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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25314	An antidote against melancholy. Or, A treasury of 53. rare secrets & arts discovered, by an expert artist, Richard Amyas. Licensed, and entred according to order	Amyas, Richard.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3032A; ESTC R213453	10,820	15

Approved 47. A fine Receipt to make Gentlewomens Faces fair smooth and youthful To do this take Whelps before they can see beat them all to pieces in a Morter then put it into a Still before they be cold with half a pint of good Femetory water or the juyce of Femetory the juyce of a Lemon half an ounce of Oyl of Almonds or 20 Almonds bruised the yolks of 4 Eggs hard roasted and bruised distill this and keep the water close stopped in a Vial wash the Face often its excellent to take away the Morphew and Freckle and to make the Face look fresh and lovely 48. A special Receipt to make Hens lay Eggs all Winter long To do this take the tops of Nettles when they be seeded and keep them dry and give a little of the same with Bran or Barley ground wet with Beef-broth or strong Beer and mix good store of Hemp-seed with it and give to your Hens and they will lay you Eggs all the Winter long 49. A notable Receipt to make a Tell-tale or Gossip to trump about the house an hour or two shooting off the great Guns Take the Liver of a Hare dryed in an Oven and made into fine Powder mix it with the Eggs of yellow Ants or Pismires put it into the Parties broth or into Beer with Sugar and Nutmeg to discolour it then an hour after employ the party to draw off a straight pair of Boots or the like Exercise and he 'l make cracking off about bravely 50. A pretty Conceipt to fright the people of a house and make them believe there are Spirits walking in a Room To do this take a black or gray Cat then take 4. Walnut-shells put Pitch in them beat it and put on every foot one and tye a certain piece of rotten wood which you shall find to shine in a dark night about the Cats Neck and put her in a boarded Room she will so trample about the Room to the amazement of them that know not what you have done and the moist piece of rotten wood if they peep in at the key-hole or chink of the door it will seem to be like fire 51. An excellent approved Receipt to make a lean Horse fat quickly First let him have his fill of the best Hay that can be had often changed not long to be blow'd before him Secondly let him be very well dressed twice a day gently rode a quarter of a mile at a watering then let him have his fill of sod Barley with good store of Hemp-seed mixt with it twice a day and once a day his fill of Oats and Hemp-seed mixt with the best Beer or Ale and doubtless your horse will be suddenly fat alwayes provided the horse be but sound and for that take-advice of the Farrier for I will not hinder his Trade 52. For to make an admirable good Balsome for green wounds Aches Bruses or Straynes Distill the Berries of the Wood-bind in September when they be ripe take a pint of the Water 3 Ounces of the Oyl of Hipericon a dram of Oyl of Wax a dram of Oyl of Terpentine a dram of Olium Philosophorum gum climy an ounce Olibanum an ounce Bees wax 3 Ounces melt them gently together drop it warme ●nto the wound 53. To make the Oyntment for Burnes and Scalds and for all infl●mations coming of hot Causes Poplar buds 1 pound flowers of Violets and Navel-wort ana 3 Ounces fresh Swines-grease 3 pound the tops of Rasb●ries the leaves of black Poppies Mandrake Henbane Night-shade Le●tce Housleek Burdake of each 3 Ounces Sheeps dung a handful Dwarfe-Elder a handful stamp all together in a Morter infuse it in a pound of rose-Rose-water boyl it and strain it put an Ounce of Bees wax to it make it an Oyntment according to Art I have many things and some extraordinary which I cannot communicate but them that have need of my help and will make use of me I glory not in knowing or doing much but in doing well that little which I undertake 1. I take forth hollow teeth or roots though never so short with wonderfull dexterity and ease I make smooth and even teeth that are uneven I put in artificial teeth in the fore part of the mouth Hollow teeth that you would not have drawn I can stop them I can fasten loose teeth I have as good a secret as the world affords infallibly to make teeth perfectly white and clean be they never so black or rusty in half an hour I cannot chuse but convince their ignorance that are against drawing of hollow teeth or roots by reason that all the art in the world cannot make a hollow tooth sound again nor hinder it from infecting the next adjoyning teeth in time Hollow teeth breeds stinking breath a Canker in the mouth and other infirmities and their intolerable aking is able to bring one into a dangerous Feaver all which may be shunned by taking forth such teeth and stumps neatly if it be true that it is good to take the broken from the whole or that one scabbed sheep may spoyl a whole flock or it is good to repair imperfections of nature with Art then all that I have said herein is true I have a most singular Art in the Drawing forth Corns from the Feet