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A Book of Fruits and Flowers

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Of Medicines

An Excellent Medicine or Salve for an Ache Coming of Cold, Easie to Be Made by Any Countrey Housewife

Take of good Neats-foot Oyle, Honey, and new Wax, like quantities, boyle them all well together, then put to them a quarter so much of Aqua vitæ as was of each of the other, and then setting it on the fire, boyle it till it be well incorporated together, then spread it upon a piece of thin Leather, or thick linnen cloath, and so apply it to the place pained.

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