in the Face Pag. 91 Cap. 8. Remedies for the Face when it is Burnt or Scalded Pag. 92 Cap. 9. To beautifie the Face howsoever disfigured Pag. 94 Cap. 10 How to fasten the Hair and keep it from falling off Pag. 102 Cap. 11. Remedies for the want of haire how to make it grow on any bald place or there where it never came before Pag. 104 Cap. 12. How to take away haire and keep it from growing againe Pag. 107 Cap. 13. How to make the haire Curle Pag. 109 Cap. 14. To make the Haire Lank and flag Pag. 112 Cap. 15. To lengthen the Haire Pag. 113 Cap. 16. To soften the Haire when too harsh and stiffe Pag. 115 Cap. 17. Remedies for the Hair when it splits Pag. 117 Cap. 18. To make the haire of what colour you please Pag. 119 Cap. 19. How to cleanse the haire of scurfe and dandruffe Pag. 123 Cap. 20. How to beautifie the forehead Pag. 125 Cap. 21. How to beautifie and adorn the brows Pag. 127 Cap. 22. Remedies for Inflammation Bloodshot or Spots in the Eyes and yellowness of the Eye-lids Pag. 130 Cap. 23. To alter the ill colour of the eyes and how to make them bigger or lesse Pag. 135 Cap. 24. To make the Lips ruddie Pag. 135 Cap. 25. How to smooth the Lips when they are rough and chapt Pag. 137 Cap. 26. Remedies for such vices as are incident to the Nose Pag. 140 Cap. 27. How to fasten cleanse and preserve the Teeth Pag. 142 Cap. 28. To Sweeten the Breath Pag. 145 Cap. 29. How to beautifie the Neck Pag. 148 Cap. 30. How to keep the Breasts from growing too big and to make them plumpe and round Pag. 151 Cap. 31. Remedies for Inflammations or Hardness of the Breasts and chaps in the Nipples Pag. 153 PART III. How to Beautifie the Arms Hands Leggs and Feet 157 Cap. 1. To remedie sweating of the Armpits and other inconveniences proceeding thence Pag. 158 Cap. 2. For Chaps and Warts in the Arms or Hands Pag. 160 Cap. 3 How to make the Hands fair and white and to lessen the Veins when they appear too big Pag. 162 Cap. 4. For the Hands when they are swoln and look red or blew with cold Pag. 166 Cap. 5. Remedies for those vices which are incident to the nails Pag. 168 Cap. 6. Remedies for the galling fretting and sweating of the feet Cap. 7. Remedies whereby to be freed from Kibes and Cornes Pag. 172 PART IIII. Sents and Perfumes fitted for severall occasions Cap. 1. Perfumed Pomanders for Bracelets Pag. 176 Cap. 2. Pouders for the Hair Linnen and Sweet Baggs Artificiall EMBELLISHMENTS The Prooeme THE Soule that better part of Man when it becomes Tenant to the Body should have it not a Prison but a Pallace a Lodging whose structure and superficiall Ornaments might make its Pilgrimage pleasant and invite its stay not a Dungeon a Cyprian Ceramo to stifle it with its loathsome composure or with its deformed Frontispiece to fright it to a separation It would be too much to the discredit of our Nobler part should we be as Mountains graved with golden Ore which clouded with barren dust and sterill sands usually seem as poor without as they are rich within Surely diamond soules inchas'd with Noble functions deservé a crystall case and nature it selfe cloaths Orientall Jewels in mother of Pearl The crooked body may perhaps yeeld service but never gaine repute to a sprightly mind and sad was the fortune of Socrates whose Royall Soule was condemn'd to the Prison of a crooked or mishapen body More happy Fortune had the Roman Lucretia whose braver Spirit had for its lodging a White-hall sutable to its Grandure I mean her body so fair in features that her Companions some called her others believed her Venus in the disguise of Lucretia or Lucretia coppied out from Venus Should we be as stately clothed as Vlpian was when Alexander Severus wrapt him in his Imperiall Robes we would neither think our selves too gaudy nor our Bodies cloathed in too rich apparell and should we be contented with any tatter'd deformed Body which should be neat apparell to the soule and which it either finds or else would make so For could our Soule alwaies have a supply of materials suting its active power none should ever be deformed but too often encountring disobedient matter which repells its plastick beams it frequently retreats it selfe and in a retired solitude seems to lament that Art comes not Auxiliary to its succour In pitty to such imprison'd soules Art unlocks its Magazeen of Medicines endeavouring to unite all parts of the Body in charming Concords of alluring features and give each Member such a pleasing splendour that Native Beauties seem but dull and dying shadows to set forth their more rich and lively Colours But all Bodies not being equally capacitated for its impressions it usually imploys its skill about the Female Sex whose soft and pliant earth Nature works with a more carefull