or Toes in a most excellent manner with the whole substance in length of a Clove or a Barley-corn without the appearance of blood or putting the party to the least pain at all applying to them a Plaister to hinder the growing of them again Some will say There is danger in cutting of Corns The Professor saith so too But you must conceive it is by those of no Judgment for they misse the Corn drow blood cut the Nerves and so it Gangrenes which no Patient can say by him he having performed this Art to thousands in most parts of this Land He hath a Remedy for the Itch no wayes offensive to the Party but sweet and pleasant The Professor hath likewise several Remedies which are profitable for all sorts of people and good for all these Infirmities here mentioned which if you know the goodnesse of them you would not be without them for ten times the price of them And with every one of them you have a printed Note to apply every Remedy in its right use and manner These Remedies will held good 40 years If you take them together you shall have them for a shilling but any one single will cost six pence The Balsome you may have from a six-penny-Box to a Five-shillings Pot c. 1. The first is a most rare and precious approved Balsome which is excellent good for the curing of these Diseases following It is most excellent for all green wounds and cuts where no bone is broken Also for all Aches and pains of the Joynts numnesse or stiffnesse of the Limbs chaps in the Lips or Hands Skoats or Bruises broken-heads Gouts Sciatica or Cramps old or new 2. Is an Oyntment for Burnings and Scaldings and re cool all pains coming of Hot cause it dyeth and cooleth all kind of Scabs Sr. Authonie's Fire Kingworms sore Breasts red Faces Shingles good to make one sleep the Temples being anointed with it 3. Is a Sear-Cloth or Plaister for Corns to give ease to such as cannot come to have them drawn it is good for Bruises Squots Boyls Imposthumes good to draw out Splinters of Woods or Thorns in the flesh 4. Is an excellent Remedy for the Tooth-Ach to harden the Gums to fasten and preserve the Teeth and make a sweet Breath 5. Is to purge the head of superfluous Humours to strengthen the Memory and to clear the Sight and good for Hearing 6. It is a Powder to make Black and Yellow Teeth White to preserve them from perishing and to cause a sweet Breath 7. It is a Powder for sore Eyes that itch and burn by reason of hot Rhumes also for the clearing and preserving of the Sight 8. Is to clear your Feet from Sweating or Chasing The Professor hath likewise that most excellent Purging powder called Panchimagogum or General Purge good in all sorts of Agues Leprosies Scabs Itch Worms Dropsies for the Heavinesse or Giddinesse of the Head it holds good sixty years He hath that excellent Licoratia Magistralis invented by the Eamous Doctor Butler of Cambridge It 's excellent against Consumptions Tissick shortnesse of Breath Rising or Wind in the Stomach good upon Travel He hath excellent Balls for Heats in Face or Hands 10 fetch out Spors of Oyl or Grease out of Linnen Woollen or Silk or lay amongst Cloathes Also curious Pomanders to wear or lay amongst cloathes made in manner of a Heart And small Cramp-Rings to wear for the preventing of the Cramp To conclude as there is no man free from aspersions and slanders of envious tongues I shall think my self sufficiently vindicated that the discreeter sort will suspend their Judgments at the first view untill they hear what others will say that have been under my hands for I desire no other praise but what they can justly give me And hough some Rusticks there be ●ut of ignorance or malice or not for lack of both speak their pleasure of me behind my back because I use some civil recreation to recreate my self my friends and sometimes when my Patients are melancholy through pain to make them merry with some few feats of slights of hand I have here discovered many Secrets for your recreation at your leisure so I wish all men to speak as they find by me I shall rest your loving friend to serve you in what I may Richard Amy●● FINIS

neatly 24. A Receipt for a Cook with one spit and one fire to keep one Capon raw the second boil'd the third roasted Provide a long Spit and put thereon 3. Capons or 3. Fowls then make a long fire and lay them thereto and let one turn the Spit then on that you would keep raw put continually cold waters and on that which you would boyl pour scalding water and that you would roast baste it with butter and so bread it 25. To make Pease leap out of the pot as if they were mad Put a Quill or two of Quick-Silver into the pot and all the Pease shall leap out of the pot 26. A device to make a Chamber to appear full of Addors and Snakes Kill a dozen Adders and Snakes and take the oyl of them and mix it with wax and make a Candle light it in a Chamber where rushes are and the rushes will appear to be Adders and Snakes about the Room 27. A notable way to catch Fleas in a trap Take a piece of Tin made like a dripping-pan the length and bigness of a small trencher then put over it 5 or 6 small wires made fast to the Tin bowed like the hoops over a waggon then fill the Tin with Venice