linnen in the straining that it may be throughly wet then fold the Cloth four-fold and let it dry in the shade A Pulmonic Person that was abandoned was cured in three Months by carrying this Cere-cloth four double upon his Stomack fastned behind this Remedy fails not and one will find ease in a short time the Stomach that could not digest is soon restored by applying this If you sweat and that the Cerecloth be moist with sweating you must take it off and dry it and lay it on again For the same distemper of the Lungs they must use as long as they please Lozanges made with the Flower of Brimstone For the Wind and also for the Lungs Take eleven Crab-fish alive the which beat in a Mortar till they be all to pap then strain them through a very white linnen Cloth pouring upon them two quarts of White-Wine to make them strain the better put this straining in a Pot to infuse twenty four hours then take every morning fasting two ounces till you find some ease An excellent Remedy for the Lungs and against a Cough and shortness of Breath Take the longest Raisins of the Sun Jujubes St. Antonies Prunes without Kernels or Stones of each two ounces three fat Figs three Dates put them all in an earthen Pot with a cover with two quarts of Water boyl them all to the Consumption of half then put into the said Pot the four Capillaries and Flowers of Colts-foot of each one handful let them all boyl to a pint strain it and add thereto Sugar-candy Diaphenicon and common Sugar of each four ounces make a Syrup boyl'd a little the dose is a spoonful at Night and as much in the Morning and being troubled with the Cough steep every day a Liquirice stick therein and you will find success at last A wonderful Opiate to refresh the Liver and purify the Blood Take the roots of Cichory two drams roots of Polypodie damask Raisins Liquirice and Dogs-teeth of each one dram of the four Capillaries Borrage Scariola Endives Betony Agrimony Hops Pimpernel Scabious of each one handful of the four great cold Seeds Fennel Endive of each two ounces make a decoction then take six ounces of Senna boyl it in the Decoction then take two ounces of white Agaric two drams of Cinnamon and a Pugil of the Cordial Flowers which put to infuse therein and boyl them with a pound of Sugar then add Cassia cleansed four ounces Conserve of Borage two ounces Conserve of Bugloss and Violets of each one ounce of all which make an Opiate the dose is a dram and a half two hours before Meals or twice a Month. To temper the heat of the Liver Take a quantity of Liverwort which grows in watry Places beat it in a Mortar and draw out the Juice with a Press which you shall Clarifie over the Fire with the whites of Eggs and scum it well then let it cool and pour it out by inclination leaving the dregs at the bottom in every pound of this Water dissolve six ounces of sine Sugar and then 't is made take an ounce thereof in a Glass of Water or alone if you will A Remedy for all sorts of fluxes of Blood upwards or downwards or for Veins broken in the Body for Men or Women that have an extraordinary flux Take a dram of Bistort-Root finely powdred put it into two ounces of White-wine and if the Patient hath a Pever you put it into Broth and without fail the Flux will cease even if the Patients shall void their Excrements at the Mouth and if the Flux of Blood shall be so violent especially in a Woman give her of this power in a Clyster made of the Broth of a Capon with two yolks of Eggs and if one be but a little disorder'd let them them take the Dose abovesaid and lay this following Plaister to the Stomach nigh the Heart Take a Quince rost it with hot embers which you shall beat into a Paste in a silver Porringer and strew thereon powder of Cinamon and Cloves and apply it For a Rupture tryed upon a Man of seventy Years of Age. Take Water-Cresses beat them a little and boil them in a quart of White-wine in a new Pot till it be wasted to the half or two thirds and take three ounces thereof morning and evening for nine days keeping it rowled For the Pain in the Head Falling-sickness Vertigo and Megrim Take two drops of Oyl of Sulphur thrice in a Week in a Glass of Water wherein Vervain Betony Oak of Jerusalem Leaves and Flowers of each two Handfuls have been infus'd twenty four Hours in two Quarts of River-water upon hot Embers For the same Take the Juice of Pimpernel and drop it into the Ear and it will appease the Pain Otherwise Take a dram of white Hellebore and as much black with an handful of Salt which you shall put in a brass Pot that will hold six Quarts of Water which you shall boyl the space of a quarter of an Hour then take it off the Fire and let it infuse forty hours in a Window then boyl it till it be reduc'd to three Quarts which you shall put into a Bottle close stop'd for your use drawing it up your Nose Probatum For the same and to cause Sleep Take common Roses with the White of an Egg beaten and well mingled together make a Forehead-cloth Moreover to cause Sleep make a Forehead-cloth of Poppy Probatum To make one wake or sleep You must cut dexterously the Head of a Toad alive and at once and let it dry in observing that one Eye be shut and the other open that which is found open makes one wake and that shut causes Sleep by carrying it about one To dissolve all sorts of Catarrhs and Tumours Take a white Onion and roast it in hot Embers being enough cut it in four quarters without taking any thing away and apply it to the Ear putting in a little Venice Treacle before then a hot Napkin upon it and when the Onion is cold lay on another presently with Treacle as at first do this four times and you will see all the Matter come out at the Ear do the same to a Bubo if you would have it come to Suppuration To make one sneeze Take a little white Ellebore or Euphorbium in Powder and blow it up the Nose with a little Tunnel A Bath for the Feet and Legs to cause Sleep Take eight or ten Lettuces or more or six Handfuls of Vine-leaves and five or six Heads of Poppyes boil them in a Kettle with a sufficient quantity of Water then poure all out into another Vessel and therewith wash the Feet and Legs for the space of a quarter of an Hour then wrap them in a Linnen-cloth For Deafness Probatum Take Humane Blood or Harts Blood distill it in an Alembic cast away the Phlegm and change the Recipient when you see Liquor white put two or three Drops of the said white Liquor
it through a Linnen Cloth into a glass Bottle that it be a quarter empty to which add three drops of white Balsam or Balsam of Peru the first is the best to a quart of Water and then shake the Bottle for 10 or 12 hours without intermission till the Balsom be intirely incorporated into the said Water and the Water remain a little troubled and a little whitish and then it hath arriv'd to its perfection It wonderfully embellishes the Face and preserves it young and fresh it takes away wrinkles also in time in using it once a day Note you must wash your Face with River Rain or Fountain-water before you use this Water To take away the wrinkles from the Face Take a Fire-shovel and heat it and cast thereon the Powder of Myrrh putting the Face over it to receive the Fume having a a course Cloth about the Head the better to receive the Fume do this thrice then heating the Fire-shovel again take some White-wine in your mouth and besprinkle the Shovel therewith receiving the Fume that rises doing thus likewise thrice continuing it morning and evening as long as you will and you will see wonders A most excellent Pomatum for the Face Take what quantity you please of Sheeps-feet and having peel'd them take out the Bones and break the long Bones to take out the Marrow do this at full of the Moon for there 's then much more Marrow to do this well you must steep the Bones a day or two in Water and set it in a Cellar changing the Water three or four times a day by which means you will break them more easily to two dozen of Sheeps-feet you must add at least half a dozen of Calves feet having taken out the Marrow wash it in several Waters and in Rose Water till it be very white then also wash the Bones well after you have taken out the Marrow and boil them in fair water an hour or two then strain them through a Linnen Cloth and let the Water stand till the next night then with a silver Spoon take off the oyl or grease that swims or is fixt upon it the which you shall put to the Marrow and melt them over a Charcoal Fire adding to the weight of about four ounces a dram of Borax and as much Roch Allum calcin'd and boiling them a very little add thereto two ounces of the Oyl of the four cold Seeds drawn without Fire with a little white Wax or Mutton Suet but that of the Hide or Skin of a Kid is best of all for some hold that the first reddens the Face and the Wax cuts it when this doth neither then strain it through a Linnen Cloth and keep it for your use An excellent Pomatum for the Lips Take Oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce put it upon the Fire with about a drachm oâ— a little more of Mutton Suet newly kill'd and of wild Bugloss scrap'd to give it a Colour boil them some time together and 't is made for your use you may if you will in lieu of Oyl of sweet Almonds take that of Jasmin or other Flowers if you would give it a good Scent the Oyl of sweet Almonds must be drawn without Fire To take away the redness of the Face Take the long Bones of Sheeps-feet and burn them in the Fire till they may be easily powdred which you shall infuse in White-Wine for the space of twenty four hours then strain it and use it to wash and cleanse the Face for four Feet you must have a Glass of White-wine Handcherchiefs of Venice Take of French Chalk half a quarter calcine it in a Glass Furnace or otherwise then moisten it with good Aqua Vitae or good Spirit of Wine letting them incorporate well together for twenty four hours then wet your Cloths therewith and let them dry in the shade out of the Dust the Sun or Fire 't is good to moisten them thrice and then use them dry'd This manner is most excellent and never fails Lac Virginis Take Storax and Benjoin of each two ounces Powder them and strain them with twelve ounces of Spirit of Wine three or four times put them all in a Glass Bottle that is two thirds empty stop it with Parchments pricking four or five holes in it then put in Balneo Mariae for a quarter of an hour only that is when you see the Water boil take the Vial off quickly and wrap it in a Napkin that the Bottle break not then take an ounce of white Balsam or that of Peru into which put the treddle of an Egg first mingled in your hand with as little as may be of Aqua Vitae then let all settle for forty Days and then use it Another Lac Virginis more ready and sure Take Housleek