hand to make it a thriving soile for the tender plant of Beauty so that it slights Men and casts them by as Canvace too course and rough to draw thereon the taking lineaments of a cleare and smooth-fac'd Venus Ye Ladies then are the Dearelings that Art most respects and for whose sake are composed such Aromatique unguents such beautifying oils and essences that would you but accept their profer'd assistance there is none of you but might equallize a Hellen here only would be the difference that a Paris came from Troy to Ravish her but multitudes would make longer journeys to Admire you This subsequent Treatise solely composed Ladies for your concernment is abundantly stored with such Artificiall Embellishments and that it might not it selfe be deficient in what it presents to you Beauty it is regularly methodiz'd into a quaternion of parts The First whereof treats of Embellishing the Body in generall the Next of the Head neck and breast the Third of the Hands Armes Leggs and Feet and the Last supplies you with Sents Perfumes and Pouders fitted for the exigencies of any emergent occasion Of each of these in Order Artificiall Embellishments PART I. Of the whole Body and the beautifying thereof THE Body that weak and moving mansion of mortality is exposed to the treacherous underminings of so many Sicknesses and Distempers that its own frailty seems Petitioner for some artificial Enamel which might be a fixation to Natures inconstancy and a help to its variating infirmities For he that narrowly observes that fading house of distemper'd clay will soon find that it aemulats the Moon in mutability that though to day it be varnisht with a purple and lively blush to morrow it will be so white washt with a meager paleness as if Death had took it to hire and made it a whited Sepulchre that though to day it be so smooth and plain that Venus her self might be tempted to take her Recreation there to morrow it will be so rough-cast with a nasty Elephantiasis
ARTIFICIALL Embellishments OR ARTS BEST DIRECTIONS How to Preserve Beauty or Procure it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anacr OXFORD Printed by William Hall Ann. D. 1665. To The HONOURABLE And Truly Vertuous A. E. MADAM THat Trifles should be made Presents to persons of quality or that these worthless lines should court the Eye of Honour are faults that scarce any will pardon but Your Ladiship whose Goodnes is as Great as your Beauty is Glorious 'T was That animated my presumption in presenting this piece to Your Honour for being so much divine in every thing else You must be so in Goodnes and accept a Mite from him who is unable to make a more stately offering The design Lady of the Book is not to make any addition to Your spotles features but to borrow that from You which it promiseth to others Beauty and Splendour Madam Your Honours Most Humble Servant M. S. To the Ladies DEformity fairest Ladies is a single name yet a complicated misery for a young Algebraist in this only word knows how to read a whole Iliad of evills Poets fancy the creature to be hatcht in Hell neither do they greatly injure it forasmuch as it brings with it sufficient matter for a whole Hell of misery to those whose darkned soules are clouded with it's frightfull adumbrations and as it comes from thence so would it willingly thither againe as appears from it's shunning the light and only solacing it selfe in duskie solitudes For those whose bodyes are dismist natures presse with some errata's and have not the royall stamp of Beauty to make them currant coyne for humane society make choice of obscurity judging death lesse insufferable then that ignominy which too often attends deformity It is a disease usually looked upon as infectious and hath one symptome of dangerous consequence it breeds obstructions and that chiefly to Ladies preferment since none save Grooms or Oastlers think those worth their courtship who are rusted over with ill-inticing looks Now to quit you Ladies from the loathsome embraces of this hideous Hagge which might there be so many Furies in Hell would make a fourth I have published these Cosmeticks so Beautifying that those who use them shall Diana it in company and with a radiant lustre outshine their thick-skind companions as so many browner Nymphs Though you may look so pallidly sad that you would be thought to be dropping in your Graves and though your skins be so devoid of colour that they might be taken for your winding sheets yet these Recipe's will give you such a rosie cheerfulnes as if you had new begun your resurrection They are the handsome Ladies Panacaea of such efficacy that they will teach you creatures of mortality to retrace the steps of youth and transforme the wrinkled hide of