thereon two or three drops of Juice of Citron and it will instantly become red A wonderful Cure for a Fistula Take a living Toad put it into a Crucible covered that it may not get out and reduce it to Ashes with a fierce Fire the Fire not touching the Toad Apply this Powder to the Fistula washing it first with White-wine warm or the Urine of a male Child Probatum A remarkable Receipt made of a Man's Skull Take of the impalpable Powder of a Scull and apply it to any Wound or Ulcer whatever and it will cure it This was experienc'd by Monsieur President Bolanger in an Ulcer that none could cure in ten years Against the Bloody Flux and how to draw the Tincture of Coral Take a Pumice-stone quench it three or four times in good Vinegar in an earthen Pot till it look red bray the Coral very fine and make a bed of Pumice-stone in an earthen pot then a bed of Coral do this thrice so that the first and last be of Pumice-stone lute the Pot well and put it in a Glass or Potters Fornace for two dayes take it out and pour Vinegar upon the Powders so often till they have lost their redness then evaporate the Vinegar in a Glass or Earthen-vessel well glaz'd in which will remain the tincture or colour of Coral So you may draw all sorts of Colours of Minerals and Metals reduc'd to powder The Dose is one dram in an Egg. The Syrup is made after this manner Take two ounces of this Tincture and three ounces of Sugar-Candy which put in a large varnish'd earthen Vessel in Balneo Mariae continually stirring your Matter with a wooden Spatula till it be boyl'd to the consistence of a Syrup for this hinders the precipitating of the tincture of Coral Another way to draw the Tincture of Coral Take Virgin-wax and scrape it into a new Pot wherein you have put little pieces of Coral so that the Coral be therewith covered melt and boyl them gently upon live coals and the Wax will draw all the Tincture of Coral the which you shall try by taking out a little piece of the Coral which you must do commonly within a Quarter of an hour Withdraw the Fire and let the Wax cool which you shall take and scrape into an Urinal and pour thereon good thrice distill'd Vinegar or strong Spirit of Wine and put it on hot Embers that the Wax may give to the Vinegar the tincture which it took from the Coral then take it from the Fire and being cold separate the Vinegar from the Wax and evaporate it being evaporated you 'll find your Tincture at the bottom red like Cinaber Against the Stone Take two pounds of Sallet Oyl which you shall distill in an Alembick with Sand and take three Spoonfuls every day of the Water or Phlegm that flows in the morning three hours after Dinner and at night going to bed for nine dayes This Water dissolves the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder That which remains in the Alembic is for the Gout and Contraction of the Nerves from a cold cause An excellent Receipt for the Gravel Take two pounds of the Roots of male Nettles and cleanse them and boyl them in a Gallon of Water to the diminishing of the third part then add three pints of good white-White-wine boyl them over a gentle Fire for an hour then let them cool being almost cold take out the Roots and press them then put the Juyce with the Decoction into a new earthen pot when 't is clear'd by seething and that you would use it take three Pills of fresh Butter having swallow'd them drink a glass of the Decoction fasting as early as you can and two hours after a Porringer of clear Broth for three dayes together at each decrease of the Moon Laxative Clysters are excellent you must take them the night before you take the Decoction For the same Take Eglantine Berries dry the Seeds in the Sun or in an Oven powder them put a dram of them in a small glass of White-wine to steep seven or eight hours drink it half an hour before you go to bed stirring it well that nothing remain in the bottom This produces great Effects for it drives out all sorts of Gravel and breaks the Stone so that you will void it by small pieces Probatum But you must take it but for two dayes together and eight dayes after and at the decrease of the Moon You may make a Marmalade of the red Fruit and cat thereof after meals and it will hinder any thing from coagulating in the Body For the same Take Wild-Parsly seeds infuse them in White-wine for twelve dayes and drink a glass thereof three mornings fasting For the same Take the skins within the Gizards of Pullets and wash them with White-wine dry and powder them the dose is a dram in as much White-wine as you please To cure all Ruptures a Remedy much approved of by the Cardinal de la Rochefoucault Take a pound of black Pitch yellow Wax and Rosin twelve ounces Mutton Suet eight ounces Cats-tail and Dragons-blood four ounces Gum dragant Arabic and Gauls one ounce Blood-stone two ounces severally prepar'd and dryed with Vinegar Pepper beaten two ounces Wood-lice and Cumin-seed dried and powdered two ounces green Acorns prepar'd with Vinegar and powdred two ounces they are mixed by melting the Suet with a pint of thick red Wine to which add the Galls bruised and boyl them to a consumption of the Wine that done strain it and put it on the fire adding the Wax and Rosin which you must melt therein melt the black Pitch in another Vessel then pour the first mixtion into the melted Pitch stirring it continually with a stick to incorporate them then you must take away the Fire and put it upon hot Embers then pour in the Powders by little and little stirring them very well that the Plaister may be well mix'd before you apply it you must shave away the hair if there be any and foment the place where the Malady is with strong Vinegar wherein Allum hath been dissolv'd and change the Plaister every two dayes and renew the Fomentation every four and twenty hours Moreover let the Patient keep his Bed for about a fortnight more or less and lye upon his back with his head as low as he can and drink no Wine unless it be allay'd with Water or small Beer c. and eat no salt meats Pulse nor Beef For the same whether Man or Woman though aged experimented by one that was bursten thirty years Take an ounce and half of white Mastich Troy weight an ounce and half of common Turpentine an ounce and half of Masticorum which is a sticking Gum or Liquor found in the head of great wild prickly Thistles which have a head like Artichoaks from which having taken the prickly leaves you will find this glewish Humour stick to your fingers Mix all together in a little earthen pot new
the same Take oyl of Scorpions Mithridate of Montpelier of each two ounces mingle these in a Mortar till they be well incorporated and put them into a glaz'd earthen Pot. Rub the Back-bone therewith the Temples and the Groins and the Joynts the spaces between the Knees the Soles of the Feet the Palms of the Hands and alwayes when you use this Ointment you must wash the Parts you intend to anoint with Rose-water The Remedy is admirable An Astringent to stop the Blood in a Wound or at Nose Take the tenderest tops of Nettles crush them between your Fingers or in a Mortar and apply them to the Wound and the Blood will stop which is very certain For the same Take half a Spoonful of the smallest Earth-Worms of the inner bark of Elder a good Handful a good spoonful of red Wine as much Sallet-Oyl a good handful of Mouse-ear a piece of fine Sugar as much new Wax three grains of Salt boil them all till half be wasted strain it and apply it to the Part. For all Intermitting Fevers Take an handful of St. John's-Wort infuse it in White-Wine strain it twenty four hours after and take it before the Fit For the same Take the Skin that sticks to the Eggs-shell fold it about the little Finger of the left hand and there let it remain for twenty four hours and 't will Cure them To Purge gently and chiefly those troubled with a Dropsy Take Spurge-seed well beaten steep it twenty four hours in Aqua Vitae dry it in the Sun steep it again twenty four hours and dry it again then steep it the third time as long in Sallet-Oyl dry it and keep it To use it you must dry it upon a Plate to take away the husk put the white being beaten to infuse in White-Wine all Night and drink a Glass thereof fasting For the Dropsie Take the Juice of the inner rind of the Elder give thereof two ounces to the Patient to drink in a Glass of Cows Milk an hour before Meals this will make you void much Flegm and Purges gently For the Watry Dropsie Take every morning a Glass of two pints of White-Wine and a fourth of Saller-Oyl wherein put a drachm of Salt of Wormwood do thus for eight dayes in which time you shall Purge with Rubarb Turbith and Jalap powdered and mingled together the dose is one dram in White-Wine After Purging you shall take the aforesaid Oyl for eight dayes more and so be cured Note you must rub your Belly every Night before the Fire with Sallet-Oyl till there comes a little Sweat on the forehead For the same Take what quantity you will of Crabs-Eyes wash them with White-Wine dry and powder them whereof give a drachm fasting in the morning in half a Glass of lilly-Lilly-Water To Cure a Bruise quickly Take Burgundy Pitch dissolved in Aqua Vitae and spread a Plaister thereof upon Leather and apply it to the Malady and 't will Cure it For Apoplectics Take seven or eight drops of the Essence of Rosemary in a Glass of good Wine Note the Patient must be standing and rub his Stomach to make the Remedy penetrate the better if it succeeds not the first time it will not fail the second For the Bowels fallen down Take Ladies mantle in Water or in Powder in Broth or white-White-Wine it pulls back and stays up the Bowels it is likewise proper for Women that cannot conceive with Child To Cure the Gonorrhea and Carnosity Probatum Take the Juice of the Herb and Root of our Ladies Thistle an ounce in as much more White-wine for eight mornings or more and you will be cured Otherwise Take two or three ounces of Mercury well purified which put into a glaz'd Pot which you must fill with Fountain Water adding two spoonfuls of crude Tartar powdered and a handful of Salsaparilla let them boil for half an hour set them to cool and use it for your ordinary Drink this will cure you even of a Bubo or Winchester Goose An excellent Ptisan for the French Pox. Take six drachms of Salsaparilla as much Antimony in Powder fold the Antimony in white Linnen tye it to the middle of a Stick to hang in a Pot not touching the bottom Powder the Salsaparilla that is beat it well or cut it in small pieces but 't is better in Powder put in also in powder forty Walnuts with the skins that divides the Kernel the oldest are the best six drachms of China Wood and a little Brazil Wood rasp'd to give a Colour to the Ptisan you having put them all in the Pot with two quarts of Water and the Antimony hanging in the middle let it boil open two or three boilings then put in also your powders of Walnuts and China and boil them over a gentle Fire to the wasting of the third part You must make this Drink three or four times over and strain it well every time for a perfect Cure You must first purge the Patient with an ordinary Purgation the day after you have let him Blood the third day make him drink a full Glass of the Ptisan at five a clock in the morning eating nothing for three hours after at eight a clock let him Eat and three hours after let him take a Glass of Ptisan at twelve a clock let him Eat at five a clock another Glass of Ptisan at nine a clock let him Sup at midnight another full Glass of Ptisan and so continue this Course for twelve days he must abstain from Womens company from drinking pure Wine and eating salt or spiced Meats all other honest exercise is permitted For ten days he must take Clysters morning and evening if he be bound in his Body and eat Prunes at his Meals Among his Wine he shall put half of this Water following Put in two quarts of Fountain Water upon the dregs that settles at the bottom of the Pot without the Antimony boil it to the Consumption of the third part this Water hath no bad Taste Pills of Lytharge for the Venereal Disease Take Trochisches of Alhandal Crocus Metallorum Sal Gemma of each one drachm Aloes Succotrine two drachms Electuary of Roses six drachms make them into Pills the Dose is twelve Grains which must be taken in the morning fasting taking a few Anniseed Comfits after it They are to be taken for fifteen or twenty days together and if you will you may take at the beginning a Decoction made of the bark of Guajacum Salsaparilla six drachms China three drachms Sassaphras and Wood of Cubebs of each two ounces infusing them twenty four hours in ten pints of Fountain or River Water An Emplaster for the Lungs and Stomach which will keep good two years Take two drams of Aloes Rue a little bruised three or four handfuls common Water seven or eight Porringers full boyl all in a glased earthen Pot to the consumption that the Liquour may wet a linnen Cloth then strain it through a linnen cloth and dip
memory It is an experienc'd Secret and necessary for those that are troubled that way To know whether a Girl be a Maid or not Take Marble in Powder and make her drink it in Wine if she be deflowred she will vomit immediately For Womens white Flowers Take two good handfuls of the roots of Pettiegree which put into three pints of water and boil away to a pint and half and take two glasses a day Virgins Milk Take four ounces of Litharge in Powder which put into a little earthen Pot with a pound and half of Vinegar make it boyl a little upon the fire then take it off and pour your Vinegar and Litharge into a Porringer distill it with a Filter and keep the Water Take also 3 or 4 ounces of Allum which infuse in a pound of Water set a little upon the fire take it off as soon as you can perceive the Allum is melted then put it into a Porringer and distill it with a Filter and keep this Water by it self To use the said Water you must take a little of each and when they are mixed they will become as white as Milk and with it you must wash where you feel any itching For any burning Take two penny-worth of Lead-ore put it into a little Vessel with Vinegar leaving it there at least twenty-four hours then take out the Vinegar which becomes white and put in Sallet-oyl beating them well together of which is made an Ointment very useful for any burning The way how to use it is taking some of this Ointment and laying it upon the burnt place then lay a very fine Cloth over it and over the Cloth some of the same Ointment it must be left on till it falls off it self and nothing will appear upon the burnt place Modern Curiosities OF ART and NATURE Containing the whole Art of Moulding and Casting all sorts of Figures Medals and other Forms in Lead Tin Silver Copper Plaister of Paris Wax Sulphur and otherwise as well hollow as sollid CHAP. I. To cast the Figures of all sorts of Animals in Tin Silver and Copper very thin and light HAving the Figure ready to mould oyl it and take off the hollow Mould in Plaister as follows Being oyl'd lay it upon Potters Earth then make choice of such parts of it as you think best to take off there make a Border or Edging of the same Earth that being done cast your Plaister being well temper'd neither too thick nor too thin that part being well taken lift it up in as few pieces as you can repair the Edges and make some little notches with a Knife grease the Edges with Sallad Oyl and put them exactly together again then make an Edging or Border of the same Earth in the place from whence you took that part of your Figure that being done cast your Plaister as before then lift up the Piece to repair it and put it in its place continue thus till the whole be done being dry dress the outside of your Mould with a Knife or piece of Iron and when throughly hardned mark the Pieces one after another dry them at leisure then joyn and tye them together with a Cord thus have you a hollow Mould of Plaister which according as Figures are more or less easie may be made of three four six ten or twelve pieces but this depends upon the Judgment of the Moulder or Caster To cast a hollow Figure Oyl your hollow Mould of Plaister till 't will receive no more and dry it with Cotton then take all your pieces and tye them together with a Cord and find out the fittest place for the Mouth or Casting Place having then melted your Wax so that it be neither hot nor cold run it into the Mould if your Figure be small fill it and after a little time take out the Stopple of Earth with which you stopt the Mouth of the Mould and on a sudden turn your Figure upside down that the remainder of the Wax may run out after some time when you think 't is cold open it and you 'l find a hollow Figure of Wax if it be too thin leave the next longer in the Mould if too thick take it out sooner To know the weight of your Figures mould off a Weight of four or five ounces more or less and you 'l find how much the bigness of a pound Weight in Wax will weigh in Copper but the most certain rule is to fill the Mould with Wax How to put the Kernel or inward Mould into a Figure of Wax and put on the Shell or outward Case to cast it in Metal Thus having your Figure if it be of a living Creature you may cut it with a hot Knife in two pieces either at length or cross or overthwart being thus parted take Potters Earth mingled with a little very fine Charcoal Dust moistning and beating them with a Rod or little Bar of Iron till it becomes as soft as Paste with this Earth fill your waxen Figure which being dry cover the outside of each piece where they are to be joyned with the same Earth made very moist and thin taking care it run not over upon the edges of the Wax being joyned repair it with a Tool of Copper or Iron made warm to melt the Wax upon the Joynt this done make a Git or Casting-hole in the most convenient place let it be long enough with Breath-holes if you find any part of the Figure to which you think the Metal will not easily pass then roul little pieces of Wax about the bigness of a Goose Quill or bigger according to the size of the Figure which with a hot Iron you may stick to some part of it that the end may reach the place where you suspect the Metal will not easily run and there fasten it then take little Points of Tin or Iron about the bigness of a Tag about half a finger long according to the thickness of the Wax or the inner Mould thrust these Points quite through the Figure to the end that the Kernel being in all parts supported by the Points it may not touch or joyn to any part of the outward Mould To make the Case or Faceing to the Figure of Wax Take good Founders Earth and steep it in an earthen Vessel in fair Water pour it by inclination into another and the grosser part will remain in the bottom of the first having left it to settle pour off the Water and add to it some Bonne mingle them together and with a large Pencil give a smooth laying of this Earth upon your Wax Figure being dry a second continue this to a sixth laying on when dry strengthen it with Potters Clay beaten with Hair when perfectly dry put your Mould over the Fire on Iron Rods in form of a Gridiron and take heed your Wax boyl not within the Mould which will break it let it lean on one side that the Wax may run out at the Mouth or Casting-place