beat it in a Marble Mortar and take out the Juice with a Press strain the Juice warming first a very little which helps to Clarifie it and when you will you may use it you must put it into a Glass and put therein some drops of good Spirit of Wine and instantly you will have a kind of curdled Milk of the said Juice which is most excellent to unite the Skin and take out wrinkles A most excellent Spanish White Take the Seeds of Oriental Pearl white or pale Coral of each two ounces beat them apart then put them into a Matras and add as much Aq. fort as you shall think fit Juice of Citron is better then you must have another Matras wherein you must put Tin-Ice 8 ounces having first beaten it well and pour therein the said Water till all be dissolv'd then mingle the Pearl and Coral together and that which you have dissolv'd to the Tin-Ice pour upon the said Pearl and Coral to cause them to precipitate and before you mingle them you must add twice every day fountain-Fountain-water till you perceive no Taste of the Aqua-fortis and then you shall use it with Peach-Flowers distilling each apart and when you use them take a little quantity of each and so Compound them To whiten the Teeth Take rose-Rose-Water Syrup of Roses white Honey plantan-Plantan-Water of each half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol four ounces mingle them together and rub your Teeth with a Linnen-Cloth and wash them with equal parts of Rose and Plantan-Water For the same Take Sage Flowers of red-Roses of each a small handful Orris-root half an ounce Guaiacum three drams Rose-wood a dram Cuttle-bone two drams Mastich three drams Myrrh and Cinamon of each a dram Pumice-stone prepared six drams red Sanders finely powdred half an ounce red Coral six drams make them into a Powder For the same Take red Coral Cuttle-bone both reduced to fine Powder Pearls Crabs-claws calcin'd burnt Harts-horn of each one dram Salt of Worm-wood a Scruple make them into a Powder For the same Take Rosemary-wood and burn it to a Coal which you shall put into Rose-Vinegar letting it infuse twenty four hours in a clear Shade then dry it in the Sun
Author of Life an handful of the tops of Rue and a few Aniseeds a Walnut a dry Fig and a little Salt beat them all together and eat thereof fasting at divers times A Collection of divers Secrets taken out of the Cabinet of a Person of Quality CHAP. V. A Water for inflam'd Eyes TAke the Water of an Infant purified three pints Roman Vitriol and Tutty prepar'd of each four ounces mingle them for eight daies space then distill and put a drop Morning and Evening into the Eye and it will quickly be cur'd For the Colick Take of green Anise Cummin Agarick Wormwood Centaury Gentian equal parts and make thereof a Powder the Dose is two drams in Broth. An admirable Water against the Colick Take the distill'd Water of Nuts and Camomil of each four pints infuse therein the Flowers of Camomil and Elder of each six Landfuls for four daies in Balneo Maria or other hot place then strain it and add the Flowers above-said and Fennel seed Aniseed Juniper Berries of each two ounces Bay-berrys five ounces and an half Cinamon half an ounce dryed Mint a Pugil let them infuse two days in B. M. then distil them the Dose is two or three ounces Against the heat of the Sun Take rose-Rose-water two ounces Milk one ounce Verjuice half an ounce Incense beaten two drams the white of an Egg well beaten rub the Face before you go to bed For them that Spit or Vomit Blood from a Fall Take the Powder of the Vine-leaves in three ounces of Broth one Pugil then being setled you must take half a Glass of the Vulnerary decoction for eight days For Pain o' th' Teeth Take equal parts of Honey of Roses and Aqua-Vitae boil them together and wash the Mouth therewith Contusions Falls Blows without Wounds Take a Cake of Honey let it boil in the best red Vinegar till it come to a Pap make an Emplaister thereof and apply it For Wounds and Pricks Take Night-shade Leaves bruised and apply them For the Head-ach Take the shavings of Harts-horn drink it in Wine and powder the head therewith For Warts Take the Juice of Celandine let it drop upon the Wart first cut and then apply the Herb do this two or three times Oyl of Juniper Take Juniper-berries gathered from the month of August to the end of September bruise them and infuse them in fountain-Fountain-water three or four days and the Water of the first infusion will serve for the rest for the first is the best take two earthen Alembics the one full of Berries and the other half full of the Infusion this put into the Earth and the one fastned upon the other after having strained it through a Cloth put it into a Furnace being cold open it and gather the Oyl letting the water run out take care that it take not wind The Vse A Secret for Wounds Cancers Reins Spleen Leprosie the Dose is two or three drops in Broth. For the Tooth-ach Take good Honey two ounces a glass of the strongest Vinegar Cloves half an ounce let them boil in a new Pot till a quarter be wasted rub your Teeth therewith morning after dinner and at night To turn a Defluxion from the Breast Take Cephalic Powder put in your Broth a little Anula abstain from all sharp things The Cephalic Powder Take Grape-flowers half an ounce Violet-flowers white Nutmegs half an ounce Betony-flowers two ounces all dry'd and powdred besprinkle them with rose-Rose-water dry them again beat them together with a grain of Amber-grease An Oyl as good as Balm Take flowers of St. John's-wort half an ounce put to two ounces of Sallet-Oyl one spoonful of the Juice of Coronata put them all in a glass and set it in the Sun for three or four hours Hyppocras Extempore Take a quart of Aq. Vitae in which infuse four ounces of Cinamon an ounce of Cloves and Nutmeg or else Ginger infuse them all together and to make Hyppocras put two or three spoonfuls in a quart of Wine Rosa Solis Take two quarts of Aq. Vitae of Sugar or powdred Sugar a pound and half common Water a pint and half wherein you shall boil them to the consistence of Syrup not quite boil'd enough then put in half an ounce of Cinamon powdred and put it to the Syrup when 't is boil'd enough to scent it pour it through a Cloth with two grains of Musk and half an ounce of Sugar Candy Of Jewels and Pearls CHAP. VI. Artificial Pearls as fair as the Natural TAke the fairest and greatest Seeds of Pearls bruise them and dissolve them in Allum-water which is all the Secret then make them into a Paste and wash it gently with distilled Water afterwards make it into a Paste with Bean-flower-water and digest it in Dung the space of fifteen days then having the consistence of Paste you shall form Pearls thereof with a silver Mold and pierce them with Hogs-hair and hang them in an Alembic stopt close to the end the Air alter them not then you shall after this manner Roul each one apart in Leaf Gold then cleave a Barble in the middle and put them therein make a Paste of the said Barble with Wheat-flower and bake it in an Oven as you bake Bread If they have not lustre enough take the Water of a kind of Herb called Grastuli with six ounces of Pearls in Powder one ounce of Salt-Petre two ounces of Roch-Allum and Litharge of silver the Pearls being made you shall heat them a little and quench them in this Composition then dry and wash them repeating this five or six times To harden them Take Lapis Calaminaris in powder and Vitriol of each one ounce the whites of Eggs beaten to a Water mingle them together and distill them and there will come forth a clear Water with which and with very fine Barly Meal you shall make a Paste in which you shall put your Pearls to be bak'd in an Oven An admirable Secret to whiten Pearls Take Common and Roch-Allum of each one pound distill this to a Water half an ounce of Camphire Solomon's Seal two ounces rectifie it then use it with a moist Linnen Cloth Another more Excellent Take half an ounce of Bean-flowers Lime and Eggs an ounce white Salt one pound Water of Confound Alcobol of Wine eleven ounces distill them and use it For the same Take an handful of Wheat Bran boil it in a Posnet with a pint of Water and when 't is boil'd pour out half of the said Water and then in an earthen Porringer varnish'd wherein shall be the Pearls strung which you shall let steep therein till the Water be almost cold that you may rub them gently with your hands till the Water be wholly cold then throw away that Water and put on new upon the Pearls do thus often and then your Water will be clear which you shall warm and put into the said Porringer wherein you shall clear the said Pearls without rubing them and do it so
Millet instead of Sand. For the more security the stalk of the Grape may be dipped in melted Wax the same of any other Fruit. To preserve Apples from Rotting You must rub them with Juice of Spearmint To keep all Fruit that has Stones and even Figs. Take an earthen Pot put into it equal quantities of Honey and Water which must be first well beaten together into this put your Fruit just gathered and cover the Pot close when you take them out of the Pot put them into fresh Water To keep all sorts of Flowers Fill a Pot with half Water and half Verjuice and put as much Salt to it as will season it well gather your Flowers into the Liquour close up the Pot and set it in a Sellar when you take out your Flowers let it be by the Stalk shake and hold it never so little to the Fire to recover its Colour To keep Roses red all the year The Roses must be gathered when they are half open then you must have a hard earthen Pot well burnt and let it be burnt over again then take your Roses and place them upright squeesing them pretty close together and make of them one Bed or Layer over them spread some Cloves and over that some Nails about the bigness of Lath-nails all over and continue your Layers one upon another till the Pot be full the last must be of Nails and close the Pot well that no Air may pass these Nails that are to be layed upon the Cloves serve to preserve the red of the Roses which when you would use you must wash them very gently then stop the Pot close again and thus you may have Roses at any time as beautiful as in May. Another way to do the same Gather the Roses before they open when they are just ready to break they must be red Province Roses leave the Stalks long enough and wrap them up in Vine Leaves or in Hemp in little Parcels placing twelve Roses in each which powder with white Salt placing them in an earthen Pot and powder them with Salt as you would do Purslain then fill the Pot with Verjuice and so cover it laying Clay round that no Air may come to them at Christmas or any other time when you would take them out you must do it with a silver or wooden Fork and