sometime been dried on wash with rose water Or often bath the face with rose water camphorated It is exceeding good to prevent those inconveniencies which may happen from the use of such things as too much dry and parch the face Slice four oranges and as many limmons take white sugar and rock allum of each one ounce infuse them three or four hours in a quart of milk then distil them in B. M. and wet some fine cloth in the water to lay over the face when you go to bed Or take Goats milk one quart juyce of citrons one pint white wine vinegar half a pint the flowers of beans water lillies fumitory of each three handfuls the whites of half a dozen eggs camphire two drams distil and use them as the other Oyle of myrrhe is singular good to preserve the beauty if when you go to bed you wash your face with the distilled water of bean flowers and afterwards anoint it with that oyle It is thus prepared Take new laid eggs and boyl them hard slit them and take out the yolks then fill them up with poudred myrrhe close them together lay them in a moist cool place and the myrrhe will dissolve into a water which is the oyle After the same manner you may prepare oyle of Tartar if you calcine and put it into the eggs it is an exceeding good Cosmetick Take Unguentum Citrinum three ounces sperma coeti an ounce and a half salt of Ceruse half an ounce oyle of eggs as much mash them together and make a liniment To make salt of Ceruse you must pouder the ceruse very fine and mix it with some distilled vinegar so that to one ounce of ceruse there may be four ounces of vinegar let it infuse three or four dayes then draw it off by filtration and and set that which is drawn off over the fire in an earthen pot well glaz'd and dried till it become a salt as they make their cauteries Take prepared snails that is drawn out of their shels and washt so long in salt and water till they loose their slime then pound them and lay one bed of them in the bottom of an Alembicke and on them make an other bed of sal gem allum frankincense borace camphire of each pounded two drams then poure on so much juice of limmons as may cover them two fingers so let them macerate 5 or 6 hours together and then distill them in Bal. Maris Take twelve limons as many hen egs halfe a pound of turpentine well washt put the turpentine in the bottome of the alembick boile the egs hard and distill all in B. M. this water is excellent to whiten the skin and change the complexion if you wash wish spring watar and dry the face and after wash with this without wiping This bath is very good Take two handfulls of sage leaves the like quantity of lavender flowers and roses a little salt boile them in spring water and therewith bath your body remembring that you are never to bath after meals for it will occasion many infirmities bath therefore two or three hours before dinner it will cleare the skin revives the spirits and strengthens the body the same effects hath this following Take rose water vineger salt boile all together in faire water take thereof a pint mix some bran with it and wash the body all over with it let it dry on then wash it off nothing can be better to mundifie the body Some Ladies delight much in sweet baths therefore into half a pint of water they put 5 or 6 drops of oile of spickenard some beside this adde musk amber civet lignum aloes benjamin storax myrrh cloves roses limmon and orange flowers rosemary lavender mint penny-royall But your chymicall extracts far excell all these if you mix but halfe a dozen drops with your bath such are the oile of oranges cloves mace nutmegs and the like When your bath is provided remember if you prise your health or beauty that it be not too hot for then it scorcheth the skin and makes it rough and causes very many untoward infirmities Thus much for the meanes to gaine a good complexion I come in the next place to give some speciall remedies how to correct the more particular vices of an ill complexion as a pale and swarthy colour a rough harsh grosse or sluttish skin sweat spots itch scab leprosie scurf and the like CHAP. IV. How to beautifie a white and pallid complexion Such colours when they annoy the complexion principally proceed from ill humours which abound in the body are expelled forth to the externall superficies of the skin wherefore those that desire to correct any vitious colour that offends their bodies must in the first place by some purgation evacuate that humour whereto their distemper ows its originall Now the palenesse of the complexion in women is principally occasioned by obstructions of the spleen and liver which cause in them a suppression of their monthly purgations which cause being by an orderly course of physick removed the body must be replenisht by a good and commendable dyet If this doe not recover their decaying beauty they may proceed to externall applications and to make their cheeks and lips ruddie and lively with good success use these things following Dissolve the shavings of Brasil and Orkanet in allum water wherewith after you have sufficiently cleansed the face with water of lillies or bean flowers bath the cheeks and lips letting it dry on Or else bath the cheeks lips or any other part that is too pale and white with allum water wherein a pciee of red turnsoile hath been often steeped or rub those parts with a peece of shipskin coloured red To chafe the parts often with the hand or a course cloth makes them look red and lively for such frictions draw the blood and spirits outward Or in case of necessity use Pomatum and Vermilion made of cinnaberis Or Take red Saunders bruise and steep it for 3 dayes in Aqua Vitae then boile it for an hour over a gentle sire adding a little allum and gum arabick than strein it and bath the parts therewith Take rock allum unc 1. boile it in a pinte of running water when it is dissolved take it off from the fire let it cool then adde to it Vermilion finely powdred one ounce boile them againe to a consumption of half streine the decoction and keep it for your use Take Brasil one ounce Cloves halfe a score grains of Paradise two scruples boile them with a pint of rectified Aqua vitae in a covered vessel use it when it is cold CHAP. V. To smooth a rough and uneven Skin THe skin is the bodies native shirt which if it be of a courser thread it is some of Natures homespun houswifry carelesly hudled up when she was in hast to finish a finer peece To smooth such rugged canvas and bring it to a pleasing evennesse that may vie with the polisht Alablaster art here
four ounces flowers of beanes pellitory of the wall of each one handfull flowers of water lillie two handfuls steep them in white wine then mix them with goats milke after distill them in an alembick and keep the water to wash the spots For white spots These proceed commonly from a pituitous humour abounding in the body and are thus remedied Take barly lupines red Vetches the roots of the greater and lesse dragon wort of each one ounce pound them and incorporate them with the whites of eggs make them up in little bals and dry them in the sun when you have occasion to use them dissolve one or two in rosewater and so anoint the spots going to bed in the morning wash with the infusion of the crum of white bread Take the ashes of asphodill roots mix them with vineger and apply them Or steep the rind of Caper roots in strong vineger Or verdegreece finely powdred macerated a day and a night in juice of limmons wet a linnen cloth therein and bath the spots For green spots Powder the dryed roots of dragon wort to two ounces of this powder adde ceruse half an ounce and as much cuttle bone powdred worke them together with rose water and make them into little bals dry them and keep them for your use when you have occasion dissolve a couple in a quantity of rose water and therewith anoint the skin Take the juice of chelandine strong vineger make it into an ointment and apply it Or take brimstone myrrhe frankincence camphre of each two drams steep them in rose water the space of 8 daies stirring it once a day then let it settle and use it to wash the face For red tawny spots Take Venetian ceruse one ounce lapis calaminaris litharge of each two drams prepared tutia spodium of each one dram powder them very small then adde the water of plantaine housleek red roses of each two drams mingle them and keep it for your use In the morning fasting chew in the mouth a bit of mastick as soon as you perceive it to dissolve anoint the spots therewith Or powder pigeons dung flax seed French barly soake them in strong vinegar and anoint the spots CHAP. XI To reduce the body that is too fat to a meane and handsome proportion IT can be no pleasing sight to see a soul prest under a mountaine of flesh and the body stretcht to such dimensions that make it represent a walking barrell Were there nothing more then this 't were sufficient to deterre any from such an unwildie magnitude that it always proves its own accuser exposing in too legible characters Sloth to every one that can but read For when ere the carcase swels it self into a bulk too voluminous idlenesse is there describ'd in folio Have a care Ladies then to keep your bodies in a mean proportion and if ever they enlarge themselves to extravagant limits use these directions to reduce them to their former bounds so you may regaine your credit and your beautie too Rise early in the mornings and use some violent exercise to sweat often fast much rise halfe satisfied from your meals let your first course be oily and fattie things that the appetite may be soon satiated and the body kept soluble the second course sharp salt and bitter things out all your meats with vineger pepper mustard juice of oranges and limmons sleep at night on a quilt It is good to bleed largely twice a year the right arme in the spring the left in the autumne purge the body in those seasons with strong physick once a week take some laxatives as pillulae â—â—uffi extractum Rudii every morning chiefely in winter use this powder Take the feeds of annis fennel agnus castus rue carroway cummin pepper ginger mace nutmegs galingale smallage dryed marjerom gentian round birthwort of each equall parts take one dram of this powder in a glasse of white wine half an hour before meals Cooling applications may be layd to the heart or liver as the juice or decoction of plantane shepheards purse horstaile lettuce white henbane adding the powder of camfre mirtle or the like If any one particular part be too corpulent for the rest of the body you may bring it to a correspondent proportion if you use this unguent Take Fullers earth ceruse and lead mix them with the juice of white henbane and the oile of mirtle anoint the part therewith having first bathed it with vinegar wherein brimstone salt nitre and rock allum have been dissolv'd Some use with ligaments to bind those passages whereby the member is supplyed with nourishment CHAP. XII To make the body or any part thereof plump and fat that was before too leane IN a contrary extreame to corpulency are those breathing Skeletons that carry Lent in their face at a Christmas feast and look so meagerly that their Confessours since they have nothing leaft but skin and bones dare not for feare of a Soloecisme injoine them pennance to mortifie the flesh No part about them thrive so well as their bones and these look as lustie as if they had eaten up the flesh and were readie to leap of the skin to fall upon others Truly Ladies such leannesse is a ravenous guest and will keep you bare to maintaine him if you have a mind to be rid of his company observe these prescriptions following and I dare ingage he shall not long disturb you Let your chamber in the summer time be kept something cool and moist with violets lillies or the like fresh flowers before you eat chafe the body till it look red then walke and stirre about some houswifes imployment When you eate take nothing that is salt or sharp bitter or too hot but let your meats be sweet and of good nourishment as fresh egs mutton veale capon and for three hours after meat take your recreation in dauncing singing discoursing c. use some baths twice a month and in the mornings this electuary Sweet almonds pistach nuts white poppy seed butter and sugar beat them up into the forme of an electuary take thereof morning and evening the quantity of a walnut it quickly fattens and gives a good complexion Take twelve or thirteen Lizards or outs cut off their heads and tailes boile them and let the water stand to cool take of the grease mix it with wheaten flower feed a Hen therewith till shee be fat then kil her and eat her this often used will make you exceeding sat keep it for a rare and true secret Take a young Capon the flesh of veal four calves feet white wine faire water of both 3 quarts boile all in an earthen vessell scumming of all the fat Then put this broth into a new vessell with a pound and a halfe of sugar cinnamon half an ounce a dozen cloves boile it gently againe then adde thereto the whites of two egs reboil it and passe it through a streiner before it cool mix a little musk and