varnish'd then take about twenty knots which are found in the sides of the Firr-Tree which you shall scrape or rasp very small put them into a Pot almost full of Water and make it boil very leisurely and the Fat and Scum that comes uppermost you shall take dextrously with a Spoon and put into the other Pot amongst your Drugs untill you see that it is well mixed for an Unguent which you shall spread upon Leather and apply to the place For Ruptures Probatum Take Cypress-Nuts Acacia Galls Pomegranat-Flowers of each six drachms Gum-Draganth Myrrh Frankincense Gum-Arabick Sarcocol of each three drams Sanguis Draconis fine Bole red-Lead Aloes Succotrine of each two drams make a fine Powder of them all and a paste thereof with Vinegar whereof you shall make an Emplaster and apply it to the Malady For the Wind in the Kidnies Probatum Take of the Roots of wild Chichory Parsly Sorrel Sparagus Scolopendria Betony Dogs-tooth Liquorice of each an handful white Hony a Citron cut into four parts boil them all in a quart of White Wine to the consumption of half or the third part strain it and take 3 ounces in the Morning Fasting To stop the Vrine of those that piss in Bed Take of the inward Pill of Pomegranat-Flowers Provence Roses Mastich of each half a dram Seeds of Sumach one dram Dragons Blood two drams red Sanders half a dram roots of Solomon's Seal half an ounce a Mouse prepared and flead throwing away the Head and Feet wash'd in White-Wine and dry'd in an Oven one ounce powder all apart then mix them with two ounces of Sugar of Roses in Powder whereof a dram is to be taken every morning steept in White-Wine two hours before breakfast A sure and ready Sudorific Take a dram of Tortoise-shell calcin'd in a Glass of Beer The Receipt of the Antidote call'd Orvietan Take the Roots of Carline Gentian Dyttanie Anthora Swallow-wort of each two ounces and a half great and little Centaury round and long Birth-wort Scordium Bistort Betony Tormentil of each half a dram Diptany of Crete Angelica Rue Master-wort Scorzomens Valerian leaves of garden and wild Bugloss Viper Powder of each one ounce make a Powder of all whereof take five ounces to a pound of clarified Hony wherein was first dissolv'd Venice Treacle and Mithridate of each half an ounce with a little good Wine The dose is one dram dissolved in Broth or Wine and if you find that gives not ease repeat it two hours after and six hours for the third time and twelve hours for the fourth time To cause one to piss and cure the Kings-Evil Burn and reduce Cantharides to a fine Powder draw off the Salt thereof with Vinegar whereof give twelve fifteen or sixteen grains For the Cholick and that it shall return no more Take the outward pill of a fine Orange and Clove-gilli-flowers of each one ounce boil them in a good Glass of Wine to the third part give it to drink and it shall cure for ever For the same Take three grains of Laurel and powde◠them finely then put them into a Glass 〈◊〉 White-Wine and drink it Probatum For the same Take of the entire fresh Dung of a black Horse put it into a Napkin and pour thereon a glass of White-Wine and take it For the same Take half a Glass of Aqua Vitae wherein put seven or eight drops of Spirit of Salt For the same Take the Skin that divides the Kernels of old Walnuts powder them and take a dram thereof in White-Wine An admirable Remedy for a bloody Flux Shut up a Dog for three days so that he eat nothing but Bones take his dung and dry it and powder it then take River flint-stones heat them red hot then throw them into a Vessel full of Milk in which mix a little of the Powder and give thereof to the Patient twice a day For the same Take half a quartern of Rice Flower then mix it with the Juyce of Elder berrys and make thereof a Paste whereof make little cakes and bake them in an Oven after the Bread is taken forth which you shall beat and moisten again with the said Juyce and boil it then beat it afresh doing thus seven times then powder it to serve for use the dose is one dram in Broth or White-Wine For the same Take the Skin of an Hare burn it in a Furnace in an Earthen Pot unglaz'd with a cover of this Powder take a dram in Broth or White-Wine if you have not a Fever the same will serve for bleeding at Nose drawn up the Nostrils For the same Take a dram of Langue de boeuf dryed and powdred as aforesaid The said Herb stays the Flux being applyed fresh to the Soles of the Feet To make one piss tho he have not made Water in a fort-night and to cause one to void the Gravel and Stone Take wild Ivy with its root wash it well and cleanse it beat it well in a Mortar and let it steep about two hours in three or four ounces of white-White-Wine there must be about ten or twelve Plants of this Herb strained through a Cloth and given the Patient to drink Probatum For a Tertian Ague Take three or four ounces of the Juyce of Vervain in a little White-Wine before the shivering and walk you must not eat a Supper when you take this Remedy For the same Take wild Smallage Rue male Thistles of each a little beat them well with a little Salt then add the yolk of one Egg beaten with a spoonful of Vinegar apply it to the Wrist after well rubbing the Wrist For the same Take half a Glass of Aqua Vitae wherein beat one yolk of a new lay'd Egg with the third part of a Nutmeg grated take it just before the fit use this Remedy thrice if you are not cured the first or second time Note 't is good to purge before with this Medicine following Rubarb Scammony Turbith Hermodactils Ginger Senna Anniseeds Sugar of each one dram powder all apart and scarce them then mingle them and scarce them the dose for a Child of ten years is half a dram one of ripe years one dram in Broth taking some Broth an hour after Note you need not keep your Bed nor Chamber For the same Take two ounces of the Syrup of Carduus Benedictus in a Glass of Water when the shivering takes you An assured Remedy for a Quartan Ague Take Wall-Gilliflowers Leaves and Flowers beat them well with a little Salt and when the fit comes apply it to the suture of the Head between two linnen Cloths and there let it rest twenty four hours For the same Take a Pennyworth of Camphir sow it in a piece of Scarlet with right crimson Silk and make a Cord of the same Silk and hang it about the Neck so that it reach to the Stomach and as the Camphire wasts so will the Fever the Camphir being wasted take more till you be cured For
linnen in the straining that it may be throughly wet then fold the Cloth four-fold and let it dry in the shade A Pulmonic Person that was abandoned was cured in three Months by carrying this Cere-cloth four double upon his Stomack fastned behind this Remedy fails not and one will find ease in a short time the Stomach that could not digest is soon restored by applying this If you sweat and that the Cerecloth be moist with sweating you must take it off and dry it and lay it on again For the same distemper of the Lungs they must use as long as they please Lozanges made with the Flower of Brimstone For the Wind and also for the Lungs Take eleven Crab-fish alive the which beat in a Mortar till they be all to pap then strain them through a very white linnen Cloth pouring upon them two quarts of White-Wine to make them strain the better put this straining in a Pot to infuse twenty four hours then take every morning fasting two ounces till you find some ease An excellent Remedy for the Lungs and against a Cough and shortness of Breath Take the longest Raisins of the Sun Jujubes St. Antonies Prunes without Kernels or Stones of each two ounces three fat Figs three Dates put them all in an earthen Pot with a cover with two quarts of Water boyl them all to the Consumption of half then put into the said Pot the four Capillaries and Flowers of Colts-foot of each one handful let them all boyl to a pint strain it and add thereto Sugar-candy Diaphenicon and common Sugar of each four ounces make a Syrup boyl'd a little the dose is a spoonful at Night and as much in the Morning and being troubled with the Cough steep every day a Liquirice stick therein and you will find success at last A wonderful Opiate to refresh the Liver and purify the Blood Take the roots of Cichory two drams roots of Polypodie damask Raisins Liquirice and Dogs-teeth of each one dram of the four Capillaries Borrage Scariola Endives Betony Agrimony Hops Pimpernel Scabious of each one handful of the four great cold Seeds Fennel Endive of each two ounces make a decoction then take six ounces of Senna boyl it in the Decoction then take two ounces of white Agaric two drams of Cinnamon and a Pugil of the Cordial Flowers which put to infuse therein and boyl them with a pound of Sugar then add Cassia cleansed four ounces Conserve of Borage two ounces Conserve of Bugloss and Violets of each one ounce of all which make an Opiate the dose is a dram and a half two hours before Meals or twice a Month. To temper the heat of the Liver Take a quantity of Liverwort which grows in watry Places beat it in a Mortar and draw out the Juice with a Press which you shall Clarifie over the Fire with the whites of Eggs and scum it well then let it cool and pour it out by inclination leaving the dregs at the bottom in every pound of this Water dissolve six ounces of sine Sugar and then 't is made take an ounce thereof in a Glass of Water or alone if you will A Remedy for all sorts of fluxes of Blood upwards or downwards or for Veins broken in the Body for Men or Women that have an extraordinary flux Take a dram of bistort-Bistort-Root finely powdred put it into two ounces of white-White-wine and if the Patient hath a Pever you put it into Broth and without fail the Flux will cease even if the Patients shall void their Excrements at the Mouth and if the Flux of Blood shall be so violent especially in a Woman give her of this power in a Clyster made of the Broth of a Capon with two yolks of Eggs and if one be but a little disorder'd let them them take the Dose abovesaid and lay this following Plaister to the Stomach nigh the Heart Take a Quince rost it with hot embers which you shall beat into a Paste in a silver Porringer and strew thereon powder of Cinamon and Cloves and apply it For a Rupture tryed upon a Man of seventy Years of Age. Take Water-Cresses beat them a little and boil them in a quart of White-wine in a new Pot till it be wasted to the half or two thirds and take three ounces thereof morning and evening for nine days keeping it rowled For the Pain in the Head Falling-sickness Vertigo and Megrim Take two drops of Oyl of Sulphur thrice in a Week in a Glass of Water wherein Vervain Betony Oak of Jerusalem Leaves and Flowers of each two Handfuls have been infus'd twenty four Hours in two Quarts of River-water upon hot Embers For the same Take the Juice of Pimpernel and drop it into the Ear and it will appease the Pain Otherwise Take a dram of white Hellebore and as much black with an handful of Salt which you shall put in a brass Pot that will hold six Quarts of Water which you shall boyl the space of a quarter of an Hour then take it off the Fire and let it infuse forty hours in a Window then boyl it till it be reduc'd to three Quarts which you shall put into a Bottle close stop'd for your use drawing it up your Nose Probatum For the same and to cause Sleep Take common Roses with the White of an Egg beaten and well mingled together make a Forehead-cloth Moreover to cause Sleep make a Forehead-cloth of Poppy Probatum To make one wake or sleep You must cut dexterously the Head of a Toad alive and at once and let it dry in observing that one Eye be shut and the other open that which is found open makes one wake and that shut causes Sleep by carrying it about one To dissolve all sorts of Catarrhs and Tumours Take a white Onion and roast it in hot Embers being enough cut it in four quarters without taking any thing away and apply it to the Ear putting in a little Venice Treacle before then a hot Napkin upon it and when the Onion is cold lay on another presently with Treacle as at first do this four times and you will see all the Matter come out at the Ear do the same to a Bubo if you would have it come to Suppuration To make one sneeze Take a little white Ellebore or Euphorbium in Powder and blow it up the Nose with a little Tunnel A Bath for the Feet and Legs to cause Sleep Take eight or ten Lettuces or more or six Handfuls of Vine-leaves and five or six Heads of Poppyes boil them in a Kettle with a sufficient quantity of Water then poure all out into another Vessel and therewith wash the Feet and Legs for the space of a quarter of an Hour then wrap them in a Linnen-cloth For Deafness Probatum Take Humane Blood or Harts Blood distill it in an Alembic cast away the Phlegm and change the Recipient when you see Liquor white put two or three Drops of the said white Liquor
it and wash it twelve times changing your Water every time then infuse the Powder in a pint of white-White-Wine in the Sun a whole day and all Night over hot Cinders then take out the Wine and Powder of Steel and put to it half an ounce of Senna and a little Scolopendria you shall take every morning four ounces in a Glass walking about the Chamber and fasting two hours after unless some Broth wherein a good many Herbs have been boil'd to which you may add Ceterach Probatum For a Pain in the Side Take black Pitch Capons Grease new Wax and Rosin of each one Dram Oyl of Camomil one ounce Sulphur Orris of each about an half ounce Turpentine one ounce make an Emplaister of them all and apply it to the Part grieved For the Pleurisie Take an handful of Perwincle steep it an hour or two in White-Wine strain it and give it the Patient to drink For the beating of the Heart Take distilled water of Balm it cures the beating of the Heart and hinders vomiting For those that are poyson'd by some Metal or Mineral Take two or three drops of Oyl of Tartar in Broth or Wine and swallow it down and it will precipitate all the Poyson To cure a swell'd and inflamed Knee Make a Cataplasm of Milk white-bread Crums Hony Butter Marsh-Mallows all well beaten and mixt together and apply it to the Pain Against the Plague Take one or two of the biggest Toads you can get put them into an unvarnish'd earthen Pot lute it well and put it into a Furnace till the Toads be burnt and reduc'd to Ashes of which give a dram in a Glass of Wine this is good before and after the Plague For the same Take Carduus Benedictus in Powder one Dram in a Glass of Wine it helps before and after the Plague The Juyce of Carduus Benedictus made into a Syrup is excellent for the same To take away the Marks of the Plague Take Carduus Benedictus and apply it to the Cicatrizes and it will take away the Marks For swelled Cods Take Salt of Carduus Benedictus and mingle it with sweet Wine and lay Linnen Cloth wet therein to the Parts For the same Take Marigold Flowers beat them and press out the Juyce and foment the part afflicted therewith warm and lay the Dreggs thereon dipt therein Probatum A Preservative against the Plague Take three or four great Toads seven or eight Spiders and as many Scorpions put them into a Pot well stopt and let them lye some time then add Virgin Wax make a good Fire till all become a Liquour then mingle all with a Spatula and make an Oyntment and put it into a Silver Box well stopt the which carry about you being well assured that while you carry it about you you will never be infected with the Plague Against the Plague approved Take Rue Wormwood Juniper Berries well beaten Garlick cleansed from its Pills Angelica cleansed from its Bark and Wood Cloves Nutmegs of each one ounce beat them grosly in a Mortar then mingle them together in a quart of the best Vinegar and boyl them in a new Pot to the Consumption of the third part then strain them and let them cool being cold put it into a Glass Bottle and use it as followeth Dip a Linnen Cloth therein and smell thereto from time to time Or else take half a Spoonful fasting every morning being amongst the infected and rub your Joynts and Parts of the Body which the Plague ordinarily seizes on and if you be infected drink a Glass thereof A Remedy wherewith Madam the Marquess of Chenoise cured divers Phrensical People You must begin with bleeding three days before you use this following Receipt Take a glased earthen Pot that holds six quarts wherein put three handfuls of Tree-Ivy with three pints of White-wine stop the Pot with Paste for fear the Air enter then set it over hot Cinders with a gentle fire for twenty four hours together without ceasing keeping it always after the same fashion then take it off and pour out the Wine that remains therein and take the Ivy and beat it in a Marble Mortar an hour without ceasing then add six ounces of Sallet Oyl and mingle them well in the Mortar reducing them to the form of an Unguent which divide into three equal parts of which take one part and strain it through a linnen Cloth and with the Juyce that comes forth rub the sick Persons Head first cutting off the Hair then the Temples and the Dregs that remain put between two linnen Cloths and bind them on which let lye eight hours without removing then proceed thus five times keeping eight hours of interval no more nor less without failing For a Noli Me tangere Take of Crabs Eyes calcin'd an ounce a day in White-wine or Broth in the Morning fasting and put some of the same Powder upon the Plaisters To cure all sorts of Vlcers and Gangrenes Take an handful or two of quick Lime quench it in common Water take a dram of Sublimate which dissolve also in common Water pour on by inclination the Lime Water upon the sublimate Water which will become red wash the part with this Water and it will make the Escar fall off An admirable Plaister for Wounds Vlcers Cancers Kings-Evil Bubo's Corns in the Feet and Tumors that come in such like Places Approved Take the best Sallet Oyl a pound put it in an earthen Vessel upon the Fire and when 't is hot add yellow wax cut in pieces three ounces stir it with a wooden Spatula when 't is melted put in six ounces of Ceruse finely powdred always stirring it very well and the mixture will become white the which in boyling will lose its colour and become dark and before it be so add Litharge of Gold very finely powder'd and sears'd one ounce and when 't is well incorporated add half an ounce of Terra Sigillata and incorporate them very diligently then add half an ounce of white Baum continually stirring them that they do not stick to the Bottom and to know when all is well boil'd put a drop in a Spoonful of Water if it be black 't is a sign 't is enough then take it from the Fire and add two drams of Oyl of Rosemary and incorporate it with the rest then let it rest about half a quarter of an Hour and when you shall hold it to the Light if it begins to separate put it into a great Bason of cold Water and incorporate it with your hands to mingle it well then make it into Rowls that it may keep the better For all sorts of old Vlcers Take a dry Walnut-leaf powder'd put it on the Ulcer and lay a Walnut leaf thereon the which leaf alone will cure the Ulcer For the Hemorrhoides Take a Tobacco-leaf steep it a Day and Night in Water and apply it to the Hemorrhoides and it will cure them For the same Take a Sorrel-leaf put it
doing all this seven times then they will be calcin'd and may be made into Powder of a Saffron Dye if you rub it between your Fingers Take a Pound of Sugar-Candy finely powdred and therewith make one Lay upon another in a Retort of sealed Earth the which bury in a Pot full of Sand and cover the said Pot with another Pot to keep in the Heat and give it a gentle Charcoal-fire above and below let it be such a Heat as that when they bake the Bread in the Oven without being excessive twenty four Hours then take it from the fire and bray all in a Marble-Mortar and put it into a Vessel that the Matrice hold about twice as much as the Alembick and at the sides a Neck for the Matter which put into the said Vessel with a Pint of pure Aqua vitae and let them be sealed well twenty four Hours together over a good Fire that the Aqua vitae may always boil and when you see a Whiteness at bottom which is the Calx of the Gold 't is done pour out the said Water by Inclination which will be of a Violet Tincture approaching to red or yellow the which will cure the Leprous giving them one grain a day and all other forsaken Maladies and all incurable Diseases Another manner of making Aurum Potabile Take three Pints of Leaves of Gold three of Glass of Antimony three Pints of Sugar-Candy the whole well powdred mingle them together and put them into a Glass Alembick the which being cover'd with its Head and Recipient distill them with a gentle Fire at first and at last a strong one the whole will turn into a Liquor which will be done in five or six hours The Dose is four or five Drops in some specifick Water and purges very gently A most excellent Preparation of Antimony and its Vertue Take mineral Antimony at least fifteen or twenty pounds bruise it grosly that done take three Pots of Earth of an Alembic or of another sort that will endure the fire well pierce it at bottom with little holes and there put a great Iron Pan full of holes wherein you shall put your Antimony then put it upon another Pot and cover it with a third that the Mouth of the one may just go into the other lute the Joynts well the Lute being dry and without clefts bury the first in the Earth and make round about that which shall contain the Antimony a four-square Fornance of Brick within the distance of four fingers which you shall fill with burning Char-coals encompassing all the said Pot with the Pot above and there continue a great Fire for a long hour let it be dying a whole Night that it be all wholly cold then unlute it and you will find all your Antimony in your Pot below which make into an impalpable Powder which you shall put in an earthen Plate like a pastry Cooks which is very large at the bottom the which place upon a Furnace wherein you shall make a gentle Fire stirring the Powder continually with a Spatula till it smoak not and be of a greenish Color taking heed that it melt not through too much Fire then melt it in a new earthen Vessel with a great Fire in an open Furnace when you have put it in Water plunge in it a Rod of Iron and taking it presently out see at the Light if it be transparent and of a Citron Colour then pour it out into a clean Copper Bason being cold make it into an impalpable Powder and put it into a glass Cucurbite and pour thereon Vinegar thrice distilled cover the Cucurbite with a glass Box luted with a starched Cloth being very dry put half the Cucurbite into Horse Dung for three daies then taking it out of the Dung unlute it and having rested a good hour pour out clear that coloured Vinegar by inclination into an earthen Vessel without disturbing it stop the Vessel well then pour other Vinegar upon your Powders digest them as before in the Dung for three Daies then pouring them gently into the said Vessel continue this extraction and process as long as the Vinegar will colour it this done take the Dreggs at the bottom of that Cucurbit and wash them well with clear Water and being well rubbed with a dry Cloth pour on the Vinegar coloured then having put on its top distill it dry in the Cinders and there will remain a yellowish Powder in the bottom upon which you shall pour the quantity of two ounces of good spirit of Wine then having stirred it well and covered the Cucurbit with its Box that is one of those glass Vessels where they put the preserved Cherries lute it well with starched Bands and the lute very dry put it in Horse Dung half covered for three daies then having taken it out of the Dung unlute the Cloths letting it stand an hour pour out your Tincture into a clean Vessel without any Dregs then stop the Vessel well and put into the Cucurbit other Spirit of Wine high two Fingers bredth repeating this operation as long as the Spirit of Wine will colour it self then put all the Spirit of Wine so coloured into a clear Cucurbit and covering it with its top luted with a Recipient distill entirely all the said Spirit of Wine and keep the Powders which you find in the bottom of the Alembic upon which you shall pour rain-Rain-water distilled thrice in Sand with a very gentle Fire and pour it on your Powders and distill it as before after which your Powders will not be any wayes vomitive the Virtues and Doses of which are as follow Four grains taken in white-White-wine drives away the Leprosy Pox purifying the corrupt Blood Purges the Malancholic resists Worms cures the Asthmatics Purges without Stool or Vomiting but by Sweat Urine and Spittle removes the cause of Diseases and restores what is corrupted To incite Venery Easter Satyrion at the end of the Month of May and take the two Kernels that are within its root that o th' lest side is the better and put five or six whole Kernels or in pieces into a Bottle of Spanish Wine and stop it very close and put it very deep in Horse-Dung the space of two or three Months then take thereof at your Discretion fasting in a Morning and at Night going to Bed For the same Take a Quart of Spanish Wine wherein put half a dram of Salt of Sage and stop it well then bury it in Sand for a fortnight or three weeks and take thereof as before To bereave one of their Wits and make them come again Eat of the Root of Faba Inversa in Powder and to make them come again take the Juice of an Onion and put it into the Ears For the same and amaze a Person Infuse the Berry called Strammonium in White-wine for twenty four hours and make him drink it and immediately he or she that drank shall fall down to the Ground as if they were
