If it must be broken take castle soap and temper it with barme & apply it till it break when it is broken apply the same as long as you shall think there is anything to be drawn forth of the wound then heal it wth the following Salve:
512. A healing Salve for ye King’s Evil.
Take groundsell vallerian elder buds or in the winter the inner rind of ye elder tree Issope brown Sage a good handfull of each sort half a pound of clarified butter 3 ounces of beeswax one ounce of rozin half a pound of sheeps sewit 2 ounces of hog’s lard chop these herbs small and boyle them in those liquors softly a quarter of an hour then strain it and stir it till it be almost cold and then apply it to the sore but if you think the sore doth breed a worme then take the powder of a Sea crab shell & all together baked in an oven and so made to powder the powder also of frankinsence of oyle of wormwood an ounce and the oyle of 6 eggs put off ye powder of crab as much as will fill a thimble half as much of the powder of frankinsence stir it together into ye oyle and with a feather put some of it into the wound under the plaister.
To wash it you must take warme white wine or crab verjuice, if these things heal not then take the oyle of the finest tar stir’d with a stick the oyle will come upon the top which take with a feather and apply to ye sore.
513. To raise a Blister.
If you raise a blister then it must not be broken but take speare grass and pound a little of the leaves putting a little butter amongst it put also as much of it as a small nut and that will raise a blister of the same bigness cut the blister clean away and then put castle soap and barme as aforesaid to draw it as long as it will yield anything then after apply the forementioned Salve unto the sore and (God willing) this will cure the party in time. Probatum Est.
514. Swallows Ointment.
Take lavender cotten, spike, knot grass, Ribwort barme vallerian, rosemary tops alehoofe, strawberrystrings woodbine tops, vinestrings, french mallows the tops of tutsan, plantin leaves, walnut leaves, the tops of young bays Issope, violet leaves, Sage of virtue, fine Roman wormwood of each of these one handfull of redroses and cammomile 2 handfulls of each 10 young swallows alive one quart of neats foot oyle or may butter 2 ounces of cloves pound all these together in a morter small then put them in an earthen pipkin and stop it close with a piece of dough that no air get in then set it in a seller or coole place 9 days then take it and open it and add thereto a pint of sallet oyle a quarter of a pound of yellow wax then set it over ye fire in a kettle of water and let it boyle 6 or 7 hours then take it off the fire and strain it into your pot to keep it for your use keeping it close cover’d. it is good for a sprain or wrinch or ache of long continuance.
515. The Lady Biddolphs Green Oyle to be made in May.
Take red sage, rosemary, lavender broad leaved balsom cammomile, vallerian of each 4 ounces wormwood 2 ounces gather them in a Sunshine day wipe ym and not wash them chop them very small and put them into a convenient vessel and put to them a quart of the best oyle of olives you can get tye it up close let it stand in the sun 2 or 3 weeks stiring it once in 3 or 4 days then put it into a skillet and boyle it a little then strain out all the herbs as hard as you can wring them and put into the oyle half the same quantity of herbs again and let them stand as before in the Sun 3 or 4 days then set them on the fire which must be very gentle and let boyle very softly till your oyle is of a perfect green then strain out the herbs and let your oyle stand all night in a pewter bason then set your oyle on a chaffendish of coles and let it boyle a while and scumme it if anything do arise then take it off and let it stand till it be cold then take a glass of the uppermost for special use the rest put into a glass for more ordinary use if there be any water at ye bottom cast it away or trye it for eyes so preserving the balsam oyle for your use.