amber dissolved in rose-water Take the flower of rice half a pound dissolve it in as much milke as is sufficient adde thereto the flesh of a young Capon boild tender sweet almonds 24. beat them well in a morter then mix them with the milke and rice streine all through a course cloth putting thereto what quantity of sugar you please Boile all over a soft fire till it coagulate into the forme of a gelly when it begins to cool adde of amber and muske dissolv'd in rose water as much as will give it a gratefull odour often take a small quantity of it If one part fall away and be are no proportion to the rest of the body you may bring it to even terms thus Take oile of Foxes an ounce and a halfe oile of lillies the greace of Capons and Geese of each two ounces greek pitch pine rosin and turpentine of each two ounces boile all these together in an earthen glazed vessell adding oile of elder one ounce then take it from the fire and adde new wax as much as will suffice to make it into a stiffe cerecloth when it is almost cold spread it upon a strong cloth as much as will wrap up the member then apply it and leave it on all night if you find any inconvenience in it use this following bath Boile in claret wine halfe a handfull of roses wormwood stoechas calamint squinanth rosemary sage cammomile of each one handful let a third part of the wine be consum'd while it is warme bath the place where the cerecloth was applyed this bath doth draw nourishment to the part and strengthens its retentive virtue Thus much of what concernes the beautifying of the body in generall PART II. Of the Head Necke and Breasts YE that intend Ladies to subdue hearts and command with soveraignty in the mint-house of others Affections must be carefull to keep in tune the harmony of these parts remembring that they were intended for beauties glorious Frontispiece to allure Spectators eyes and with a Phoebeau lustre make them its obsequious Heliotropes By what means you are to preserve their splendor you may be instructed in this Second Part. Where you shall learn how to give the Face such a commanding Beauty that all who view it shall yield obedience and none rebel but those who cannot see how your Eyes may be made Cupids chrystal burning glasses to kindle devotion in your Captives hearts and your bushy Hair Venus's Grove in whose twyning Maeanders a pleasing imprisonment shall breed a dislike of former Freedom In a wotd how to advance your Features to such a pitch of dazeling glory that shall make Beauty it self out of countenance and put Cupid hardly to it among so many fair ones to know his Mother CHAP. I. To cure Redness and fiery Pimples in the Face AN inundation of crimson'd blood often drowns the flowry Elysium of a charming face disfigoring it with such a flaming hue as if the juycie god had made it his vineyard and planted it with rubie Grapes To abate the fury of such high colours and fright them into a pleasing paleness call to your assistance the following Receipts As to the general cure you are to abstain from wine except it be very well qualified as also from all meats which heat the blood as those which are sharp or spicy or are easie to be corrupted in the stomack as milk cheese c. use in your broths lettuce spinage purslain sorrel and the like Blood-letting is exceeding good chiefly in the median vein in both the arms some dayes being interposed then in the vein of the forehead afterwards in the neck apply cupping-glasses to the shoulders and neck especially under the chin and sometimes to the thighs and leggs you may also apply leeches to the cheeks and chin to evacuate the blood that is amassed under the skin For more particular remedies if the malady be inveterate begin with Emolients digestives and things that do attenuate not only to rarifie the skin but also to subtilize the humor For if at first you use cold things and repercussives you will condense the skin through which the humors ought to exhale and impact the humor into the substance of the flesh and make it the more contumacious to be dissolved whereby the complexion is made more black and swarthy Prepare then a Decoction of figgs raisins of the Sun washed and ston'd oatmeal soap french barley the leaves of pellitory of the wall camomil mallows violets receive the fume of this Decoction up into the face covering the face and neck with a napkin to keep the fume from dissipating continue this three or four times that the face may be supple and the skin fitted to receive the vertue of your medicines the better Instead of this Decoction you may spread on the visage the warm blood of a pigeon pullet or capon drawn newly from under their wings let the blood lay on all night in the morning wash it off with warm water or the decoction of soap oatmeal or the like Or else in the place of these remedies Take fresh flesh of a neck of beef veal or mutton cut two or three thin slices lay them on the red places and change them often or else they will stink And in case you have no fresh flesh you may take slices of stale put them on the coals and so apply them warm to the redness The next morning wash the face with fine rags dipt in the forementioned decoction When you find that those remedies do something mitigate the fiery colour of your face and asswage the pimples you may proceed to other medicines that have vertue to repercuss the thin and subtle blood and bind the skin that it may not be so apt to receive such noxious vapours nor long retain them Such are these that follow Take a pint of rose water put it into a glasse and steep therein camphire and sulphure finely powdred of each one ounce myrrhe and frankincense of each half an ounce set it in the sun twelve or fifteen dayes Often wash the face with water Take Brimstone one ounce ceruse washed two drams juyce of limmons half a pint juyce of onyons two ounces cuttle bones and camphire of each one dram pound what is to be pounded and incorporate your pouders with your juyces anoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash it off with the decoction of bran Take the roots of the greater and lesser serpentary of each one ounce bruise them boile them with as much water of plantane roses water lillies and vinegar as will suffice to bring them to a mash then beat them in a mortar with oyle of roses two ounces adding the finest pouder of burnt oyster shells one dram and a half camfre one scruple Venetian ceruse two drams salt powdred brimstone of each one dram juyce of citrons one ounce make all these into a Liniment for your use Take litharge of gold sulphure viue of each
it off with warme water Take what quantity you please of juice of limmons put it into a glasse bottle adde thereto fine sugar and borace pounded set it in the Sun eight days shake it well together once a day after use it Or fill a thick strong glass bottle with rosemary flowers bury it half a yeare in a dunghil having stopt it close in that time the flowers will be turned to water wash the face therewith it is exceeding good against the freckles Take calcin'd tartar one pound mastick one ounce camphre half an ounce incorporate them with the whites of eggs and apply it where it is needfull Beat radish seed and dragon roots together put them in aqua vitae and set them in the Sun eight days together then distil them in a Limbeck and you shall draw a water admirable against all spots in the face Boile litharge in white wine vinegar till half be consumed then streine the vinegar take a little thereof mix it with an equall quantity of oile of tartar it will be as white as milk bath the freckles therewith Wash the face with sope and warme water then moisten the freckles with oile of tartar or oile of allum continue this for some weeks Beate as much sandarack with hony as will make it pretty thick apply it to the freckles keep it on so long till it scorch the skin then dissolve galbanum with a little nitre in vinegar and bath therewith And when any of these medicines offend the skin wash it with warme water or anoint with oile of roses or oile of sweet almonds CHAP. III. To whiten a tan'd visage and to keep the face from Sunburn AMber haird Hyperion spying faces to dawn with a world of dazeling features that might rob him of his Persian votives or withdraw the Heliotrope from its wonted homage to secure his brightnesse from being eclips'd by such teeming beauties clouds them in the shadie covertures of night while he makes day to all the world beside but to make your beams of beauty break through such sable curtaines take these prescriptions following White bryony water two drams rose water one ounce the white of one egge oile of tartar two drams verjuice one ounce mix them and wash the face therewith then dip a linnen cloth in it and lay it to the face all night Mix ceruse with oile of mirtle and white wine bath the face therewith going to bed Or take rose water two ounces womans milke one ounce pounded myrthe two drams the white of an egge beate them together going to bed wash the tann'd places with it Make pomatum with oile of sweet almonds wax and camfre Else take the roots of Sowbread scrape them presse out the juice boile it to the consistence of hony then use it to anoint the face Or mix the powder of burnt cuttle bones with hony apply it in forme of an unguent to the face To keep the face from Sunburn you had best wash with water drawn from the whites of eggs or juice of soure grapes or annoint the visage with a liniment made of powdred Mastick and oile omphacine Or take goats suet well washed in cleare water beat it in a mortar with rose water strein it through a thick cloth then take oile of sweet almonds one ounce sugar candy two drams camfre half a dram boile them all together stirring them continually that they may be white when it hath boiled a pretty while put it into a glass for your use If you goe abroad in the Sun or Wind anoint the face with it and 't will preserve your complexion Take pepper wort roots of basill serpentary the less of each three ounces boile them in a quart of water make a liniment to apply to the face for an houre then take it off and wash with warme water it is exceeding good to cleare the face from Sunburn Briony roots boiled in oile or cuttle bones burnt and mixt with hony if they are applyed have the same effects CHAP. IV. To remove running Tettars or spreading Pustules TEttars which some call Ringworms are the noxious vermine that greatly damage beauties paradise and crap its fairest flowers defacing quite the lillies and roses that use to flourish with a lovely grace in the fruitful soile of a comely cheek To secure your faces flowry Elysium from such wasteful insects Take vinegar of Squills two ounces aloes powdred two drams juyce of dock roots oyle of tartar of each half an ounce incorporate them together in form of an oyntment then apply it Make a Decoction of dock roots mallows fengreek in strong vinegar and use it then apply leeches or make small scarifications that some quantity of blood may issue forth then anoint the place with the oyle of tartar or apply dock roots steept in vinegar Take sublimate prepared three grains put it to half a pint of water put it in a glasse into a boyling pot till the sublimate dissolve Keep the water as a choice experiment for any spreading tettar or pustule Take Tartar two drams burnt allum three drams powder and incorporate them with the whites of eggs for an ointment Or Take sulphur vive two drams and a half nettle seed one dram camfre half a dram fresh butter two ounces make an ointment wash it in rose water then use it Take plantane water two ounces white vitriol two drams and a half burnt allum one dram mix them to bath your tetters or pimples withal Or else Take grains of paradice half a dram cloves gum tragaganth ginger of each half an ounce brimstone six drams reduce all to a fine powder to be workt well together with lard to make an ointment CHAP. V. How to help the Complexion when it is marr'd with blue and congealed blood or black and blue proceeding from a stroak or bruise THere often happens an effusion of the blood betwixt the flesh and the skin where it stayes and is congeal'd to the great disadvantage of the face The cause of this distemper may be either internal as corrupted blood in the body or external as a cold chilling air stroak or fall If the cause be internal powder rubarb steep it some dayes in strong vinegar and bath the face therewith Or chew in the morning fasting cummin or mustard seed or calamus aromaticus and anoint the face with it Turneps boyld in honey aloes mixt with honey or honey incorporated with the ashes of burnt garlick are exceeding good in this case When this blewness of the visage proceeds from cold there is nothing better than to chafe the face often with the hand or a course cloth or else which is more effectual you may use for a Fomentation aqua vitae warm'd If after a fall or bruise the face or any other part remain blewish it will be convenient to discusse the congeal'd blood which may conveniently be done thus Take the roots of marsh mallows of the great and lesser serpentary of white lillies wash them