cover the Pot again for fear they take Air the Liquour that is in the Pot is very good to dress Meat with and the Roses as good in taste as to look at and will keep open six Weeks The way to open them is by making some Water luke-warm and leaving them full two hours in it so that after it they open by only blowing them Observe that the Pot must be kept in the bottom of the Cellar To make excellent Hypocras immediately Take five ounces of Aqua Vitae Cinnamon two ounces Pepper two Ginger two Cloves two Grains of Paradise two ounces Amber-greece three grains Musk two grains let all infuse twenty four hours in a glass Bottle upon warm Ashes and when you would use it to make Hypocras take one pound of Sugar and a quart of Wine and the Sugar being melted therein add to it three or four drops of this Liquor and you will have excellent Hypocras Another Liquor for the same use Take Cinnamon a little pounded two ounces Mace one ounce Ginger one ounce Ambergreece ten grains Musk six grains each being apart in Powder mix and put into a glass Bottle with four ounces of Spirit of Wine and do as above To make Rosa Solis Take a pound and half of White-bread very hot just come out of the Oven put it into a Limbic with half an ounce of Clove beaten green Aniseed Coriander of each an ounce over that a pint of good Red-wine and as much Milk then close it and put to it the Recipient close the Joints with glewed Paper let it lye thus twenty four hours after which time distill it in Balneo Mariae to extract all the Liquor which keep The Syrup must be made apart with Aqua Vitae or rather Spirit of Wine burning it upon very small Sugar in an earthen Dish or Porringer always stirring it with a Slice or Spoon till the flame goes out You must also dissolve Amber-greece with the purest Spirit of Wine first mixing a dram of Sugar with as much Amber-greece and pounding them well together then add to it in a little Bottle an ounce of Spirit of Wine and let it digest twenty four hours and evaporate in Balneo where it will all dissolve but will stiffen in the cold To make the Composition you must mix the Syrup of Aqua Vitae with this Essence of Amber such a quantity as you shall think fit to add to the distill'd Water if you would have it stronger put the greater quantity of Spirit of Wine Another way Boyl your Syrup to a thickness as is usual being boyl'd add what quantity of Spirit of Wine you shall think fit as also of the aforesaid Essence or such other as you shall like and it will be such as comes from Turin To make another sort of Liquor which the French call Populo Take one pint of Syrup boyl'd to a thickness a pint of the clearest White-wine and a pint of Spirit of Wine warm it a very little that they may mix then strain it through a Bag with two or three Almonds blanched and beaten to warm it and a little Bag of Perfume if you have no Essence To make good Spirit of Wine You must have a Glass Limbick and distill good Aqua Vitae in Balneo Mariae and put a piece of filter well dipped in common Oyl between the Helm and the Limbick and over it put in Flower of Rosemary only once you will extract the purest Spirit in the World A very cheap Lemmonade Scrape Lemmon-peel as much as you think fit into Water and Sugar to which add some drops of Essence of Sulphur with some slices of Lemmon it will be very good and refreshing there must be half a pound of Sugar to a pint of Water To make Franchipane Water Put half a quarter the quantity of Jesmin Flowers upon your Water sweetned with Sugar and let them infuse a while then smell whether it be sweet enough if not add fresh ones when the Water is as you would have it strain it and put in a few drops of Essence of Amber To make Jessemine Water You must do as above without adding any essence or mixture but what the Flowers give it That of Tuberose is made after the same manner That of Tonquille as also all other Flowers is done the same way Water of Strawberries Raspars Cherries Hart Cherries and Apricocks Squeeze out the Juice of these sorts of Fruit and mix that Liquour with Water well sweetned with Sugar and do as above To freeze them even like the Fruit. Take a little Tub and a tin Vessel of what size you please then put in the
into the deaf Ear and stop it with Cotton and lye on the other side To preserve the Eyes from Weeping and keep them fair and clean Distill a great quantity of Leaves of Mallows in white or red Wine and with the Water thereof wash the Eyes Night and Morning Pope Paul the Fifth used it in his Old Age. For a Pain in the Eyes Take Rose-water in a Glass boyl hard an Egg warm from the Hen and take away the Shell cut it in the middle and take away the Yolk and fill it with Sugar-Candy and re-joyn both Parts which you must tye with Crimson Silk which done dissolve a little Salt of Saturn in the Rose-water and put the Egg therein for twenty four Hours then wash the Eyes with the same Water There is nothing better to take away an Inflammation An Emplaister to be apply'd to an Artery which the King made use of Take half an Ounce of Mastick Bolearmoniack two drams Saffron fifteen Grains Opium a Scruple the whole being reduc'd to a Consistence in an hot Mortar make an Emplaister thereof with a little Turpentine adding towards the end a little Vinegar For the Pain of the Eyes Apply a Snakes Skin and burn the said Skin and receive the Smoke into your Eyes For the same Take ripe Sloes and beat them in a Marble Mortar then distill them and put a drop of this Water into the Eye For the same A Secret of Marshal de Thorstexson in Swedeland Take Rose-water and Plantan-water of each two ounces Fountain and Fennel-water of each one ounce Aloes Succotrine powdred half an ounce put them into a Marble Mortar with the White of an Egg and incorporate them till the Aloes be dissolv'd when you use it warm a little in a silver Spoon and put a drop in the Eye Night and Morning For the same Take a little white Vitriol in powder one part Oris of Florence powdred another part Sugar Candy another part mingle them together and put them in a Glass of Fountain Water more or less warm it and stir it coutinually and put a drop warm in the Eye going to Bed at Night For the same Take a new-laid Egg roast or boyl it hard take out the Yolk which done crumble it in a Glass then cover it with Fountain-water and infuse it all night in the morning strain it and add of Putty the bigness of a Filberd which you shall dissolve therein put one drop of this into the Eye Another for the same Take Plantan Leaves that have not been eaten by the Worms cleanse them well from Dirt and warm them a little then apply the out-side long-ways to the Eye two to each and let them lye on all Night if the Eye be curable the Leaves will dry if not otherwise For Deafness and Noise in the Ears Take a white Onion cut it long-ways to take out the middle Stalks then joyn it together and tye it with a String and fill the Vacancy with Oyl of Cammomil and roast the Onion in hot Cinders being roasted press it between two Trenchers and put some of the Juice thereof into the Ear with Cotton A Water of great Virtue to comfort the Teeth preserve the Gums from Putrefaction and cure the warry Eyes Take half a pound of white Vitriol Bole Armoniack six ounces Camphir an ounce and half make them into a Powder whereof take an ounce and half and put it into water ready to boyl and let it boyl a little and strain it through a Linnen-cloth then take it from the Fire This Water cures all sorts of Ulcers alone cures all Defluxions and mundifies comforts the parts makes the Hands fair and cures all sorts of Itch. To appease the Tooth-ach Take as much Water as Vinegar and boil it with Cloves Salt Pepper and a little Aqua Vitae and make thereof a Gargarism For the same Take of the inward Bark of Ash and the inward Bark of Rosemary of each half a quarter burn them in a hot chaffin-dish and of the Powder thereof make a Paste with Aqua Vitae and apply the bigness of a Pease to the Artery For the same Take of the Juyce of Celandine condens'd cut it in two and apply it to the Tooth For the same Probatum Take the quantity of a Bean of Camphir dissolve it in as little as may be of Aqua Vitae in a small Glass Vial upon hot Cinders then touch the Tooth with a little tent of Cotton or Linnen and if it be hollow leave the Cotton or Linnen moistned in the Tooth An admirable secret to make a Tooth fall out of the Mouth without Pain Take a green Lizard alive put it into a new Earthen Pot unglas'd stop it and lute it well and put it into a Furnace and when you know 't is dead take the Pot out when 't is cold make an hole in the Cover the bigness of a Pease into which pour an ounce of Aqua Fortis and half an ounce of Aqua Vitae mixed together then stop the hole with fat Earth and put the Pot to the fire again till the Waters be all consumed and the Lizard reduced to Powder then beat it in a woodden Mortar and keep it in a dry Place to use as followeth Rub the Gum of the pained Tooth and in a moment after it will make the Gum to part from the Tooth and it from the Jaw-Bone and so you may take it away without pain For the Jaundies Take fine Steel make it red hot in a Farriers Forge when 't is very red take a quartan of common Sulphur and put to the Steel having a woodden Vessel underneath in which is three quarts of White-wine and when the Sulphur touches the red Steel it will melt drop by drop which you shall let fall into the Wine this done strain the Wine through a Linnen Cloth and drink thereof for four mornings fasting two hours after the dose is a Glass at a time You may also take the melted Steel in the woodden Vessel and powder it which is excellent for the same Disease and for the stopping of the Months in Women given in the Decoction of Betony or Lungwort For the Falling Sickness Take 20 grains of a Ravens Brain dryed and powdred in a Glass of White-Wine in the decrease of the Moon Another infallible Receipt for the same Take a mans Scull if for a Man and a Womans if for a Woman it must be an entire one make it into an impalpable Powder to which add the Root of Peonie powdred one ounce with nine grains of its seed and a dram of Misseltoe of the Oak all in Powder in a pint of White-Wine of the best red Spanish Wine or the best red Wine that you can get drink it all in nine Mornings the nine last dayes of the Moon and if the Disease returns at the increase give it for nine days in the new of the Moon and continue this for three Moons For the Spleen Take a Piece of Steel powder
