fox, the Marrow of a Stag, of each an ounce and a half; oyl of Turpentine, Bricks, Iuniper and Sope, of each an ounce; oyl of the lower Iaw-bone of a Horse, oyl of Saturn and Spike, of each a dram; Gum Ammoniack, Opopanax, Sagapen, Mastich, Olibanum and Foreign Mumy, of each half an ounce. Mix them, and boil them to the consumption of the humidity, and reserve all the fatty part for use.
Virtue and Use. Bathe the parts grieved with this Balsam warm morning and evening, and lay Linen Cloaths upon the part affected after bathing, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 doth to a miracle allay the pains of the Gout; for it doth quickly, by altering and penetrating, dissolve the tartarous and knotty Concretions, and takes away at once almost all gouty and cramp-like pains proceeding from a cold Cause.