Hecuba into the tender skin of a tempting Helena Inchase but your cheeks Ladies with some of our auxiliary unguents and ye shall see that exact complexions make but foyles to advance your features and conceited beauties craven'd with their own defects shall crouch in your presence and force you almost to be proud while having no parts to value they shall dispond themselves When once your artificiall roses display themselves others shall seem pale as if they envied your tempting perfectious and their naturall vermilion shall only serve them to blush that their features are outvied by yours Other Ladies in your company shall look like brown-bread sippets in a dish of snowie cream or if you will like blubberd juggs in a cupboard of Venice glasses or earthen Chamber pots in a Goldsmiths shop If you glory in Captives and desire by a sparkling splendour to fire Platonick Amoretto's out of their lawlesse liberty borrow but lustre from these Artificiall Smegmaticks and you shall find none composed of a mettal so cold and Saturnine that can Salamander-like resist your actuating flames for whiles those Madams who slight the use of these helps shall have nothing to heighten affection but the Antiperistasis of a December look and Phlegmatique complexion your Aprill and Sanguine face shall infuse heat into the cold misogynist and make the stoutest heart a sacrifice to love and altar too If any remaine uncaptivated it shall only be those leaden hearted cowards who dare not approach your inflaming presence for feare of melting or those emerited Souldiers of Venus whose frigid constitutions banish all youthfull fires out of a timorousnesse of being calcin'd Nay the Lillies and Roses of your cheeks shall be the Old mans true Anacampserote such drugs that shall make him think of former joys But perhaps a zealous Somebody censures you for evill hearts because you aime at having good faces and would like you the worse should you once look so well Yet refuse not enlightned yea enlivened eyes but with Jonathan tast a little hony though a furious Saul forbids it Be not banisht company for want of Beauty when Art affords an innocent supply nor live a Martyr to that narrow conscience which forbids the use of oyle to make a cheerfull countenance Borrow our ruddie vermilion and become purple-plusht roses to be gathered by the hand of some captivated Hero least in the green-sicknesse livery of your own swarthy complexions you be taken for thistles and crapt by Asses THE INDEX The Prooeme PART I. Of the whole Body and Beautifying thereof 5. Cap. 1. How Women with Child are to order themselves that they may be delivered of fair and handsom Children Pag. 7 Cap. 2. What course of life may probably be the best either to procure Beauty or preserve it Pag. 16 Cap. 3. External means to gain a good Complexion Pag. 30 Cap. 4. How to beautifie a white and pallid complexion Pag. 39 Cap. 5. To smooth a rough and uneven Skin Pag. 41 Cap. 6. How to cleans the sweatie and sluttish Complexion Pag. 42 Cap. 7. How to repair the beauty of an itchy or scabby skin Pag. 46 Cap. 8. To adorne the scurffie and mealy Complexion Pag. 51 Cap. 9. How to polish the Skin when it is disfigured with Scars or marks of the Small Pox. Pag. 54 Cap. 10. How to remove spots in what part of the body soever Pag. 58 Cap. 11. To reduce the body that is too fat to a meane and handsome proportion Pag. 63 Cap. 12. To make the body or any part thereof plump and fat that was before too leane Pag. 65 PART II. Of the Head Neck and Breasts 70 Cap. 1. To cure Redness and fiery Pimples in the Face Pag. 71 Cap. 2. How to free the face from freckles Pag. 82 Cap. 3. To whiten a tan'd visage and to keep the face from Sunburn Pag. 83 Cap. 4. To remove running Tettars or spreading Pustules Pag. 85 Cap. 5. How to help the Complexion when it is marr'd with blue and congealed blood or black and blue proceeding from a stroak or bruise Pag. 87 Cap. 6. To smooth the face disfigured with wrinckles Pag. 89 Cap. 7. How to cure chaps
amber dissolved in rose-water Take the flower of rice half a pound dissolve it in as much milke as is sufficient adde thereto the flesh of a young Capon boild tender sweet almonds 24. beat them well in a morter then mix them with the milke and rice streine all through a course cloth putting thereto what quantity of sugar you please Boile all over a soft fire till it coagulate into the forme of a gelly when it begins to cool adde of amber and muske dissolv'd in rose water as much as will give it a gratefull odour often take a small quantity of it If one part fall away and be are no proportion to the rest of the body you may bring it to even terms thus Take oile of Foxes an ounce and a halfe oile of lillies the greace of