and powder it and rub your Teeth therewith To hinder the Hair from falling Take Parcely Seed and make it into an impalpable Powder and Powder the Head therewith three Nights every other Night once a Year only and there will never fall one Hair To make the Hair Grow Take the tops of Hemp when it begins to appear above Ground steep it twenty four hours in Water wherewith you shall well moisten the Teeth of the Comb you make use of only every encrease of the Moon it is certain this Makes the Hair grow much To Colour the Hair Take Oyl of Tartar warm as much as you think fit anoint a Sponge or a Comb therewith and comb the Head in the Sun having first washed your Head do thus thrice a day and in seven daies at farthest they will become black and if you would have them odoriferous anoint them with Oyl of Benjoin A Water to Colour the Hair black Dissolve an ounce of fine Silver in thin Plates in two ounces of Aqua Fortis in a Matras with a gentle Fire the Silver being dissolved add half a pint of Rose water and make them boil a quarter of an hour then add the Juyce of two Citrons then boil them again another quarter of an hour and when you use it take a spoonful of this Water which you shall keep in a Bottle and add four spoonfuls of Rose-water and as much of Juyce of Citrons warm them and wash the Head or Beard therewith taking care that you touch not the Skin but take a little Stick and tye a Linnen Cloth to its end and therewith touch the Hair of the Head or Beard and let it dry A Past for the Hands Take a pound of blanch'd Almonds and an ounce of yellow Sanders sers'd two ounces of Calamus sers'd an ounce of Orris two Glasses full of rose-Rose-water a Rennet Apple cut in little pieces the Crumbs of a white penny Loaf well dryed and sers'd make a Paste of all with two ounces of Gum Draganth dissolved in Rose-water for your Hands or Face Another Past for the Hands Take Apples and pare them and beat them in a Marble Mortar slicing them first moisten them with Rose-water and White-wine put White-bread Crumbs and Almonds well moistned blanch'd and bray'd with Wine then add a little white Soap and keep it for your use Otherwise Take two pounds of sweet Almonds blanch and beat them in a Marble Mortar infuse them in two quarts of Goats or Cows Milk for two or three hours strain and press them in a course Linnen-Cloth put this strained Liquour in a Basin over a Charchoal Fire adding thereto the Crumbs of a two penny white Loaf with about two drams of Borax and as much burnt roch Allum and towards the end an ounce of Sperma Coeti you must stir it constantly that it stick not to the bottom of the Basin the sign that 't is enough is that it will not fall from the Spatula in taking it out to boil it to purpose it will take five or six hours at least this Past is most excellent To make the Hair grow quickly Take the Juyce of Nettles that grow in the Sun rising wherein moisten the Teeth of your Comb every Morning and comb the Hairs upward and they will grow quickly Probatum To make one have a good Voyce Take a dram of Elder Flowers powdred and put into White-Wine fasting in a Morning Wonderful Secrets which must be collected and compounded according to the Influences of the Stars to cure the Infirmities hereafter specified in a short time CHAP. IV. The seven Planets that cause Diseases SAturn reigning causes cold Diseases as the Gout in the Feet Leprosy Palsy Quartan Agues Dropsies Catarrhs Coughs c. Jupiter causes Cramps Numness Inflammations of the Liver Head aches pain in the Shoulders windiness in the Body Sanguine Fevers and all Diseases caused of Putrefaction the Apoplexy Cardiac Passions Squinsies c. Mar causes acute Fevers and tertian Agues continual and intermittent Fevers Apostemes Erysipelas Carbuncles Fistulas bloody Fluxes and such like hot and dry Diseases The Sun causes Rheum in the Eyes coldness in the Stomach and Liver Swoonings Choler Catarrhs Pustules in the Matrix and the like in the lower Parts Venus causes Scabs the Venereal Disease Lientery Suffocations of the Womb Sickness in the Stomach from cold and moist Causes Infirmities of the Liver and the Lights Mercury causes hoarsness Distempers in the Senses impediments in the Speech and its Passions Falling-sickness Coughs Jaundies Vomiting Catarrhs and all Melancholy Diseases The Moon causes the Palsy Cholick the Whites Dropsie Phlegmatick Apostemes Lienteries and all Infirmities that come from the Obstruction of the Veins He that would Cure any Infirmity infallibly and not as some Physicians proceed it is necessary to make use of Astrology and the Aspects of the Stars and their Influences and this is intended in jure regulari non coacto wherefore in such case as Hippocrates tells us â—… 1. Aph. 4. Medicari in acutis morbis eadem die si materia turgeat tardari enim his malum est Monardus in his Epistles says in such a case potius lotium inspiciendum quam astra and this is intended to be Bleeding and Purging but in regard to other local Remedies it is necessary to observe the Plenetary hours and for that end you must be advised by what Planet the Infirmity is caus'd yet you may gather the Herb or Flower Seed Root or such like in what hour the Planet hath Dominion that is an Enemy to that Planet that causes the Disease For contraria contrarus curantur and to know the hour of the Planet you must see what hour the Sun rises At whatever hour the Sun rises in any Planet all the days in every Month are under the same Dominion Friendly PLANETS Sol is a Friend to Jupiter and Venus Luna is a Friend to Jupiter Venus and Saturn Mars is a Friend to Venus Mercury is a Friend to Jupiter Venus and Saturn Jupiter is a Friend to Sol Luna Mercury Venus and Saturn Venus is a Friend to Sol Luna Mars Mercury Jupiter Saturn is a Friend to Jupiter Sol and Luna Planets that are Enemies Sol is an Enemy to Mars Mercury and Luna Luna is an Enemy to Mars and Mercury Mars is an Enemy to Mercury Luna Saturn Sol Jupiter Mercury is an Enemy to Sol Luna and Mars Jupiter is an Enemy to Mars Venus is an Enemy to Saturn Saturn is an Enemy to Mars more than to Venus Planetary Friendly hours of the Night and Day Calculated exactly to the Ephemerides Sunday 1 Sol 2 Venus 3 Mercury 4 Luna 5 Saturn 6 Jupiter 7 Mars 8 Sol 9 Venus 10 Mercury 11 Luna 12 Saturn Munday 1 Luna 2 Saturn 3 Jupiter 4 Mars 5 Sol 6 Venus 7 Mercury 8 Luna 9 Saturn 10 Jupiter 11 Mars 12 Sol. Tuesday 1 Mars 2 Sol 3 Venus 4 Mercury 5 Luna 6 Saturn 7 Jupiter 8 Mars 9 Sol 10
Powder mix it well together colour it as you please and pass it through a Searce Another way for Cypress Powder much finer Take Oak Moss wash it often in fair Water till it hath lost its smell then lay it on a Hurdle set out in the Air being dry sprinkle it with the best Rose-water and Orange-flower-water and leave it again to dry if the scent be too strong wash it in fair Water till the smell become more sweet and pleasant after this done the Moss being yet on the Hurdle put a Cassolet or Perfume Cake with Coals of Fire with which perfume your Moss as long as you think fit In fine to one pound of Ground thus prepared put two drams of good Musk and one dram and half of Civet if it be very good if not the same quantity of Musk. Excellent Amber-powder Take six ounces of Bean flower as much worm-eaten Wood pass them through a Searce four ounces of Cypress wood two ounces of Sanders two ounces of Benjamin half an ounce of Storax two drams of Calamus Aromaticus as much Laudanum pass all through a silk Sieve then to two pound of this Composition take four grains of Ambergreece half an ounce of Machaleb or Pomander Privet beaten and sifted which you must mix in a hot Mortar with the Amber then mix them all together and keep it in a Glass bottle well stopped put a pound and half of this Powder into each sweet Bagg The Queens perfume Water Take red Rose-water a quart Damask-Rose-water Muskadine and Orange flower-water of each three pints Water of Melilot-Flowers Flowers of Mirtel and Garden Costmary three Pints put all the aforesaid distilled Waters into a Glass-bottle to which add a pound of Benjamin in Powder Cloves Cinnamon and Orange-pill dryed of each half an ounce all being bruised stop the Bottle Close without opening it in a whole Month. To make a curious compound Water Take Benjamin four ounces Storax two ounces yellow Sanders one ounce Cloves two drams two or three pieces of Orris half a Citron Pill two Nutmegs Cinnamon half an ounce and about two quarts of Water put it all into a new earthen Pipkin and let it boil till a quart of it be consumed then take about six grains of Musk powdered with about as much Sugar as the bigness of a small Nut which disâ—olve with a little of the said Water strain and put it into a Glass-bottle well stopped the better to preserve it Keep the Dregs dry and powder them and use them to perfume the Powder aforesaid A curious Extraction of the Perfumes and Colours of all Flowers Extract through a Retort after the manner of Aqua fortis the Spirit of Salt-peter or common Salt and keep it close in a Glas Bottle well stopped then take what quantity you will of Rose Leaves which put into a Limbick with one ounce of the Spirit of the said Salt one pint of pure Spring Water and so proportionably till your Limbick be full let it thus infuse and lye four and twenty hours till you see your Water well coloured which pour out by inclination in another glass Vessel it will have the colour and smell of the Rose leaving in the Limbic your Leaves fresh as if they had been new gather'd You may do the same with all other Flowers as Violets Gilliflowers and others To make the best Bolonia Wash-balls Take one pound of Genoua Soap cut into small pieces four ounces of unslacked Lime which beat well in a Mortar with two Glasses of Aqua Vitae and let it steep eight and forty hours then take a sheet of Paper on which spread it a drying being dry beat it in a Mortar with half an ounce of Mahaleb an ounce and a half of yellow Saunders half an ounce of Orris as much Calamus all in Powder and make it into a Paste with whites of Eggs and four ounces of Gum-dragacanth dissolved in rose-Rose-water then make your Wash-balls Another sort of excellent Wash-balls Take one pound of Orris four ounces of Benjamin two ounces of Storax as much yellow Saunders half an ounce of Cloves one penny worth of Cinnamon and a little Lemon-peel one ounce of Machaleb one Nutmeg beat it all to Powder Then take about two pound of white Soap scrap'd and put it into almost three pints of Aqua Vitae to lye and steep four or five dayes then work it well with about one pint of Orange-Flower or other sweet Water Next prepare the quantity you shall think fit of white Starch beaten and sifted which mix with the Drugs aforesaid and the Soap to make a Passe have ready a little Gum Dragacanth dissolved in sweet Water and five of six whites of Eggs and make up your Wash-balls of what size you will To perfume them well Take what quantity of Musk you please which dissolve in any sweet