in winter make a bag of the thickest cloth you can procure put the former steeped Talque into the bag with the hardest river flints let the bag when close tyed be rubbed together by two men till the talque be exceeding finely powdred then take it out and put it into a earthen pot that is not glaz'd with a narrow mouth stop the vessel and biud it well about with strong wire then put it into a reverberatory for the space of 12 houres then take it from the fire by degrees when it is cool powder it with as much speed as you can least it draw and take in the aire on a marble then put it into a bag with a hook at bottome whereon to hang a vessel to receive the liquor then hang the bag with such a vessel in a deep well about a fathome from the water for the space of 30 or 40 days until the humidity begins to drop then take it up and put it in some moist place where neither aire nor wind comes leave it hanging til all the moisture be dreind away the liquor which you receive is the water of Talque by the same meanes you may make oile of Talque if you put that which remaines in the bag into a Retort giving fire to it by degrees till you draw all the oile forth this is the most usuall and experienc't way of preparing water or oile of Talque Others prescribe this method Take of the best talque what quantity you please slice it into thin leaves then calcine it thus take sulphur finely powdred make one strewing of it in a crucible then put a laying of talque after cover it with more sulphur using this method till you have put in what quantity you please and remembring there be more talque then sulphur and that it be alwaies in the middle of the sulphur cover the crucible lute it well and bind it about with wyre set the crucible in a strong fire for six hours afterward pound it and passe it through a searce then wash it well in hot water till the water be fresh then pour of the water by inclination and leave the Talque to dry when it is dry put it again into a crucible and put it to the fire for other twelve hours Next Take one pound of this Talque sal armoniack two ounces pouder them carefully together put them in a moist place and leave them there till they dissolve into a water when it is dissolved separate the two waters by a gentle inclination taking heed you do not mix the waters The water which is clear and uppermost is the water of sal armoniack that which is at bottom is the water of Talque which is as white as pearl filtre it and keep it carefully in a glass it makes the face as white as snow and may be used by a Princess Take sweet almonds blanched four pound sandarach mastick ceruse sulphur vive of each two ounces gum tragaganth one ounce whites of eggs three ounces beat them together and leave them to macerate seven or eight dayes beating them together once a day then heat them till they begin to smoke after press them and you shall have â—n oyle excellent good to beautifie the face Or else going to bed chew five or six peel'd almonds then put them in a linnen cloth and bath the face therewith Or Take oyle of tartar mingle it with distilled vinegar in the palm of the hand adding a little camphre and use it to bath the face Dissolve in fair water Ceruse one pound strein it through a thick cloth leave that which is streined in a vessel one night till the Ceruse be setled to the bottom pour off the water and dry the Ceruse in the Sun covering it with a cloth that it loose not its whiteness when it is dry adde thereto a like quantity of starch and gum dragant keep the mixture and when you would use it mix it with a little Womans or Asses milk wash your face therewith going to bed in the morning wash with water wherein wheat flower hath been boiled continue this twelve or fifteen dayes Ceruse since it is so excellent to whiten and clear the face and seeing there are sundry sorts of it I will here give a direction or two for their several preparations Ceruse of Wheat is made thus Take what quantity you please of the finest french Wheat steep it in fair water five or six dayes till it burst then strein it and beat it a little then strein it again in other clean water then strein it again thorow a cloth when it has stood a little and the water is something clear pour off that water and pour on another beat it together a long time strein the juyce into more water then set it in the Sun till the water be clear then pour off the water gently and to the sediment which remains in the bottom adde more water do this continuing the change of water morning and evening for six dayes together keeping the vessel continually covered and in the day time setting it in the Sun on the seventh day pour off the water by a gentle inclination setting that which remains in the bottom to dry in the Sun after it is dryed pouder it finely and keep it close stopt in a glass This Ceruse is of singular vertue to whiten clear and pollish the skin Tuke then one ounce of this Ceruse white Corral and Borace of each half a dram Nitre one scruple reduce them all to a very fine pouder and when you would use it dissolve one part thereof in rosewater with camphre and musk bath your face with it going to bed in the morning wash with water and the crum of white bread The Ceruse of the roots of either of the Serpentaries is thus prepared Take the roots in July or August slit them into little round slices put them on a string some distance one from the other and so dry them in the Sun after pouder them as fine as possible then sift the pouder and mingle it with fair water strein it through a fine cloth so often till the whole substance of the root pass through the streiner then set the thickned water in the Sun ten or twelve dayes in which time you are to let it stand cover'd twelve hours without medling with it that the root may settle to the bottom then pour the water off gently and put in clear stirring it up and down that the water and the pouder of the root may mix together change the water after the same manner twice a day during the said ten dayes at last pour off the water without putting in more and leave the Ceruse to dry in the Sun when it is dry pouder and incorporate it with rosewater camphorated and sented with musk as much as will suffice to make it into small balls which you most dry in the Sun and keep in a glass vessel When you would use them
dissolve them in rosewater to wash your face withal at night the next morning wash with water of Lillies This Ceruse is exceeding good to take away all stains spots and freckles from the face After the same manner is made the Ceruse of the roots of Briony wild Cucumers Water lillies Thus much concerning the preparation of Ceruses Take litharge of silver and gold of each one dram put them into strong white Wine vinegar adding camfre and allum of each half a scruple musk and cloves to sent the Composition boyle all in a little vinegar then filtre and keep it then boyle a little rock allum in water keep it a part for your use mingle these two waters together and bath the face neck or breasts Take Camfre one dram allum borace two drams oyle of tartar one ounce all being finely poudred boyle them in two quarts of rosewater strein and keep it 'T is excellent to whiten the face neck or breasts Take bitter Almonds peeled one pound and a half the whites of thirty eggs with their shells the tender branch of a fig-tree cut into small bits incorporate them together and distil them in a glass alembick over a gentle fire adde to the water which you draw sugar candy borace and camphre of each one ounce olibanum two ounces pounded all small then still them again and preserve the water that you draw as a secret to beautifie either the face or breasts CHAP. X. How to fasten the Hair and keep it from falling off HAir Ladies is the silken fringe to Beauties bed or if you will the slender sleaves that nature spins for Cupid thereof to weave his heart-surprising nets if once it fails that amorous god looses a considerable part of his artillery and after never acts but weakly for ye So that it concerns ye who triumph over intangled Captiveâ— to tender its preservation You may keep that you already have a fast Friend to you thus Take myrtle berries gals emblick myrobalans of each a like quantity boil them in oyle of roses It is a Receipt as old as Galen but as good as most if it doth not succeed use the next Take myrrhe pine bark myrtle leaves maiden hair pound them together very well then adde a double quantity of labdanum pounded put all into white Wine and oyle of Radish seed anoint the head very well with it going to bed next morning wash it with this bath Sorrel leaves maiden hair emblick myrobalans boyle them in water and adde a little pounded myrrhe it very much fastens the hair Or else Take the leaves of Willow Plantane rock Allum boyle them in water adding a little poudred Tutty and Myrrhe make a bath and wash therewith Take the juyce of the youngest Myrtle leaves two ounces juyce of wild Olives four ounces red Roses dryed two ounces Roman Wormwood two drams boyle all these in a quart of white Wine till half be consumed then strein it and adde a little poudred labdanum and use it to wash the head The golden water drawn from hony in a glasse still is much commended Or take the leaves and roots of vervaine put them into oile of green grapes set them in the sun many daies then streine it and keep it for your use Take an equall quantity of labdanum wormwood juniper berries nigella seeds vervaine bind them up in a linnen cloth and macerate them five daies in oile there is nothing better to fasten the haire or to make haire grow CHAP. XI Remedies for the want of haire how to make it grow on any bald place or there where it never came before IF some disaster Ladies have trod too hard on your heads kild those pleasant plants that use to flourish there you may againe attire them with their native beauty and repaire all former ruines thus Take marsh mallow seed boile it in sallet oile ' til it become thick with this oile anoint the head 6 or 7 times in an houre going to bed when that is done take what quantitie you please of the same seed boile it wel with water and wash the head therewith it makes the haire come exceeding thick the same effects hath this which follows Boile in white wine oile of mastick tree mirtle and labdanum of each two ounces maiden haire macerated two days in the same wine four ounces set them over the fire til the wine be evaporated after apply it as an ointment to the head Nigella romana burnt incorporated with hony Bees and Wasps burnt and incorporated with oile gals and the ashes of hasel nuts mixt with hony the kernels of peaches pounded and boiled in vinegar the cinders of cantharides southernwhod maidenhaire lilly roots mixt with bears greace are exceeding good for those that have but thin haire Take Euphorbium laurell berries rocket seed of each two drams sulphur vive white hellebore burnt of each halfe a scruple make a linement with wax dissolv'd in oile of laurel if applyed it will soon supply you with haire If you would cause haire to grow on any bald place do thus Pound elme roots boile them in water til there remaine a slimy scum on top gather that for your use then rub the bald place with a cloth til it look red and after anoint it with that scum Or take pumice stone beaten exceeding fine rub the skin therewith so long as you can endure it then bath it with vinegar mixt with an equall quantity of nitre sal armoniack sulphur vive your own experience will approve it Take barly bread and salt role them up in parchment burne them in a crucible and reduce them to a pouder which make into an ointment with bears grease It is a secret of nature Or take cantharides fling away the head and feet rub them on the bald place and so leave them blisters will rise first and then haire CHAP. XII How to take away haire and keep it from growing againe WHen the Lillies and Roses of your Faces Elysium are oretopt by the hastie growth of superfluous excrescencies you may secure the glorious hue of your beauties pride and eradicate those aspiring weeds that disturb you by taking Quicke lime four ounces auripigmentum one ounce and a half Florentine iris root one ounce sulphur nitre of each half an ounce lye made with the ashes of bean stalks one quart mix all together and boile it so long in a glaz'd earthen pot till putting a pen therein all the feathers peel off then add half an ounce of the oile of spike or any other perfume and from what part of the body soever you are minded to take away the haire anoint it with this unguent and in a quarter of an hour you shall find the effects but remember when the haire fals away to anoint with oile of roses Take Orpiment and quick lime of each an ounce and a half the seeds of fleawort and henbane of each half an ounce sublimate two drams ivie gum one dram and a half opium one
