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

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AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST MELANCHOLY OR A Treasury of 53. Rare Secrets Arts Discovered by an Expert Artist RICHARD AMYAS Licensed and Entred according to Order Tooth or Stump without pain London Printed for the Authour 1659. I Have often heard a Bowe still bent growes weak And too much Worldly Care the Heart doth break Pleasure with Profit any one can brook Which you may find both in this little Book And if it may but kind acceptance find These harmless Lines will recreate your Mind THE TABLE 1. A Most Excellent Receipt against Melancholy Comforts the Stomach openeth the Liver helps head-ache breeds good blood takes away faintness of the Heart Swoonings expells Melancholy prevents Madness makes a man merry and a chearful countenance and taken at night takes away all Fancies Melancholy Dreams 2. A most rare Powder to keep teeth from perishing to fasten loose teeth to restore the Gums wasted to keep teeth white or prevent tooth-ach and make a sweet breath It is the same I sell and use 3. For the Tooth-Ache 4. Tooth-ache of a hot Cause 5. A Remedy to take away Corns 6. Another absolutely for Corns 7. How to take away Warts 8. An easie way to take away Hair from any place without cutting 9. How to make Hair to grow 10. How to clear your feet from sweating 11. How to take spots of Oyl or Grease out of Cloaths 12. For to make a red Face fair and clear 13. For to make a most excellent ●all to take away the Spots Freckles Red-Pimples and heats out of the Face and Hands It also takes spots out of Linnen or Wollen It is the same I make sell Prob. 14. A good way to make your Hands fa●r and smooth 15. A Receipt to make a Horse have a good hoof 16. How to make a Pouder that will make good Ink in an instant and holden between the Teeth will ease the Tooth ache 17. A Receipt how to write your name on a piece of Paper and to burn that piece of Paper the same letters to appear on the back of your hand 18. How to make Rats forsake a House 19. A Receipt to make Pigeon come to your Pigeon-house 20. A good powder to lay among cloaths to make them have a gallant scent 21. A Remedy for any that are troubled with Lice or Nits or Itch. 22. To make a Light that will continue always 23. How to roast a Capon carried in a Budget at a saddle bow in the space of riding 5 or 6 miles 24. A Receipt for a Cook with one spit and one fire to keep one Capon raw the second boil'd the third roasted 25. To make Pease leap out of the pot as if they were mad 26. A device to make a Chamber to appear full of Adders and Snakes 27. A notable way to catch Fleas in a trap 28. How to make one that he shall not sleep but tumble toss all night 29. How to make yellow Ink 30. How to make green Ink 31. An excellent Receipt for an ache or strain in Horse or Man 32. A good Drink for a Cough or Cold 33. To purge the Breast from Rheum 34. An approved Medicine for the biting of a mad Dog 35. A very good Ointment for Ache or Pain 36. A very good Plaister for an Ache Bruise or Strain 37. A Salve to heal a cut or broken Head 38. To make Fish drunk so that they will tumble to the side of the water so that you may take them if you be but nimble enough else not 39. How to catch Crows Kites Magpies Jackdaws alive with your hands 40. To make a blown Bladder dance and skip about the Room 41. To make a Penny-loaf tumble and skip up and down of it self 42. To make a Ring dance on a Table of it self 43. How to make an Apple to move on a Table of it self A fine secret 44. A fine Conceit to clear a Room of drunken or rude company 45. An excellent Receipt for clearing and preserving and also to cure the Pin Web or Pearl in the Eye 46. To clear the Eyes of Pin Web or Blood-shotten and to clear the Eyes 47. A fine Receipt to make Gentlewomens Faces fair smooth and youthfull 48. A speciall Receipt to make Hens lay Eggs all Winter long 49. A notable Receipt to make a Tell-tale or Gossip to trump about the house an hour or two shooting off the great Guns 50. A pretty Conceipt to fright the people of a house and make them believe there are Spirits walking in a Room 51. An excellent approved Rece to make a lean Horse fat quickly 52. For to make an admirable good Balsome for green Wounds Aches Bruses or Straynes 53. To make the Oyntment for Burnes and Scalds and for all inflamations coming of hot Causes An Antidote against Melancholy 1. A most Excellent Receipt against Melancholy Comforts the Stomach openeth the Liver helps head-ache breeds good blood takes away faintness of the Heart Swoonings expells Melancholy prevents Madness makes a man merry and a chearful countenance and taken at night takes away all Fancies and Melancholy Dreams R. Purging syrup of Apples 3. ounces Syrup of Bawme 2. ounces Syrup of Epithimum 2. ounces Syrup of Harts-Tongue 1. ounce Syrup of Rheubarb 1. ounce Venice-Treacle half an ounce Oyl of Nutrugs 1. dram Gold 8. grains borage-Borage-water 2. ounces Beazer-water 1. ounce Mix all together and take half a dram of Saffron and Seena and 2. or 3. grains of Amber-greece