compound Water then take about the quantity of one Wash-ball of the aforesaid Composition and mix it together in a Mortar then mix and incorporate that with your Paste like Leven and so make your Wash-balls Several approved wayes to take out Stains of Oyl Grease or other things CHAP. VIII To take out a Spot of Oyl upon Sattin or any other Stuff and even upon Paper TAke Sheeps-Feet calcined of which lay on both sides of the Paper or Stuff upon the Spot and so leave it one Night this Powder or Ashes will draw out all the stain but if it be not clear taken away do it the second time but the stain must not be old Another way to take out Stains Take half a pound of Soap four ounces of Fullers earth and one of unslacked Lime mix it all in faâ—r Water and lay it to the Stain Another way Take Water and Starch and make it into a Paste with which cover the Stain laying it about as thick as a Shilling and leave it there next day rub it off as you would do dry Dirt and the Stain will appear no more Probatum Another way for Silk Rub the Stain with Spirit of Turpentine this Spirit evaporates and carries away with it the other Oyl To take off the Dirt that dasheth upon Cloths Wet a white Cloth and lay it upon it that sucks in all the Dirt and makes it appear no more To take off Iron-Moulds from Linnen The Linnen being whitened take boiling Water in a Pewter Pot and immediately put in your Linnen and lay it over to receive the Smoke squeezing and rubbing it with a little Sorrel than wash it out in clear Water To take out all Ink spots upon Linnen or Woollen Take some juice of Lemmon put it upon the stain which wash immediately in fair Water rubbing it well for want of Lemmon use Verjuice of Grapes or Sorrel Another way Wash the stain with white Soap dissolved in Vinegar How to soften whiten and restore discoloured Ivory CHAP. IX How to soften Ivory so that it may be cast in a Mould BOil the Ivory in common Water in which
before make it up into a Paste which make in what fashion you will and let it dry in the shade Portable or dry Ink to carry about Take of the black of Rosin one part Coal made of Walnut Peach or Apricock-tree one part Vitriol and Galls equal parts Gum Arabic four parts all in Powder or in a Cake if you will An Excellent Ink for writing Take half a pound of Log-wood cut into small slices boil it in a quart of Wine or Vinegar till half be consumed then take out the Wood and put into the Pot four ounces of good Glass pounded and put all into a strong Bottle which expose to the Sun for three or four days stirring of it three or four times a day then add to it two ounces of good Roman Vitriol or green Copperas and let it steep two days then two ounces of Gum-Arabick pounded next day strain it into another Vessel to keep the dregs that remain may serve again with the same Liquor and you need only add half a pint of logwood-Logwood-water to make it shine you must put to it a handful of Pomegranate shels which put into the bottle with the Galls being in want of Ink you may boyl it a quarter of an hour but it is never so good but thick and muddy A very useful way to write upon greasie Paper or Parchment and make the Ink run Take an Oxes gall which prick and put into a Pot with a handful of Salt and a little Vinegar then stir it all very well and thus you may keep it a year without spoiling when you write and meet with any Paper or Parchment that in some place is greasy take one drop of that Gall which mix with the Ink in the Ink-horn and you will write with ease Rain or Nut-water is excellent and the Ink made of it is very good White-wine is best for shining Ink. To write Silver and Gold Letters Take one ounce of Touchstone two ounces of Sal Armoniack half an ounce of Gum Arabic beat all to Powder and mix it then when you would write dissolve your dregs in Water or milk of Figs when your letters are dry rub them with the metal you would have them be of An Ink that may be wiped out in forty days Take Aqua-fortis in which boyl as many Galls Roman Vitriol and Sal Armoniac as the Water can dissolve at last add Gum Arabic then write it is very black till wiped out Ink upon Glass Take scales of Iron and Stone well ground upon a Copper Plate equal quantities of each then dissolve them in Gum Water and write with a glass Pen. Several sorts of Colours Take Tutty which incorporate with the juice of Celandine upon a Marble stone and write with it To make a resemblance of Wines of several Colours Shave Brasil-wood which steep in common Water so that it remain like a Paste and let it dry in a Glass till it soaks up the Water Take what you can carry between two Fingers of these shavings which put into a Glass of Water and it will suddenly become red like Claret Pour the said red Water into another glass wash'd in good Vinegar it will turn yellow put out the greatest part and retain but about the depth of three fingers putting fresh Water to it it will be of the colour of small pale Wine to which put a little Vinegar it will look like a Muscadine inclin'd to yellow add Water it will be like White-wine to this last put two drops of writing Ink blow your Water and it will become of a good pale Greediline Incombustible Oyl Oyl of Olives unslacked Lime and Salt distilled together make incombustible Oyl To make Arsenick run like Oyl Take white Soap which distill and there will come out an Oyl in which boyl your Arsenick till the said Oyl be consumed and it will melt like Wax To slack Lime so that it shall be good for several Vses Put it into a Pot and fill it with Water when it begins to boyl it makes a small Skin on the top which must be taken off with a Knife so doing till it rises no more and then it will be fit for use To make a Light for a Lamp that shall not smoak by distilling with an excellent Week Distill a pound or more of common Oyl which use in your Lamp the Light of it is very steady and even the Week may be of Talk or stone Allum like other Weeks which is done by steeping them well in Water and they will spin out observe you must make a great many little holes in the Week with an Awl or great Needle to make the Oyl rise Aqua Vitae Put into an Earthen Limbec well tinned a quart of the strongest Vinegar with a handful of Allay and as much Salt and distill it A Candle that cannot be put out Fill a Cane with natural live Sulphur and wrap it about with Lints then cover it with Wax and light it To hinder Oyl from smoaking Distill some Juice of Onion and put it at the bottom of the Lamp the Oyl upon it which hinders it from making Soot To make Oyl of Eggs white Put among the Oyl of twelve Eggs extracted after the common way one spoonful of Oyl of Tartar mixing them well together set them out to the Sun there remains at bottom a thick settlement the Oyl that remains at top must be gently poured off into another Vial leaving it in the Sun it becomes as white as a Curd Of Artificial Fire-works Hunting and Fishing CHAP. XII An excellent Composition for Granadoes staming Lances Pikes and other Instruments TAke fine Cannon Powder six parts Salt-peter Rosin of each a fifth part Greek-Pitch all being beaten to Powder sprinkle it with Nut Oyl till it be made into a hard Paste Flaming Lances Take two foot in length of the Lance which fill with the aforesaid Composition till within two inches of the top which fill up with fine Cannon Powder over that make a round Ball of the aforesaid matter covered with fine Flax putting in a stick for the touch-hole which leave there after having dipped the said Ball in melted Pitch redoubling this Composition when you please Fire Pots Take six ounces of fine Powder powdered Rosin one ounce Arsenick four ounces in fine Powder mix them together with Yarn and Hemp a little fill your Pot cast it as you know and you will see the effect Good Squibs Take a pound of fine Powder Salt-peter two ounces all well beaten together and fift them through a fine Sieve or Strainer then sprinkle with Aquae Vitae or good White-wine beat down and ram the said Matter hard in your Cartridge which must be washed with white of Egg and Starch or some other fine Glew A pleasant Invention to kill Game Make a stopple of Hemp with melted Grease and fresh Hogs Lard put the said stopple into your Gun instead of Paper and ram it upon the Powder with your scowring Rod then take
just boiled in Water To keep Mushroomes They must be boiled in only the Water that comes from them with Salt and Pepper being pretty well boiled put to them about one Glass of Wine and half a quarter of Butter put them into an Earthen Pot glazed and cover it close they will keep thus two or three Months you must observe there must be a little more Salt and Pepper put to them than if they were to be eaten immediately To make Fowl tender presently You must make them swallow a spoonful of good Vineger a quarter or half an hour before you kill them and let them run then kill and put them in the Chimney from Night till Morning and they will be very good and tender there are some that draw them and put a hot Stone into their Bellies leaving them in like manner in the Chimney in the Smoak How to keep Grapes till Easter as red and fresh as if they were upon the Vine You must gather your Grapes pretty green about eight daies before the usual time and when they are dry not rotten mouldy noâ— moist then lay them â—…dsomely in a little Barrel one against another very softly when full thrust them down again and fill it at the Bung with old or last years Raisins keeping it in a Cellar when you would use them knock out the Head of the Cask and they will be very good To freshen salt Porridge Put into the Pot a small quantity of Wheat Flower To make live Cray-fishes red Only rub them with Aqua Vitae and mix them in a Dish with boiled Cray-fishes which will be very pleasant To sweeten ill tasted Oyl Put into it some Roch-Allum or boiling Water you must observe that Oyl in which Aniseed has been steeped will not corrupt the same will happen if it be exposed to the Sun or Fire To preserve all manner of Fowl a Month without spoyling You must have a large Cask that has had Wine in it knock out one board or two into which 〈…〉 Very wholesom and excellent Spice Take two ounces of dryed Orange Peel sweet Marjerom one ounce Time and Hysop one ounce all being well dryed pounded and mixed together makes the wholesomest Spice that can be used To preserve fresh Lard When you would melt it put to it a little good Verjuice then when it begins to boil to six pound put one pint of Verjuice and let it consume the same may be used to preserve Pomatum A most excellent and singular way of making a Cake Take two whites of new laid Eggs and cut off the Sperme or String then beat them as long as you can put in a quarter of a pound of fine Flower and