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A Salve Called the Chefe of all salves

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Take roson 8 oz virgens waxe and francomesence of each 4 oz Camfer 2 draws beat the rosin mastick and francomsence in a morter together tofine pouders and when they are well united or melted straine it throw a cloth in to a potell of whit wine and boyle it together till it be sume what thick then let it cole and put in the camfer and 4 ounces of venes turpentime drope by drope least it calme sturing it continually then make it up in rowles and doe with it withe the pleasure of god and healpe of man

 

The vertews and use of it is thes it is good for all sors ould or new or wounds in any place 2 it clenseth all festers in the flesh and healeth more in 9 days then other salves in a month

 

[3] it sufers noe dead flesh to in gender or a bide where it cometh + it cureth the head ache rubing the tempells theire with by it cureth a suiltfleame face it it helpeth sinews that be shrunke or sprunge or stiffe or sprunge with labor or wax dry for want of bloud it draeth out usially Jarne Arows heads stubs splinters thournes or what so ever is fixed in the flesh or wounds it cureth the biting of a mad doge or the stinging of any venamos creature it curs all fellons and whit flaws and is good for all cankers it helpeth all aches of the liver splene kidneys back sides armes or leges it cureth all boyles and blaines boches and inpostims swellings and tumors in any part of the body it healpeth all aches and pains of the geniters in men or wemen it cureth scabs and itch rinches spraines strains gouts pallseys dropses and waters betwene the flesh and skinne it helpeth the himroyades or pills in men or wemen it cureth the bludy fluxe if the belly be anoynted their with if you make a seare cloth thear with for all the above said malladys with many others proved:::

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p. 11-12, transcribed by Chris Wright

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