scruple pound all small and steep them in as much common lye as may cover them four fingers then boile them as the former Take quick lime half a pound steep it in common lye or urine adde to it half an ounce of orpiment boile it to the consistence of a sirrup As for the use of the foregoing medicines you are to foment the place with warme water a little before you apply them a quarter of an hour after wash with hot water and when the haire is taken away anoint the place with some cooling oile as oleum rosat oile of henbane the ointment of Rhasis camphorated After that the haire is taken from any part if you would keep it from growing againe take the gall of a Hedghog the ashes of muscle shels burnt mix them with bats blood and use it as an ointment Or else bats blood the juice of ivy and radish roots goats gall mix and use them or take opium and henbane finely beaten mix them with vinegar so anoint therewith any of these will keep the haire from ever growing the same effects have these following Take the blood of Frogs terra sigillata sumach roses of each as much as shall be sufficient beat them together and steep them in the juice of nightshade for four twenty hours then distil them wash with the water the depilated places Take ivie gum emmets eggs orpiment colophonie of each one ounce leeches burnt half an ounce grind and mingle them with frogs blood and make an ointment Take juice of henbane sanguis draconis gum arab frankincense of each three drams juice of nightshade as much as will suffice to make it into an ointment CHAP. XIII How to make the haire Curle TWining curls are now much the mode and none thought paragons for Beauty save those whose gracefull locks do reach the breasts and make spectators think those ivory globes of Venus are upheld by the freindly aid of their crispie twirls If any affect the fashion they may serve themselves with these directions so advantagiously that none shall desire to be free that may have the glory to be fetter'd with their curled haire Take gall nutts filings of steel cipresse leaves quince seeds as much as you please quick lime half as much as either of the first steep them in water wherein rye hath been boiled let it stand one day then boile it to the thickness of hony anoint the haire therewith and curle it up going to bed Boile salt in water gather the scum thereof mix it with myrrhe it is marvelous in curling the haire Some to make their haire curle wind it up going to bed upon a hot Tabacco pipe or iron Others dissolve gum arabick or mouth glew in water moistning the haire with it afterward they let it dry Some instead thereof use the white of an egge or else beare or ale But to give you farther better directions first rub the haire well with lye or urine that so it may be washt very clean then take 20 oak gals maiden haire two ounces and as much salt water boiled to the consistence of hony worke them all well together and for two days anoint the haire therewith on the third wash it with this following Bath Boile firn roots beet leaves of each a like quantity so long in water till a third part of the water be consum'd then take it from the fire put in a little gum arabick and when it is cool use it Take oile of fenugreek oile of white henbane mix therewith mirrh and gum arabick and use it for an ointment Or take beets and mirtle a like quantity dry them in the shade powder them then mingle one ounce of the powder with two ounces of oile olive and use it as the other Take mallow roots seeds of flax and psyllium boile them a long time together strein it and wash the haire therewith Or make lye with oake ashes boile therein nutgals roots of dane wort maiden haire afterwards dissolve therein a little litharge bole armeniake gum dragant wash the haire with it when it is dryed in anoint with oile of mirtle CHAP. XIV To make the Haire Lank and flag THE bushie forrest of the head is sometimes labarinth'd with mazie and rude maeanders while the locks themselves retreat in such recoiling twirls as if they rook the breasts for a paire of snowie mountaines and were afraid their tender tops should touch them they may be forc'd to extend themselves to a pleasing length if you follow these prescriptions Take oile of lillies oile of roses of each one ounce oile of violets two ounces green marsh mallows finely beaten three ounces boile them altogether anoint the haire throughly therewith combing it afterward very well Take borage mallows beat them small and work them well together with common oile let them stand together in a warme place a day a night next morning put them in an alimbeck distil them ore a gentle fire the water that you draw from them keeps the haire from frisling and makes it flag and smooth Take oile of roses four ounces worke it well together in a great bottle with an equall quantity of faire spring water then anoint the haire twice a day therewith CHAP. XV. To lengthen the Haire HAire though an excrement is yet carefully cherisht as a plant of value for most fancye it to be the microcosmical flax whereof Cupid twists his bow-strings To see it I confesse in the female sex of a more then usual length is a pleasing spectacle and if therebe any Lady that desire it she may by these means efffect her wishes Use first this unguent take a wild gourd hollow it within fill it with oile of laurel orpiment henbane leaves boile it over the fire and anoint therewith then use once a week this bath following Take agrimony elm bark vervaine boile all in a sufficient quantity of water till the third part of the water be consum'd and wash therewith while it is warme Take the hardest and stiffest hony boile it for some while over the fire into three pound of this hony while it is over the fire breake 20 eggs take them out when they are hard and put in so many more at last take onely the yolks of the eggs and beat them with the hony into a past then put them into an alembick and with a gentle heat draw from thence a liquor to wash the haire withall if you would increase its length Take lavender white saunders cardamoms costus of each one ounce in the spring time steep all these for 24 houres in a pint and a half of the best white wine then set it on the fire that you may receive the vapour of the decoction up into the haire afterward wash the head with it Take old white lard three pound mince and beat it small till it come to a past then distill it in a limbick and keep the water that arises from it to anoint the haire it will make
bind it over the eyes going to bed and often wash them with cold water and salt CHAP. XXIV To make the Lips ruddie PAleness when once it affects the lips makes the world believe that those rubie portals of the mouth have lost their varnish by being too much knockt at Those Ladies whose lips lye under such a suspicion may beutifie them witha corall complexion thus Take the juice of briony wild cucumers reeds rose water of each one ounce clarified hony four ounces boile all together strein it and keep it in a glasse it is exceeding good to anoint the lips and gives them a ruddie and vermilion hue Take the shavings of your deepest coloured brasil three ounces make them into a very fine powder steep it three daies in three pints of faire spring water then adde fix drams of icthyocolla or fish glew bruised and minc'd let it stand til it becomes soft and dissolves then set it over the fire againe and adde grana tinctoria chermes berries foure ounces rock allum one ounce borace three drams boile all these til half be consumed streine it and in a glasse vessel keep it close stopt eight daies before you use it It gives a very amiable redness to pale or blue parts whether lips or cheeks that which you put on at one time will last 8 daies in which time it will not be done off either by sweat or water Take fine filings of brazil two ounces madder one ounce Chermes berries half an ounce infuse them in strong white wine the space of four dayes then adde half an ounce of rock allum and boile altogether to a consumption of half filtre it and keep it for your use It is of very great efficacy to vermilionize either the lips or cheeks Of the like virtue is that which follows Take rock allum fish glue of each one ounce shavings of brasil two ounces steep all three daies in faire water then boile them strein them and put them in a glass to use at your pleasure It will make any pale or blewish part to be very faire and lively ruddie CHAP. XXV How to smooth the Lips when they are rough and chapt WHen those pretty sister Rubies have been kist too hard either by a chilly and cold mouth'd Boreas or a scorching and hot lipt Sol to repaire the breaches such rude embraces make on their cherrie Skins use these things following Ladies they will make them seem such smooth and blushing wax as Cupid will think himself honourd to imprint his kisses on Take Stags suet two pound fresh lard six ounces wash them often in white wine then worke them well together till all the white wine be pressed out then put it into an earthen glazed vessel adding nardus Indicus three graines cloves half an ounce nutmegs two drams seven or eight pippins pard cord and slic'd steep all these one whole day in a sufficient quantity of rose water then keeping it covered set it over a gentle fire stirring it up and down with a woden spatula till all the rose water be evaporated strein it through a thick cloth into a clean vessel half full of rose water let it stand till the suet be cold and swim on the top of the water then put it againe into an earthen pot adding oile of sweet almonds six ounces Virgins wax four ounces melt all these over the fire strein it againe into rose water through a thick cloth let it as before stand till it is cold then take that off which swims on the top of the rose water and wash it well in some sented water till it be as white as snow then keep it for your use in a dry place that it do not mould Some adde to this pomatum coral finely powdred to make it the more drying others adde juice of alkanet to give it a vermilion colour there is nothing better then this for any chaps whatever Make an ointment of oile of roses and a little wax anoint the lips therewith or champ a little gum tragagant in your mouth and afterward moisten your lips with your tongue Take oile of violets mucilage of quince seeds hens fat of each one ounce litharge and gum dragant of each one dram make them into an ointment and apply it to the lips All fats and marrows are very good Take the mucilage of quince seeds oile of mastick of each one ounce goose fat beef marrow of each half an ounce a little new white wine make these up into an ointment with as much wax as shall suffice Or take a fine linnen ragg dip it in the juice of housleek and apply it to the lips Michael Nostredame a Frenchman much commends cotton dipt in common oile and laid to the navel going to bed It is an easie thing and soon tryed CHAP. XXVI Remedies for such vices as are incident to the Nose BEauty is a nice cleanly Dame that loves to have the nose though but the sink to convey filth from the braine kept neat and handsome as well as the other parts which are designd for more honourable uses Stanch and snivell do very much impaire the credit of this patt The stanch of the nostrils proceeds sometimes from a fool stomack for if the kitchin be nastie the chimny seldome sinels well if this be the cause you must have recourse to the Physitian But sometimes the fault is in the nose it self as when it is affected with some fore or ulcer then you may follow this method Take Calamus Aromaticus damask roses galingale lavender reduce all into a fine powder then sift it and snuff it up into the nostrils Or take one scruple of London Theriacle dissolve it in white wine and draw it severall mornings up into the nose Take Roses Cloves lignum aloes of each two drams Spicknard one dram Musk two graines pouder what is to be poudred and make them all into a past with the best white wine and so make them into little pils when you would use them dissolve one in a little rose water and drop it into the nostrils but first wash the nose well with white wine wherein roses and lavander have been boiled this will both cure the distemper cause a sweet breath If the nose be to much charged with snivell the frequent use of gentle clysters and vomits is very good Or else anoint the head with some heating oile if it be a cold distillation and with a cooling oile if it be a hot When you go to bed rub the feet with pitch dissolv'd in oile and wash the nose in wine wherein put a little poudred myrrhe By the use of these things you may sufficiently purge the dregs which distil from the beake of your dropping Alembick CHAP. XXVII How to fasten cleanse and preserve the Teeth LEast the Microcosme might be supprized by any treacherous invader the teeth are set as ivory Portcullis's to guard its entrance Or rather Nature hath made the sharpset teeth as so many mincing knives to