as much Sugar pounded work it all well together then put to it about two penny-worth of Aqua Vitae and a little Coriander in Powder let all be well mixed then lay it upon a fine Paper about as big as a Plate or thereabouts sprinkle it with Sugar and let it be baked Sweet-meats Flowers and Fruits CHAP. XIV Genoua Biskets TAke one pound of Flower four ounces of Sugar Coriander and Aniseed what you think fit mix it with four Eggs and as much warm Water as will be requisite make a Paste and that into a Cake which bake in the Oven being baked cut it into five or six pieces or slices which bake again The Queens Bisket Take twelve ounces of Flower one pound of fine Sugar twelve Eggs whereof three Yolks must be layed aside lest it make it too yellow add what Aniseed and Coriander you think fit beat and mix it all very well together till it come to a soft Paste some add a little Leven to make it the wholesomer let this Paste be put into Paper or in tin Cases about two Inches broad and twice as long which put in a Tart-pan into the Oven which must not be over hot when you think them baked enough take them out and lay them on a sheet of Paper to bake again at the heat of the Oven keep it in a hot Place Macaroons Take one pound of sweet Almonds beat them carefully in a stone Mortar sprinkling them with Rose-water add one pound of Sugar beating all well together and make a great round Cake that will fill a Dish or Bason which put into a warm Oven to bake gently being half baked cut it into small pieces and put them to bake again upon white Paper To make a Paste of any Fruit whatsoever Take the quantity of Fruit you will and having pared boil it well in clear Water then strain and let it lye then take ten pound of the said Fruit six pound of fine Sugar in very fine Powder and put but five pound of the six to the ten pounds of Fruit and mix them very well then boil the Paste a little and lay it with a Spoon upon tin Plates each Spoonful by it self and sprinkle each spoonful with the remaining Pound of Sugar dry them like Macaroons turning them every Night and Morning keeping them in a very warm place over an Oven in the Sun or the open Air look upon it often and turn it sprinkling as above till it be very dry then put them into deal Boxes to keep them dry wrapped up in Papers and let them not touch one another lest they grow soft You may thus make preserves of Roses Borrage Bugloss and all others into a Paste as Gooseberries c. An admirable Gelly of Quinces and other sorts of Fruit. Take some of the Decoction of the peel and inside of a Quince or other Fruit that has boyled long in a great deal of water the Decoction being made let it waste in the Sun or at the Fire or long standing of this Decoction make your Gelly Genoua Paste Take the insides of Quinces and sweet Apples equal quantities of each with rose-Rose-water pound and strain it through a Cieve then dry it with a wooden Slice over the fire then add as much Sugar as there is Paste and boyl it to a convenient thickness To keep any Fruit whatsoever a very long time and particularly Grapes Provide some Sand out of a River which dry in your Store-room then gather your Grapes or other Fruit when the Sun shines upon it for it must be dry then spread a layer of Sand about an inch thick in a Box and lay your Fruit upon it presently strow Sand upon it so that it go quite thorough and so continue layer upon layer your Box or other wooden Vessel being full shut it close that no Air may come to it and put it in a dry place without removing it the Grapes must not be over ripe but somewhat green about eight days before their ripening the Grapes will keep till new ones come the same may be done with Pears Prunes Cherries Apples Gooseberries Peaches c. Some keep them in Ashes or Oat-straw and bury their Vessel in the said straw and so they keep two years if you will others use
Fruit into the Water you would freeze a little wider at top then at bottom that the buried Ice may come out with a tin cover then fill the said tin Vessel with the said Waters or else with the Fruit with clear Water to make it freeze at the bottom of the Tub lay a little Straw and a bed of Ice with a quarter of small Salt then another bed of Ice and Salt over it and put in your Vessel into the middle far enough from the sides of the Tub that there may be space enough to put in Ice and Salt as above and so continue till you cover your Vessel half a foot above it and leave it thus in a cool Place for four or five hours the Water will be frozen and because it will stick to the Vessel heat a Cloth with which rub the said Vessel round and it will loosen To make Ice in Summer Take a large stone Bottle that will hold three quarts put into it two ounces of refined Salt-peter half an ounce of Florence Orris and fill it up with boyling Water and stop it close immediately let it down into a Well leaving it there two or three hours take out the Bottle and break it to get the Ice which will be very hard and as good as the natural To cool Wine extreamly without Ice Dissolve about a pound of Nitre in a Bucket of Water and put in your Bottles to cool Several sorts of Wines how to preserve them and how to restore decayed Wine CHAP. XV. To restore Wine that is prickt YOu must rack your wine down to the Lee into another Cask in which are fresh Lees of good Wine then take one pound of the best strong Aqua Vitae with half a pound of yellow Wax scraped into the said Aqua Vitae which melt in it over a very gentle fire then dip a Cloth in this Liquor and set it on fire with Sulphur which put flaming into the Bung and stop the Cask close Another way Take a handful of old Walnuts with the Shells for half a Teirce for a Tieece two handfuls then put the said Nuts into a hot Oven and dry them so that they turn red then take the same quantity of Willow Chips of the Wood next the Bark and put your Walnuts hot and red into the Cask and stop the Bung with those Chips let it lye so three or four daies and you will see a strange alteration Another way Take out a Bucket full and boyl it or rather a Bucket of good Wine and pour it boiling hot into the corrupted Vessel instead of what you took out and stop it close and in the aforesaid time it will come to it self For Wine that is decayed by too much vent or sour Stir the Wine through the bung with a stick without touching the Lee then pour in a pound of good Aqua Vitae let it lye ten days and it will come to it self Wine that has taken vent is also recovered by putting into the Pot before you drink it a crust of Bread burning hot To recover Wine that tastes of the Cask Rack all the Wine off upon a good Lee then put down in a linnen Bag four ounces of Laurel-berries in Powder with some filings of Steel at bottom to make the Bag sink let it down to the middle of the Cask and as you draw the Wine let it down lower To recover Wine that is turned The Water of Saturn or red Litharge recovers Wine that is turn'd that is Red-wine and white Litharge for White-wine To take away the musty smell of Wine You must make a long piece of Dough like a stick and half bake it in the Oven take out it and stick it with Cloves and put it in the Oven till thoroughly baked then hang it within your Cask so that it touch not the Wine you may also throw it into the Cask and it will take away the ill smell To prevent Wine from turning Put one pound of Lead melted and thrown into Water into your Cask For Wine that smells soure or bitter Boyl about half a peck of Barley in four pints of Water till half be consumed strain and put it into the Cask at the Bung stirring it with a stick without touching the Lee. To soften a green Wine Put into a pint of such Wine one drop of Vinegar soaked with Litharge and it will lose its greenness For Wine that is turned Put into the Cask some Spirit of Tartar For green Wine Boyl some Honey to draw out the Wax and strain it through a Cloth put two pints of it to a Teirce which will make it very good If it be in Summer and you find any danger of it turning put in a stone of unslack'd Lime To preserve Wine from souring Take Sand out of a River in March wash it well and dry it in the Sun and throw two Porringers full of it into a Teirce of Wine with two pints of Water Another way Take about St. Martin's day a Teirce of Wine and boyl it till but one third be left and of this Wine put four pints or thereabouts into each of your other Casks with two bits of Frankincense about as big as Walnuts and stop them close To make Wine fine Put into a Vessel two pints of Milk well boyl'd and scummed that all the Cream may be off To make a Muscadine Wine You must infuse the flowers of Clary in the Cask or else put in a little bag of Elder-flowers To make Wine sweet It must be filled upon the Lee and lay at the bottom of the Cask half a pound or more according to the bigness of the Vessel of Mustard-seed in Powder To make it black Put in a couple of Pewter-pots when the new Wine boyls up For White-wine that is turn'd deep coloured You must stir the Wine and Lee together and take out five pints in which dissolve a peck of Wheat-flower which put in at the Bung then add half a pint of Aqua Vitae and let it settle three days To make new unsettled Wine very good Take about a pint of Wheat which boyl in a quart of Water till it burst so that touching it with your finger all the flower fall out squeese it in a new Cloth put a quart of this Water into the quantity of two Teirces of White-wine when it boyls up at the same time put in a little Bag somewhat long full of dry Elder-flowers To make White-wine red and red white Take ashes of white Briony to make Red-wine white and one the contrary ashes of black Briony to make white red Probatum To make Malmsie Take of the best English Galingale Clove and Ginger one dram beat it all not too small and infuse it twenty four hours in Aqua Vitae in a woodden Vessel close stopped then put all into a Cloth which hang by a thread in the Cask containing a load and half of Claret leave it there three days and you will have as good and