Turpentine mixt with a little honey then put this Trap in the Bed in the morning when you rise between the sheets and there you shall find the Fleas stick in the Turpentine as thick as Wasps in a Honey-pot 28. How to make one that he shall not sleep but tumble toss all night Pound Roch-Allome very small and cast it into the Bed or else take a little Cowitch and rub the Coller of the shirt Or cut Horse-hair very short cast it into the Bed white hairs will not be seen 29. How to make yellow Ink Take Saffron and Argil and temper it with Gum-water and it will appear perfect yellow 30. How to make green Ink Take Verdigrease and Argile grind them together on a Marble stone with a Moldor temper it together with Gum-water and it will be a perfect green 31. An excellent Receipt for an ache or strain in Horse or Man Take a Bullocks Gall black Soap Aqua-vitae oyl of Spike boyl it together and rub it in warm Probatum 32. A good Drink for a Cough or Cold Take a quart of Ale and put thereto a good sprig of Rosemary another of Hyssop a little Liquorice and whole Ginger boyl it and put to it half a quarter of Sugar as much butter as an egg and brew it together and let the party drink thereof going to bed-ward and keep warm 33. To purge the Breast from Rheum Take Hyssop Figs and Honey boyl them in white-Wine from a pottle to a quart Drink it in the Evening hot in the Morning cold 34. An approved Medicine for the biting of a mad Dog Take Garlick Salt and Rue stamp it together and in manner of a Plaister lay it to the Sore Give the Party the Powder of Crabs claws mixt with Treacle in manner of Pills often wash the Wound with Plantain water and the Powder 35. A very good Ointment for Ache or Pain Take Rosa-Solis Sallet-Oyl and Neats-foot-Oyl a little Oyl of Spike boyl it 36. A very good Plaister for an Ache Bruise or Strain Take an ounce of Oxycrotia half an ounce of Burgandy-pitch half an ounce of stone-pitch a dram of Galbanum a quarter of an ounce of Deer-suet a quarter of an ounce of Wax a dram of Euforbium half an ounce of Neats-font Oyl melt it gently together and make a Sear cloath 37. A Salve to heal a cut or broken Head Take a handfull of Valerian a handfull of Plantain a handfull of Mouse-ear a handfull of Comfry a handful of Hyssop a handful of Bettony and Clowns Ale-heal stamp it small boyl it in a pint of Oyl and strain it and adde to it Frankincense Deer-suet and Turpentine Bees-Wax and Colophony 1. ounce make it up according to art it cures almost any green wound Prob. 38. To make Fish drunk so that they will tumble to the side of the water so that you may take them if you be but nimble enough else not Take Occulus Inde make it into paste with Wheat slower Suet Honey and the juyce of Henbane a little red-lead to colour it throw it into the water and as many as take it tumble up so you may have dainty sport 39. How to catch Crows Kites Magpies Jackdaws alive with your hands Take a piece of raw-flesh or Liver make it in small pieces that they may swallow it then take the Powder of Nux Vomica make holes in the flesh put in the same and lay it where they haunt and presently after they have eaten of it they will take to a Tree as soon as they can suddenly totter and fall down where you may with your hands easily take them but they will quickly recover again 40. To make a blown Bladder dance and skip about the Room Take Quick-silver in a Bladder and lay the Bladder in a hot place and it will afterwards skip from place to place 41. To make a Penny-loaf tumble and skip up and down of it self Take a Quill of Quicksilver and put into a very hot loaf and it will tumble and skip about the Table of itself 42. To make a Ring dance on a Table of it self Fill a hollow Ring with Quick-silver and heat it in the fire and throw it on a Table and it will dance and skip about the Table without touching 43. How to make an Apple to move on a Table of it self A fine secret Cut an Apple in the midst and in the one half make a round hole putting therein a black Beetle and so lay the half on the table and it will move about the table 44. A fine Conceit to clear a Room of drunken or rude company Take a Chafingdish of clear Charcoals or live Wood-coals throw Giney Pepper on it and put it under the table and they will both cough sneez fart and spew if they have drunk hard You may do the like with Assa-foetida and Euforbium The same put into a hollow Tooth easeth the pain 45. An excellent Receipt for clearing and preserving and also to cure the Pin Web or Pearl in the Eye Take the Juyce of Rue the juyce of Pearl-wort the juyce of Eye-bright the juyce of Fenel and drink this first in the morning and last at night it cleareth the fight mightily 46. To clear the Eyes of Pin Web or Blood-shotten and to clear the Eyes Take the Gaul of a Cock and the Gaul of a Hare a little clarified or Maiden-honey 3 or 4 drops of the juyce Sullendine Dasies and Housleck mix as much white Sugar-candy as a great Pease white Cop●as as much and Allom as much in fine Powder mix these with a spoonfull of white Rose-water put it into the Eyes with a feather it cureth the Pin and Web Pearl or Inflammation in the Eyes and mightily cleareth the sight