dead to make them come again put Linnen dipt in strong Vinegar to their Nose This Drink works the same effect upon an Horse and in lieu of Vinegar put some Water into his Ears Against the Wind in the Belly Apply a living Tench to the Patients Navel the Head being upwards towards the Stomach and tye it fast on with a Napkin and there leave it twenty four hours till it be dead then bury it in the Dung and you will see the Wind will vanish Dormitive Pills to be put in a Chaffin-dish between the Thighs and they will make one sweat abundantly Take an ounce of white Wax half an ounce of Tobacco make a mass thereof and make pills thereof according to Art Oyl of Butter for a Cold Gout and other Pains Melt your Butter upon hot Cinders and when it boils scum it very well then add the same weight of Spirit of Wine rectified and put it over the Fire till it be evaporated and the Oyl remain at the bottom To cleanse and incarnate the Teeth and Gums Take Dragons Blood and Cinamon three ounces burnt Allum two ounces make all of them into a fine Powder and rub the Teeth therewith every other Day To preserve the Gums and the Teeth that are loose Take Earth-Worms calcin'd and rub the Teeth therewith or else a Calves Liver dryed in an Oven and powdred adding the same quantity of Honey and boil it to the Consistence of an Opiate For the Marks of the Small Pox. Wash the Face with Water of White-wine-Vinegar distill'd at night going to Bed and the next morning with a Decoction made of Mallows and Bran do thus eight days together To cause that Antimony shall only purge downwards Take Crocus Metallorum and make it into a very fine Powder the which mingle with Aqua Vitae the which must be three fingers breadth above the Crocus Metallorum but it matters not what quantity for the Aqua Vitae draws what vertue it can and leaves the rest then strain the Aqua vitae and add thereto the same weight of good Sugar-Candy and set Fire to the Aqua vitae till it will burn no longer so there will remain a Syrup whereof you may give two or three Spoonfuls even to Women with Child for it works gently To keep one from growing fat Take Cherry-Kernels and put them in Sugar confect and use them night and morning you may use white Tartar in lieu of Salt with your meat Probatum The singular Vertues of the Herb called Fluellin This Herb is very common and yet little known by its Name it grows frequently among Corn and plough'd Lands about Harvest time the Country People use it when they cut themselves with Sythes c. The Water of its Leaves and Branches drawn when 't is in its full Virtue by an Alembic or Balneo Mariae is of wonderful use to stay the spreading of a Cancer in the Breasts and the spreading Polipus though one would think they were incurable and if you apply the same Herb to the forehead it will infallibly appease the pains of the Head injected it mundifies and consolidates Wounds and quickly drys up Fistula's and Ulcers which by other Remedies are made worse instill'd into watry Eyes it cures them and stays all Defluxions that may happen to them and so cause Inflammations and Dimness also applyed with a Linnen Cloth upon Tetters Itch Pustules Scabs Pimples Ring-worms St. Anthonies Fire c. 't will extinguish them in a little time as also all Inflammations drank for one day it stays all Rheums Vomittings Flux of the Belly drys up Hidropick Waters appeases pains of the Cholic cures Tertian and Quartan Fevers and I believe may profitably be given in other Fevers A wonderful Receipt for the Cure of the King 's Evil and other Wounds Take a quart of white-White-wine put it in a glaz'd earthen Pot and boil it with two ounces of Sugar and two ounces of round Birthwort cut in thin Slices and let it infuse upon hot Embers for four hours till the half be wasted For the Kings Evil you must add two drams of Zedoary and two drams of Rhapontic well beaten and tyed in a Linnen Cloth When you use it you must foment it as hot as it can be suffered and if it be deep you must seringe it and dress it thrice a day then take a Colewort Leaf dry it a little and apply it to the Wound with a Linnen Bolster To make the Plaister called Manus Dei. Take an ounce and a quarter of Galbanum three ounces and three drams of Ammoniacum and an ounce of Opoponax bruise the gums in a Mortar and infuse them in two quarts of good White-wine Vinegar without Mixture if it be possible the space of eight and forty hours stirring them every day twice or thrice with a Spatula then put them over the Fire in a Posnet and let it boil to the diminishing of half or thereabout then strain through a Strainer or strong Cloth pressing them so that there remain no Substance then put them again in the Fire and make them boil as before stirring them always with an Iron or wooden Spatula till the Gums come to a Body of the Consistence of Honey which you will know by letting fall a drop or two upon a Plate This done take two Pounds and an half of Sallet Oyl which you shall put into another Skillet apart with a Pound and half of Litharge of Gold and an ounce of Verdigrease both first powdred and sears'd and let them boil over a very gentle Fire stirring it continually with an Iron or wooden Spatula for otherwise the Litharge will get together till all be well incorporated together then encrease your Fire and boil it till it become of a red-brown Colour though it will be black before it will become reddish This being done put in a pound of new Wax cut in little Pieces and melt it therein stirring it continually with a Spatula then put in your Gums boil'd before and warm'd a little that they may strain the better but before this take heed that your Oyl be not too hot for if so all will boil i' th' Fire This done take what follows well powdred and sers'd four ounces of Diamond of Levant two ounces of long Birthwort Mastick Myrrh and Bdellium of each one ounce and two ounces of the purest Frankincense which you shall put into the Skillet and incorporate them very diligently together the Skillet being taken from the Fire and take heed that when you put in the said Powders your Oyl be not too hot for all will fly out and then you shall set all over the Cinders or a very gentle Fire that they may incorporate the better And when it is cold make a Paste thereof with your Hands moistned with Vinegar and make it into Rowls upon a Table besprinkled also with Vinegar and when they are dry wrap them in a Paper and keep them for your Use The said Plaister will
keep good fifty years and 't is not good to use it till it hath been made two or three Months You need not use any Tents nor Lint unless the Wound whereon you apply it close up or that the Flesh encrease too much To be cur'd quickly you must eat no Garlick or Onions 't is very good for old or new Wounds it cleanses and makes Flesh come without Corruption it unites Nerves cut asunder and strengthens the bruised ones it cures any Windiness even in the Head it cures Wounds made by Gun-shot allays the Inflammation draws out Iron and Bullets out of Wounds and Splints of Bones if they be in the Body It cures the Bitings of venemous and mad Beasts sensibly drawing out the Venom it cures all sorts of Apostumes and Kernels Cancers King's Evil Fistula's and even the Plague it self It is also very good to make rebellious Haemorrhoids flow it is also very good to cure the Farces in Horses In short 't is daily approv'd of for curing a multitude of Diseases For the Megrim In the Month of May and in a fair Morning early before the Sun rise take Mallow-leaves and draw up the Dew thereof into your Nose This absolutely cures the Megrim without Relapse For the Diseases of Women and Children CHAP. II. To make a Woman lose her Milk within a Day or two TAke Rue and put it between the two Arm-holes night and Day and she will quickly lose her Milk Probatum For an Infant dead in the Mothers Womb. Give the Mother the Juyce of Hysop to drink in warm Water and she will immediately be deliver'd though it were rotten Probatum To deliver a Woman quickly and make her void the After-birth or dead Child and for the Apoplecticks Take seven or eight drops of the Essence of Rosemary in a Glass of good white-White-Wine Note The Patient must stand upright and you must rub their Stomachs to make the Remedy penetrate the better and if it succeeds not the first time 't will not fail the second For the same Take half a quarter of Eeles Livers wash them in White Wine and dry them upon a Tyle and powder them and give a dram thereof in white Wine to the Woman in Labour For the same Take Mallows and beat them in a marble Mortar and apply them in form of a Cataplasm or Pultis to the Reins of the Back Note You must not let them remain there long For Pains after Child birth Take two new-laid Eggs and swallow them with the quantity of a small Nut of Sugar immediately after she 's deliver'd then drink a little Water and Wine For a Fever coming from Milk Take white and green Populeum melt it upon hot Cinders then rub the Breasts therewith and lay waste-Paper upon the Teat and lay a Cloth four double thereon and let not the Air come to them For the same Take Potters-Earth Beans the Husks taken off Whites of Eggs Eels boil'd in Vinegar Oyl of Roses all beaten and well mingled together make a Pultis and apply it cold To procure the monthly Courses Take two Daisies wash them in clean Water and dry them then boil them with the White of an Egg in Water in a glaz'd Pot and strain them then put them into a Pot again with Wine wherein put half a dram of Saffron dry'd let it boil three or four times and of this take a full Glass Night and Morning for three days together For the same Take black Chick Pease boil them in Water and strain them when they are boil'd whereof take a full Glass every other morning for three mornings To make them have their Courses in order that have them not Take a good Handful of Feverfew boil it in Water strain it through a course Cloth and take thereof a good Glass-full three mornings every other morning To know if a Woman be with Child Take her Urine and put it in a Copper-Pot wherein put a piece of Iron filed bright all Night if she be with Child you will see red Spots if not it will become black and rusty To provoke the Terms Take the Leaves Bark or Berries of Privet beat them and infuse them twenty four Hours in White Wine whereof take two or three ounces for three mornings together To make the Small Pox come forth Take a Piece of Pork enterlarded with Fat and Lean roast it upon a Spit and as long as 't is roasting besprinkle it with Rose-water till it taste no more of Grease keep that which remains in the Dripping-Pan which put in a Glass-Vessel for your use and anoint the Face and other Parts therewith and it will assuredly and perfectly make them come out Probatum To prevent the Marks of the Small Pox. Take a Calf's or Oxe's Lungs put them upon burning Charcoals and when they begin to drop take a Sponge and suck up the Water and press it out into an earthen Vessel adding thereto the same weight of male Pork's Grease and as much of the Juice of Wormwood mingle them well and incorporate them upon a good Chafing-dish then with a Sprig of Wormwood which you shall moisten therein sprinkle it upon the Face Note You must not use this Remedy till nine days be past For Worms in Little Children Melt fine Tinn several times and every time quench it in Fountain Water which give the Children for their common Drink To cure Infants of the Convulsion Take Hens-dung Peacocks Dung dry is yet better part each piece in two and you will find a little white inside which you must take out dexterously with the Point of a Knife and beat it with Loaf-Sugar and make thereof a Powder and give half a dram thereof as you see occasion or a little more in Broth or White Wine To cure a sore Throat Take Roche Allum two ounces dry'd Cutle-bone sandy Spunge of each one ounce calcine them in an unglaz'd Earthen Pot in an Oven when the Bread's taken out night or morning lay some of this Powder upon the Tongue at your Discretion rubbing the Throat well above and below and in the morning drink good and strong Aqua Vitae so continuing for twelve or fifteen days For the same Take a Sheeps small Guts put them about your Neck till they be cold then apply others hot from the Sheep new kill'd and so continue this as long as you please For the same Take the Powder of a Vipers Head and sow it in a Ribbon and hang it about your Neck To stay Womens Fluxes Take white Vine-Leaves dry'd in the Shade the Dose is half a dram or a little more in White Wine To stay the Blood in Women Take a dram of Pomegranate Rinds in Powder in two ounces of Plantan-Water then take a Skain of new Thred moisten it in strong Vinegar and apply it to the part An Opiate for the Green-sickness Take Crocus Martis Harts-Horn prepared of each one ounce Aromaticum Rosatum Sugar-candy of each two ounces liquid Conserve of Rosemary one ounce
Enemies kill it and give the quantity of two Glasses full of its Blood and it will infallibly cure The same doth the Juice of Ivy mingled with Honey and the weight of two drams drank thereof For the Yellow Jaundise This is caused by Mercury Take the Flowers or Seed of Rosemary in the Hour of Sol Luna or Mars his Enemies powder them and mix therewith the Juice of Cinquefoil what quantity you please For Obstruction of the Spleen This Disease is caused of Luna Take Gum Ammoniacum in the Hour of Mars or Mercury her Enemies dissolve it in Vinegar and give thereof the weight of two drams to Persons of riper years to drink it works admirable effects For the Stone in the Reins This Infirmity is caused by Saturn Take Pellitory of the Wall in the Hour of Mars or Venus his Enemies press out the Juice and give what quantity thereof you please to drink in White-wine it purges the Reins and infallibly breaks the Stone For difficulty of Vrine This Disease comes from Luna then take in the hours of Mars or Mercury her enemies the Leaf and Seed of Trefoil and Southernwood-seed boil them in Water to which Decoction add a Spanish Fly powdred without its Head Wings or Feet and give a spoonfull to drink and it will quickly cause one to void Urine For the Stone in the Bladder This comes from Luna Take what quantity of Snakes you please in the hour of Mars or Mercury her enemies and put them into a new earthen Pot with a narrow Neck put it into an Oven that is not too hot and there let it remain for six hours space then take it out and powder them finely and give a dram thereof For the Cholick This Disease comes from Luna Take Powder of Bay-berries and give two drams thereof to drink in Aromatick Wine For the Flux and bloody Flux These are caused by the Moon Take Pomegranate Flowers and Hypocistis in the hour of Mars or Mercury her enemies powder them and give two drams thereof to drink in red Wine or Cistern Water For difficulty in Child-birth This is caused by Venus Take then in the hour of Saturn her enemy Basil and powder it and give it to drink in good Wine and she will suddenly be deliver'd To provoke the monthly Courses and the Secondine This Disease is caused by Luna Take Fupaterium in the hour of Mars or Mercury her enemies powder it finely and likewise the Seed of Mountain Smallage and give two drams to drink in the Water of Maiden-hair and it will quickly work the effect For the immoderate flux of the Courses unto the Mouth of the Womb. This Infirmity comes from Venus Take the Root of Hysop in the hour of Saturn her enemy with the middle rinds of Chestnuts and the rinds of Pomegranates powder them very fine and give often a dram thereof to drink For Ruptures These are caused by Sol. Take Cypress Nuts in the hour of Mars Saturn or Luna powder them and mingle them with the juyce of their lops when they are green apply them in the form of an Emplaister but you must first put up the Gut that is fallen For the Hemorrhoids This Disease is caus'd by Luna Take the Juyce of Sow-bread in the hour of Mars or Mercury her Enemies apply it to the Fundament after what manner you will and it will perfectly cure the Malady For the Pain of the Gout This Infirmity comes from Saturn Take a Hen of four years old in the hour of Mars or Venus his Enemies kill her and fill her with Vervain and Worm-wood in six quarts of Water and let it boil till it be wasted to the half and with the Liquour that remains bath the grieved parts For a Tertian Ague This Fever is caused by Mars Take Centaury in the hour of Luna Mercury Saturn Sol or Jupiter his enemies powder it and give two drams in Wine fasting For the Quartan Fever This Fever is caused by Saturn Take Myrrh and Castor in the hours of Mars or Venus his enemies of each one dram powder them and give it to drink in Wine fasting 't will work Wonders To take away the Spots of the small Pox Meazles and Purple-fever This is caused by Mars Take in the hour of Luna or Mercury Saturn or Jupiter his enemies the Roots of Beans dryed Flower of Chick-Pease Rice Meal and Garlick powder them all very fine and mingle them with Oyl of sweet Almonds and Mutton fat melted and anoint the Face therewith and let it remain on all Night and in the Morning wash it with warm Water For the King 's Evil. This Infirmity is caused by Luna Take the Boughs and Roots of Castors in the hour of Mars or Mercury beat them and apply them in form of an Emplaster Maiden-hair doth the same For Wounds in any part of the Body These are caused by Mars Take Savine in the hour of the Moon or Mercury Saturn or Jupiter his enemies and powder it and mix it with Honey and apply it to the Wounds and it will cure them For Scabs and Leprosie These Maladies are caused by Saturn Take Ivy in the hour of Mars or Venus his enemies what quantity you will and boil it in Water and bath the Body therein hot 't is the last Remedy for this Disease For Corns or Agnails These come from Saturn Take the Bark of Willow and mingle its Powder with strong Vinegar and in form of an Emplaster apply it to the Corns and it will work great effects For Cancers This Disease is caused by Mars Take the Boughs of white Galingale the Root of Dragon-wort in the hour of Luna Mercury or Saturn his Enemies press out the Juice and mix it with Honey and apply it to the Disease For Fistula's These are caused by Mars Take Orris-root in the hour as abovesaid powder it and mingle it with the powder of burnt Oisters and apply them to the Fistulas To preserve one from the Gout in the Feet This Disease is caused by Luna Take Iva Arthritica in the hour of Mars or Venus beat it and mingle it with the Yolk of an Egg dress'd after the manner of a Pancake and eaten fasting will certainly preserve one from the Gout in the Feet To know if one sick shall live or dye Diverse are the Judgments which pass upon a sick Person whether he will live or die but I shall publish this present infallible sign which any one may make use of and make certain Judgment thereof Take a Nettle and put it into the Urine of the sick Person presently after he hath voided his Urine and that it be not corrupted and leave the Nettle in the said Urine the space of twenty four hours then if the Nettle be found dry 't is a sign of Death but if it be found green 't is a sign of Life An admirable Secret to keep one alwayes in Health which Charles the Fifth made use of Take in the hour of Sol as the