strong a Wine as the natural Malmsie To make Rose Vinegar in an hour Green Bramble-berries put into good Wine makes Vinegar in an hour To make Rose Vinegar immediately Take green Black-berries common Roses of each four ounces Barberies one ounce dry all in the shade and beat to fine Powder when you would use it put about a quarter of an ounce to half a glass of Claret or White-wine mix and let it stand a Moment then strain it Another way in an hour Take pure Flower of Rye and steep it in good Vinegar make it into a thin Cake which bake in the Oven and beat to Powder and steep again in strong Vinegar do this three times over then put the said cake into about a quarter Cask of Wine which will soon grow sharp A sort of Vinegar used by the deceased Monsieur Gr. the Connestable of France Take one pound of the best and newest Raisins of the Sun and take out the Seeds then put them into an earthen glazed Pot with a quart of good Rose-vinegar and let it infuse a whole Night upon warm Embers in the Morning make it boil a little after 't is taken from the Fire and cold strain and keep it in a Bottle close stopped An admirable sort of Vinegar Vinegar is made in three hours if you steep the Root of Beets in Wine and comes to it self again if you add Cabbage Root Admirable Curiosities in Painting Varnishing c. CHAP. XVI How to calcine Azure BEat your Azure into fine Powder and boil it with distilled Vinegar till the Vinegar be consumed then lay your Azure upon the Fire-shovel hot and dry it thereon upon a sheet of Paper then grind it with Nut-oyl and use it To calcine Lamp-black and make it better Take a Fire-shovel which make red hot and lay the black upon it and when it has done smoaking it is enough it may be used with Gum water and ought not to be ground when used with Oyl A finer Lamp black then what is commonly bought It must be made with Lamps of Oyl laying something close over to receive the Smoak A black of Sheeps-feet Take what quantity of Sheeps-feet you think fit calcine them in a Crucible and quench them in a wet Cloth grind them in Water before you add any Gum this black will mix with Lake and Umber for Carnation in Miniature or Water painting A fine white for Water-colours Take an ounce of fine Silver in small bits like shot or as it comes from the Mine which dissolve in Aqua fortis for twenty four hours being dissolved and that it looks like Christal at the bottom of the Glass cast off the Aqua fortis and wash the Silver well in fair common Water five or six times till no strength of the Aqua fortis be left in it to try which lay it upon your Tongue then set it a drying in a little earthen Pot for Use it must be dissolved in Gum-water with a little water of Sugar candy A very fine white of Eggs. Take a great earthen Pot glazed and a Plate of new Lead that may reach two inches over the edges put into the Pot two pound of Mutton-Suet of that which is about the Kidnies cut into small pieces as big as Nuts then add to it a dozen of new laid Eggs and three pints of the strongest Vinegar lay the Plate upon the Pot and close it round with Paper glewed that nothing may evaporate put it into a temperate place neither hot nor cold after fifteen daies take off your Plate to which you will find a great deal of white sticking which scrape off gently with a Knife and put another pint of strong Vinegar into the Pot throw off the Eggs and put in as many fresh ones and cover the Pot as before after fifteen daies take up the Plate and take off the white that sticks do this as long as you think fit afterwards take the white and put it into a Pot that is not glazed pour over it a pint of Water and dissolve all by stirring it and the Water will be like Milk which pour into another Pot and filtrate and there will remain a very good white upon what remains in the Pot pour another Water wash as the first time and filtrate in the same manner you will have another white which will not be quite so good as the first Note that in pouring off and filtrating the Water you must be careful the settlement does not go off with it for that settlement is useless and therefore to be thrown away To make extraordinary fine white Lead Take the best chosen white Lead in Scales grind them well upon a stone with Vinegar and it will turn black then take a Pot full of Water wash your white Lead very well let it settle and pour off the Water by inclination grind it again with Vinegar and wash again doing the same three or four times and you will have an excellent white as well for Water-colours as painting in Oyl How to make Vltra Marine of Lapis Lazuli Take a pound of Lapis and calcine it in a Crucible covered with Oyl when it is well calcined throw it into Vinegar to make it break then being dryed pound it in a Brass Mortar and grind it upon a shell with Nut or spike Oyl which is better grind it very fine and not too thin Then for one pound of the said Lapis take a pound of Linseed Oyl one pound of white Wax one pound of Rosin a pound of Burgundy Pitch a pound of Turpentine half a pound of Colophonium put all these things into a new Pot melt them gently over a small Fire so that they may not boil alwaies stirring them with a stick till they are well mixed then put in your Paste of Lapis and with a wooden Slice take out the Composition laying it upon a Table turning it up and down then you must have a little Cock running with luke-warm Water upon your Paste which will drive out the Ultra Marine which must be received into an earthen Pot placed under the Table then pour off the water by inclination or filtrate as you think fit repeat this often with warm water and you will have the best Ultra Marine Another way to extract Vltra Marine Make your Lapis Lazuli red hot in a Crucible and quench it in good Vinegar two or three times then you may pound it with ease in a Mortar next grind it with Linseed Oyl upon a stone and some Spirit of Wine both which must have been first upon Embers in a Glass Bottle and very well stirred together before they are poured upon the Lapis to grind it which being reduced to impalpable Powder incorporate with the following cement Take two ounces of Linseed Oyl Turpentine Mastick Assa soetida Colophonium the same quantity Wax and Rosin of Firr three ounces boil all this for a quarter of an hour in a glazed Pot then strain it through a Cloth
letting it drop into fair Water this is a Cement of which you must take one part and as much Lapis which beat and incorporate together in an earthen Pot glazed then pour fair water over it and let it lye a quarter of an hour then stir the Composition hard with a wooden Slice and within a quarter of an hour you will see a blue water which pour off into another glazed Pot pour more water upon your Composition continuing stirring and changing Waters till it gives no more colour Note that you must pour no water upon the Ingredients but what must be hot then evaporate all your blue waters and there will remain the true Ultra Marine producing four ounces out of each pound and almost all the rest in blue Ashes Excellent Greens Take as much Verdigreece as you think fit and grind it with Vinegar and put it into Dough of houshold Bread and bake it then break open your Loaf and take out your Verdigreece which mix with Water or Oyl and grind it and it will be very excellent A green to be kept in a Bladder useful for Limning and Colouring Take Buck-thorn-berries which must be gathered the latter end of August when they are ripe they must be beaten and made boil seven or eight daies in a hot place they will boil of themselves and become like sweet Wine add some water to make it clearer that done strain it through a Cloth squeesing the feces as much as you can and sprinkle the expression with powdered Allum more or less as you shall see convenient some add Vinegar but it is much longer a drying and is ruddy it must be kept in a Bladder in the shade or Chimney and that done it will keep very well this Buck-thorn-berry grows along the Hedges in Avignon To make a very beautiful liquid Green Take a pound of Verdigreece and half a pound of white Tartar of Montpelier in Powder mix them together and steep them one Night in a quart of good Vinegar which boil till half be consumed then having setled two daies pour it off by inclination into a Glass-bottle or filtrate to use it in colouring and glaze over Buck-thorn-berry use Gum Ammonicak and Saffron to stiffen it being mixed with juice of Berries the aforesaid Green and Azure you may make several Greens To make the green of Berries Take four ounces of Buck-thorn-berries which beat and boil in two or three pints of water leaving it till half be consumed then strain all through a Cloth and put into that Liquour as much Ceruse in fine Powder as you think fit then make it up into Balls and dry them upon Tiles when dry stiffen them with Gum. It will be the better for mixing with it some water of Gum Ammoniack Vermilion in Stone Cinaber or Vermilion is made the more beautiful by mixing with it when it is ground some Water of Gum Ammoniack with a little Saffron and it does not grow black For Red and other Colours Vermilion prepared as above For Orange colour mix a little red Lead For Yellow the best Orpiment well ground in Water then put in little parcels upon Paper as must be done with all other colours to dry them When it is very dry and in small Powder you may use it For a Greediline boil Lyons Sorrel alone in Water the thickest and deepest coloured you can which is used to colour White-lead already ground and dryed grind it again with this Tincture then dry and grind it again with the same and do it over as often as you think fit being thus ground and powdered it must be incorporated with the others to colour To make fine Prints look like Oyl Painting Glew the white edges of your Print upon a frame as when you make Chases for Windows before you glew it moisten it well with water that it may stretch as it dryes upon the Frame then take Oyl of Turpentine or any other that is not yellow and rub over the Print when it is dry lay on your Colours ground in Oyl and lay them upon the back of your Print as if you would paint upon a Cloth except that they must be layed on plain without shadowing because the stroaks of the Graver that shadow the Print work that effect that done on the printed side where there is no colour lay on some fine drying Vernish which is that of Venice or the white Vernish and it will appear like a real Picture upon Cloth Note that the Flesh-colour must be done the nearest that may be as if you painted upon Cloth because the colour lying under must express the true colour of Flesh How to wash old Paintings and give them a good Gloss Take one ounce of Tartar and as much white Glass wort which boil in a pint of water till half be consumed which strain and rub the Picture presently with the Water and a Spunge the water must be luke-warm then immediately wash it with warm fair Water and wipe it over To vernish them Take an ounce of clear Venice Turpentine with an ounce and half of Spirit of Turpentine and three or four ounces of drying Vernish mix all in a Glass Vial and dissolve it in Balneo Mariae when cold strike it over the Picture with a Pensil Another way Take whites of Eggs beat them to a froth with a Fig-tree Twig with the thin rub the Picture To cleanse smooth Painting Rub them with a Spunge dipped in Lye made of Vine Branches burnt or mix equal parts of it and Urine To make Flanders Images Take four ounces of Verdigreece in Powder which put into a glazed Pot with a quart of Water and stirr it well with a stick letting it infuse three Daies and three Nights shaking it now and then then strain it through a Cloth four times double in this water dissolve Fish-glew upon a little Fire taking care it grow not too thick then pour it upon your Moulds with an edging of Wax about them To make them yellow take Saffron with a little Roch-allum If red Brazile infused in Water For to make Gold or Silver Images put into your Glew Shell-Silver or Gold and your Glew being dissolved you must strain the Feces through a Cloth before you lay all upon the Mould How to take off any Design without pricking or pouncing of it which is called Tracing Rub the back of your Design or Print with red black or Chalk if it were to be drawn upon black and strike over all the Lines with a blunt point and the Paper underneath will be very well drawn but if you will not rub the Print you may do the sheet of Paper lay it under the Print and strike over the Lines without spoiling it To write burnished Gold Letters upon Vellum as well as the Ancients Take an ounce of fine Bole-Armoniack two drams of fine Vermilion one dram of black Lead and half a dram of Jet and as much white Lead all being ground together mix with the white of