belong to her kitchin the Stomack If they happen through any mischance to be rusted over the best way to scour them will be every morning to rub the teeth with poudred Tartar after wash them with white Wine if it be in the spring or with cold water if it be in the summer Take rock Allum Salt Nitre of each four ounces pound and dissolve them in Vinegar then distil them to one ounce of this water adde juyce of limmons three ounces and rub the teeth therewith Take rock Allum burnt poudred coral Sanguis draconis Pumice stone pouder them all pretty fine and rub the teeth therewith Or Take white Coral Cuttle bone white Tartar dryed roots of Florentine iris of each a like quantity a little burnt Allum Make of them all a fine pouder and keep it dry to rub the teeth Take calein'd Salt three drams Galingale two drams Hartshorne burnt four drams flowers of Schoenanthum and Roses dryed one dram make them into a Pouder to rub the teeth with If the teeth be very black you may touch them slightly with oyle of Sulphure or Vitriol but not too often When the teeth are loose your best way to fasten them will be to Take Galls Pomegranate flowers Cyperus Roses Sumach a like quantity of each Take half the quantity of these in rock Allum pouder all and rub the teeth and gums therewith Or else Take Galls one ounce Myrrhe half an ounce Pomegranate bark one scruple boyle them in vinegar and make a Gargarisme to wash the mouth Some dissolve Allum in vinegar to wash the mouth withal To keep the teeth from rotting Take calcin'd Hartshorne cypress leaves of each one dram Cinkfoyle roots two drams Maiden hair burnt one dram Rose leaves a dram and a half bring all into a pouder and use it as a Dentifrice to rub the teeth with It makes them white and keeps them sound If the teeth are already rotten and corroded Take Opium Myrrhe Storax of each one dram white Pepper Galbanum Saffron of each half a dram beat them together and apply them to the corroded tooth Or Take Pepper Pellitory of Spain juyce of Spurge Galbanum of each a like mix altogether and put it into the rotten tooth Boyle Sage leaves in wine wash the teeth well therewith then Take black Hellebore mix it with Honey and put it into the hollow tooth Others only put burnt Allum into it and find much good by it CHAP. XXVIII To Sweeten the Breath WHen your breath Ladies by reason of exulcerated Lungs or rotten Teeth sends forth a stanch more noysome then old Saturns sweaty socks make your application to these following medicines and you shall embalm the air with so rare a sent that all the aromatick fumes of Flora's garden shall never enrich it with a more delicious sweetness Take Cloves Nutmegs Cinnamon of each one ounce Mace sweet Saunders of both half an ounce Wood of Aloes an ounce and a half Musk half a dram after you have poudred these make them up with rose-Rosewater Sugar and gum Tragant into small bullets to hold in the mouth Take wood of Aloes Galingale Myrtle leaves three sorts of Myrabolans prepared Cinnamon Mace Pepper Ginger Nutmegs Cardamoms Laurel berries of each two drams Musk Amber Camfre of each half a dram Sugar two ounces make all into a pouder and take one dram thereof in a morning it is exceeding good to strengthen the Stomack and sweeten the breath Or else Take gum Tragant one ounce Sanguis Draconis two drams sleep them two dayes in Rosewater then put them into a mortar adding an ounce of Sugar Starch half an ounce Musk dissolved in Rosewater one scruple pound them well then mix them together with a Spatula and make them up into little pellets as big as barley corns dry them and after that they are thoroughly dryed put one now and then into your mouth and let it dissolve Take Cinnamon half an ounce cloves two drams nutmegs mace citron pill of each one dram Florentine iris the lesser galingale of each half a dram yellow Saunders wood of Aloes of each one scruple ambergreece musk of each half a scruple steep them when they are poudred in a quart of the best Malmsey Wine ten or twelve dayes then strein it through a woollen cloth afterward put it into a Bottle and keep it close stopt for your use Take a spoonful or two of it in the morning fasting it sweetens the breath exceedingly and strengthens the heart and stomack If the breath be infected by rotten teeth Take the best Styrax two drams sweet Asa one dram the best iris root half a dram gallia moschata yellow saunders of each one scruple Distil'd oyle of Roses half a scruple mix them and with a little gum tragant dissolved in cinnamon water make a mass out of which you may form little long pills to put into the hollow teeth When the breath smells of Garlick Onyons or any thing else that is eaten Take coriander seeds or zedoary chew them in the mouth and drink a good draught of Wine after it will take away the sent of any thing that was eaten before The same effect hath Mint if it be chewed in the mouth Fennel seeds or Galingale champt after the drinking of Wine takes away the smell of the Wine so do sour Apples and Quinces CHAP. XXIX How to beautifie the Neck NOthing more commends the Neck for comely than to be white and smooth for 't is a part usually exposed to sight and ought to represent a Pillar of pollisht ivory that supports the head with a lustre becoming that place where the understanding seats his throne It is usually impaird by Kernels Kings evil hard Tumours and Swellings For Kernels which usually breed in those places where the emunctuaries of the nobler parts are if they come in the neck after the body hath been purged and the Cephalicke veine opened in the arm apply mollifying and discussive Fomentations with spunges dipt in strong vinegar then apply a Plaister of Oxycroceum adding a little gum ammoniac bdellium sagapenum opoponax pouder of euphorbium For the Cure of the Kings evil the pouder of Sarsaparilla drunk to the quantity of half a dram for forty dayes morning and evening in white Wine availes marvellously The like operation have all your nitrous and vitriolick waters for an external Plaister you may use Emplastrum divinum In Autumne Take the root of Scrofulary beat it together with fresh butter put it into an earthen vessel well covered in a moist place leave it so fifteen dayes then melt the butter over a gentle fire strein it and use it to anoint the place Take a live Mole skin'd three or four Serpents skins the roots of Scrofulary Solomons seal Briony wild Cucumers of each three ounces boyl them together in an equal part of wine and water so long till the liquor be evaporated adde at last a little white VVine vinegar first anoint the place with two spunges dipt
dissolve both that and the ambergreece in rose water then mix them with the former Composition Take of the former Trochisks of roses half an ounce the best labdanum two ounces Styrax Calam. Benjamin of each one ounce violets poudred one ounce amber and musk of each half a dram pouder what is to be poudred and work them well together into a paste out of which ye may make Pomanders of an excellent and durable sent If ye like a perfumed Composition to carry about with ye in a silver box ye cannot have a better than this Take your true Jasmine butter half an ounce essence of orange flowers essence of cinnamon oyle of orange peel oyle of nutmegs essence of roses of each half a scruple flowers of benjamin one scruple essence of musk amber and civet of each half a scruple all these ye must work well together in a cold and small marble mortar then put it into your box CHAP. II. Pouders for the Hair Linnen and Sweet Baggs IF after ye have used all hitherto commended ye meet with any that defies your charms and is obstinate do not yet despair Ladies for this Chapter teaches ye how ye shall tickle his nose and fetch him about with a pouder which will give ye so rich a sent that the roses and violets in all your cheeks shall not make ye half so sweet Take Florentine iris roots finely poudred one pound Benjamin four ounces Cloves the like quantity Storax two ounces pouder them all very fine and mix them together This ye may use to sent your hair-pouder withal adding about three ounces of this pouder to a pound of Starch sifted and pounded or else to a like quantity of Rice pouder of Post or French Beans being first pounded and then sifted Take Iris roots six ounces red Rose leaves poudred four ounces Cyperus half a dram Marjoram Cloves and Storax of each one ounce Benjamin yellow Saunders of each half an ounce Violets three drams Musk one dram If ye pouder them grâ—sly they may serve to put in sweet bags to lay amongst linnen but if ye pouder them small and seirce them through a seive ye may keep the grosser part for the former use and with the more fine ye may perfume your hair-pouders This ye may observe in your other pouders Take Iris roots three pound Cyperus roots Benjamin yellow Saunders lignum Rhodium Citron peel Storax Calam. Cloves Cinnamon pâ—re Labdanum of each one ounce sweet Marjoram twelve handfuls flowers of Roman Camomile and Rosemary leaves of sweet Musk Tyme and Savory of each two handfuls and a half the best Musk a quarter of an ounce Civet half so much Ambergreece half a dram let all be driven into a grosse pouder except the Amber Civet and Musk which must be finely poudred and afterward mixed This is an excellent pouder for Linnen and Bags it will endure sixteen years exceeding strong and is as good a Composition as any where you can meet with If ye mix a lesse proportion of Zibet Musk and Amber it cannot be expected to be so pleasant nor lasting Take from the Apothecaries common Iris roots poudred one pound calamus aromaticus two ounces roses four ounces coriander seeds two ounces lignum Aloe one ounce marjoram orange peels of each one ounce storax calam ten drams Labdanum six drams Trochisks of Roses two ounces Lavender four ounces Cloves two ounces Bay leaves half a dram galingale two drams mix all these and pouder them fine then adde musk and amber of each half a dram Take yellow Saunders one ounce calamus aromaticus a like quantity marjoram three drams the leaves of damask Roses and Violets poudred of each two drams Nutmegs and Cloves of each one dram musk half a dram all must be beaten into a grosse pouder then put it into silken bags to lay amongst Linnen Take the roots of Florentine Iris four ounces Violet flowers newly dâ—yed one ounce the root of round Cyperus two drams the true distilled oyle of Roses a dram and a half reduce all these into a very fine pouder This gives a very delightful and pleasing smell and is composed for their sakes who do not affect those strong Perfumes that are made with musk and Zibet Ye may put it in silken taffity bags to lay amongst linnen or else it may serve to strew on the hair or cloaths Take the pressings that which remains after the oyle is drawn forth of sweet and bitter Almonds of each four ounces the flower of French Barley and Lupins of each two ounces the roots of the best Iris pounded one ounce white Roses dryed Benjamin six drams salt of white Tartar whitest Chalk poudred Sperma Coeti of each half an ounce oyle of Rhodium one scruple of Cloves and Lavender half a scruple mix and make them into a pouder it gives the hands and skin an excellent odour makes them white and smooth if ye often rub it on them or use it to wash withal CHAP. III. Sweet Waters Oils and Essences SUch Ladies is the efficacie of these liquors that they 'l cherish rather then extinguish the flames of love they 'l put ye in so sweet a pickle that will make ye dainties shall sharpen the appetite of those that have no flomack to fall on a Ladie In a word the Pope and all his Conclave shall never do so many wonders with their holy water as you may do with these Take three pints of damask rose water malmsey half a pint the flowers of lavender and spike of each two ounces Florentine flower de Luis roots two drams nutmeg styrax Calam of each half a drum Infuse altogether for a fortnight in a close stopt bottle then distill them in a glasse alembick putting into the nose of it a scruple of musk as much amber greece Ye may mix this water with ordinary water for your hands or put some of it on a chafing dish of coals it will recreate the sences with a pleasing vapour An equall quantity of rose water and vinegar set on the coals does the same Take rose water four ounces cinnamon half an ounce yellow saunders poudred wood of aloes citron peel cloves of each half a scruple musk two grains mix them and they will make an excellent sented water Take oiles of musk one dram of cloves six graines of lillies of the vally three graines a little Virgin wax mix them together according to art and you shall have an odoriferous balsam that comforts the brain and revives the sâ—irits if ye anoint the nostrils with a little of it Take cloves cinnamon lavender nutmegs of each two drams oiles of cloves angelica spike lavender of each half a scruple wax four drams musk and amber of each three graines make them into a Balsame which will be of the same virtues with the former Take musk finely powdred a dram and a half put it into a glasse alembick poure thereon two quarts ' of rose water distil this over a gentle fire in B.
