A Medicine to Break and Heale Sore Breasts of Women, Used by Mid-wives, and Other Skillfull Women in London
Boyle Oatmeale,, of the smallest you can get, and red Sage together, in running or Conduict water, till it be thick enough to make a Plaister and then put into it a fit proportion of Honey, and let it boyle a little together, take it off the fire, and while it is yet boyling hot, put thereto so much of the best Venice Terpentine as will make it thick enough to spread, then spreading it on some soft leather, or a good thick linnen cloath, apply it to the brest, and it will first break the soare; and after that being continued, will also heale it up.