grow oyly you must have a Spoonfull and half of Rice Flower mix it together and strain it with a great Porringer full of Milk make it boil gently alwaies stirring it and add as much Sugar as will please your Pallat and boyl it thicker than common Porridge if you will add some of the brawn of a Capon it must be beaten with the Almonds and Rice and strained and the rest done as above Excellent Italian Fritters By Andrea Doria Take some Flower which dissolve in a Mortar of Marble with hot Milk or rather in good strong Chickin Broth this Paste must be beaten a long while then add the yolk of an Egg and beat it still at last almost as much Sugar as there is Paste continuing still beating then every time you fry them put fresh Hogs-lard into the Pan. They are very delicious to one glass of Flower put a quartern of boyling Milk A Pike after the manner of Poland Take water of boyl'd parsley-Parsley-roots white-White-wine Vinegar and Salt when this boyls up throw in the Pike then when you think fit add some Lemon Pepper Sugar and a little Saffron and Eat the Pike with this Sauce To make the Bones of a Shad-Fish eatable and preserve them boyl'd from Year to Year First you must cut your Shads into pieces about two fingers thick or any other sort of Fish and observe the Head nor Tail must not be in it then wash it well in several Waters and with a little small stick take out all the marrow that is in the Back-bone clearing it so that nothing remain for that is the chief Secret for preserving Fish and keeping it from all manner of Putrefaction then season with Salt Pepper and Spice each piece by it self and stick some Cloves in them but they must be wiped before they are seasoned then put them into a new well glazed earthen pot one upon another and add thereto two parts of Sallet Oyl and one of White-wine so that it be two fingers above the Fish that done cover the Pot close laying Salt about the edges let it boyl gently upon a Coal fire till the Wine be quite consumed which you may certainly know by the Pot making no more noise when it boyls then take it from the fire and let it cool You may keep it thus all the year round very good for it is much firmer this way than the common the bones are quite consumed You must take out the Pieces with a Silver or Wooden fork but nothing of Iron lay them upon a Plate with a little Vinegar and they are admirable To make Cream without a Fire Take a dish full of the top of Milk with the Cream to which add about four spoonfuls of scraped Sugar and at the same time about the bigness of a Pins head of good Rennet which dissolve therein then stirr all together that it may thicken a little When you would serve up this Cream scrape Sugar over it and add ten or twelve drops of Orange-flower Water If the Rennet be good it will harden in an hour they that will put in a very little bit of Musk the Orange flower Water is put in when it is served up lest it should dissolve the Cream To make a delicate Fool. Take the Yolk of an Egg and an hundred whole ones beat them well-in a dish putting over them Sugar as it dissolves and a little Rose-water the least you can at most a quarter of a Spoonful there must be at least four ounces of fine Sugar scraped then mix with it your Milk with the Cream stirring it then put the dish upon hot Embers so that it may not boyl nor be stirred after it is upon the Fire when it grows stiff it is enough Colour it with a red Pan serve it up cold and scrape over it some Sugar it will be an Hour stiffening but the longer the better To make an excellent sort of boyled Fool. Take Cream or fresh Milk and set it a boyling in a Pan with the Crumb of white Bread crumbled small and well dryed and fresh Butter let all boyl well together so long till it bubbles up stirring it very much with a Spoon to the end it stick not to the Skillet then take Yolks of Eggs beat and strain them through a Cieve add Salt and Sugar proportionable to the Quantity and if you will a little Saffron then when it has boyled and you perceive it begin to rise put in the Yolks of Eggs alwayes stirring it so that it may not burn to leaving it so long till the Butter comes up then take it from the Fire and take great care it burn not lay it by and when you want it serve it up with Sugar How to make an excellent Cake after a particular manner Take a dozen of Whites of Eggs with the shells well washed pound them so long in a stone Mortar till all be dissolved then add small Sugar and Flower but there must be more Sugar than Flower beat all well together till it comes to a hard Dough which spread upon a Paper like to another Cake and bake it in an Oven not over hot To Pickle and Preserve Cabbages Cut the Cabbages into many pieces which you must salt very well sprinkling them with Cloves not too small beaten and lay them in an earthen Pot glaz'd placing one layer of Salt and another of Cabbage to the top of the Pot the first and last lavers must be of Salt then fill it with good Vinegar and keep it stopped when you take any out to Eat it must be with a silver or woodden Spoon nothing of Iron must be put in nor the Vinegar be touch'd with your hand it can serve for a Sallet with a few Lettice-leaves which will make them be taken for Cabbage Lettice but then there must be no Cloves put to them but only Salt For Cucumbers You must chuse the least in the latter season and proceed as above For Purslane You must do the same observing that the sort which is lightcoloured is best and not the dark For Artichokes Do the same thing For Sparagus The same For Green Pease Fill an Earthen Pot with half Vineger half Water into which put your green Pease cover the Pot and stop it close and when you would take them out to eat steep them in fresh Water To keep Beans They must be gathered thorough ripe that is when the Cod begins to grow black and having taken them out of the Cod peel off the Skin that covers each Bean dry them upon a hurdle in the Oven after the Bread is taken out or if you will at the Sun and of all things take care there be no moisture left in them when you would dress them if it be when they are come again you may add a few of the new Leaves and Flowers to give them a taste and make them pass for that years Beans garnish the Dish round with Bean flowers before you stew them they must be
White-wine boil them together three or four hours then wash his Tail and Main Another way Rub the Tail and Main with Lye made of Vine-ashes To hinder Horses from Neighing after a Mare and carry her any where amongst Horses Take Oyl of Petroleum and rub the Mares privities once a week with a Quill or once a fortnight and the Horses will not care for her To keep a Horse from Neighing Rub the Bitt when you bridle him with common Oyl and glass Oyl mixed together and the Horse will not Neigh in three hours or else put a stone under his Tail For a Horse that has been over-heated Take half a pint of Milk which boyl with four ounces of fresh Butter Laurel-berries Pepper Sene fine Sugar of each an ounce all in Powder well mixed together must be put into Wine which make the Horse drink without covering or walking him and he will void at the Nostrils and recover To fatten a Horse Take good White-wine two pound juice of Sorrel one pound common Oyl one pound mixt together and warm it then make the Horse drink it being bridled before after which cover him warm walk him an hour and put him into the Stable continuing this fifteen days and he will certainly grow fat Of Dogs CHAP. XXIV For Dogs Mange TAke large Millet and sweet Turnep-roots which boyl in Cows-piss till it is all like a Broth with which rub the Dogs For Dogs bitten by mad Beasts Take Rue Comfrey and Mugwort more Rue than Comfrey and of this than Mugwort with a head of Garlick beat all together with a handful of Salt and steep the herbs in White-wine and Water make the sick Dog drink it fasting and take care in two hours after he neither eats drinks nor sleeps You must also make the Sore bleed and lay over it the remainder of the herbs This Receipt is most certain To cure Dogs of the burst Wash them in water in which Hemlock has been boyled then cut the flesh so that he may not feel it and wash the place with juice of Hemlock To destroy a Dogs Fleas Take a quantity of Worm-wood and boil it in water an hour and half take it from the fire when cold take the Herb and rub the Dog against the grain of the Hair and wash him with that Water and the Fleas certainly dye in the place you have touched To cure Sheep Burn and powder some of their Wool and make them drink it To cure the Hogs Meazles Take a little mineral Antimony in Powder which wrap up in a Linnen Cloth and infuse in Lye made of white Briony twenty four hours adding two fingers of Salt of Saturn make them drink the quantity of a Glass full mixed with Bran and within eight or nine daies they will be cured For Fowl that are hurt Pull the place that is hurt gently or else cut off the Feathers and take a Plaister of Villemagne made upon sofâ— Leather lay it upon the sore and it will heal To make Fowl feed well Take Rhubarb Agaricum Aloes Saffron Cinnamon Aniseed Sugar-candy of each a Dram beat it to Powder At Night give them as much as will lye upon a Shilling this draws a great deal of moisture from their Brain and their Maw in the Morning will be found full of Water if you squeeze it You must give this when the Bird is full or when you would have it do strange things To purge them To purge and give Fowl a Stomack we use Pills of old Preserve of Province Roses liquid about the bigness of a Pea. The last and XXV Chapter In which are contained many Secrets which have been tried by the Author since the foregoing And also some excellent Remedies not spoken of before To make a thick course Dye thin and delicate TAke Aloes Borax Salt Bones Mastick of each three Drams pound all and incorporate it with French Soap and Oxes Gall. To beautifie the Face and other parts of the Body Take Oyl of Myrrh or Water of Linden Flowers rub with it twice a Week when you go to Bed To make the Hair bright or shining When you comb your self dip the Comb in Oyl of Lillies Roses or Violets To make the Hair grow long Take Ashes of Venus Hair Polythricon and Cane Root with Hemp seed of which make Lye melt some Myrrh into it adding one part of White-wine with which wash your Head every fortnight To make Hair Curl First shave it off and then rub the Skin with Daffodil Roots Another way Take Roots of Marsh-mallows Hemp and Psillium-Seed boil them long together and with the Decoction wash your Hair Another Take Daffodil Water mixed with thick Juice of the Roots of white Mallows as much of one as of the other For swetty stinking Feet Take Roch-allum dissolved in hot Water and wash your Feet often therein A Bath to beautifie the Body Take sweet Almonds blanched four pound pure Apple Kernels one pound Hemp-seed four handfuls Marsh-mallow-roots and Lilly-Seeds of each an ounce Roots of Elicampane a pound and half all cut and beaten very small make three or four Bags of it and in each put a handful of Bran. Having well prepared the Water for the Bath it being taken near the Wheel of some Mill take some to boil the Bags in then sit down in the Bath-Tub upon one of the Bags and with the others rub your Body You may put into the Bath a pound of Roses or sweet Waters or Oyl of Spikenard about two ounces or Musk Amber Civet Benjamin Storax or Orange Flowers You must stay in the Bath three hours A secret for making artificial Wine Take a Loaf as it comes out of the Oven steep it in strong Vinegar then lay it by and keep it to make Wine immediately you need only steep a piece of this Bread in a Glass of Water and it will give it the colour and taste of Wine A good secret for Ladies to beautify their Faces Take Parsly-Seed and Nettle-Seed the Kernels of Peaches boil them together and with that Water wash your Face A true secret to catch all sorts of Birds with your Hands without any other Instrument Take some Oxes Gall and white Hellebore then Hony and Corn boil them in the said Gall strew them where there are any Birds you would catch and when they have eaten it they will fall down dead within half an hour then you may take them with your Hands To get a good Memory either in Man or Woman Take the blood of a Swallow and Rosemary-flowers Borrage Bugloss of each two drams then take Cinnamon beaten small Nutmeg Clove long Pepper of each half a dram fine Musk two grains Preserve of Violets and Roses of each an ounce powder it all very small and sift it very fine mix the said Powder with an ounce of Syrup of Roses and make an Electuary of which take every Morning the bigness of a small Nut for a Month together This will certainly make you have a good
Another for Silks ib. To take off Dirt dash'd on Cloths ib. To take off Iron-moulds from Linnen ib. To take out all Ink spots upon Linnen or Woollen 155. Another for the same ib. How to soften whiten and restore discoloured Ivory CHAP. IX HOw to soften Ivory so that it may be cast in a Mould ib. An excellent Receipt to whiten discoloured Ivory ib. Another for the same 156. To whiten green Ivory and restore that which is spotted ib. To whiten Bones ib. Rare and wonderful Curiosities CHAP. X. A Representation of the four Elements in a Glass Vial 157. To make several colours upon water ib. To break an Iron as thick as an Arm 158. Another for the same ib. A wonderful Spirit that dissolves all sorts of stones though never so hard ib. How to melt any Metal in a Nut-shell 159. A perpetual Motion ib. To make a mans face appear hideous 160. A waggish way to make Pease leap out of the Pot ib. The like to make an Egg move about ib. To make all the People in the house sleep without being able to wake 161. An excellent way to cleanse silver without boyling ib. A Cloth that wholly resists a Sword ib. To make a Jerkin or Coat-Armour proof against a Musket 162. To hinder the Pot and Meat from boyling ib. To make a wind blow out of a River ib. A Water that will give light in the dark 163. A strange way to hold Fire in the hand without being burnt ib. To handle Fire without being burnt ib. To make a Light in a Chamber at night ib. To make Glass or Christal clear 164. To make Parchment Shasses as clear as Glass ib. To whiten Paper glewed upon Shasses to endure many Years ib. To make fat Oyl ib. An unlukey way to calcine the Blade of a Sword without hurting the Scabbard ib. A secret way to write white and invisible on a Mans Skin and after make the Writing appear ib. Divers useful and curious Compositions CHAP. XI TO make black Writing vanish and appear again 165. A ingenious way to write a Letter so as it shall or shall not appear or the double Letter 166. The second Ink ib. A Water to make the second Ink vanish and the first appear ib. Ink that may be rubbed out when you will ib. Ink that will vanish in six dayes ib. Ink for Parchment that will last till you rub it out 168. Indian Ink ib. Portable or dry ink to carry about ib. An excellent Writing Ink ib. A useful way to write on Greasie Paper or Parchment 169. To write Silver and Gold Letters ib. An Ink that may be wiped out in forty dayes 170. Ink upon Glass ib. To make a Resemblance of Wines of several Colours ib. Incombustible Oyl 171. To make Arsenick run like Oyl ib. To slack Lime for several Uses ib. To make a Light for a Lamp that shall not smoke or waste ib. A Candle that cannot be put out 172. To hinder Oyl from smoking ib. To make Oyl of Eggs white ib. Of Artificial Fireworks Hunting and Fishing CHAP. XII AN excellent Composition for Granado's flaming Lances Pikes and other Instruments 173. Flaming Lances ib. Fire Pikes ib. Good Squibs 174. A pleasant Invention to kill Game ib. To make Powder strong 175. To catch Partridges ib. To fetch Rabbits out of their Berries without a Ferret ib. Another for the same ib. To gather together a great number of Hares ib. To preserve Arms from Rusting and take off the Rust 176. Another for the same ib. To make an unextinguishable Wild-fire 177. Another for the same ib. A Fire that burns upon Armour ib. To make a Pistol carry far ib. A pleasant way to catch Crows 178. Of Fishery A sure way to catch Fish ib. Another way ib. Another to catch Fish 179. A wonderful way to bring Fish to the Place you desire ib. Another to catch Fish ib. Another way 180. Another way ib. Otherwise ib. Another for the same ib. To make Worms for Baits come out of the Ground 181. Admirable Receipts in Cookery CHAP. XIII THE true way of making Bolonia Sauciges 182. Milan Sauciges 183. Mentz Gammons ib. Madam de Bis her Gammons 184. An excellent Hogs-head after the manner of Piemont 185. An excellent way to salt Pork Beef and other Meats as is used in Germany and Flanders 186. To make Mentz Gammons 187. To make Lumbardy Sauciges ib. A white Pot ib. Excellent Italian Fritters by Andrea Doria 188. A Pike after the manner of Poland ib. To make the Bones of a Shad-fish eatable and to preserve them boyled from year to year 189. To make Cream without Fire 190. To make a delicate Fool ib. To make an excellent sort of boyled Fool 191. To make an excellent Cake ib. To pickle and preserve Cabages 192. For Cucumbers ib. For Purslane ib. For Artichokes 193. For Sparagus ib. For Green-pease ib. To keep Beans ib. To keep Mushrooms 194. To make Fowl tender presently ib. To keep Grapes till Easter as red and fresh as upon the Vine ib. To freshen salt Pottage 195. To make live Crafishes red ib. To sweeten ill tasted Oyl ib. To preserve all manner of Fowl a Month without spoyling ib. A very wholsom and excellent Spice 196. To preserve fresh Lard ib. A most excellent Cake ib. Sweet-meats Flowers and Fruits CHAP. XIV GEnoa Biskets 197. The Queens Bisket ib. Makaroons 198. To make a Paste of any Fruit whatsoever ib. An admirable Gelly of Quinces and other sorts of Fruit 199. Genoa Paste ib. To keep any fruit a long time particularly Grapes ib. To preserve Apples from Rotting 200. To keep all ston'd Fruits and even Figs ib. To keep all sorts of Flowers 201. To keep Roses red all the Year ib. Another for the same 202. To make excellent Hypocras immediately ib. Another Liquor for the same use 203. To make Rosa Solis ib. The same another way 204. Another sort of Liquor which the French call Populo ib. To make good Spirit of Wine 205. To make cheap Lemonade ib. To make Franchpane Water ib. To make Jessamine Water 206. Water of Strawberries Rasps Cherries and Apricocks ib. To make Ice in Summer 207. To cool Water extreamly without Ice ib. Of several sorts of Wines how to preserve them and how to recover decayed Wine CHAP. XV. TO recover Wine that is prick'd 208. Another for the same ib. Another way 209. For Wine that is decay'd by too much vent or soure ib. To recover Wine that tasts of the Cask ib. To recover Wine that is turn'd ib. To take away the musty smell of Wine 210. To prevent the turning of Wine ib. For Wine that smells soure or bitter ib. To soften a green Wine ib. For Wine that is turned ib. For green Wine 211. To preserve Wine from souring ib. Another way ib. To make Wine fine ib. To make Muskadine Wine 212. To make Wine sweet ib. To make it black ib. For White-wine turn'd deep coloured ib. To make new
of Sallet Oyl three quarts of White-wine and half a pound of Salt let them boyl together for some time then add a a pound of Turpentine which dissolve in Wine and Oyl and afterwards Wax if you will make a Balsam Arceus his Balsam Take Sallet Oyl Venice Turpentine Gum Elemy Oyl of St. John's-wort of each three ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl them all till 't is enough 't is most excellent for Gun-shot and all other Wounds A red Oyntment Take Sallet Oyl Litharge wash'd white Hony of each four ounces new Wax two ounces red Lead half an ounce melt the Wax in the Oyl then add the Honey and Powders finely beaten being well incorporated take them from the fire and your Oyntment is made 't is good for the Scurf of Womens Breasts for Ulcers to incarne and dry them both at once For a Scal'd Head Take the Buttons of vvild Cucumbers for vvant of them the Leaves one handful Oyl of Nuts half a pound tvvelve musty Pilchards beat them together and put them into a glaz'd Pot vvith a pint of the blackest Wine you can get boyl them to the vvasting of the Wines then shave the Head and vvash it vvith Ox Piss and anoint it vvith this Ointment for four days vvhich vvill be about the time of the Cure and the longest that may be Probatum For a Paraphymosis Take what quantity of Snails you please beat them in a Marble Mortar with their Shells and towards the end add a little Pork Grease beat and mingle all together and apply it to the Part and repeat it Night and Morning till it be cur'd A most sovereign Remedy for Persons that lose their Blood from what Part soever either Man or Woman Take fresh Asses Dung beat it in a Mortar and press out all the Substance in a course Linnen Cloth take a Spoonful thereof with twice as much Syrup of Plantan For the Ptysick Take half an ounce of Crab-fish alive beat them well in a Marble Mortar and distill the Water that comes from them give half a Glass every Morning fasting for eight or ten Days To Bind Take Cypress-Nuts bruise and boil them in Red Wine and give it to the Patient A gentle Purge Take a dram of Jalap with a little Powder of Liquirice infuse them all night in White Wine A Ptysan that Purges gently Take half a Pint of Verjuice infuse therein half an ounce of Senna in a new Pot over hot Coals when the Verjuice is hot put the quantity of a Nut of fresh Butter and as much Salt as is enough for one Egg boil it a little and take it from the Fire and let it infuse all night i' th' Morning strain it through a clean Linnen Cloth and take a Dose thereof every Morning in fat or lean Broth. Foelix's Ptysane Take Liquirice Polipody red Roses of each one ounce Senna half an ounce a Pugil of Annise a dram of Chrystal Mineral a Renet Apple and a Citron cut in pieces infuse all in a quart or three pints of cold Water and take a Glass thereof Morning and Night A Medicine that Purges gently Take an Handful of March Violets and an Handful of the Herb Mercury boil them in a little Earthen Pot with Mutton or Veal Broth then strain it and take it at Pleasure if you desire to add a few Mallows and an Handful of Sorrel 't will not be amiss Excellent Purging Lozenges Take of the three Sanders red Roses Nutmegs Cinnamon Turbith Scammony of each half a dram of Senna two Scruples Melon and Gourge Seeds of each five Scruples powder them all with four ounces of Sugar make them into Lozenges according to Art A Syrup for those that are subject to Swooning Fits and cannot recover Take as much Rose-water as of the Queen of Hungary's Water and Sugar-Candy which melt over a gentle Fire and you will have a Syrup which mingled with Cinnamon-water works Wonders with those that are subject to Swooning-Fits Madam the Countess of Daillon's Water by Monsieur de Forgeray M. Take three Handfuls of Cow-dung Scabious Lungwort Veronica Flowers of each an Handful Plantan Queen of the Medows Shepherds Purse Pimpernel Bugloss Fennel of each an Handful two River-Crabs bruised distill all in an Alembic in Balneo Mariae the Dose four ounces every Morning Otherwise Take 4 l. of Cow-dung Flowers of Perwincle Scabious of each two little Handfuls four Pugils of red Poppy Flowers Flowers of Coltsfoot as much of the Tops of St. Johns-wort distill all as before and take the same dose To preserve Health Easter Dwarf Elder Leaves in the Season without any Dew and set them to dry in the Sun and take them in about four a Clock i' th' Afternoon to serve you in Winter Make a Bed of these Leaves and let the Party lye thereon whom cover over with other Leaves then with a Sheet and Covering which will make him sweat and by this means one may keep himself in perfect Health Magistery of Pearls Take Oriental Pearls put them grosly powdred into a Matrice and pour distill'd Vinegar thereon or Citron Juyce which is better as not having so much Sharpness let it be three fingers breadth above the Powder then stop the Vessel with good Wax and put it to digest upon hot Cinders stirring it two or three times a day till you see the Pearls in the bottom of the Vessel converted into a Lemony Juyce pour off the Juyce of Citron gently by Inclination and evaporate the rest over a gentle Fire till the Pearls remain in the bottom of a white Powder which wash five or six times with distill'd Rain water till they have lost all their Sharpness and then the Powder being wholly dry'd 't is the true Magistery of Pearls Note You must pour on a few drops of Oyl of Tartar which will make the Magistery precipitate to the bottom of the Vessel The Spagiries attribute to it these wonderful Virtues following nigh to those of Aurum Potabile They say 'T is good to preserve the Body in Health to drive away all ill Dispositions and particularly the Frenzy the Vertigo the Apoplexy the Falling Sickness and other Diseases of the Brain They say also 't is a powerful Cordial and has very great Effects upon them that are subject to Swoonings Palpitation of the Heart and those that are seiz'd with a pestilent Fever Briefly they accommodate it for the Cure of all the principal Parts The Dose is twelve Grains or one Scruple in Juleps or other convenient Liquors An Aurum Potabile and an inestimable Treasure which cures Leprosies Falling-Sickness the Pox the Palsie and all incurable Maladies Take seven old double Ducats cement them with half a dram of Sal Gem well prepar'd in an earthen Pot well boil'd over a gentle Fire then wash them and dry them and make them very red in the Fire keeping them in an earthen Vessel very clean and new being very red quench them in Sallet Oil
