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Take young Bay leaves and Worm∣wood, of each halfe a pound, red Sage and Rue, of each a pound, all must be gathered in the heat of the day, pick them clean, but wash them not, beat
them very small in a great Mortar like greene sawce, then take three pound of new Sheeps suet, clean picked and shred smal, beat all these together til they be wel incorporated, then put to them a pottle of the best Oyl Olive, work it wel with your hands til it become all of one substance and colour, put it into a new earthen pan, and let it stand there close covered in some cool place eight dayes, then boil it on small coals almost a whole day stirring it wel, and after it hath boiled four hours or more, put to it four ounces of the best Oyl of Spike; and to know when it is throughly boiled, take a drop thereof in a sawcer, and if it be a fair green colour, take it off, and strain it through a new piece of course canvass, and put it up in Gally pots, it wil last seven years.
It cureth all Straines, Swellings, A∣ches, Kibes, Cramps, Scaldings, Bur∣nings of all sorts, all outward pains or griefs, easeth the Sciatica and Gout, with all kinds of swellings in the face or throat.