and lay it in a little clean linnen Cloath and let it lye in the bottom of the glasse and slop it close you may take a spoonfull at Night or more and 2. or 3. spoonfulls in the Morning in a glass of white-Wine warm and walk an hour after it 2. A most rare Powder to keep teeth from perishing to fasten loose teeth to restore the Gums wasted to keep teeth white or prevent tooth-ach and make a sweet breath It is the same I sell and use Take Pomistone 1. ounce red Coral half an ounce Mastich a quarter of an ounce Cortix Granitorum a quarter of an ounce Harts-horn burnt half an ounce Pearls a quarter of an ounce Cynamon half an ounce 6. Cloves Cuttle-bone half an ounce Benjamin a quarter of an ounce Crystal a dram Myrrhe a dram Amber-greece grains make this into fine powder and keep it close stopt in a box and when you use it wet a cloath in white Wine or Vinegar of Squills or in rose-Rose-water dip it into the powder and rub the teeth morning and evening and after meat wash your mouth with white Wine or Rofe-water after it or for lack of either Spring-water it preserves the teeth from perishing causeth a sweet breath hardens the Gums fastneth the teeth and keeps them alwayes white and sound Probatum 3. For the Tooth-Ache If the Tooth be hollow wet a little Cotton in the essence of Cloves or in the Oyl of Sulphur or Originum and put it into the hollow tooth it
Approved 47. A fine Receipt to make Gentlewomens Faces fair smooth and youthful To do this take Whelps before they can see beat them all to pieces in a Morter then put it into a Still before they be cold with half a pint of good Femetory water or the juyce of Femetory the juyce of a Lemon half an ounce of Oyl of Almonds or 20 Almonds bruised the yolks of 4 Eggs hard roasted and bruised distill this and keep the water close stopped in a Vial wash the Face often its excellent to take away the Morphew and Freckle and to make the Face look fresh and lovely 48. A special Receipt to make Hens lay Eggs all Winter long To do this take the tops of Nettles when they be seeded and keep them dry and give a little of the same with Bran or Barley ground wet with Beef-broth or strong Beer and mix good store of Hemp-seed with it and give to your Hens and they will lay you Eggs all the Winter long 49. A notable Receipt to make a Tell-tale or Gossip to trump about the house an hour or two shooting off the great Guns Take the Liver of a Hare dryed in an Oven and made into fine Powder mix it with the Eggs of yellow Ants or Pismires put it into the Parties broth or into Beer with Sugar and Nutmeg to discolour it then an hour after employ the party to draw off a straight pair of Boots or the like Exercise and he 'l make cracking off about bravely 50. A pretty Conceipt to fright the people of a house and make them believe there are Spirits walking in a Room To do this take a black or gray Cat then take 4. Walnut-shells put Pitch in them beat it and put on every foot one and tye a certain piece of rotten wood which you shall find to shine in a dark night about the Cats Neck and put her in a boarded Room she will so trample about the Room to the amazement of them that know not what you have done and the moist piece of rotten wood if they peep in at the key-hole or chink of the door it will seem to be like fire 51. An excellent approved Receipt to make a lean Horse fat quickly First let him have his fill of the best Hay that can be had often changed not long to be blow'd before him Secondly let him be very well dressed twice a day gently rode a quarter of a mile at a watering then let him have his fill of sod Barley with good store of Hemp-seed mixt with it twice a day and once a day his fill of Oats and Hemp-seed mixt with the best Beer or Ale and doubtless your horse will be suddenly fat alwayes provided the horse be but sound and for that take-advice of the Farrier for I will not hinder his Trade 52. For to make an admirable good Balsome for green wounds Aches Bruses or Straynes Distill the Berries of the Wood-bind in September when they be ripe take a pint of the Water 3 Ounces of the Oyl of Hipericon a dram of Oyl of Wax a dram of Oyl of Terpentine a dram of Olium Philosophorum gum climy an ounce Olibanum an ounce Bees wax 3 Ounces melt them gently together drop it warme ●nto the wound 53. To make the Oyntment for Burnes and Scalds and for all infl●mations coming of hot Causes Poplar buds 1 pound flowers of Violets and Navel-wort ana 3 Ounces fresh Swines-grease 3 pound the tops of Rasb●ries the leaves of black Poppies Mandrake Henbane Night-shade Le●tce Housleek Burdake of each 3 Ounces Sheeps dung a handful Dwarfe-Elder a handful stamp all together in a Morter infuse it in a pound of Rose-water boyl it and strain it put an Ounce of Bees wax to it make it an Oyntment according to Art I have many things and some extraordinary which I cannot communicate but them that have need of my help and will make use of me I glory not in knowing or doing much but in doing well that little which I undertake 1. I take forth hollow teeth or roots though never so short with wonderfull dexterity and ease I make smooth and even