Capons and Geese of each two ounces greek pitch pine rosin and turpentine of each two ounces boile all these together in an earthen glazed vessell adding oile of elder one ounce then take it from the fire and adde new wax as much as will suffice to make it into a stiffe cerecloth when it is almost cold spread it upon a strong cloth as much as will wrap up the member then apply it and leave it on all night if you find any inconvenience in it use this following bath Boile in claret wine halfe a handfull of roses wormwood stoechas calamint squinanth rosemary sage cammomile of each one handful let a third part of the wine be consum'd while it is warme bath the place where the cerecloth was applyed this bath doth draw nourishment to the part and strengthens its retentive virtue Thus much of what concernes the beautifying of the body in generall PART II. Of the Head Necke and Breasts YE that intend Ladies to subdue hearts and command with soveraignty in the mint-house of others Affections must be carefull to keep in tune the harmony of these parts remembring that they were intended for beauties glorious Frontispiece to allure Spectators eyes and with a Phoebeau lustre make them its obsequious Heliotropes By what means you are to preserve their splendor you may be instructed in this Second Part. Where you shall learn how to give the Face such a commanding Beauty that all who view it shall yield obedience and none rebel but those who cannot see how your Eyes may be made Cupids chrystal burning glasses to kindle devotion in your Captives hearts and your bushy Hair Venus's Grove in whose twyning Maeanders a pleasing imprisonment shall breed a dislike of former Freedom In a wotd how to advance your Features to such a pitch of dazeling glory that shall make Beauty it self out of countenance and put Cupid hardly to it among so many fair ones to know his Mother CHAP. I. To cure Redness and fiery Pimples in the Face AN inundation of crimson'd blood often drowns the flowry Elysium of a charming face disfigoring it with such a flaming hue as if the juycie god had made it his vineyard and planted it with rubie Grapes To abate the fury of such high colours and fright them into a pleasing paleness call to your assistance the following Receipts As to the general cure you are to abstain from wine except it be very well qualified as also from all meats which heat the blood as those which are sharp or spicy or are easie to be corrupted in the stomack as milk cheese c. use in your broths lettuce spinage purslain sorrel and the like Blood-letting is exceeding good chiefly in the median vein in both the arms some dayes being interposed then in the vein of the forehead afterwards in the neck apply cupping-glasses to the shoulders and neck especially under the chin and sometimes to the thighs and leggs you may also apply leeches to the cheeks and chin to evacuate the blood that is amassed under the skin For more particular remedies if the malady be inveterate begin with Emolients digestives and things that do attenuate not only to rarifie the skin but also to subtilize the humor For if at first you use cold things and repercussives you will condense the skin through which the humors ought to exhale and impact the humor into the substance of the flesh and make it the more contumacious to be dissolved whereby the complexion is made more black and swarthy Prepare then a Decoction of figgs raisins of the Sun washed and ston'd oatmeal soap french barley the leaves of pellitory of the wall camomil mallows violets receive the fume of this Decoction up into the face covering the face and neck with a napkin to keep the fume from dissipating continue this three or four times that the face may be supple and the skin fitted to receive the vertue of your medicines the better Instead of this Decoction you may spread on the visage the warm blood of a pigeon pullet or capon drawn newly from under their wings let the blood lay on all night in the morning wash it off with warm water or the decoction of soap oatmeal or the like Or else in the place of these remedies Take fresh flesh of a neck of beef veal or mutton cut two or three thin slices lay them on the red places and change them often or else they will stink And in case you have no fresh flesh you may take slices of stale put them on the coals and so apply them warm to the redness The next morning wash the face with fine rags dipt in the forementioned decoction When you find that those remedies do something mitigate the fiery colour of your face and asswage the pimples you may proceed to other medicines that have vertue to repercuss the thin and subtle blood and bind the skin that it may not be so apt to receive such noxious vapours nor long