and powder it and rub your Teeth therewith To hinder the Hair from falling Take Parcely Seed and make it into an impalpable Powder and Powder the Head therewith three Nights every other Night once a Year only and there will never fall one Hair To make the Hair Grow Take the tops of Hemp when it begins to appear above Ground steep it twenty four hours in Water wherewith you shall well moisten the Teeth of the Comb you make use of only every encrease of the Moon it is certain this Makes the Hair grow much To Colour the Hair Take Oyl of Tartar warm as much as you think fit anoint a Sponge or a Comb therewith and comb the Head in the Sun having first washed your Head do thus thrice a day and in seven daies at farthest they will become black and if you would have them odoriferous anoint them with Oyl of Benjoin A Water to Colour the Hair black Dissolve an ounce of fine Silver in thin Plates in two ounces of Aqua Fortis in a Matras with a gentle Fire the Silver being dissolved add half a pint of Rose water and make them boil a quarter of an hour then add the Juyce of two Citrons then boil them again another quarter of an hour and when you use it take a spoonful of this Water which you shall keep in a Bottle and add four spoonfuls of Rose-water and as much of Juyce of Citrons warm them and wash the Head or Beard therewith taking care that you touch not the Skin but take a little Stick and tye a Linnen Cloth to its end and therewith touch the Hair of the Head or Beard and let it dry A Past for the Hands Take a pound of blanch'd Almonds and an ounce of yellow Sanders sers'd two ounces of Calamus sers'd an ounce of Orris two Glasses full of Rose-water a Rennet Apple cut in little pieces the Crumbs of a white penny Loaf well dryed and sers'd make a Paste of all with two ounces of Gum Draganth dissolved in rose-Rose-water for your Hands or Face Another Past for the Hands Take Apples and pare them and beat them in a Marble Mortar slicing them first moisten them with rose-Rose-water and white-White-wine put White-bread Crumbs and Almonds well moistned blanch'd and bray'd with Wine then add a little white Soap and keep it for your use Otherwise Take two pounds of sweet Almonds blanch and beat them in a Marble Mortar infuse them in two quarts of Goats or Cows Milk for two or three hours strain and press them in a course Linnen-Cloth put this strained Liquour in a Basin over a Charchoal Fire adding thereto the Crumbs of a two penny white Loaf with about two drams of Borax and as much burnt roch Allum and towards the end an ounce of Sperma Coeti you must stir it constantly that it stick not to the bottom of the Basin the sign that 't is enough is that it will not fall from the Spatula in taking it out to boil it to purpose it will take five or six hours at least this Past is most excellent To make the Hair grow quickly Take the Juyce of Nettles that grow in the Sun rising wherein moisten the Teeth of your Comb every Morning and comb the Hairs upward and they will grow quickly Probatum To make one have a good Voyce Take a dram of Elder Flowers powdred and put into White-Wine fasting in a Morning Wonderful Secrets which must be collected and compounded according to the Influences of the Stars to cure the Infirmities hereafter specified in a short time CHAP. IV. The seven Planets that cause Diseases SAturn reigning causes cold Diseases as the Gout in the Feet Leprosy Palsy Quartan Agues Dropsies Catarrhs Coughs c. Jupiter causes Cramps Numness Inflammations of the Liver Head aches pain in the Shoulders windiness in the Body Sanguine Fevers and all Diseases caused of Putrefaction the Apoplexy Cardiac Passions Squinsies c. Mar causes acute Fevers and tertian Agues continual and intermittent Fevers Apostemes Erysipelas Carbuncles Fistulas bloody Fluxes and such like hot and dry Diseases The Sun causes Rheum in the Eyes coldness in the Stomach and Liver Swoonings Choler Catarrhs Pustules in the Matrix and the like in the lower Parts Venus causes Scabs the Venereal Disease Lientery Suffocations of the Womb Sickness in the Stomach from cold and moist Causes Infirmities of the Liver and the Lights Mercury causes hoarsness Distempers in the Senses impediments in the Speech and its Passions Falling-sickness Coughs Jaundies Vomiting Catarrhs and all Melancholy Diseases The Moon causes the Palsy Cholick the Whites Dropsie Phlegmatick Apostemes Lienteries and all Infirmities that come from the Obstruction of the Veins He that would Cure any Infirmity infallibly and not as some Physicians proceed it is necessary to make use of Astrology and the Aspects of the Stars and their Influences and this is intended in jure regulari non coacto wherefore in such case as Hippocrates tells us â—… 1. Aph. 4. Medicari in acutis morbis eadem die si materia turgeat tardari enim his malum est Monardus in his Epistles says in such a case potius lotium inspiciendum quam astra and this is intended to be Bleeding and Purging but in regard to other local Remedies it is necessary to observe the Plenetary hours and for that end you must be advised by what Planet the Infirmity is caus'd yet you may gather the Herb or Flower Seed Root or such like in what hour the Planet hath Dominion that is an Enemy to that Planet that causes the Disease For contraria contrarus curantur and to know the hour of the Planet you must see what hour the Sun rises At whatever hour the Sun rises in any Planet all the days in every Month are under the same Dominion Friendly PLANETS Sol is a Friend to Jupiter and Venus Luna is a Friend to Jupiter Venus and Saturn Mars is a Friend to Venus Mercury is a Friend to Jupiter Venus and Saturn Jupiter is a Friend to Sol Luna Mercury Venus and Saturn Venus is a Friend to Sol Luna Mars Mercury Jupiter Saturn is a Friend to Jupiter Sol and Luna Planets that are Enemies Sol is an Enemy to Mars Mercury and Luna Luna is an Enemy to Mars and Mercury Mars is an Enemy to Mercury Luna Saturn Sol Jupiter Mercury is an Enemy to Sol Luna and Mars Jupiter is an Enemy to Mars Venus is an Enemy to Saturn Saturn is an Enemy to Mars more than to Venus Planetary Friendly hours of the Night and Day Calculated exactly to the Ephemerides Sunday 1 Sol 2 Venus 3 Mercury 4 Luna 5 Saturn 6 Jupiter 7 Mars 8 Sol 9 Venus 10 Mercury 11 Luna 12 Saturn Munday 1 Luna 2 Saturn 3 Jupiter 4 Mars 5 Sol 6 Venus 7 Mercury 8 Luna 9 Saturn 10 Jupiter 11 Mars 12 Sol. Tuesday 1 Mars 2 Sol 3 Venus 4 Mercury 5 Luna 6 Saturn 7 Jupiter 8 Mars 9 Sol 10
Author of Life an handful of the tops of Rue and a few Aniseeds a Walnut a dry Fig and a little Salt beat them all together and eat thereof fasting at divers times A Collection of divers Secrets taken out of the Cabinet of a Person of Quality CHAP. V. A Water for inflam'd Eyes TAke the Water of an Infant purified three pints Roman Vitriol and Tutty prepar'd of each four ounces mingle them for eight daies space then distill and put a drop Morning and Evening into the Eye and it will quickly be cur'd For the Colick Take of green Anise Cummin Agarick Wormwood Centaury Gentian equal parts and make thereof a Powder the Dose is two drams in Broth. An admirable Water against the Colick Take the distill'd Water of Nuts and Camomil of each four pints infuse therein the Flowers of Camomil and Elder of each six Landfuls for four daies in Balneo Maria or other hot place then strain it and add the Flowers above-said and Fennel seed Aniseed Juniper Berries of each two ounces Bay-berrys five ounces and an half Cinamon half an ounce dryed Mint a Pugil let them infuse two days in B. M. then distil them the Dose is two or three ounces Against the heat of the Sun Take Rose-water two ounces Milk one ounce Verjuice half an ounce Incense beaten two drams the white of an Egg well beaten rub the Face before you go to bed For them that Spit or Vomit Blood from a Fall Take the Powder of the Vine-leaves in three ounces of Broth one Pugil then being setled you must take half a Glass of the Vulnerary decoction for eight days For Pain o' th' Teeth Take equal parts of Honey of Roses and Aqua-Vitae boil them together and wash the Mouth therewith Contusions Falls Blows without Wounds Take a Cake of Honey let it boil in the best red Vinegar till it come to a Pap make an Emplaister thereof and apply it For Wounds and Pricks Take Night-shade Leaves bruised and apply them For the Head-ach Take the shavings of Harts-horn drink it in Wine and powder the head therewith For Warts Take the Juice of Celandine let it drop upon the Wart first cut and then apply the Herb do this two or three times Oyl of Juniper Take Juniper-berries gathered from the month of August to the end of September bruise them and infuse them in Fountain-water three or four days and the Water of the first infusion will serve for the rest for the first is the best take two earthen Alembics the one full of Berries and the other half full of the Infusion this put into the Earth and the one fastned upon the other after having strained it through a Cloth put it into a Furnace being cold open it and gather the Oyl letting the water run out take care that it take not wind The Vse A Secret for Wounds Cancers Reins Spleen Leprosie the Dose is two or three drops in Broth. For the Tooth-ach Take good Honey two ounces a glass of the strongest Vinegar Cloves half an ounce let them boil in a new Pot till a quarter be wasted rub your Teeth therewith morning after dinner and at night To turn a Defluxion from the Breast Take Cephalic Powder put in your Broth a little Anula abstain from all sharp things The Cephalic Powder Take Grape-flowers half an ounce Violet-flowers white Nutmegs half an ounce Betony-flowers two ounces all dry'd and powdred besprinkle them with Rose-water dry them again beat them together with a grain of Amber-grease An Oyl as good as Balm Take flowers of St. John's-wort half an ounce put to two ounces of Sallet-Oyl one spoonful of the Juice of Coronata put them all in a glass and set it in the Sun for three or four hours Hyppocras Extempore Take a quart of Aq. Vitae in which infuse four ounces of Cinamon an ounce of Cloves and Nutmeg or else Ginger infuse them all together and to make Hyppocras put two or three spoonfuls in a quart of Wine Rosa Solis Take two quarts of Aq. Vitae of Sugar or powdred Sugar a pound and half common Water a pint and half wherein you shall boil them to the consistence of Syrup not quite boil'd enough then put in half an ounce of Cinamon powdred and put it to the Syrup when 't is boil'd enough to scent it pour it through a Cloth with two grains of Musk and half an ounce of Sugar Candy Of Jewels and Pearls CHAP. VI. Artificial Pearls as fair as the Natural TAke the fairest and greatest Seeds of Pearls bruise them and dissolve them in Allum-water which is all the Secret then make them into a Paste and wash it gently with distilled Water afterwards make it into a Paste with Bean-flower-water and digest it in Dung the space of fifteen days then having the consistence of Paste you shall form Pearls thereof with a silver Mold and pierce them with Hogs-hair and hang them in an Alembic stopt close to the end the Air alter them not then you shall after this manner Roul each one apart in Leaf Gold then cleave a Barble in the middle and put them therein make a Paste of the said Barble with Wheat-flower and bake it in an Oven as you bake Bread If they have not lustre enough take the Water of a kind of Herb called Grastuli with six ounces of Pearls in Powder one ounce of Salt-Petre two ounces of Roch-Allum and Litharge of silver the Pearls being made you shall heat them a little and quench them in this Composition then dry and wash them repeating this five or six times To harden them Take Lapis Calaminaris in powder and Vitriol of each one ounce the whites of Eggs beaten to a Water mingle them together and distill them and there will come forth a clear Water with which and with very fine Barly Meal you shall make a Paste in which you shall put your Pearls to be bak'd in an Oven An admirable Secret to whiten Pearls Take Common and Roch-Allum of each one pound distill this to a Water half an ounce of Camphire Solomon's Seal two ounces rectifie it then use it with a moist Linnen Cloth Another more Excellent Take half an ounce of Bean-flowers Lime and Eggs an ounce white Salt one pound Water of Confound Alcobol of Wine eleven ounces distill them and use it For the same Take an handful of Wheat Bran boil it in a Posnet with a pint of Water and when 't is boil'd pour out half of the said Water and then in an earthen Porringer varnish'd wherein shall be the Pearls strung which you shall let steep therein till the Water be almost cold that you may rub them gently with your hands till the Water be wholly cold then throw away that Water and put on new upon the Pearls do thus often and then your Water will be clear which you shall warm and put into the said Porringer wherein you shall clear the said Pearls without rubing them and do it so
reiterating it with a second warm Water at last you shall put up the said Pearls without fouling or unstringing them on white Paper and carry them into a Cellar upon a Board or Bench without covering them and let them remain there only twenty four hours Note For fear the Rats or Cats should enter and throw them down you must put at the bottom some weighty thing To make excellent Saphyrs Take white River Crabs and calcine them so that they look red i' th' fire and quenching them in strong Vinegar repeating this Operation six or seven times in the same Vinegar reduce them into powder in an Iron Mortar then put it into a Crucible with the weight of the Crabs and moss of Tartar which is thus to be ordered Calcine the Tartar and put it in a moist Place in an Hippocrates sleeve and in the bottom of the said sleeve there will be gathered a moss which the said Tartar makes in liquifying and turning it self into Water Then cover the Crucible and set it to dissolve for the space of four hours To Dye Crabs white and Transparent You must Calcine them after the manner before prescribed and reduce them to powder within the space of four hours and cast thereon very fine Powder of Salt of Tartar and of Salt of Alcali and towards the end throw in of Bay-Salt fixt a very little a quarter of an hour after let it cool of it self Before you put your Crabs in Infusion you must take a part of them and beat them in a Brass Mortar and you will make an Emerald the second part you must beat in an Iron Mortar with a Pestle of the same and this will be of a Rubie Colour and the third part in a Glass Mortar with a Pestle of the same and this will be a Diamond To reduce a Crab into Paste and make it into what form one would Take River Crabs and calcine them and break them into little pieces then let them steep twenty four hours or more in strong Vinegar till they may be reduc'd to a Powder the which Powder you shall mix with Turpentine and Organicum the whole being well pasted together make them into what form you please and then bake them in an Oven To make yellow Amber white Take for Example a pound of yellow Amber and put it into a very strong Cucurbit of earth and add thereto two pounds of Sal Gemm or Bay Salt and upon them as much Fountain Water as will serve to dissolve the Salt which being dissolv'd pour on a little River Water and boil them all together in an Alembick without a Neck the space of four Hours China Ink. Take an ounce of Lam black two drams of Indigo half a dram of Peach black Endive burnt one dram beat them all with a moity of Fig-Leaf Water and another part of common Milk and a very little Gum Arabick being all well beaten form Tablets thereof Note you must clarifie your Lam-black in an earthen Pot to take away all the filth To make Lavanturine You must lay one or two lays of Cinaber beaten with Isinglass being dry moisten them with Gum Arabic somewhat strong and then presently searce your Lavanturine with a little Silken Searce by beating the Searce with your hand and your Powder will equally garnish all that you have moistned with your Gum Water To make Horn for Lanthorns Take a dram of Lytharge of Gold half an ounce of quick Lime mingle them together with Wine in form of Paste and with this Composition make divers lays of one side and th' other of the Horn having first well clear'd it being dry take out all the Powder and repeat it as I have said being dry take out your white Powder unite them and lute them with Tripolis and Sallet Oil and Linnen rubbing them well To make the Grain of Walnut upon white Wood. You shall spread upon the Wood seven or eight lays of strong Glew till it become shining and then quickly give a good many blows with a wooden Brush well wet in common Water An excellent Varnish to lay on Copper Plates for Etching Take two ounces of clear Linseed-Oyl two ounces of Benjamin the bigness of a Nut of Virgins Wax boil them to the consumption of a third part alwayes stirring it with a stick and 't is done when you would use it warm a little the Plate you are to Engrave and with your Fingers end take up a little of the Varnish and spread it as thin and even as you can the thinner the better then smoke it with a Candle and lay your Plate on burning Coals till it has done smoking then draw your Design and engrave with a Needle or Point A very fair Green for Minature Grind Verdigreece with Vinegar and a little Talk or Tartar being well ground add a little quick Lime and Sap-green grind all very well together and keep it in Shells if it grow hard make it thin with Vinegar To make Shasses as clear as Glass Take Parchment Vellum or fine Paper very thin and smooth on both sides being wet stretch it on the Shass and let it dry then take two parts of Nut-Oyl or Linseed-Oyl two parts of fair Water and a little beaten Glass make them boil in a Glass on a Tile pretty near the fire till the water be quite consumed and t is done lay it on in the Sun or a little warm A Varnish as bright and shining as Glass for Frames Leather or what else you shall think fit Take Amber a quarter of an ounce Gum-Lac two drams Oyl of Turpentine two drams Turpentine one dram Litharge and Linseed-Oyl as much as is sufficient The way of making this Composition is to take a Pot or Glass in which put a quantity of Linseed-Oyl which boil till it burn a Feather being put into it and 't is enough then melt the Amber in a clean earthen Pipkin and put it into the Linseed-Oyl the Gum-Lac must be melted by it self in the Turpentine which pour into the same Pot the Gum-Lac will melt if you lightly anoint the Pot with Linseed-Oyl then strain all through a Cloth if you would use it on Silver or Gold take the finest yellow Earth well washed from Gravel and other foulness and being well dryed add a little Minium and Cerus with an equal quantity of Oyl of Nut and Spike Oyl boil them well and with this Composition design what you will when 't is cold and with what colours you please mixt with Glew water After all repeat the Varnish and 't will be as bright as a Looking-glass To gild Paper Grind Bole-armoniac with Rain-water and give one laying of it being dry beat the White of an Egg to Water or Glair adding a little Sugar-candy and Gum-water lay it over with this and lay your Leaf gold or silver upon it To harden Tin and give it a Silver colour Make a mixture of Tin and Lead with Greek Pitch then take a piece of Potters Earth
