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A green oyntment to be made in may it is good for and ache and for aney Agewish swelling and paine in the limes whear their is noe skinne broak and for a spraine this was the lady clarks recait gave to Mrs Dre

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Take halfe a pound of the young shoots or top of bays but if you canot have them take the leaves of bayes take halfe a pound of wormwood and one pound of saige one pound of rew and three pound of good muten sewet shred very small and the hearbs must be beaten all severall and when they are beat once over then they must be beat a gaine and the sewet must be beaten with the hearbs that you may not see the sewett at all and when you have dune so take a quart of good oyle and mixe with it and when you have dune so then let it stand 9 days then boyle it six howers then put in foure ounces of oyle of spike amongst it then let it boyle 2 houres more and then straine it out in to gally pots it must bee boyled in a brass pot :::

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p. 92, transcribed by Gwyn Bourlakov