retain them Such are these that follow Take a pint of rose water put it into a glasse and steep therein camphire and sulphure finely powdred of each one ounce myrrhe and frankincense of each half an ounce set it in the sun twelve or fifteen dayes Often wash the face with water Take Brimstone one ounce ceruse washed two drams juyce of limmons half a pint juyce of onyons two ounces cuttle bones and camphire of each one dram pound what is to be pounded and incorporate your pouders with your juyces anoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash it off with the decoction of bran Take the roots of the greater and lesser serpentary of each one ounce bruise them boile them with as much water of plantane roses water lillies and vinegar as will suffice to bring them to a mash then beat them in a mortar with oyle of roses two ounces adding the finest pouder of burnt oyster shells one dram and a half camfre one scruple Venetian ceruse two drams salt powdred brimstone of each one dram juyce of citrons one ounce make all these into a Liniment for your use Take litharge of gold sulphure viue of each
you have first bathed them with water wherein Myrtle berries have been boyled The hair that is fallen from the brows may be made to come again if you burn Bees or Wasps and mix them with Honey but have a care you touch no other place for wheresoever it lights it makes the hair grow If the Eyebrows are of a reddish or white colour you may make them of a lovely black by these means Take red Filberds what quantity you please calcine them thoroughly in an earthen vessel or crucible work them together with Goats grease anoint the hair therewith and if it foul the skin wash it off with warm water This will make the brows very black The same effect hath this which follows Take Maiden hair poudred one ounce Labdanum two ounces beat them well together with Bears grease and rub the brows therewith Many use black Lead only to rub the brows withal and if ye do it without soyling the skin 't will give them a very pleasing dark colour CHAP. XXII Remedies for Inflammation Bloodshot or Spots in the Eyes and yellowness of the Eye-lids SParkling eyes are the starry jewels of a Heavenly face which with their active influence and amorous motions rule the restless fate of every Lover When once those twinkling twins make break of day through their inclosing lids their piercing beams of glory amuze spectators and make them pay a tributary devotion to those Chrystal Orbs from whence they flow The beauty of the eyes is much impaird by inflammations bloodshot duskie spots which much ecclipse and cloud their splendour Such vices may thus be remedied If the eyes be inflamed you are first to begin with a good dyet and never eat or drink any thing that may send fumet to the head then you must be careful either to evacuate or divert that humour which causeth the malady by purging blood-letting drawing blisters in the neck In the next place apply them that may alter and digest the humour if it be hot it is to be done with cold things as Fndive Purslaine Nightshade Rosewater Womans milk If it be a cold rhume that falls into the eye boyle Laurel leaves in white Wine bind them in form of a Plaister to the eye or make a Pultice of Celondine with white Wine apply it to the eye it both easeth the pain and takes away inflammation Or Take Rue and Fennel roots beat them well in a mortar then boyle them in white Wine and bath the eyes with the Decoction If the pain and pricking be extream Take the white of an egge beat it together with some Poppy water You may make a very good Plaister for all inflammations thus Take an equal quantity of Saffron Myrrhe Opium gum Arabick pouder and dissolve them in Rosewater make a Plaister and dry it and when you have occasion soften it with Rosewater or the white of an Egge When the pupil or sight of the eye is covered with any spot after you have purged the body bath the eyes with Liquor pressed from Sowes or Wood lice being bruised in a mortar and in lesse then thirty dayes it will be taken away Or apply to the eye a bag full of cummin seed steep in warme white wine Take prepared tuttie sugar candie ginger of each one dram sarcocol white tartar of each two drams muske half a scruple powder sift and mix them altogether and put now and then a little of it in the eye Take the seeds of fennel parsly wild parsnip anise carroway roots of celendine sorrell betony leaves of agrimony tormentil rue vervaine of each a like quantity pound them all and the first day steep them in white wine the second in womans milk on the third distil them keep the liquor close stopt in a vessel and put two drops of it into the eye every day it will take away all spots whatever To help the