M. keep the water that ye draw from thence in a glass close stopped it may be serviceable to Queens and Empresses Take rose water three quarts assa dulcis poudred one ounce storax cloves wood of aloes camfre of each one dram musk and civet of each one scruple put all these into a glasse bottle close stopped which boile for the space of four houres in water then take the vessel wherein the water is and let it cool by degrees when it is cold streine it through a thick cloth then put it into another glasse vessel with fifteen graines of musk stop it close and set it in the Sun five dayes This perfume is so strong that if you mix one part thereof with twelve of water t wil be exceeding sweet Take Lavender flowers seven handfuls rosemary flowers clove July flowers orange peel of each three handfuls mint sage bay leaves elder flowers pennyroyall of each one handful cloves four ounces galingale nutmegs calamus aromaticus ginger cinnamon of each one ounce the best sented white wine three quarts powder all the spices and steep them in white wine put all into a glasse vessel stopped set it in the Sun eight dayes then put it into a glasse alembick with musk and distill all in B. M. Whether it be distilled or not it is a very sweet water excellent to wash the hands if ye mix one drop of it with a hundred of common water if it be applyed to the face it will free it from spots and freckles Take twenty graines of musk nutmegs cloves galingale spikenard grains of paradise mace cinnamon of each one ounce powder all very small and put them all into a pinte bottle of rose water let them steep four daies then pour on more rose water and after distil them in B. M. Or tye in a very fine rag musk and civet of each one dram put the bag into a three quart bottle fild with rose water expose it some days to the sun and ye shall have a rich sented water Take the purest Benzoin twelve ounces powder it very fine then take liquid styrax as much as will suffice to make it into a past when it is well mixt put it into a glasse alembick with a glasse head which ye must set in ashes or sifted sand and cement a receiver to the nose of the alembick with potters clay and the whites of egs very close that the vapours may have no vent forth which if they have they 'l be so strong that to most they 'l seem a stink rather then a perfume and to some persons may be very prejudicial when things are thus fitted kindle fire under it by degrees afterwards make the fire stronger at first ye shall draw a yellow water in a small quantity and worth little but presently after there will arise a vapour white as snow that will stick to the alembick when ye perceive that this rises no more then make the fire stronger but not too violent then will an oile ascend that is sweeter then the former and according to the colour of your oiles remember to change your receivers your last oile wil be an excellent Balsame But to make an exact perfume take an ounce and a half of the white snow oile of sweet almonds newly drawn four ounces melt both over a gentle fire stirring it continually with a spattula till the snowie part be dissolv'd and to give it a reddish colour put in a small piece of the root of alkanet so ye may have a perfume of an excellent sent Is you would have this oyl of a richer odour ye may dissolve therein one scruple of amber greece The black oile that remains at the bottome of your alembick is of a very strong smel but mixt with liquid styrax will make excellently sented pomanders if ye keep it by it self ye were best to keep it open that so the strong sent may evaporate CHAP. IV. Sweet Candles and Perfumes to burn YE are much beholding Ladies to ordinary Candles for when the sooty night would be-friend your Chamber-maids and make them seem as handsome as your selves that which discovers the cheat and makes ye be prefer'd before them is the friendly light those Candles lend they shew the difference betwixt a beauty and the foiles that usually attend her But if those common ones do ye much service these will more for if ye can once procure these ignes fatui to lead them ye may be sure to make fools of men and never fear but ye shall have servants after ye have got such enamouring flames Take Labdanum two ounces Storax one ounce Benjamin and Cloves of each half an ounce Mace a quarter of an ounce beat all to a pouder in a brasen mortar and when they are finely poudred set the mortar over a gentle fire and work them well together then take rose-rosewater eight spoonfuls dissolve therein musk and civet of each three grains afterward put it with the rest of the ingredients into the mortar when ye have mixed all throughly together make the whole mass into small long roles when they are dry you may put them into a silken bag and lay them amongst linnen or burn them in your chamber or any where else at your pleasure They are a pleasing Perfume and will last good seven years Take Labdanum two drams Styrax calam a dram and a half benjamin frankincense white amber wood of aloes red roses wood of cypress cinnamon cloves of each two scruples amber musk of each five grains make them up into small cakes with gum tragaganth dissolved in spirit of roses one whereof cast upon the coals sents your chamber with a delightful vapour Take Labdanum one ounce and a half dryed charcoal made of willow one ounce myrrhe wood of aloes styrax calam of each one ounce and a half amber musk of each seven grains dissolve half an ounce of gum tragant in rosewater with a little spirit of wine and make them up into roles like small candles Take gum styrax calam benjamin of each equal quantities dissolve them in the best rosewater as soon as they are dissolved strein them hard thorough a thick cloth afterwards dry them and pouder them and keep the pouder for your use Take of this pouder thus prepared one ounce the weightiest wood of aloes poudred two drams red roses dryed ambergreece of each one dram zibet musk of each half a dram sweet balsame of Perâ— oyle of Rhodium of each one scruple ivory burnt till it be black as much as will suffice powder what is to be powdred then mix all with rose water and work them together into a kind of black paste make it into small bals which you must wrap in rose leaves and dry them in the shade then keep them well stopt in glasses This is a perfume for Persons of quality One or two of them cast upon coals or put into a quantity of rose water that is set over the coals will fill the room with a ravishing and coelestiall vapour that refreshes the braine and vitall spirits and corrects the malignity of any contagious aire Take Styrax calam prepared as before benzoin of each half an ounce your best wood of aloes two drams Zibet that is not adulterate one dram Gallia moscata one scruple oile of roses and of cloves of each half a scruple mix them according to art and with damask rose water make them into little bals They are of the same virtue with the former and used in the same manner CHAP. V. How to perfume Gloves TO adde the roses sweetness to the lillied loveliness of your snowie hands sent your gloves with these perfumes and they who take ye by the hand shall find all pleasures graspt in a handfull wherein all ravishing objects are that can convey those charming delights to the admiring fancy that both please the sight and feast the other senses too First then perfume your gloves thus Take a pair of smooth new Cordavan gloves wash them well for two or three daies once a day in good white wine pressing them well and smoothing them after every washing after the last washing when they are almost dry wash them in rose water wherein musk hath been dissolved let them lye in that water for one day then pull one of the gloves on your hand and with your other hand smooth and dry it then do the same to the other glove When this is done steep in water for four or five daies four ounces of gum tragagant the whitest you can get musk amber dryed marjoram of each one scruple boil them gently altogether and in the boiling add half a scruple of Zibet put these into a coverd vessel till they are cold then chaff and rub it well into the gloves afterward lay them in some place to dry Or wash those gloves ye intend to perfume first well in white wine then dry them in the shade after wash them in a pint of rose water sented with oile of cloves jasmine nutmegs labdanum of each half a scruple then take musk zibet ambergreece of each five graines beat them together in a mortar with a little oile of spike and mucilage of gum tragagant dissolv'd in rose water chaff this composition into the washt gloves before the fire FINIS
and love not Potions you may use these following Pills Take Citrine mirabolans rubarb of each half a dram aloes washt in the decoction of sena one scruple make them up into Pills with syrup of Fumitory then anoint your self going to bed with this oyntment Take Brimstone an ounce and a half salt and sallad oyle one ounce grind the salt and sulphur exceeding small mix them with the oyle and when you go to bed use it for three or four nights only chafing it very well into the palms of the hands then draw on a pair of gloves and keep them on all night it will cure all itch and scabs throughout the body Take as much mans urine as will serve to bath the diseased up to the knees add thereto charecoal of oak poudered and black hellebore but more hellebore than coal bath therewith the leggs for fifteen mornings together and longer if need requite This hath its effect on every member of the body so that whether it be Totter Leprosie Itch or running Scab in short time it is cured with this medicine Mercur. and other experienced Physitians commend the success that these ointments have if they are applied to the pulse Take oleum laurinum six drams quicksilver one dram and a half borace three drams ceruse one dram cummin-seeds one scruple make them into an ointment Or Take equal parts of borace and aloes a third part of prepared quicksilver as much oyle of Lawrel make them into an Unguent and with either of these anoint the pulses going to bed after you have bathed your arms for some while in warm water I find these much extol'd but I would not have you use them before you have tryed something else because of the quick-silver Before you practice with any medicine remember to purge the body of that humor which is the cause of your distemper I shall here only add two or three odoriserous waters which cure all such infirmities and make the skin smooth and delicate Take Bawm what quantity you please beat it well then set it to macerate one night in white wine the next morning draw off the water in a glass still It is exceeding sweet and in a short time cures all scabs throughout the body if you add a grain of musk and bath it therewith mixt with natural balsame and anointed on the face 't will make it of a lively rose colour Take dried Sage eight ounces nutmegs five ounces ginger cloves cinnamon grains of paradice of each four ounces bruise them and then set them to digest for twenty four hours in good white wine afterward distil them according to art in an Alembick The water drawn from thence is so excellent that if you drink it in a small quantity for three dayes fasting it cures all Tetters and Scabs breeds good blood and causes a lovely complexion Take Turpentine a quarter of a pound honey two ounces aquae vitae three ounces wood of aloes beaten small sweet saunders of each three drams gum arabick one dram nutmegs two drams ambergreece one dram powder all small and distil them with a gentle fire and in your operation you shall draw three several sorts of liquors the first is clear the second when the fire is increased