teeth that are uneven I put in artificial teeth in the fore part of the mouth Hollow teeth that you would not have drawn I can stop them I can fasten loose teeth I have as good a secret as the world affords infallibly to make teeth perfectly white and clean be they never so black or rusty in half an hour I cannot chuse but convince their ignorance that are against drawing of hollow teeth or roots by reason that all the art in the world cannot make a hollow tooth sound again nor hinder it from infecting the next adjoyning teeth in time Hollow teeth breeds stinking breath a Canker in the mouth and other infirmities and their intolerable aking is able to bring one into a dangerous Feaver all which may be shunned by taking forth such teeth and stumps neatly if it be true that it is good to take the broken from the whole or that one scabbed sheep may spoyl a whole flock or it is good to repair imperfections of nature with Art then all that I have said herein is true I have a most singular Art in the Drawing forth Corns from the Feet or Toes in a most excellent manner with the whole substance in length of a Clove or a Barley-corn without the appearance of blood or putting the party to the least pain at all applying to them a Plaister to hinder the growing of them again Some will say There is danger in cutting of Corns The Professor saith so too But you must conceive it is by those of no Judgment for they misse the Corn drow blood cut the Nerves and so it Gangrenes which no Patient can say by him he having performed this Art to thousands in most parts of this Land He hath a Remedy for the Itch no wayes offensive to the Party but sweet and pleasant The Professor hath likewise several Remedies which are profitable for all sorts of people and good for all these Infirmities here mentioned which if you know the goodnesse of them you would not be without them for ten times the price of them And with every one of them you have a printed Note to apply every Remedy in its right use and manner These Remedies will held good 40 years If you take them together you shall have them for a shilling but any one single will cost six pence The Balsome you may have from a six-penny-Box to a Five-shillings Pot c. 1. The first is a most rare and precious approved Balsome which is excellent good for the curing of these Diseases following It is most excellent for all green wounds and cuts where no bone is broken Also for all Aches and pains of the Joynts numnesse or stiffnesse of the Limbs chaps in the Lips or Hands Skoats or Bruises broken-heads Gouts Sciatica or Cramps old or new 2. Is an Oyntment for Burnings and Scaldings and re cool all pains coming of Hot cause it dyeth and cooleth all kind of Scabs Sr. Authonie's Fire Kingworms sore Breasts red Faces Shingles good to make one sleep the Temples being anointed with it 3. Is a Sear-Cloth or Plaister for Corns to give ease to such as cannot come to have them drawn it is good for Bruises Squots Boyls Imposthumes good to draw out Splinters of Woods or Thorns in the flesh 4. Is an excellent Remedy for the Tooth-Ach to harden the Gums to fasten and preserve the Teeth and make a sweet Breath 5. Is to purge the head of superfluous Humours to strengthen the Memory and to clear the Sight and good for Hearing 6. It is a Powder to make Black and Yellow Teeth White to preserve them from perishing and to cause a sweet Breath 7. It is a Powder for sore Eyes that itch and burn by reason of hot Rhumes also for the clearing and preserving of the Sight 8. Is to clear your Feet from Sweating or Chasing The Professor hath likewise that most excellent Purging powder called Panchimagogum or General Purge good in all sorts of Agues Leprosies Scabs Itch Worms Dropsies for the Heavinesse or Giddinesse of the Head it holds good sixty years He hath that excellent Licoratia Magistralis invented by the Eamous Doctor Butler of Cambridge It 's excellent against Consumptions Tissick shortnesse of Breath Rising or Wind in the Stomach good upon Travel He hath excellent Balls for Heats in Face or Hands 10 fetch out Spors of Oyl or Grease out of Linnen Woollen or Silk or lay amongst Cloathes Also curious Pomanders to wear or lay amongst cloathes made in manner of a Heart And small Cramp-Rings to wear for the preventing of the Cramp To conclude as there is no man free from aspersions and slanders of envious tongues I shall think my self sufficiently vindicated that the discreeter sort will suspend their Judgments at the first view untill they hear what others will say that have been under my hands for I desire no other praise but what they can justly give me And hough some Rusticks there be ●ut of ignorance or malice or not for lack of both speak their pleasure of me behind my back because I use some civil recreation to recreate my self my friends and sometimes when my Patients are melancholy through pain to make them merry with some few feats of slights of hand I have here discovered many Secrets for your recreation at your leisure so I wish all men to speak as they find by me I shall rest your loving friend to serve you in what I may Richard Amy●● FINIS