eyes when they are blood-shot take green wormwood pound and mix it with the white of an egge bind it warm to the eye the second time that it is applyed it will core you Mix the crum of warm white bread with the yolke of an egge shut the eye and lay it upon it Or soake unwasht wool in an equal quantitie of oile of violets whites of egs juice of rue and apply it to the eye If the lower lid of the eye in the cavitie of it be of a tawny swarthy colour you may by these meanes remedie it First let the Physitian remove the principall cause then take oile of fenugreek and anoint the discoloured places with all Or else anoint them with the oile of Cedar which is exceeding good to take away such ill colours Take some Pomegranate peels and presse them anoint the lids with the juice and t will make them returne to their former colour CHAP. XXIII To alter the ill colour of the eyes and how to make them bigger or lesse ALL colours do not equally grace the eyes they are Cupids torches that should shine with a splendent flame and never burne too blew which is a colour lookt upon as fatal and never more aptly plac'd then in Bellonas Mars's grim-lookt sisters eye Neither againe do all dimensions suit with their office they are Cupids chrystall quivers and must not be too big for that litle archer nor yet so small as not to containe his magazeen of shafts Those that have eyes of an ill colour if they would have them black let them take Antimony wash'd and dryed five ounces lapis lazuli one ounce musk camfre of each three graines wood of aloes two ounces frankincense three ounces saffron halfe an ounce make a very fine powder of all these at night when you goe to bed put a little of it into the eyes in the morning they wil be black as if they had been so naturally Gioranni Marienallo an Italian saith he hath often made proof of this which was communicated to him by an Armenian Take acacia gals of each an equal quantity powder them exceeding small then mix them with the juice of anemonie or wind flower making it up in the thickness of hony then passe it through a streiner and keep it for your use in a glass The same Author exceedingly commends this following Take henbane flowers dry them in the shade and keep them when you have occasion to use them put them into white wine and bath the eyes therewith it will make them black If the eyes be too little through the wasting of the whole body or any other distemper have respect to the humour which causeth it and purge that afterward bath them frequently with a spunge dipt in warme water or in womans milk newly come from the brest If they are too big and beare too large a proportion to other parts make an issue behind in the neck purge the head and body drink water and abstaine as much as can be from meats that are strongly nourishing After this take cotton anoint it with hony mixt together with saffron
belong to her kitchin the Stomack If they happen through any mischance to be rusted over the best way to scour them will be every morning to rub the teeth with poudred Tartar after wash them with white Wine if it be in the spring or with cold water if it be in the summer Take rock Allum Salt Nitre of each four ounces pound and dissolve them in Vinegar then distil them to one ounce of this water adde juyce of limmons three ounces and rub the teeth therewith Take rock Allum burnt poudred coral Sanguis draconis Pumice stone pouder them all pretty fine and rub the teeth therewith Or Take white Coral Cuttle bone white Tartar dryed roots of Florentine iris of each a like quantity a little burnt Allum Make of them all a fine pouder and keep it dry to rub the teeth Take calein'd Salt three drams Galingale two drams Hartshorne burnt four drams flowers of Schoenanthum and Roses dryed one dram make them into a Pouder to rub the teeth with If the teeth be very black you may touch them slightly with oyle of Sulphure or Vitriol but not too often When the teeth are loose your best way to fasten them will be to Take Galls Pomegranate flowers Cyperus Roses Sumach a like quantity of each Take half the quantity of these in rock Allum pouder all and rub the teeth and gums therewith Or else Take Galls one ounce Myrrhe half an ounce Pomegranate bark one scruple boyle them in vinegar and make a Gargarisme to wash the mouth Some dissolve Allum in vinegar to wash the mouth withal To keep the teeth from rotting Take calcin'd Hartshorne cypress leaves of each one dram Cinkfoyle roots two drams Maiden hair burnt one dram Rose leaves a dram and a half bring all into a pouder and use it as a Dentifrice to rub the teeth with It makes them white and keeps them sound If the teeth are already rotten and corroded Take Opium Myrrhe Storax of each one dram white Pepper