and with a stick make a hole in it into which put your mixture upon which pour six ounces of Tin melted in a Crucible before it be cold make also a hole in that into which pour half an ounce of Mercury which will penetrate the substance of the Tin and both harden and colour it To colour Straws of divers sorts of Colours Having the largest Barley Straws which must be gathered in the shade take the yellow Bark of Barberry-tree according to Discretion boyl it in clear Lye then throw in your Straws and boyl them till you like the colour which you may make of several degrees then put them in cold water take them out and dry them To colour them red use Brasil as aforesaid For a dark colour steep them four or five days with Indian wood and the shells of green Nuts For blue take Litmos or Logwood and when blue boyl them in the yellow Decoction and they 'l become green Oat-straws are many of them naturally of a flesh-colour How to counterfeit Coral Take Ox-horn cut or rasped small put it in a strong Lye made of the ashes of Ashwood for five dayes then take it out and add to it some Vermilion dissolved in Water put it over the fire to thicken and form your figures as you think fit To preserve Wine sweet Stop your Vessel very well and sink it under water for thirty dayes and you 'l have the desired effect To make an Excellent Red of Brasil Take a pint of fair Water into which cast a piece of unslack'd Lime let it stand all night then decant all that is clear of the Water to which put half the quantity of Brasil rasped let it infuse four hours then boil them to the Consumption of half then whilst it is very hot cast in the bigness of a Pea of Roch-allum in Powder and a little Gum Arabick To soften or dissolve Horn. Make a Lye of the ashes of Bean-cods burnt Tartar quick Lime and strong Vinegar boil therein pieces of Horn and they will either soften or dissolve according to the time you allow To Dye Bones of an Excellent Black Take Lytharge quick Lime of each alike heat them in fair Water till ready to boil always stirring the Bones with a stick till they boil apace then take it off the fire stirring it till it be cold and the Bones will be very black An Excellent way to take Spots of Oyl or Grease out of white or red Silk without changing the Colour Take Aquae Vitae Spirit of Wine is better wet the spot well with it then take Glaire made of the white of a new Egg with which rub well the spot and dry it in the Sun then wash it with clean water and press it well To soften Bones Take equal Parts of Roman and Common Vitriol distill them in an Alembick and with this Water rub the Bones and they will be soft To take away the mustiness of Wine Take Medlars cut them in four pieces hang them so in the Vessel as they touch not the Wine To make a Bullet that Kills without making a Wound Melt some Lead when it begins to grow cool make a hole in it by thrusting in a stick fill the hole with Quick-silver which by that means will be fixt and when cold melt it in an Iron Ladle and cast it in a Bullet-mold they keep not above eight days nor is any Fowl thus kill'd fit to be eaten A Powder to take out spots Burn the Bones of Sheeps-feet till they become white beat them to fine Powder warm some of it and lay it on the spot or stain till it begins to change Colour then take that away and apply more till the Spot be quite gone Another for the same Take a piece of White-bread just drawn out of the Oven lay one piece above and the other underneath the Silk and it will draw out the Oyl or Grease Another for the same Take raw Honey Glaire of Egg and Sal Armoniack lay them on the Spot for some time and wash it with fair Water An excellent Violet Colour Take Turnsole the Ashes of Lees of Wine which is burnt Tartar of each four ounces beat them tye them in a Linnen Cloath and steep them in Water A very fair Blew Take quick Lime and Sal Armoniack of each half a pound Verdet two or three ounces put all in a Viol and set it in a Horse-dunghill for forty days An Excellent Pomander of Cloves Take four ounces of Cloves Gum Arabick Coals of burnt Sage of each four ounces beat them all apart mix them in a metal Mortar with Oyl of Roses make it into a Past anoint your Hands with Oyl of Cloves knead it and form it as you please To make Brass look as well as when 't was new To a pint of strong Lye add an ounce of Roch Allum boyl them and wash your Brass to take out all the Spots dry it well and rub it with Tripoli 't will be as bright as Gold To make Silver clean Take the Ashes of Wheat-straw burnt and rub your Silver with it Another for the same Make a Lye of Soap Ashes into which throw some Roch Allum mix the froath in with it wash your Silver and dry it in the Sun To keep Roses fresh all the Year Take Rose-buds when almost ready to blow gather them with a Knife without touching the bud lay them so in the Air all Night as that the Dew fall not upon them in the Morning put them in a Glass Vessel upright upon the Stalks cover them close set them in a Vault or Sellar and bury them in dry Sand. To take out Writing without spoyling the Paper Take Roch Allum beat it with Juice of bitter Orenges dry it in the Sun and with this Powder rub your Paper To take Spots of Ink out of Silk Take strong White-wine Vinegar hot Ashes rub them well upon the Spot and wash it afterwards with Soap Water thus may you take out all sorts of Spots from coloured Silks To recover the Colour of black Cloth when decay'd Take Fig-tree Leaves boyl them well in Water wash your Cloth in it dry it in the Sun and it will be a much fairer black A truly Experienc'd Remedy against the Plague Take Bay-berries full ripe take off the skins beat the remainder of them into fine powder put a little Salt to it mix it with Vinegar and give it thus to the Person infected if he hath a hot Fever but if he has the cold Fever which is an Ague give it in Wine instead of Vinegar cover him well for he 'll sweat afterwards dry him well and the day after repeat it again Multitudes have been cured by this means For the Tooth-Ach Take a little Honey a little Pepper a little powder of Sage boyl them together and apply it to the Tooth To whiten the Teeth Rub them with the Roots of Spurge also the Ashes of burnt Barley or burnt Nettles rub'd about the Teeth and
afterwards well wash'd are very effectual Likewise burnt Nettles mixt with Cloves Sugar and Nutmeg Probatum To destroy Buggs Boyl the Paunches or Gutts of Rabbits in Water set it hot under the Bed and the Fume will destroy them To prevent the smoaking of Lamp Oyl Steep your Match or Cotton in Vinegar and dry it before you use it Against Lice Fleas and Buggs Stretch out a Bears Skin and hang it up in the Chamber and you 'l soon be rid of them To whiten a red Rose This is done by holding it over the smoak of Brimstone To make Pinks or Gilliflowers blue Take a Root of wild Succory slit it and set your Gilliflower in it To make very sharp Vinegar Put into the Vessel a piece of Barly Bread and in two daies it will be eager To keep Pease Green Put them in a Pot with one part Water and as much Vinegar when you take them out to use soak them in fair Water To preserve Fruit to the very Kernel Incorporate Honey and Water very well put in your Fruit half ripe and keep them in a Cellar A most exquisite way of invisible Writing The first Ink. Take a penny-worth of Litharge of Gold or Silver unprepared beat it then infuse it in a Viol half full of strong Vinegar having well shaken them together leave them to settle and being clear write upon your Paper with a new Pen and it will not appear at all The second Ink. Take Cork burn it till it has done smoaking extinguish it in Aqua Vitae or Spirit of Wine dry it and mix it with Water and a little Gum Arabic to the consistence of thin Paste when you would write with it make it thinner with common Water and write upon what 's written with the foremention'd Ink. The third Ink. Take yellow Orpiment and quick Lime of each an ounce beat them and put them in four ounces of common Water stir them well this Water will take away the second Ink and make what was written with the first appear A Glew both for Fire and Water Mix quick Lime and Lynseed Oyl together and whatsoever you shall glew with it dry in the shade and 't will become as hard as Iron Against Buggs Take Spriggs of Fearn and lay upon the Boards To give a lustre to Plaister of Paris Take a piece of Soap of the bigness of a Nut dissolve it in a Glass of Water and pass it over the Plaister being dry burnish it with a Tooth To whiten a false piece Take Salt rub it with a piece of good Silver till it become black with this Salt rub the counterfeit piece and 't will be as white as the other Probatum To separate Silver from other Metals Melt the piece in a Crucible cast in some Sulphur the Silver will remain and the allay will look like Dirt. Probatum A most excellent writing Ink. Take Gum Arabick three ounces Vitriol two ounces Galls three ounces White-wine two pounds and a half beat the Gall put them with the Wine into an earthen Vessel set it in the Sun for six days stirring them every day twice or thrice then set it over a moderate heat for half a day or a day then strain it then having dissolv'd some Vitriol and Gum in a little Wine put it into it then put it in to the Sun three daies more and it is made To keep it from freezing put into it a little Aqua Vitae Excellent Spanish Wax Melt in an earthen Dish one ounce of Rosin to which add as much Vermilion and two ounces of Shell-lach being well melted and mixt rowl it into Sticks A Counterfet Ink which will vanish in five dayes Take Sal Armoniack an ounce infuse it four or five dayes in strong Water make Ink of it with a piece of Touch-stone beaten fine what is written with this will be gone in five dayes Aqua fortis for etching Take Verdigreece an ounce green Copperas an ounce Salt an handful these being put into strong Vinegar set them in a pot of boyling Water for half an hour or more To know true Mercury from Sophisticate Put some Mercury upon a Plate of Silver or Copper and evaporate it over some fresh Coals if it leaves a white spot behind 't is fine if black or yellow 't is not To soften Ivory Take Vinegar three times distill'd with Sage leaves put in your Ivory and boyl it a little To take out Spots of Pitch or other Gums Take common Oyl the oldest you can get warm it a little rub the Spots with it and so leave it twenty four hours then rub it well and wring it well with your hands then wash it with warm Water and Soap To stop the freeting of Wine Cast in a little of Cheese To purifie Gum-Lack Soak it in strong Lye three or four dayes To gild Iron Take common Water three pound Roch Allum two ounces Roman Vitriol one ounce Verdigreece two ounces Sal Gemma four ounces Orpiment two ounces make them all boyl then throw in some Tartar and Salt-peter of each a little then boyl them a little more and take them off with this Water rub your Iron then warm it well and burnish it Another for the same Take Roch Allum burnt Nitre of each half an ounce Sal Armoniack an ounce beat them fine and boyl them in strong Vinegar in a brass Vessel and with this Water rub the Iron To counterfeit Ebony Take Box or any other hard Wood rub it with Allum-water near the Fire then take Sallet-Oyl or Linseed-Oyl into which cast some Roman Vitriol and Sulphur of each about the bigness of a Nut put all into a Kettle and boyl your Box for some time and t' will appear to be perfect Ebony the more you boyl it the fairer it will be but more brittle To calcine Tartar quickly Take the best Tartar the finest Nitre of each a like quantity beat them apart then mix them put them in a new Pot on a Charcoal Fire and the Nitre will melt mix them with a stick till they become like Salt then put some Fire into the Pot and they will melt and the Tartar will be calcin'd if it be not white add a little Salt-peter to reduce it into Oyl of Tartar put it in a Cellar upon a Marble and it will run into Oyl To make Brass of a true Gold colour Take Sal Armoniac mingle it in a Mortar with Spittle till it become like a liquid Ointment rub the Brass with it put it on burning Coals and when 't is well dryed rub it well with a Linnen Cloth and it will appear like Gold To make clean Silver Take Wheat-straw burn it to Ashes and rub your Silver with it Or else take strong Lye of Soap Ashes put some Allum into it wash your Silver with it and dry it in the Sun To make Muscadel Take Flowers of the wild Vine dry'd one part Elder Flowers dry'd two parts Coriander three parts beat the Coriander put all these
earthen glaz'd Pot boil it till it has quite done smoaking then put in half an ounce of Sandrac as much Mastick well beaten mix them till they are all well incorporated then take off the Pot adding half a pint or more as you see cause of oyl of Turpentine upon a slow fire for a quarter of an hour and keep it for use if it be too thick 't is but adding more Turpentine To make Red soft Wax Take Vermilion one pound common Oyl one pound Wax twenty pound Rosin ten pound work them well together To Dye a Yellow Colour Take the inner bark of a Plumb-Tree cut in pieces put it in Allum-water boil what you think fit in it and it will be of a fair Yellow the like is done with Sumach and Allum-water A Cloth Shasse Take half a pound of Lytharge of Silver well ground three pound of clear Oyl of Nut set it over a small fire that it do not boil the next day pour out the Oyl by Inclination what remains at the bottom will serve another time then take Rosin a pound and a half beat it and mix it with the Oyl upon a Charcole fire always stirring it till it be melted then take it off and put in half a pound of Venice Turpentine being cold anoint the Cloth this will last many years Also you may mix Burgundy Pitch with Oyl of Nuts or else Rosin and Virgins Wax Another for Shasses with Glew and Varnish Take Glew made of Glove Leather very clear Vellum Glew is better lay it on the Cloth and let it dry at leisure then give it one laying more and leave it again to dry then take Virgins wax and Turpentine melted together and lay that on letting it dry to a pound of Wax allow a quarter of a pound of Turpentine To Gild or Silver over Metals Take a little Fish-Glew dissolve it in Aquae Vitae lay on the Glew with a little Cotton and apply the Gold or Silver in Leaf or else temper the Leaves and apply them with Glew to give them a lustre take a Horse-hoof put it on a Chaffindish of burning Coals and dry the thing gilt over the fume of it To make Copper white quite through Take Kettle Copper not that which is cast add to it some Arsenick well ground mix them well in the Crucible and when they have done smoking cast it in the Mould you have ready A fair Blew Colour Take Turnsole infuse it all night in Urine the day following grind and mix it with a little quick Lime according as you intend the Colour If you 'd have it a little shining add a little Gum Arabick To take spots of Ink out of Paper or Parchment Rub the spot with a little Aqua-fortis at the end of a Feather and it will soon vanish then wash it with fresh Water with the edge of a Feather To take them out of Parchment scrape it with a Pen-knife and rub it with a Pumice-stone An Excellent Water Perfume Take Benjamin Storax-calamita a few Cloves and Mastick beat all put them in Aqua Vitae or Spirit of Wine in a glass Vial when the Water becomes red add a grain of Musk and strain it A very good Pomatum Take the fat of unsalted Bacon stick it full of Oats roast it by a slow Fire take up the Dripping and save it Divers sorts of Perfumes CHAP. VII To counterfeit Amber-greece TAke Starch Florence Orris root of each an ounce Aspaltum or Bitumen half an ounce Benjamin one ounce Sperma Ceti Ben-nuts an ounce and halt Musk a dram Gum Tragacanth a sufficient quantity Take the Starch the Benjamin and Sperma Ceti and make them into a Paste which being done take one part in which make up half the Aspaltum the other part make into a black Paste and then mix them altogether with your hand To augment Civet Take the pulp of Raisins of the Sun very cleanly pulped one ounce musk one dram mix and incorporate them well together put them into the same Retort wherein you put the Civet and set it in a Horse-dunghill seven or eight days upon two drams of Civet put one dram of this Composition To make Essence of Cinnamon in consistence of an Extract Take Oyl of Nutmegs set it in the Sun in Summer to make it lose its Scent then put in the half part of Oyl of Cinnamon which you may reduce to the consistence of an Extract To make Cassolet or Perfume Cakes to burn Take Storax two ounces Benjamin four ounces twelve Cloves Laudanum a dram Calamus Aromaticus a dram a little Citron Pill take a new glaz'd earthen Pot in which boyl the Storax and Benjamin in half a pint of Rose-water for several hours the Pot being well cover'd then put the Cloves Laudanum Calamus and Citron Pill in a little Linnen bag and boyl them with the fore-menon'd things when boil'd enough take off the Pot strain all through a Linnen Cloth not squeezing it too hard then put the Paste in a Paper Excellent Pastills or Perfume Cakes Take Benjamin two ounces Storax half an ounce Lignum Aloes a dram Coals of Sallow or Willow Wood according to discretion reduce all to fine Powder adding twenty grains of good Civet and fine Sugar as much as you think fit pulverize and mix all the Druâ—s and put them in a Skillet with Rose-water which must rise above all the Ingredients make them boil a little till the Paste be well digested always stirring with a stick lest it burn then if you desire to make the Pastill somewhat better add twelve grains of Amber which you shall before have ground on a Marble with a little Sugar put it in the Skillet when the Paste shall be boyl'd enough and not before all being well incorporated form your Pastills Several Grounds for Hair-Powders To make the Ground for white Powder Take one pound of Orris twelve pound of Cuttle-bone eight pound of Starch a handful of Beef or Mutton Bones burnt white beat all very well in a Mortar and pass them through a fine hair Cieve A Ground for gray Powder Take what remains in the Cieve of the foresaid Powder which you must beat again and mix with a little Starch and a little yellow Oker to give it a colour then coals of White-wood or for want of that some of the fresh Coals out of a Bakers Oven mix all these well together in a Mortar you may make it of what colour you will then pass it through a hair Cieve what goes not through keep to beat again as before Another ground for powder Take worm-eaten or rotten Wood beat it well and pass it through a Cieve then mix it with the aforesaid Powder Perfume for ordinary Powder Take Florence Orris one pound dryed Roses one pound of Benjamin two ounces Storax one ounce yellow Sanders an ounce and half Cloves two drams a little Citron pill beat all to fine Powder in a Mortar put twenty pound of Starch or the aforesaid
must be six ounces of the Root Mandrake and it will be as soft as Wax An excellent Receipt to whiten discouloured Ivory Take a sufficient quantity of Roch-allum according to the number of pieces you would whiten and when the Water is very white which must be made to boil up and put the Ivory into soak for an hour or thereabouts and rub it with a little hair Brush and then put it into a wet Cloth that it may dry leisurely or else it will split Another way Lay black Soap upon Ivory placed near the fire so that it may by little and little bubble up then clear it To whiten green Ivory and restore that which is spotted Take unslacked Lime and put it with water into an earthen Pot in which shall be the Ivory you would whiten put it upon the fire and make it boil till such time you see the Ivory is white to be polished it must be turned in a Lath after having worked it as you desire take some of the Lime and Pummice stone in very fine Powder and with water rub till you see it every where well coloured to polish you must first warm it turning it in the Lath and rubbing it with a white Linnen Cloth and a piece of Sheeps Skin When it is very hot take Cerus with some Sallet-Oyl and rub it till it is dry with Cerus alone and at last only with a white Cloth very dry and your Ivory will be very white and smooth To whiten Bones Take unslacked Lime and put to it one handful of Bran into a new Pot letting them boil till all the grease is out Rare and Admirable Curiosities CHAP. X. A Representation of the four Elements in a Glass Vial. FIrst you must dye some Aqua-Vitae with Turnsole to represent the Air then take some of the Ethereal Oyl of Turpentine which dye of a fire Colour with Saffron then some Alkanet and Oyl of Tartar to which add a little Lapis Lazuli to give it a Sea Colour and to represent the Earth a little bruised Enamel it is good to stir and mix them together each thing after a little standing will return to its place for those three Liquors never mix To make several Colours upon Water If you throw some drops of Nut Oyl upon still water that runs not fast but rather lyes without motion there will appear to you as many Colours as are in the Rain-bow To break an Iron as thick as an Arm. Take melted Soap with which anoint the Iron in the middle then with a Thread clear the place where you would have it break next take a Sponge dipped in Aqua Vitae thrice distilled wrap it round the Iron and within six hours it will break Another way to do the same Take two pound of Aqua fortis make it dissolve for the space of twenty four hours Orpiment Sulphur Aconite Verdigreece of each an ounce unslacked Lime killed in two ounces of Vinegar thrice distilled put it all into a Limbick with one ounce of Salt peter two ounces of Antimony and all the Water shall come from it pour it again upon the Dregs with two ounces of Arsenick in Powder and distill it when you would use it dip in it a Napkin or handkerchief which wrap about the Iron Barr and when it has so lain three hours you may break it with ease Take care of the Fumes when you distill it A wonderful Spirit that dissolveth all sorts of Stones though never so hard Take the Flower of Rye make it into small Balls which dry then put them into a Retort well closed with a strong Fire as is used for Aqua Fortis and there will distill a Liquor that will perform as above How to melt all manner of Metals in a Nut-shell without burning of it Take Salt-peter two ounces Sulphur half an ounce sawings of Oak Walnut-tree or other dry Wood half an ounce the said Saw-dust must be very small the Salt-peter and Sulphur powdred to impalpable Dust mix it altogether and fill a Nutshell with this Powder to the Edges then put a piece of Gold Silver or other Metal upon it and cover it with the said Powder then set fire to the Powder that is under it that Metal that shall be between the two Powders will melt and remain at the bottom of the shell How to dissolve Gold upon ones Hand You must distill the Blood of a Deer newly killed in Balneo Mariae and soak the Gold upon the Lees three times and at the third it will certainly dissolve A perpetual Motion Take Aqua fortis into which cast filings of Iron of the smallest and leave them there till the Water has taken the quantity of Iron that is requisite which will be in seven or eight hours take off your Water and put it into a Vial an inch wide with a large Mouth and put in a stone of Lapis Calaminaris stop the Bottle well and keep it very close To make a Mans Face appear hideous Take common Salt and fine Chalk in Powder with which powder very well some Hemp or Flax dipping them in good Aqua Vitae then set them on fire first putting out all other Lights and you will see wonderful things A waggish way to make Pease leap out of a Pot. Take some of the Herb Clary and put a sprig of it into a Pot in which Pease are boyling so the Water be not very low nor the Pot too close covered you will see it succeed according to your Desire The like to make an Egg move about You must first empty it through a little hole then put never so little Vitriol into it stop it up presently and you will see the effect The same is done by putting a Leech into it having some Water spilt in some part of the Room To make all the People in a House to sleep without being able to wake Take half a quarter of an ounce of the herb called Dragon-wort which put into a Gourd or Pumpkin which cover with another and put it in a Horses belly for the space of nine days after which time you will find it converted into little red Worms from which according to Art extract an Oyl which put into the Lamps which being lighted all that are in the House will be seiz'd with a profound Sleep so that they cannot be awaked without putting out the Lamp An Excellent way to cleanse Silver without boyling Take four ounces of white Soap scraped in a Plate with half a pint of hot Water a penny-worth of old dry Lees of Wine in another Plate with the same quantity of hot Water as in the other and in a third Plate one penny-worth of Ashes of Wine Leesburned with the same quantity of Water as before then take a hair Brush which first dip in your Liquor of dry Lees next in the burnt Lees then in the Soap that done wash it in hot Water and wipe it with a dry Cloth A Cloth that wholly resuts a Sword
