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An Ointment for an Ach, Rheum or swelling in the joints, made with swallows.

By Mrs. Kempe.

Take twenty Swallows and put them quick into a mortar of stone (Memorandum the Swallows may not touch the ground) and put th••rein Lavender-cotten, Spike, Knotgrasse, Ribwort, Bawm, Vale∣rian, Rosemarie tops, Woodbind tops, Strings of Vines, French mallows, the tops of Aloes, Strawberrie strings, Tutsan, Plan∣tane, Walnut leaves, tops of young Bayes, Hisop, Violets, Sage of vertue, fine Roman Wormwood, of each a handful, two hand∣ful of Roses, as much Camomile, beat all these together and put thereto a quart of neatsfoot oyl, or May butter, and grind all these

together, and beat with them, an ounce or two of Cloves, put them all together in an earthen pot, and stop it very close with a peece of dow round about, so that no air come out, and set them nine dayes in a Cellar; and then take them out and seeth them six or eight hours upon the fire, or else in a panne of water, but first open your pot, and put in halfe a pound of wax, white or yellow, whe∣ther you wil, and a pint of oyl or butter.