falls in drops like burning coals the third descends a little blacker and thicker than honey The first is called mother of balsame the second oyle of balsame and the third artisicial balsame If you anoint your self with the first of these it is exceeding good for spreading Scabs or itching Tetters kept in the mouth it sweetens the breath fastens preserves and whitens the teeth anointing the face therewith it makes it smooth and ruddy The second and third liquors recover complexion lost are good for any bruise cure all distempers arising from the blood or phlegme corrupted CHAP. VIII To adorne the scurffie and mealy Complexion That Complexion is said to be mealy and scurffie which appears full of little white scales that fall off like small bran when the face or other part is rub'd with a woollen cloth The thin and meager constitution is most frequently troubled with this distemper and it proceeds from thick and grosse humors detain'd betwixt the cuticle and the under skin which corrupt after some continuance and then corrode that slender covering into a scaly dust To embellish such a complexion the chiefest care must be to dislodge those humors that lye betwixt the Epidermis and the grosser skin for which intent you may use urine or white wine wherein sliced limmons have been boiled a lixivium made with the ashes of beets and coleworts wherein boile lupins and beans and in the streined liquor dissolve a spoonful or two of honey or gall or something of the like nature to bath the face withal If the face be very lean instead of the foregoing Fomentation you may use this that is not so drying Take the leaves of buglosse borage pellitory mallows fumitory violets cichory endive lettice poppy fengreek cleans'd barly boyle them together in water adding a little bran bound up in a bag after the face hath been bathed wash it with this water Take bitter almonds the meal of beans and vetches of each one ounce allum borace mastick olibanum gum tragant of each half an ounce juyce of limmons seven ounces water of plantane roses and white lillies of each three ounces new Goats milk four ounces mix all together and distil them with a gentle fire Take Mel rosatum rose water juyce of limmons of each two ounces gum tragagant mastick ceruse prepar'd starch olibanum of each three drams allum white corral cuttle bone borace of each two drams sal gem a dram and a half bean meal one ounce the whites of three eggs snails beaten with their shells six ounces camphire half a dram cinnamon half an ounce mix them and distil them in Balneo Maris then apply the water to the face Take Enula campan burdock roots of each two ounces boile them in strong vinegar pound them and passe them through a streiner add solphur vive two drams salt calcined a dram and a half juyce of limmons two ounces dip a cloth in this composition and so bath the skin with it Take the water that is found in cavities of oaks wash the skin therewith Or Take the juyce that is newly prest from agrimony incorporated with salt and vinegar or the juyce of burdock mixt with sulphur vive The Decoction of scabious drank for some mornings together cures the skin of this infirmity Or Take the roots of scrofulary out of the ground in Autumne beat them together with fresh butter put it into an earthen pot close stopt set it in a moist place twelve or fifteen dayes the butter will soon dissolve strein it and keep it to anoint the body CHAP. IX How to polish the Skin when it is disfigured with Scars or marks of the Small Pox. VArious are the supprising casualties that deform a polisht Skin each wound is a
cleane pound and boile them to a mash in rain water mix it with the oile of tartar and dears suet adding a little camphre and make it into the forme of an unguent Take the kernels of peaches pounded foure ounces goard seed two drams mix and pound them together then presse out the juice or rather oile you shall find it exceeding good for any black and blew bruise Take yellow arsnick sal ammoniacum one scruple and a half mix them with the juice of coriander seed in quantity about three ounces bathe the bruised places with it Aqua vitae heated and applyed to the bruise presently after the stroake with two spunges changing them as fast as they cool will take away all signes of the bruise CHAP. VI. To smooth the face disfigured with wrinckles THE smiling glories of beauties spring are often nipt with an early autumne when sharp sith'd time cuts those flowry graces down and shrouds them in the furrows of a wrinkled face Now to make your verdant features flowrish in spight of envious time or after their decay to smooth the face for a new plantation Take oile of bitter almonds two ounces lilly roots finely powdred one ounce make it into an ointment with the oile of roses and a little wax and so apply it to the faces Take oile of S. Johns wort one ounce oile of mirtle quinces water lillies jesmine mastick of each half an ounce melt all together in an earthen vessel then take it from the fire adding a convenient quantity of rose water then let it cool and use it Take thin shavings of ivory make a decoction thereof in water streine it and keep the thickest to mix with an equall part of incense and mouth glew make it into an unguent annoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash with faire warme water Wash the wrinkled places with a decoction made with an equall quantity of bryony roots and figgs Or take incense the scum of silver of each half an ounce white pepper an ounce powder all apart incorporate them with mouth glew make them up into small balâ— dissolve these in rose water make a liniment for the face Take the juice of sweet almonds drawn without fire hony the roots of lillies roasted under the embers and pounded white wax washt with rose water make it into the forme of a salve soake a piece of linnen therein for a cerecloth make a mask of it to lay over the face going to bed Boile pomegranate pils in white wine and whey till the wine be consumed and the whole remain like a liniment Or dry in the Sun wild cucumer bryony roots powder them and often wash the face with the powder steept in wine afterward wash with cold water CHAP. VII How to cure chaps in the Face WHen the injurious violence of wind or weather hath rent your silken Skins if you intend to unite the separating parts you will find these your serviceable cements Take Staggs suet and Goats suet of of each half an ounce burnt borace two drams new wax half an ounce oile of roses two drams make it into an ointment and use it Or else take Capons grease and camfre mix them and anoint the chaps therewith every night in the morning wash with bran and water Some dissolve mouth glew in warme rose water and anoint the face therewith Distil'd oile of turpentine is very good so is fresh butter if you take three ounces of it and mix it with the mucilage of gum tragaganth of fleawort seeds and of quince seeds of each an ounce and a half and so make it into the fashion of an ointment for your use Take kids suet one ounce oile of the whites of eggs of sweet almonds and of prest henbane seeds of each half an ounce goose and hens fat of each as much litharge of silver prepared washt ceruse prepared tuttie red lead of each one dram saffron one scruple camfre halfe a scruple mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white wax make it into an ointment CHAP. VIII Remedies for the Face when it is Burnt or Scalded IF the face that Magazin of Beauty be supprized by catching flames and blown up into blisters your securest way will be to allay the fury of that offensive element thus Take lead burnt and washt two ounces Goats suet white wax of each one ounce and a half turpentine six drams prepared lapis calaminaris washt ceruse of each two drams mirrhe mastick olibanum of each one dram aloes epat camphre nitre of each half a dram mix them and make a plaister To draw out the fire and take away the inflammation take the whites of two eggs oile of roses and rose water of each two ounces work them together and then apply them Or take two raw onions salt Venice sope bole armenick of each an ounce beat them together in a mortar adding by degrees as much oile of roses as as will suffice to make it into an ointment To hinder the rising of blisters and take away paine you may use this Hens dung the whitest and freshest you can get three ounces fresh butter six ounces sage leaves one handfull plantaine leaves two handfuls fry them a while over the fire and annoint the affected part therewith several times a day Or else you may take old lard melt it with rose water then streine it through a clean cloth when it is cold wash it 6 or 7 times in plantane water and to half a pound of this lard add the yelks of 4 eggs if the paine be vehement you may mix a dram of opium with it In case the ulcer be sordid and purulent make application of this Take the inner rind of green elder oile of roses of each half a pound boile them with a gentle fire strein them and adde oile of the yelks of eggs two ounces frankincense two drams tuttie one dram wax enough to make it into an ointment To make the cicatrice smooth and faire wash the ulcer after it is sufficiently cleans'd with plantaine water having first dissolv'd therein a little allum being washt strew thereon some metallique powder either of tuttie ceruse litharge burnt and washt CHAP. IX To beautifie the Face howsoever disfigured THis chapter Ladies makes you a present of universall remedies that will fortifie your faces against any distemper and in spite of al the maladies that beauty is subject too make them matchlesse the only inconvenience that I feare from them is that some of ye when ye look in your glasses may fall in love with your own shadows and so linger away Martyrs to your selves The oile or water of Talque applyed to the face makes it as white as alablafter The manner of preparing it is this Take talque the most tender transparent you can get what quantity you please slit it into thin slices put them into a glass viol for the space of ten or twelve days with the juice of limmons during the frost
