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Oleum Benedictum.
20 R. Oyle Omphacine lib. ii. of Storax, Calamite, Ladanum, Olibanum, Saffron, Gum arabeck, Madder, Gumme of Ivy tree, Aloes citrine, Mastick, Cloves, Galingale, Cinamon, Nutmegs, Cubebes, ana ℥ ii. Gumme Elem. lib. i. Myrrhe, Bdellium, ana ℥ i. ss. Galbanum ℥ vi. Spike, Lignum Aloes, ana ℥ i. Rosin of the Pine, Oppoponax, Armoniack ana ʒ x. powder those that are to be powdered, and mingle them with the said Oyle, and put them in a Limbeck with his head, and re∣ceiver well stopped with Lute sapient, and distill them Secundum artem; put the Alimbeck upon a soft fire the space of xii. houres, encreasing the same from six to six houres till all be stilled, then powder the rest of the spi∣ces again, and so with the distilled Oile distill thē again, and at the last you shall have an Oyle like Balme; Which is good for the Crampe, the Falling sicknesse, the Coronall commissure being anointed (a Mundifi∣cation with a strong Medicine premised;) it cureth great fresh Wounds, and cold Catarres; one drop put into the Eare with Cotton amendeth the hearing, chiefly of a cold cause; a Rose Cake moistened in the said Oyle, and laid to the Temples, easeth the Megrim, and taketh away the Swimming of the head; halfe an ounce of the said Oyle drunke with a little odoriferous Wine in the morning three dayes together, comforteth, and reneweth the Heart, and Lungs; taken with a little odoriferous Wine it is good for quartain Feavers: the receit must be almost one spoonfull for foure dayes together one houre before day, upon such daies as no Paroxysme is looked for; taken the space of thirty dayes with a little Wine, and a little Piony, cureth the Falling sicknesse, and