Galbanum Saffron of each half a dram beat them together and apply them to the corroded tooth Or Take Pepper Pellitory of Spain juyce of Spurge Galbanum of each a like mix altogether and put it into the rotten tooth Boyle Sage leaves in wine wash the teeth well therewith then Take black Hellebore mix it with Honey and put it into the hollow tooth Others only put burnt Allum into it and find much good by it CHAP. XXVIII To Sweeten the Breath WHen your breath Ladies by reason of exulcerated Lungs or rotten Teeth sends forth a stanch more noysome then old Saturns sweaty socks make your application to these following medicines and you shall embalm the air with so rare a sent that all the aromatick fumes of Flora's garden shall never enrich it with a more delicious sweetness Take Cloves Nutmegs Cinnamon of each one ounce Mace sweet Saunders of both half an ounce Wood of Aloes an ounce and a half Musk half a dram after you have poudred these make them up with Rosewater Sugar and gum Tragant into small bullets to hold in the mouth Take wood of Aloes Galingale Myrtle leaves three sorts of Myrabolans prepared Cinnamon Mace Pepper Ginger Nutmegs Cardamoms Laurel berries of each two drams Musk Amber Camfre of each half a dram Sugar two ounces make all into a pouder and take one dram thereof in a morning it is exceeding good to strengthen the Stomack and sweeten the breath Or else Take gum Tragant one ounce Sanguis Draconis two drams sleep them two dayes in Rosewater then put them into a mortar adding an ounce of Sugar Starch half an ounce Musk dissolved in Rosewater one scruple pound them well then mix them together with a Spatula and make them up into little pellets as big as barley corns dry them and after that they are thoroughly dryed put one now and then into your mouth and let it dissolve Take Cinnamon half an ounce cloves two drams nutmegs mace citron pill of each one dram Florentine iris the lesser galingale of each half a dram yellow Saunders wood of Aloes of each one scruple ambergreece musk of each half a scruple steep them when they are poudred in a quart of the best Malmsey Wine ten or twelve dayes then strein it through a woollen cloth afterward put it into a Bottle and keep it close stopt for your use Take a spoonful or two of it in the morning fasting it sweetens the breath exceedingly and strengthens the heart and stomack If the breath be infected by rotten teeth Take the best Styrax two drams sweet Asa one dram the best iris root half a dram gallia moschata yellow saunders of each one scruple Distil'd oyle of Roses half a scruple mix them and with a little gum tragant dissolved in cinnamon water make a mass out of which you may form little long pills to put into the hollow teeth When the breath smells of Garlick Onyons or any thing else that is eaten Take coriander seeds or zedoary chew them in the mouth and drink a good draught of Wine after it will take away the sent of any thing that was eaten before The same effect hath Mint if it be chewed in the mouth Fennel seeds or Galingale champt after the drinking of Wine takes away the smell of the Wine so do sour Apples and Quinces CHAP. XXIX How to beautifie the Neck NOthing more commends the Neck for comely than to be white and smooth for 't is a part usually exposed to sight and ought to represent a Pillar of pollisht ivory that supports the head with a lustre becoming that place where the understanding seats his throne It is usually impaird by Kernels Kings evil hard Tumours and Swellings For Kernels which usually breed in those places where the emunctuaries of the nobler parts are if they come in the neck after the body hath been purged and the Cephalicke veine opened in the arm apply mollifying and discussive Fomentations with spunges dipt in strong vinegar then apply a Plaister of Oxycroceum adding a little gum ammoniac bdellium sagapenum opoponax pouder of euphorbium For the Cure of the Kings evil the pouder of Sarsaparilla drunk to the quantity of half a dram for forty dayes morning and evening in white Wine availes marvellously The like operation have all your nitrous and vitriolick waters for an external Plaister you may use Emplastrum divinum In Autumne Take the root of Scrofulary beat it together with fresh butter put it into an earthen vessel well covered in a moist place leave it so fifteen dayes then melt the butter over a gentle fire strein it and use it to anoint the place Take a live Mole skin'd three or four Serpents skins the roots of Scrofulary Solomons seal Briony wild Cucumers of each three ounces boyl them together in an equal part of wine and water so long till the liquor be evaporated adde at last a little white VVine vinegar first anoint the place with two spunges dipt