the hair of a faire length soft Take willow peel wormwood and southernwood dryed roses of each two ounces steep them in a quart of faire water for a night or two then set it over the fire till a third part of the water be evaporated keep it and often wash the haire with it Take the ashes of maidenhaire politrik reed roots flax seed make a lye of all these ashes wherein dissolve a little myrrhe adding thereto a third part of whitewine and then use it CHAP. XVI To soften the Haire when too harsh and stiffe THE Haire on some hangs like thatch on a country Cottage and serves more for use then ornament to secure them from the impetuous injuries of wind and weather rather then with its soft and tender sleaves to delight admiring eyes Such stiff bristles are usual attendants to churlish Corydons who are represented by nothing better then the parallel emblem of surly swine Those then who desire a more graceful covering and and would alter the harsh conceit that others are apt to entertaine of their hoggish natures may to their great advantage use these directions Take the roots of galingale fig leaves camomile melilot mirtle berries what quantity you please make thereof a decoction wherein dissolve salt nitre and rock allum of each two drams adding the like quantity of pumice stones and cuttle bones set all over a gentle fire and while it is warme bath the head therewith before the fire or else in the Sun Take the roots of white and black hellebore briony birthwort round and long wake Robin dry and then powder them afterward rub the haire well therewith Or else make a lye of vine twig ashes wherein boile the meale of beans vetches barly and lupines streine the lye and adde thereto a little white wine then use it Take Emets eggs henbane seed rock allum psyllium and opium of each a like quantity boile them in distilled water of vinegar bathe the haire wel therewith when you have done this make this pouder Take salt Nitre four ounces Pumice stone poudred two ounces Lilly roots and Cuttle bone of each two drams beat them all very fine and rub the hair with it After you have done this use again the former Decoction Take white Saunders and Rhodium of each two ounces Myrrhe and white Amber of each two drams Gentian roots one dram pouder these and use it If it be for any person of quality you may adde two or three grains of Musk. This Pouder is excellent good for the hair CHAP. XVII Remedies for the Hair when it splits VVHen Nature hath spun the slender hair to its utmost length if it be not carefully kept 't will be fray'd and ravel'd at ends by sundry accidents which seem to envy that work they cannot better Your best provision against such injuries are these When you go to bed Take Oyle and Water a like quantity put them into a bottle and incorporate them well together anoint the hair well with it going to bed next morning wash it with this following Take marsh mallows fleabane willow bark boyle them in spring water and use it to wash the head This will keep the hair from splitting but if it be split already you must use this Take Myrtle and Willow leaves of each two ounces poudred labdanum six scruples emblick myrobalans poudred half a dram oyle of Myrtle four ounces white wine two ounces boyle all these over a gentle fire to a consumption of the third part then use it to anoint the extremities of the hair therewith Take the juyce of Willow leaves and Myrtle leaves of each one ounce boyle and evaporate half a way after adde poudred labdanum one ounce then mix all with oyle of myrtle keep it for your hair CHAP. XVIII To make the Hair of what colour you please YEllow Hair was much in request among the antients whence the Poet Forma placet nivensque color flavique capilli Yet now this colour is loaded with obloquies for 't is a fancy generally received that the locks can never sparkle with golden flames without except there be some cherishing heat of lust within so that of late Black is more the fashion being lookt upon as a quality congregating not the sight only but hearts and affections too To make the Hair yellow If any Lady be in love with this colour she may order her hair thus Take shavings of Box stechas cedar liquorice roots scraped and bruised coltsfoot roots maiden hair of each two ounces and a little saffron set all these over the fire till two parts of the water be consumed then strein it and wash the hair therewith Or Take rock Allum Sandarach of each three ounces Saffron one ounce Madder four ounces Vine twigge ashes two drams beat the ashes very small with the Madder boyle the mixture in water till half be consumed then take it from the fire and strein it afterward adde the Saffron Sandarack and Allum keep it close in a bottle when you would use it first comb the hair very well then take a spunge and bath it with this Composition When it is dry wash it with water wherein Fengreek Barly Cumin and Soap have been boyled Make Lye with the ashes of Ivy bark wherein boyle over a gentle fire Madder roots Gentian Celendine shaving of Box yellow Saunders Liquorice cleansed from its outward bark of each one ounce Orange peele and the inner rinde of Barberry tree of each half an ounce green Lupines pounded two ounces Broom flowers yellow Stoechas moth Mullein a sufficient quantity of each bath the hair with a spunge dipt in this Decoction then dry it gently in with warm cloaths evening and morning use likewise a Combe steeped in this Decoction it gives a graceful colour to young peoples hair Take the first buds of the black Poplar pound them with fresh butter set them in the Sun for five days then strein them and presse out the butter wash it with lye made of the ashes of Box tree then use it to anoint the hair To make the Hair or Beard black though before grey The hair either of head or beard will be as black as Jet if you Take the shells of green Walnuts bark of Oak roots of each three ounces the oldest and deepest coloured red Wine eight ounces boyle them to the consumption of half then strein the juyce and press it hard whereunto adde one pound and a half of oyle of Myrtle set in six dayes in the Sun in a leaden Mortar and stir it with a leaden Pestle then use it Take burnt Lead three ounces Nutgals Walnut shells of each four ounces terra sigillata the like quantity Roman vitriol six ounces sal gem one ounce and a half Nutmegs Cloves of each one ounce sal amoniac aloes of each half an ounces pouder and steep them three dayes in sharp vinegar then distil it in an Alembick and afterward keep it for use Take quick Lime one ounce of both the litharges
dry in the Sun that you may bring them into a pouder Afterward Take one pound of this pouder iris root and Saunders poudred of each four ounces starch six ounces beat them altogether in a mortar adding liquid storax and oyl of benjamin what quantity you please anoint the hands with this Composition and it will marvelously whiten smooth and sent them Take half a pound of Figs as many Raisins of the Sun ston'd and a like quantity of bitter Almonds beat them all severally in a mortar as small as you can then mix them together adding two Limmons par'd and minc'd and two good handfuls of Bean meal boyle all these in a pinte of white Wine vinegar stirring them continually when it hath boyled so long that it sticks no more to the Posnet then put it forth into a gally pot and keep it use some quantity of it to scour your hands every time you wash Take Labdanum four ounces Styrax calam three ounces Benjamin two ounces put them into a brazen mortar heated work them together with a hot Pestle till they are pretty soft adde poudred Soap two pound then strew thereon liquid Storax two ounces make it into a Composition with a little Rosewater and keep it to scour your hands Take Starch meale of Beans Lupins Rice iris roots of each four ounces pouder them very small searce them and then mix them together when you wash your hands take a little of this pouder and moisten to rub them withal If you like an Ointment do thus Take oyle of sweet Almonds four ounces take a little white Wax and put to it boyl it over the fire adde one dram of Camfre and make it into an Unguent it will both keep the hands from sun-burn and make them exceeding white When the milky whiteness of the hands is eclyps'd by the azure veins that swell too big chaff them well with water wherin allum hath been dissolved then wash them in warm water presently after annoint them with an unguent made of Ceruse Take wax an ounce and a halfe turpentine three ounces frankincense fenugreek mastick of each two ounces a half three graines of musk dissolve the wax and turpentine in a new pipkin then add half a pound of common oile when it begins to boyl strew in the masâ—ick frankincense senugreek all being powdred incorporate them together and make an ointment CHAP. IV. For the Hands when they are swoln and look red or blew with cold IF your hands like the flowry fields dismantle themselves of their richest livery at the approach of the crabbed winter laying aside their youthful lovelinesse do shelter themselves under some more serious colour that may better suit with the humour of that grave decrepit season Ye may I adies reapparell them with their native whiteness by the help of these directions following Often bath your hands in wine wherein you have boiled nettles rosemary time rue penny royall the frequent use of this decoction will keep them from swelling As soon as they begin to swell and rise into knobs apply a repercussive plaister made of barly meale and juice of limmons or take litharge oile of roses and vinegar work them wel together into a liniment to anoint the affected places If the swellings do not yeild to these medicines Take the yolks of five eggs calcine them and mix them well with barrows grease anoint the hands well therewith going to bed draw on a paire of smooth gloves and so lye all night Take turpentine mix it with half its quantity of salt stir them well together till they are pretty thick then apply it to the swoln hands Take oyl of dil oyl of sweet almonds of each one ounce mucilage of gum tragaganth made with pennyroyal water three drams powdred starch eight drams mix and make them into an ointment it takes away the cold swellings of the hands and reduces them to their former Colour CHAP. V. Remedies for those vices which are incident to the nails THE nails are pearlie helmets wherewith prudent nature hath arm'd the active fingers to which if they are neatly burnisht they give a commanding comliness and may at a pressing exigencie be fit materials to head Cupids piercing shafts their oriental beautie is thus preserved When the nails are spotted remove the spots with these medicaments Incorporate myrrhe with a sufficient quantity of turpentine and apply it Or else take sulphur vive work it together with a convenient quantity of pitch and tarre use it as a plaister you may if you please add a little vinegar Mix flax seed beaten with hony and wax put it to the naile that is spotted If the naile be bruised and becomes black by reason of the blood that congeals underneath apply a cerecloth that is made of capons grease sheeps grease with oile of cammomile or dil afterward to dissolve the setled blood use goats dung tempered with sulphur Or incorporate cummin seed with diachylum ireatum and oile of camomile in forme of an unguent Ducks grease mixt with Euphorbium is singular good to discusse the condensed blood By some mischance or other the top of the finger is oftentimes so bruised that the naile comes off to make it come again foment the part with wine wherein dates have been steeped Take Flaxseed one ounce cardamoms three drams as much hony as will make it into a plaister this will make a naile that is cleft or rotted to come away the same effect hath the juice of stinking orach When the naile by these means is fallen off to make it grow againe you may use that which was before prescribed If the flesh or skin grows too much over the nails milk of spurge dropt thereon is very good Or take salt barly meal and costus poudred mix them with so hony as will make them into a plaister and apply it to the flesh CHAP. 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Remedies for the galling fretting and sweating of the feet THE Body that fleshie pallace of a deathlesse guest would sink beneath its own magnificence were it not upheld by the feet those beauteous pedestals to the sister columns that more immediately support the structure If they are once fretted or stand on too moist a foundation they may chance to slip and so the whole aedefice of beauty hazard it self by catching a fall Your wisest way will be to secure them thus When the feet are galled take emplastrum diachalcit dissolve it in oile of mirtle and use it to anoint the feet Oile of eggs made by expression or else oyl prest from wheat betwixt two iron plates is very good You may likewise use those things which have been formerly commended to take away chaps Vnguentum album or diapomphol are not applyed without good successe the like might be said of the oile of flax fresh butter the yolk of an egg made into an unguent The feet if they are often subject to troublesome sweatings may thus be ordered bath them in warm water wherein