before make it up into a Paste which make in what fashion you will and let it dry in the shade Portable or dry Ink to carry about Take of the black of Rosin one part Coal made of Walnut Peach or Apricock-tree one part Vitriol and Galls equal parts Gum Arabic four parts all in Powder or in a Cake if you will An Excellent Ink for writing Take half a pound of Log-wood cut into small slices boil it in a quart of Wine or Vinegar till half be consumed then take out the Wood and put into the Pot four ounces of good Glass pounded and put all into a strong Bottle which expose to the Sun for three or four days stirring of it three or four times a day then add to it two ounces of good Roman Vitriol or green Copperas and let it steep two days then two ounces of Gum-Arabick pounded next day strain it into another Vessel to keep the dregs that remain may serve again with the same Liquor and you need only add half a pint of Logwood-water to make it shine you must put to it a handful of Pomegranate shels which put into the bottle with the Galls being in want of Ink you may boyl it a quarter of an hour but it is never so good but thick and muddy A very useful way to write upon greasie Paper or Parchment and make the Ink run Take an Oxes gall which prick and put into a Pot with a handful of Salt and a little Vinegar then stir it all very well and thus you may keep it a year without spoiling when you write and meet with any Paper or Parchment that in some place is greasy take one drop of that Gall which mix with the Ink in the Ink-horn and you will write with ease Rain or nut-Nut-water is excellent and the Ink made of it is very good white-White-wine is best for shining Ink. To write Silver and Gold Letters Take one ounce of Touchstone two ounces of Sal Armoniack half an ounce of Gum Arabic beat all to Powder and mix it then when you would write dissolve your dregs in Water or milk of Figs when your letters are dry rub them with the metal you would have them be of An Ink that may be wiped out in forty days Take Aqua-fortis in which boyl as many Galls Roman Vitriol and Sal Armoniac as the Water can dissolve at last add Gum Arabic then write it is very black till wiped out Ink upon Glass Take scales of Iron and Stone well ground upon a Copper Plate equal quantities of each then dissolve them in Gum Water and write with a glass Pen. Several sorts of Colours Take Tutty which incorporate with the juice of Celandine upon a Marble stone and write with it To make a resemblance of Wines of several Colours Shave Brasil-wood which steep in common Water so that it remain like a Paste and let it dry in a Glass till it soaks up the Water Take what you can carry between two Fingers of these shavings which put into a Glass of Water and it will suddenly become red like Claret Pour the said red Water into another glass wash'd in good Vinegar it will turn yellow put out the greatest part and retain but about the depth of three fingers putting fresh Water to it it will be of the colour of small pale Wine to which put a little Vinegar it will look like a Muscadine inclin'd to yellow add Water it will be like white-White-wine to this last put two drops of writing Ink blow your Water and it will become of a good pale Greediline Incombustible Oyl Oyl of Olives unslacked Lime and Salt distilled together make incombustible Oyl To make Arsenick run like Oyl Take white Soap which distill and there will come out an Oyl in which boyl your Arsenick till the said Oyl be consumed and it will melt like Wax To slack Lime so that it shall be good for several Vses Put it into a Pot and fill it with Water when it begins to boyl it makes a small Skin on the top which must be taken off with a Knife so doing till it rises no more and then it will be fit for use To make a Light for a Lamp that shall not smoak by distilling with an excellent Week Distill a pound or more of common Oyl which use in your Lamp the Light of it is very steady and even the Week may be of Talk or stone Allum like other Weeks which is done by steeping them well in Water and they will spin out observe you must make a great many little holes in the Week with an Awl or great Needle to make the Oyl rise Aqua Vitae Put into an Earthen Limbec well tinned a quart of the strongest Vinegar with a handful of Allay and as much Salt and distill it A Candle that cannot be put out Fill a Cane with natural live Sulphur and wrap it about with Lints then cover it with Wax and light it To hinder Oyl from smoaking Distill some Juice of Onion and put it at the bottom of the Lamp the Oyl upon it which hinders it from making Soot To make Oyl of Eggs white Put among the Oyl of twelve Eggs extracted after the common way one spoonful of Oyl of Tartar mixing them well together set them out to the Sun there remains at bottom a thick settlement the Oyl that remains at top must be gently poured off into another Vial leaving it in the Sun it becomes as white as a Curd Of Artificial Fire-works Hunting and Fishing CHAP. XII An excellent Composition for Granadoes staming Lances Pikes and other Instruments TAke fine Cannon Powder six parts Salt-peter Rosin of each a fifth part Greek-Pitch all being beaten to Powder sprinkle it with Nut Oyl till it be made into a hard Paste Flaming Lances Take two foot in length of the Lance which fill with the aforesaid Composition till within two inches of the top which fill up with fine Cannon Powder over that make a round Ball of the aforesaid matter covered with fine Flax putting in a stick for the touch-hole which leave there after having dipped the said Ball in melted Pitch redoubling this Composition when you please Fire Pots Take six ounces of fine Powder powdered Rosin one ounce Arsenick four ounces in fine Powder mix them together with Yarn and Hemp a little fill your Pot cast it as you know and you will see the effect Good Squibs Take a pound of fine Powder Salt-peter two ounces all well beaten together and fift them through a fine Sieve or Strainer then sprinkle with Aquae Vitae or good White-wine beat down and ram the said Matter hard in your Cartridge which must be washed with white of Egg and Starch or some other fine Glew A pleasant Invention to kill Game Make a stopple of Hemp with melted Grease and fresh Hogs Lard put the said stopple into your Gun instead of Paper and ram it upon the Powder with your scowring Rod then take
of the Ground Take Verdigreece and boil it in a little Vineger with which sprinkle the Earth and the Wormes will come out Admirable Receipts in Cookery CHAP. XIII The true Method of making Bolonia Saucidges TAke fat and lean Pork which mince very small and to twenty five pound weight of it add one of Salt four ounces of whole Pepper a pint of White-wine and a pound of the Hogs Blood then stir and beat it all together for above a quarter of an hour and put it into the Guts which wrap round with a Napkin lest crushing down the Meat close they burst make the divisions at what distances you think fit which knot with a Packthread and hang them a drying in the Air or Smoak when dry if you think fit cut the Skin which divides the Saucidges for the Maggots may get into them and after you have wiped off the Dust they have gathered rub them with Sallet Oyl and put them into an Earthen Pot glazed covering it with its ordinary Cover and thus you may keep them sweet as long as you will Milan Saucidges Take six pound of good lean Pork one of good fat four ounces of Salt one of Pepper all being well minced mix them together adding some White-wine and the Blood aforesaid with half an ounce of Cinnamon and Cloves beaten and mixed together and some pieces such as are used for larding made of the Hogs-head which must be well sprinkled with that Spice and then lard the said Saucidges and sprinkle them as above these must be boiled to be eaten Mentz Gammons You must rear up good Gammons of Bacon keep them a fortnight to grow tender then wash them in equal quantities of White-wine and Water dry them with a Cloth rub both sides very well with fine white Salt then you must have great Wicker Panniers and cover the bottom about a Finger thick with very fine Salt and over the Salt place a layer of Isop Sage Savory Laurel and Rosemary but not very thick and it will be better to lay the said Herbs at the bottom of the Pannier and the Salt upon them that the Gammons may take the Salt the better upon which alwayes lay the fleshy part of the Gammon then put the same quantity of Herbs and Salt upon the Skin placing your Gammons one upon another till you fill the Pannier and press it down hard leaving them there a fortnight to take the Salt Then take them out hang them in a very close place making under them for five or six days a fire of green Juniper that it may smoke the more leave them there till your fire be quite out which you are to put in all together Next hang them up in a dry place and they will keep three or four years to make them Eat the better if they are too dry you must beat them with a Pestel then keep them in warm Water with a handful of Bran for a day or two rubbing them and the night before they are to be Eaten wrap them up in good dry Hay put them into a Kettle of boyling Water which fill with cold as fast as it consumes till they are boyl'd enough before they are served up the Skin must be raised whilst hot and the flesh be powdered with Cinnamon Cloves Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg all beaten together be kept warm and Eaten Madame de Bis Gammons You must have a young Hogs Gammon salted eight days after wiping off the Salt that is upon it with your hand lift up the Skin to the very Hock then stick the flesh with Cloves and Cinnamon sprinkle it with a good quantity of Sugar and lay down the Skin let it be baked in the Oven basting it at times with its own Dripping it is an excellent Dish hot An Excellent Hogs-head after the manner of Piemont Take a dry Hogs-head and Feet boyl them together till the Bones come out easily take them from the fire and having poured out the Water cut the Ears into small pieces and so the Feet lay the Head upon a Cloth and upon it place the said pieces of the Ears and Feet powder all with Salt and Spice to it Cinnamon Clove Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg a little of each and some Orange-peel scraped then wrap all together in the Cloth and press it leaving it so five or six hours till all be cold this will keep good three Months You must take the Cloth laying it into a glaz'd earthen Pot covering it with its own cover when served up you must cut it in slices upon a Plate with good Vinegar and Sugar for those that like it An excellent way to salt Pork Beef and other Meat well as is used in Germany and Flanders Your Powdering Tub should be made of some old Cask which makes it much the better then boil two or three handfuls of Juniper Seed more or less in a Kettle of Water which having boyled for some time soak the Tub in that Water leaving the Seed in it till all the Wood takes the scent which done pour it out and put in clear Water which also cast out when the Tub is well washed and it will be fit to use To salt Meat well it must be first steeped in Water then wiped dry with a Cloth and then make one layer of Salt and another of Flesh till your Tub be full the last layer must be of Salt of which for fear of mistakes there must be a pound to twenty five pounds weight of Flesh and add if you think fit some quantity of Cloves a little beaten no Pepper as some through mistake do because it makes the meat black The Meat must lye in the Powdering Tub a Month to be throughly salted and take care above all things that no Woman in her Menstruum come near it for it would cause Corruption The Meat being taken out and designed to be dryed presently every piece must immediately be steeped in boyling Water and hung up with a Twig of Osier in some place where the Air may come to it To make Mentz Gammons Salt your Gammons and keep them so five dayes then take them out and lay them for six dayes in filings of Iron next wash them in red Wine and shut them up in some small place making in it a Fire of Juniper for ten daies or more and they will be excellent To make Lombardy Saucidges Take four pounds of Hogs Flesh three pound and half of Beef one pound of Veal and four ounces of fresh fat Pork let the Flesh be minced small and the Fat sliced mix all together with two ounces of Pepper two of Ginger Cloves and Nutmeg of each half an ounce Salt by ghess then put it into Hogs Guts and dry them they must be boiled to be eaten and do as is spoken of before to keep them long A White Pot. Take half a pound of blanched Almonds made into a Paste well beaten adding some Milk that they may the better hold together and not
just boiled in Water To keep Mushroomes They must be boiled in only the Water that comes from them with Salt and Pepper being pretty well boiled put to them about one Glass of Wine and half a quarter of Butter put them into an Earthen Pot glazed and cover it close they will keep thus two or three Months you must observe there must be a little more Salt and Pepper put to them than if they were to be eaten immediately To make Fowl tender presently You must make them swallow a spoonful of good Vineger a quarter or half an hour before you kill them and let them run then kill and put them in the Chimney from Night till Morning and they will be very good and tender there are some that draw them and put a hot Stone into their Bellies leaving them in like manner in the Chimney in the Smoak How to keep Grapes till Easter as red and fresh as if they were upon the Vine You must gather your Grapes pretty green about eight daies before the usual time and when they are dry not rotten mouldy noâ— moist then lay them â—…dsomely in a little Barrel one against another very softly when full thrust them down again and fill it at the Bung with old or last years Raisins keeping it in a Cellar when you would use them knock out the Head of the Cask and they will be very good To freshen salt Porridge Put into the Pot a small quantity of Wheat Flower To make live Cray-fishes red Only rub them with Aqua Vitae and mix them in a Dish with boiled Cray-fishes which will be very pleasant To sweeten ill tasted Oyl Put into it some Roch-Allum or boiling Water you must observe that Oyl in which Aniseed has been steeped will not corrupt the same will happen if it be exposed to the Sun or Fire To preserve all manner of Fowl a Month without spoyling You must have a large Cask that has had Wine in it knock out one board or two into which 〈…〉 Very wholesom and excellent Spice Take two ounces of dryed Orange Peel sweet Marjerom one ounce Time and Hysop one ounce all being well dryed pounded and mixed together makes the wholesomest Spice that can be used To preserve fresh Lard When you would melt it put to it a little good Verjuice then when it begins to boil to six pound put one pint of Verjuice and let it consume the same may be used to preserve Pomatum A most excellent and singular way of making a Cake Take two whites of new laid Eggs and cut off the Sperme or String then beat them as long as you can put in a quarter of a pound of fine Flower and as much Sugar pounded work it all well together then put to it about two penny-worth of Aqua Vitae and a little Coriander in Powder let all be well mixed then lay it upon a fine Paper about as big as a Plate or thereabouts sprinkle it with Sugar and let it be baked Sweet-meats Flowers and Fruits CHAP. XIV Genoua Biskets TAke one pound of Flower four ounces of Sugar Coriander and Aniseed what you think fit mix it with four Eggs and as much warm Water as will be requisite make a Paste and that into a Cake which bake in the Oven being baked cut it into five or six pieces or slices which bake again The Queens Bisket Take twelve ounces of Flower one pound of fine Sugar twelve Eggs whereof three Yolks must be layed aside lest it make it too yellow add what Aniseed and Coriander you think fit beat and mix it all very well together till it come to a soft Paste some add a little Leven to make it the wholesomer let this Paste be put into Paper or in tin Cases about two Inches broad and twice as long which put in a Tart-pan into the Oven which must not be over hot when you think them baked enough take them out and lay them on a sheet of Paper to bake again at the heat of the Oven keep it in a hot Place Macaroons Take one pound of sweet Almonds beat them carefully in a stone Mortar sprinkling them with Rose-water add one pound of Sugar beating all well together and make a great round Cake that will fill a Dish or Bason which put into a warm Oven to bake gently being half baked cut it into small pieces and put them to bake again upon white Paper To make a Paste of any Fruit whatsoever Take the quantity of Fruit you will and having pared boil it well in clear Water then strain and let it lye then take ten pound of the said Fruit six pound of fine Sugar in very fine Powder and put but five pound of the six to the ten pounds of Fruit and mix them very well then boil the Paste a little and lay it with a Spoon upon tin Plates each Spoonful by it self and sprinkle each spoonful with the remaining Pound of Sugar dry them like Macaroons turning them every Night and Morning keeping them in a very warm place over an Oven in the Sun or the open Air look upon it often and turn it sprinkling as above till it be very dry then put them into deal Boxes to keep them dry wrapped up in Papers and let them not touch one another lest they grow soft You may thus make preserves of Roses Borrage Bugloss and all others into a Paste as Gooseberries c. An admirable Gelly of Quinces and other sorts of Fruit. Take some of the Decoction of the peel and inside of a Quince or other Fruit that has boyled long in a great deal of water the Decoction being made let it waste in the Sun or at the Fire or long standing of this Decoction make your Gelly Genoua Paste Take the insides of Quinces and sweet Apples equal quantities of each with Rose-water pound and strain it through a Cieve then dry it with a wooden Slice over the fire then add as much Sugar as there is Paste and boyl it to a convenient thickness To keep any Fruit whatsoever a very long time and particularly Grapes Provide some Sand out of a River which dry in your Store-room then gather your Grapes or other Fruit when the Sun shines upon it for it must be dry then spread a layer of Sand about an inch thick in a Box and lay your Fruit upon it presently strow Sand upon it so that it go quite thorough and so continue layer upon layer your Box or other wooden Vessel being full shut it close that no Air may come to it and put it in a dry place without removing it the Grapes must not be over ripe but somewhat green about eight days before their ripening the Grapes will keep till new ones come the same may be done with Pears Prunes Cherries Apples Gooseberries Peaches c. Some keep them in Ashes or Oat-straw and bury their Vessel in the said straw and so they keep two years if you will others use
