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the rind is in steeping you must take the
white & the meate of the setrons & cutt them
in peeces, & putt sum whit winen into it the night
before you still them which must be don in a
Rose warter still, then ^take water butt it into the
infused sack & sritron and stur it all together
then put it all into a stilling glas limbeck
the deepest you can gett & sutt it uery close
& sett the glas limbeck in a pott of water, but
roule it aboute first, with a wrath of hay
for fear the glas breake, ther must be a good
fire kept under all day butt lett it not still
ouer fast you must putt noe could water in
the pott your limbeck is in but keep still hott
water by the fire to putt in as the water
consuems, & to the glas your srittron water drops
in you must put suger candy finly seearced
magestareall of pearll a littill ambor if you
please sum halfe a qurter of an ounce of
pearll will be anoufe for a pint as your srittron
is in binnes soe you must order them, for your
limbeck must be butt halfe full when you
still itt, & sutt it close up,

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Lady palmer,

Lucantulus oyntment or balsom
admirable for wounds
cross in a circle
Take veanes Turpentin one pound oyle of olive
3 pints yellow mix halfe a pound one ounce
of natuerall balsoum one ounce of the oyle of St
Iohns wortt of Redd Sanders pourdred one
ounce sex spounfuls of sacke, cut the wax &
melt it upon the fire & then take it of & put
the turpetin to it, haueing first washed the venis
turpentin thris with dammask Rose water, &
hauing mingled your sallet oyle with the sack put
also the oyle to them & putt them all on the fire
storing them till they being to boyle, for if
it boyle much it will roun ouer speedily then
lett it cooule for a night or more, till the
water & wine be sounk all to the bottom then
maks hols in the stoufe that the water may rone
out of it, which water is good to wash wounds
which being don put it ouer the fire againe puting
to it the balsom & the oyle of St Iohns wort, & when
it is melted put the Saunders to it sturing it well that
it may intorpireat & when it first begins to boyle