Name: Wound Balsam— for Horses or Human Flesh
Ingredients: 6 oz gum benzoin, in powder; 3 oz balsam of tolu, in powder; 2 oz gum storax; 2 oz frankincense, in powder; 2 oz gum myrrh, in powder; 3 oz Socotorine aloes, in powder; 1 gallon alcohol

Wound Balsam— for Horses or Human Flesh

Ingredients

Directions

Mix all ingredients together.
Place the mixture in a digester.
Apply gentle heat for 3 to 4 days.
Strain the mixture before use.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.