Millet instead of Sand. For the more security the stalk of the Grape may be dipped in melted Wax the same of any other Fruit. To preserve Apples from Rotting You must rub them with Juice of Spearmint To keep all Fruit that has Stones and even Figs. Take an earthen Pot put into it equal quantities of Honey and Water which must be first well beaten together into this put your Fruit just gathered and cover the Pot close when you take them out of the Pot put them into fresh Water To keep all sorts of Flowers Fill a Pot with half Water and half Verjuice and put as much Salt to it as will season it well gather your Flowers into the Liquour close up the Pot and set it in a Sellar when you take out your Flowers let it be by the Stalk shake and hold it never so little to the Fire to recover its Colour To keep Roses red all the year The Roses must be gathered when they are half open then you must have a hard earthen Pot well burnt and let it be burnt over again then take your Roses and place them upright squeesing them pretty close together and make of them one Bed or Layer over them spread some Cloves and over that some Nails about the bigness of Lath-nails all over and continue your Layers one upon another till the Pot be full the last must be of Nails and close the Pot well that no Air may pass these Nails that are to be layed upon the Cloves serve to preserve the red of the Roses which when you would use you must wash them very gently then stop the Pot close again and thus you may have Roses at any time as beautiful as in May. Another way to do the same Gather the Roses before they open when they are just ready to break they must be red Province Roses leave the Stalks long enough and wrap them up in Vine Leaves or in Hemp in little Parcels placing twelve Roses in each which powder with white Salt placing them in an earthen Pot and powder them with Salt as you would do Purslain then fill the Pot with Verjuice and so cover it laying Clay round that no Air may come to them at Christmas or any other time when you would take them out you must do it with a silver or wooden Fork and cover the Pot again for fear they take Air the Liquour that is in the Pot is very good to dress Meat with and the Roses as good in taste as to look at and will keep open six Weeks The way to open them is by making some Water luke-warm and leaving them full two hours in it so that after it they open by only blowing them Observe that the Pot must be kept in the bottom of the Cellar To make excellent Hypocras immediately Take five ounces of Aqua Vitae Cinnamon two ounces Pepper two Ginger two Cloves two Grains of Paradise two ounces Amber-greece three grains Musk two grains let all infuse twenty four hours in a glass Bottle upon warm Ashes and when you would use it to make Hypocras take one pound of Sugar and a quart of Wine and the Sugar being melted therein add to it three or four drops of this Liquor and you will have excellent Hypocras Another Liquor for the same use Take Cinnamon a little pounded two ounces Mace one ounce Ginger one ounce Ambergreece ten grains Musk six grains each being apart in Powder mix and put into a glass Bottle with four ounces of Spirit of Wine and do as above To make Rosa Solis Take a pound and half of White-bread very hot just come out of the Oven put it into a Limbic with half an ounce of Clove beaten green Aniseed Coriander of each an ounce over that a pint of good Red-wine and as much Milk then close it and put to it the Recipient close the Joints with glewed Paper let it lye thus twenty four hours after which time distill it in Balneo Mariae to extract all the Liquor which keep The Syrup must be made apart with Aqua Vitae or rather Spirit of Wine burning it upon very small Sugar in an earthen Dish or Porringer always stirring it with a Slice or Spoon till the flame goes out You must also dissolve Amber-greece with the purest Spirit of Wine first mixing a dram of Sugar with as much Amber-greece and pounding them well together then add to it in a little Bottle an ounce of Spirit of Wine and let it digest twenty four hours and evaporate in Balneo where it will all dissolve but will stiffen in the cold To make the Composition you must mix the Syrup of Aqua Vitae with this Essence of Amber such a quantity as you shall think fit to add to the distill'd Water if you would have it stronger put the greater quantity of Spirit of Wine Another way Boyl your Syrup to a thickness as is usual being boyl'd add what quantity of Spirit of Wine you shall think fit as also of the aforesaid Essence or such other as you shall like and it will be such as comes from Turin To make another sort of Liquor which the French call Populo Take one pint of Syrup boyl'd to a thickness a pint of the clearest White-wine and a pint of Spirit of Wine warm it a very little that they may mix then strain it through a Bag with two or three Almonds blanched and beaten to warm it and a little Bag of Perfume if you have no Essence To make good Spirit of Wine You must have a Glass Limbick and distill good Aqua Vitae in Balneo Mariae and put a piece of filter well dipped in common Oyl between the Helm and the Limbick and over it put in Flower of Rosemary only once you will extract the purest Spirit in the World A very cheap Lemmonade Scrape Lemmon-peel as much as you think fit into Water and Sugar to which add some drops of Essence of Sulphur with some slices of Lemmon it will be very good and refreshing there must be half a pound of Sugar to a pint of Water To make Franchipane Water Put half a quarter the quantity of Jesmin Flowers upon your Water sweetned with Sugar and let them infuse a while then smell whether it be sweet enough if not add fresh ones when the Water is as you would have it strain it and put in a few drops of Essence of Amber To make Jessemine Water You must do as above without adding any essence or mixture but what the Flowers give it That of Tuberose is made after the same manner That of Tonquille as also all other Flowers is done the same way Water of Strawberries Raspars Cherries Hart Cherries and Apricocks Squeeze out the Juice of these sorts of Fruit and mix that Liquour with Water well sweetned with Sugar and do as above To freeze them even like the Fruit. Take a little Tub and a tin Vessel of what size you please then put in the
Fruit into the Water you would freeze a little wider at top then at bottom that the buried Ice may come out with a tin cover then fill the said tin Vessel with the said Waters or else with the Fruit with clear Water to make it freeze at the bottom of the Tub lay a little Straw and a bed of Ice with a quarter of small Salt then another bed of Ice and Salt over it and put in your Vessel into the middle far enough from the sides of the Tub that there may be space enough to put in Ice and Salt as above and so continue till you cover your Vessel half a foot above it and leave it thus in a cool Place for four or five hours the Water will be frozen and because it will stick to the Vessel heat a Cloth with which rub the said Vessel round and it will loosen To make Ice in Summer Take a large stone Bottle that will hold three quarts put into it two ounces of refined Salt-peter half an ounce of Florence Orris and fill it up with boyling Water and stop it close immediately let it down into a Well leaving it there two or three hours take out the Bottle and break it to get the Ice which will be very hard and as good as the natural To cool Wine extreamly without Ice Dissolve about a pound of Nitre in a Bucket of Water and put in your Bottles to cool Several sorts of Wines how to preserve them and how to restore decayed Wine CHAP. XV. To restore Wine that is prickt YOu must rack your wine down to the Lee into another Cask in which are fresh Lees of good Wine then take one pound of the best strong Aqua Vitae with half a pound of yellow Wax scraped into the said Aqua Vitae which melt in it over a very gentle fire then dip a Cloth in this Liquor and set it on fire with Sulphur which put flaming into the Bung and stop the Cask close Another way Take a handful of old Walnuts with the Shells for half a Teirce for a Tieece two handfuls then put the said Nuts into a hot Oven and dry them so that they turn red then take the same quantity of Willow Chips of the Wood next the Bark and put your Walnuts hot and red into the Cask and stop the Bung with those Chips let it lye so three or four daies and you will see a strange alteration Another way Take out a Bucket full and boyl it or rather a Bucket of good Wine and pour it boiling hot into the corrupted Vessel instead of what you took out and stop it close and in the aforesaid time it will come to it self For Wine that is decayed by too much vent or sour Stir the Wine through the bung with a stick without touching the Lee then pour in a pound of good Aqua Vitae let it lye ten days and it will come to it self Wine that has taken vent is also recovered by putting into the Pot before you drink it a crust of Bread burning hot To recover Wine that tastes of the Cask Rack all the Wine off upon a good Lee then put down in a linnen Bag four ounces of Laurel-berries in Powder with some filings of Steel at bottom to make the Bag sink let it down to the middle of the Cask and as you draw the Wine let it down lower To recover Wine that is turned The Water of Saturn or red Litharge recovers Wine that is turn'd that is Red-wine and white Litharge for White-wine To take away the musty smell of Wine You must make a long piece of Dough like a stick and half bake it in the Oven take out it and stick it with Cloves and put it in the Oven till thoroughly baked then hang it within your Cask so that it touch not the Wine you may also throw it into the Cask and it will take away the ill smell To prevent Wine from turning Put one pound of Lead melted and thrown into Water into your Cask For Wine that smells soure or bitter Boyl about half a peck of Barley in four pints of Water till half be consumed strain and put it into the Cask at the Bung stirring it with a stick without touching the Lee. To soften a green Wine Put into a pint of such Wine one drop of Vinegar soaked with Litharge and it will lose its greenness For Wine that is turned Put into the Cask some Spirit of Tartar For green Wine Boyl some Honey to draw out the Wax and strain it through a Cloth put two pints of it to a Teirce which will make it very good If it be in Summer and you find any danger of it turning put in a stone of unslack'd Lime To preserve Wine from souring Take Sand out of a River in March wash it well and dry it in the Sun and throw two Porringers full of it into a Teirce of Wine with two pints of Water Another way Take about St. Martin's day a Teirce of Wine and boyl it till but one third be left and of this Wine put four pints or thereabouts into each of your other Casks with two bits of Frankincense about as big as Walnuts and stop them close To make Wine fine Put into a Vessel two pints of Milk well boyl'd and scummed that all the Cream may be off To make a Muscadine Wine You must infuse the flowers of Clary in the Cask or else put in a little bag of Elder-flowers To make Wine sweet It must be filled upon the Lee and lay at the bottom of the Cask half a pound or more according to the bigness of the Vessel of Mustard-seed in Powder To make it black Put in a couple of Pewter-pots when the new Wine boyls up For White-wine that is turn'd deep coloured You must stir the Wine and Lee together and take out five pints in which dissolve a peck of Wheat-flower which put in at the Bung then add half a pint of Aqua Vitae and let it settle three days To make new unsettled Wine very good Take about a pint of Wheat which boyl in a quart of Water till it burst so that touching it with your finger all the flower fall out squeese it in a new Cloth put a quart of this Water into the quantity of two Teirces of white-White-wine when it boyls up at the same time put in a little Bag somewhat long full of dry Elder-flowers To make White-wine red and red white Take ashes of white Briony to make Red-wine white and one the contrary ashes of black Briony to make white red Probatum To make Malmsie Take of the best English Galingale Clove and Ginger one dram beat it all not too small and infuse it twenty four hours in Aqua Vitae in a woodden Vessel close stopped then put all into a Cloth which hang by a thread in the Cask containing a load and half of Claret leave it there three days and you will have as good and
the Ash-tree Berries after taking off a little Skin that is upon them putting it to this end upon a Brick into an Oven not too hot do the same with the Cummin-seeds and Eglantine Apples alwaies taking care none of them boil in their moisture all being thus dry you must pound it either together or separately How to use it Bleed the Horse in the Morning and at Noon begin to give him the Powder three days after bleed him again and the eighth day repeat Bleeding if he be very ill give him the said Powder Morning Noon and Night The Dose of the said Powder is what you can take up between your Finger and Thumb The way of giving it is in Bread till he be cured For the same Take a little handful of ground Ivie which squeeze in your hand adding a little Salt put it into his Ear on the side the Farcie is stopping the Ear close with Cotton binding it up with a Cord leave it there about thirty hours in which time it will be cured For the same Take the Roots of round Sorrel and Leaves of ground Ivie mixed together which mix with the Horses Oats and he will recover provided the Farrier has not touched him For a swelling in the hollow of the Pastorn of a Horse Take the white heads of five or six Leeks four ounces of old Lard new Wax common Oyl of each two ounces two quarts of Vinegar put all into a new earthen Pot and let it boil up two or three times till the Vinegar be consumed it is enough to make four Plaisters or more For short Wind or Pursiness in Horses After the purging that follows if they but draw their Wind hard mix with their Oats for three daies Morning and Evening a pint of warm Milk a handful of Hemp-seed beaten this Seed is excellent for this use Jockies use it much to give their Horses Pills to purge Horses Take Calafin Aloes an ounce and half Agaricum half an ounce prepared Coloquintida a Dram Treacle an ounce and half mix all together and incorporate it in a pound of Hogs Lard that has been steeped forty eight hours in fresh Water which must be changed every three hours make thereof Pills as big as a Nut which cover with Powder of Liquorice or Bran and make the Horse swallow them the Horse must have stood bridled three hours before After taking them make him swallow half a pound of common Oyl mixed with a Pint of warm Wine covering him warm and walking him three hours then put him in the Stable and give him no Oats in three daies He must not be watered till next day at Noon when you shall make him drink white Water in the Stable with Flower and a little Bran at the same time lead him to water making him wet all his Belly to his Ribs the space of half an hour but let him not drink for it would give him the Gripes carry him back to the Stable and give him Hay it is commonly thirty hours before it works begins when he comes out of the River and sometimes lasts two days they void and incredible Filth and sometimes Gravel Whilst it works they are sad and drooping after the three daies you must cleanse his Mouth with Leek Salt and Vinegar and give him a drench after which he will have an incredible Stomack and grow very fat in a little time it is the best Receipt in the World to recover Horses that seem to be quite gone some purge their Horses once a quarter with these Pills and that gives them a good meene A Drench for a Horse Take Rose-Honey Cordial Powder powdered Aniseed of each an ounce five penny-worth of Scammony Oyl two ounces Saffron one penny-worth a pint of White-wine with Coloquintida and Rubarb A Drench for a Horse that has caught cold Take Cloves Nutmeg Pepper of each half an ounce Cummin-seed Fromagy of each an ounce and half Ginger one Dram common Oyl and Honey of each four ounces of the strongest White-wine half a pint mix all together and make the Horse drink it For Distempers in Horses Heads There is under their Tongue a thing like the Pip to which with a little Spunge you must lay Treacle dissolved in Rose Vinegar doing it often and they will certainly recover For the same Take Wheat-flower Turpentine Dragons Blood of each four ounces Mastick in Powder one ounce four yolks of Eggs mix all well together and apply it to the Horses Forehead for three daies To make a Horse foam that has a moist Mouth Wrap up the nether part of his Jaw with Powder of Staphifegria A Horse that has a moist Mouth is esteemed because those that have it dry want taste and are almost half an hour in the Stable before they eat To dye saddle Horses when they are old Take equal parts of unslacked Lime and prepared Litharge of Gold mix it like an Ointment with which rub the Hair against the grain and lay over some green Leaves at twice it is quite died and dyes Bay if you put to it a little Ink. To make a Horse have good Hair in Winter Take Myrrh Aristolochium Gentian Angelica scrapings of Ivory of each two ounces Crocus one ounce melt them and give the Horse two or three spoonfuls of it in a pint of White-wine every Morning for three days together and keep him three hours without eating then give him what is usual this strengthens their Stomach and Appetite and keeps their Hair together For gaul'd Horses Make them swallow Decoction of Scabious in half a pint of White-wine in which must be dissolved an ounce of Synoper in Powder with a little crust of toasted Bread make them drink three days together fixed Sulphur with some of the Decoction The Dose is an ounce a time giving them the same Drench the fourth day For the hard sores in Horses Fundaments Take Spirit of Nitre Spirit of Salt of each an ounce Mercury two ounces with it rub the sore and it will come to a head when it is broke cure the Ulcer with Oyntment of Pilosella For bruises or sores in Horses Legs The head and tall of Vipers when they are well beaten with the blood that runs from them when they are killed and the White-wine they are washed in all put together into a Pot with a little Puppy covering it with common Oyl and boyl'd till the Wine be consum'd putting through it a thick Cloth is excellent for the pains and certainly cures the bruised or sore Legs of Horses rubbing them with it For Horses feet Take some of the herb Short-foot and a quantity of Elder-leaves two ounces of Coperis the whites of four Eggs one penny-worth of Honey half a glass of Vinegar put all into a new Pot and boyl it till it comes to an Oyntment and before you rub the Horses foot cut off the Hair the closest you can and wash it with Pork brine To make a Horses Tail and Main grow Take Cows-piss and
and if the Wood were white you will have an admirable Blew To make a Purple upon Wood. Having your Turnsole steep'd as above add to it the Tincture of Brazil boyl'd in Lime-Water and it will be an excellent Purple these Colours ought to be varnish'd as well to beautifie as to preserve them To imitate Inlaying or Marble upon Wood. Beat the Yolk of an Egg with water till it be thin enough to write with take a Pencil and with the Yolk vein the Wood according to your Fancy being dry some slake Lime in Urine till it become thick like Mud with a Brush lay this on the Wood when dry clean it with a Rubbing-Brush rub with a clean Cloth burnish and varnish it and you will have a very pleasant piece of Work To make all sorts of Vessels as Flower-Pots or Dishes to imitate very neatly fine Porcelain or China ware Turn your Vessels according to the Fashiâ—… 〈◊〉 the true China 't is no matter what 〈…〉 except Beech first glew it and whiten it with Whiting and glew very smoothly three or four times make it more smooth with a wet linnen Cloth last of all pollish it with dryed Rushes then give two layings of Cerus with Oyl of Turpentine and white Varnish then with a Knife mix upon a Pallet a little Blew Ammel with Cerus till the Colour become only a little blewish the Cerus and the Ammel must be ground very fine with water and left to dry when this last laying of Blewish White is laid on with Varnish and dry'd design your Figures upon it with very fine blew Ammel spread on the Pallet with Oyl of Turpentine in laying on this Blew moisten the end of the Pencil in Varnish to mingle with the Blew taking care that the Ammel grow not hard in mixing and by that means trouble some to lay on when dry if you find occasion you may with the point of the Pencil touch it over again Another way of Staining or Marbling Wood. Grind White-Lead and Chalk together on a Marble put it in a Pot and temper it again with the Yolk of an Egg beaten with water then with a large Pencil lay on this White when dry repeat it that being dry take a Point made of Stags-Horn draw off the white where and in what Form you will then sprinkle the Lime mixt with Urine the Violet Wood which Dyers use will become black as Ebony by sprinkling the Lime and Urine Plum-Tree and Cherry-Tree turn of a deep Red the Pear-Tree and Service-Tree turn Reddish Wallnut-Tree grows black by mingling some Galls in Pouder with the Lime and Urine A Pencil made of Mutton Suet rub'd in those places where you would draw with Yolks of Eggs will do the same thing 'T will be excellent upon Black-Cherry-Tree or Plum-Tree or any Wood of a dark Colour To counterfeit Ebony The most solid Wood and freest from Veins is best such as Pear-Tree Apple-Tree and Service-Tree black well either of these when dry rub it with a Cloath then make a little Brush of Rushes tyed near the ends melt some Wax in a Pot mixing with it some Lamp-black then with the Brush throw on some of the Wax brushing it till it shine like Ebony then rub it with a Cloth and some of the black Wax the Wood should be well pollisht and rusht before you do it To counterfeit Ebony Holly is the best of all Woods which you must put into a Hat-makers Furnace where he dyes his Hats when you find it by cutting to be struck in about the thickness of a Sixpence take it out and dry it in the Shade that it may the better drink up the dye-Dye-Water then pollish it with an Iron to take off the foulness of the Dye then with Rush and Pouder of Charcoal and Sallad Oyl as is done to Ebony the Wood of Tunis pollishes easily it also burnishes well with a Tooth and is better to cut than Ebony which is very brittle A pollisht Black Grind Lamp-Black with Gum-Water and with a Pencil cover the Wood when dry pollish with a Tooth 't will look very well Another black Dye for Wood. Put into good Ink little pieces of Iron very rusty leaving it so some days then rub the Wood which 't will penetrate pollish with a Tooth and 't will be very beautiful To make Wood of â— Silver Colour Beat Tin-glass in a Mortar to fine Pouder then put some Water to it grinding it to the fineness of Paint or grind it on a Marble then put it into an earthen Pan washing it two or three times till it be very clean mix it with clear Glew and lay it upon the Wood being first warmed lay it on the Wood with a Pencil when dry pollish with a Tooth To make Wood of the Colour of Gold Silver Copper or Brass Take Rock-Cristal beat it very fine in a Mortar then grind it on a Marble with clean Water then put it in an earthen Pot with a little Glew warm it and lay it on when dry lay it on as above rub it with Gold Silver or Copper and 't will be of the same Colour you rub it with then pollish To lay on Pencil-Gold or Silver on Wood. Temper the Gold or Silver with weak Gum-Tragaganth-Water very clear with a Pencil lay it on the Lights of your Work without touching the Shadows which must be made with Indico ground with a very weak Gum-Arabick Water then varnish it with drying Varnish made of Spike-Oyl and Gum Sandrac if it be too thick add some Oyl in making it let it not have a greater heat than may be endur'd by the Hands black Wood or Wood so dyed is most proper to gild For Silver upon Wood. First glew your Wood over with Parchment Glew when dry figure it as you think fit as before mentioned shadow and finish with Water in which Tallow has been boyled heighten with Silver as in the Chapter for Gold and varnish it A Red Colour for Wood. Take Orchanet beaten in Pouder mix it with Oyl of Nuts make it luke-warm and rub the Wood. A Yellow Colour Is made with French Berries and Allum also with Turmerick or Saffron also with Merita Earth Yellow in most cases is an easie Colour A Violet Colour Take four ounces of Brazil and half a pound of Logwood boyl these together in two quarts of Water adding an ounce of common Allum in this boyl the Wood. An excellent Blew Take four ounces of Turnsole boyl it an hour in three pints of Lime-water and paint your Wood. To make Bronze or Pouder of the Colour of Gold Take Gum Elemi twelve Darchms melt it then crude Mercury one ounce Sal Armoniac two ounces put all in a Glass Viol with Bole and Whites of Eggs make all melt when melted add Orpiment at discretion with some Filings of Brass being well mingled together lay it with a Pencil on that which you would bronze CHAP. XXI Divers ways of Beautifying things made of Wood Stone Plaister