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spirit_n	dram_n	half_a	ounce_n	8,672	5	10.2661	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96154	Cosmeticks or, the beautifying part of physick. By which all deformities of nature in men and women are corrected, age renewed, youth prolonged, and the least impediment, from a hair to a tooth, fairly amended. With the most absolute physical rarities for all ages. Being familiar remedies, for which every one may be his own apothecary. / All extracted out of that eminent physician John Jeams Wecker, never yet extant in the English tongue before, but was promised to the world by Mr. Nic. Culpeper.	Wecker, Johann Jacob, 1528-1586.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1235; Thomason E2140_3; ESTC R208368	51,507	157

Wine the ashes of Maidenhair burnt a pretty good quantity boil them together to wash the hair A Lotion to hinder the growth of hair Take the Decoction of Spurge mixt with Vineger unslaked Lime and Mallows A Lotion to make the hair curl Take the roots of Marsh-mallows boyled in water press them and strein them and add to it the seed of Flax Fleawort each a sufficient quantity afterwards strein it and mix it exactly and rhen wash the hair Another Take the flour of Fenegrick Henbane Litharge of gold each equal parts put them in a Lye with which wash the hair Another Take of the roots of Fern the leaves of Beets each a sufficient quantity boyl them together till a third part be consumed then take it from the fire and add of Gum-arabick as much as will suffice mix them and make a Lotion with which wash the hair and when they are dried wet them with Oyl of Myrtles Of Oyls that adorn the Face An Oyl to beautifie and take away black Pustels TAke Tartar of white Wine broke into pieces wrapt in a linnen cloth wet with strong vineger or wrapt in Colewort leaves and course Flax under the hot ashes till it may be reduced into an exact Powder which set in an earthen vessel bending downwards four or five dayes in the sun then with the Oyl that doth distil anoint the face it being first washt with warm water and Soap and then dried with Bran-water Another used by the Venetian Curtizans Take of burnt Tartar half a pound powder it and dry it as they do salt then take that salt and put it within the whites of Egges boyled An Oyl to clear and whiten the Face Take twelve yelks of Eggs boyled hard half a cup of Oyl of the Mastick tree a double quantity of Turpentine washt mix them and boyl them awhile together then draw an Oyl with a press with which anoint the face at night An Oyl to cure a red Face Take four ounces of Peach Kernels Goard-seed two ounces bruise them make an Oyl to anoint the face morning and evening An Oyl to colour the Face Take of common Oyl Rosemary-flowers each one part mix them and put them in a glass vial under horse dung for three weeks or a moneth then strein it and set it in the sun for some days and so use it Oyls to take away the wrinkles of the face Oyl of Turky-miller and the Decoction of its Berries do distend mollifie and consolidate wrinkles also Oyl of Nuts is good Another Oyl of Tartar takes away wrinckles of the face also Oyl of bitter Almonds and Oyl of Lillies An Oyl to take away Skars Oyl of Dates avails much to blot out the marks of the Skars An Oyl for Pimples of the face Bruise Walnuts and boyl them till an Oyl from them doth swim above water which use An Oyl for Spots in the face Take of Rosemary-slowers as much as is sufficient bury them in a glass vessel under dung safe from rain keep it thirty days and that which is dissolved expose to the sun for nine days with powder of Polypodie mixt as much as you can take in three fingers of which take every day for a moneth An Oyl for a Ringworm in the face Take a green live Lizard boyl it in wine and oyl till the wine be consumed then strein it and use it Oyl of Mezereon Oyl of Ash Oyl of Eggs do likewise take away all spots and speckles of the face Oyls to preserve and increase the Hair FIll a wild Goard casting away that which is in it with Oyl of Bayes and adding Henbane-feed and yellow Arsnick anoint the hairs To increase the Hair Take the seeds of Marsh-mallows a sufficient quantity boyl them in common Oyl with which anoint the hairs Another Also the Oyl of Earth-vvorms doth increase the hair Another Take of sowr Grapes juiced six ounces Oyl of Mastick Oyl of Myrtle Oyl of Labdanum each two ounces Maidenhair four ounces boyl them till the Juice of Grapes be consumed and anoint the hair with the Oyl Another Take a wilde Goard cleansed from the inward parts in the hollow of which put as much Oyl of Mastick-tree as it can contain a little Saffron boyl them together till a third part be consumed and use it Oyl of Southernwood doth produce hair It is made as Oyl of Rue it is good to cause hair grow and in shedding of hair it is anointed with Labdanum and Bears fat Of Oyls that colour the Hair An Oyl to black it OYl made of green Lizards doth black the hair Another Take of Privet Vitriol common Oyl each a sufficient quantity set them to the fire till they begin to boyl then keep it to anoint the hair Another Take of the Juice of the rines of Sallow common oyl or Oyl of Costmary each a sufficient quantity mix them and anoint the hair Another Take a hundred green Nuts common Oyl a pint and a half liquid Alume three pound put all these together into a new earthen vessel first made wet and being carefully anointed about set is in a place not too moist nor too hot and let it be under the earth three moneths then take it away and use the Oyl Another Take the Juice of red Poppy the Juice of green Nuts Oyl of Myrtles Oyl of Costmary each one part boyl it a while and anoint the hair Another Take of Emblick Myrobalanes one ounce of the binding Bean-tree ten drams Gauls Acorn-cups Myrtle-berries Sumach each ten drams Oyl of unripe Olives Oyl of sweet Almonds each eleven ounces Labdanum three ounces a little Vineger mix them and boyl it till the Vineger be consumed and so use it Another If a wilde Goard the seeds being taken out be filled with Oyl or as others will have it with Oyl of Bays and the whole seeds of black Henbane and be set so a day and a night in a warm place and the hairs be anointed with the oyl it blacks them and keeps off gray hairs An Oyl to make the hair yellow Take of choice Myrrhe the root of the greater Madder the root of Celandine each alike parts powder them all and boyl them in oyl in which shavings or pieces of Box and Saftron have been first boyled with this annoint the hair being often washt with a Lye made of the spirits of Beans and Barley Another to make them long yellow and as bright as Gold Take of Oyl of Turkey-millet one measure flowers of Matweed cut three ounces white Lilly-seeds one ounce Turmerick two drams Saffron half a dram Cynamon Benjamin Musk Sivet each a little mix them all and put them in a glass Vial and set it in the sun a whole summer with this Oyl annoint the comb then comb the hair in the sun and cover the head combed with a warm cloth gen●ly that it do not press it An Oyl to dye the hair red Take of burnt Tartar Oyl of Mastick Rozen of the Pine-tree each as much