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Stiff Joints and Shrunken Sinews

- To make this ointment, take two pounds of hog's lard, put into it four ounces of melilot (green), stew it well fifteen minutes. Strain it; add two ounces of rattlesnake's oil, same of olive oil, and ten drops of the oil of lavender, mixed well together. Anoint the part affected three times a day, and rub it in well with the hand, and in two weeks the cure will be effected.