Medals of Plaister Take Soap of Alicant which is white scrape it in thin pieces put it in a glaz'd Pot with some Water and with your Finger temper it by little and little till it be all turned into Water about the consistence of thick Milk let it settle about a week or more covering it from the Dust then with a soft short Brush wash the Plaister setting it at some distance from the Fire to dry by degrees being dry rub it gently with a Cloth setting it in a good Light the better to discern where to pollish thus will your Plaister become bright as Alablaster To make a Size to lay Leaf-Gold or Silver or Copper or Tin upâ—n Figures of Plaister that will not sink into them Take Oyl of Nuts boyl it with Lytharge till it become thick then grind with Water White Lead and Yellow Ocre each a like quantity very fine when dry grind it with the same Oyl then lay it on with a Pencil pretty long with a stiff point keeping it always covered in Oyl to preserve the point small and plyant and in laying on the Size move your Pencil to and fro to even the Size when dry enough to guild lay on your Leaf-Gold or Silver with a pair of wooden Pincers or a piece of white Paper cutting it on a Cushion according to the manner of Gilders CHAP. XVIII A most exquisite way of casting all sorts of Figures TAke a pound of new Wax a third of Colophony melt them at a slow Fire let them cool so long as that you may endure some of it on your Hand without burning it then having oyled your Figure with Sallad Oyl with a Brush cover it all over if it be a living Face cover the Hair of the Eye-lids and Eye-brows with Paste as also the Beard then with a Brush nimbly cover the Face about the thickness of a Half-crown being careful not to stop the Nostrils and that the Person squeeze not his Eyes together which will render the Face deformed thus having your Face of Wax take it gently off then strengthen it with Clay on the backside that in pouring in the Plaister it may not give way Thus may you cast all sorts of Faces Laughing Weeping Grimaces or Wry Faces also Feet Hands Fruit Fish or any thing else dividing the Mould into two pieces with a warm Knife then joyn them and fortifie them with Potters Earth than this no way of casting is neater I have often taken thus living Faces and with a small Gouge opening the Eyes afterwards all which you may colour to the Lise this way of casting is very fit for Painters Engravers and Carvers to cast patterns CHAP. XIX To Figure or inlay with Figures any thing that is made of Wood. THis is done with Mother of Pearl by breaking the Shells and cutting them according to the Figures you design inlaying them after you have with Gouges cut your Wood thus may you imitate all sorts of Fruits for you will find some Purple others Blew Green Yellow so that if you would imitate a black Grape the Leaf of a Tree or other Fruit you have a suitable Colour make a small hole through every piece pinning it with a small piece of Silver Wier to make it stick fast then take Linseed Oyl and Orcanet rub it well and wipe off the Oyl clean when dry varnish it with the drying Varnish hereafter mentioned also not oyling it you may make very fine compartiment Work in fine Threads that will look like Silver thus make a Set of small Gonges of all sorts very sharp with these having cut your design take Tin melt it adding to it as much Quick-Silver stir it with a Stick being cold put it in the palm of your hand if it be too soft add a little more Tin grind this Composition with water upon a Marble put it into a Shell and keep this Composition to fill up the Engravings or Cuttings which you have made with your Gonges when you have left it two or three hours to dry pollish it with your hand and it will look like Silver By adding more Quick-Silver you make a thinner Composition which with your Thumb you may rub into the Work you have cut till it be as bright as Silver instead of Tin you may mix Leaf-Silver with the Quick-Silver which will add to the beauty of your Work This is commonly practised upon black and coloured Wood pollishing them with a Tooth If you would have the Composition more beautiful grind Tin-Glass and wash it till it leaves the Water clear then mix it in a Shell with some Gum and with a Pencil fill up the Engravings after three or four hours drying quicken it with the Conposition of Mercury and Leaf-silver CHAP. XX. To make Wood of divers Colours For the Red. TAke Fernebourge half a pound or what other you think fit Rain-Water a handful of Quick-Lime two handfuls of Ashes when these have steep'd half an hour in the water and setled at the bottom take a new earthen Pot put in the Fernebourge with the Lee made of Lime and Ashes having steep'd half an hour boyl it and let it cool a little then pour it into another new Pot adding half an ounce of Gum Arabick take another Pot or Pan put in some rain-Rain-water and a piece of Allum make it boyl soak your Wood in this Allum Water take it out and dry it then warm your Red Colour and with a Brush rub it as long as you think fit dry it and with a Cows or Dogs Tooth pollish it and it will be shining and red as Scarlet Another excellent Red. Boyl Brazil in Rain Water till it be fully coloured strain it through a Cloth take heed no Iron either touch it nor come near it then give one laying of Saffron steep'd in water upon your Wood being thus of a pale Yellow and dry give it several layings of the Brazil Water till you like the Colour when dry burnish it with a Tooth and varnish it with drying Varnish with the Palm of the Hand and you will have a beautiful Red inclinable to Orange if you put a spoonful of Lee amongst the Brazil it will make the Red deeper or boyl it with a little Allum but the yellowing it improves the Colour and by how much the Wood is whiter by so much the more beautiful will the Colour be Another Red. Temper Brazil in Oyl of Tartar with which rub over the Wood and it will become of an excellent Red. To make a Violet Colour for Wood. Take Dutch Turnsole temper it in water and strain it through a Cloth before you use it on your Work try it on a little piece of white Wood to see if it be not too deep for 't is better to lay it on clear than deep having laid on the Colour put some of the same Colour to a quantity of water to make it very thin and with this wash it till it become bright dry burnish and varnish it
thereon two or three drops of Juice of Citron and it will instantly become red A wonderful Cure for a Fistula Take a living Toad put it into a Crucible covered that it may not get out and reduce it to Ashes with a fierce Fire the Fire not touching the Toad Apply this Powder to the Fistula washing it first with White-wine warm or the Urine of a male Child Probatum A remarkable Receipt made of a Man's Skull Take of the impalpable Powder of a Scull and apply it to any Wound or Ulcer whatever and it will cure it This was experienc'd by Monsieur President Bolanger in an Ulcer that none could cure in ten years Against the Bloody Flux and how to draw the Tincture of Coral Take a Pumice-stone quench it three or four times in good Vinegar in an earthen Pot till it look red bray the Coral very fine and make a bed of Pumice-stone in an earthen pot then a bed of Coral do this thrice so that the first and last be of Pumice-stone lute the Pot well and put it in a Glass or Potters Fornace for two dayes take it out and pour Vinegar upon the Powders so often till they have lost their redness then evaporate the Vinegar in a Glass or Earthen-vessel well glaz'd in which will remain the tincture or colour of Coral So you may draw all sorts of Colours of Minerals and Metals reduc'd to powder The Dose is one dram in an Egg. The Syrup is made after this manner Take two ounces of this Tincture and three ounces of Sugar-Candy which put in a large varnish'd earthen Vessel in Balneo Mariae continually stirring your Matter with a wooden Spatula till it be boyl'd to the consistence of a Syrup for this hinders the precipitating of the tincture of Coral Another way to draw the Tincture of Coral Take Virgin-wax and scrape it into a new Pot wherein you have put little pieces of Coral so that the Coral be therewith covered melt and boyl them gently upon live coals and the Wax will draw all the Tincture of Coral the which you shall try by taking out a little piece of the Coral which you must do commonly within a Quarter of an hour Withdraw the Fire and let the Wax cool which you shall take and scrape into an Urinal and pour thereon good thrice distill'd Vinegar or strong Spirit of Wine and put it on hot Embers that the Wax may give to the Vinegar the tincture which it took from the Coral then take it from the Fire and being cold separate the Vinegar from the Wax and evaporate it being evaporated you 'll find your Tincture at the bottom red like Cinaber Against the Stone Take two pounds of Sallet Oyl which you shall distill in an Alembick with Sand and take three Spoonfuls every day of the Water or Phlegm that flows in the morning three hours after Dinner and at night going to bed for nine dayes This Water dissolves the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder That which remains in the Alembic is for the Gout and Contraction of the Nerves from a cold cause An excellent Receipt for the Gravel Take two pounds of the Roots of male Nettles and cleanse them and boyl them in a Gallon of Water to the diminishing of the third part then add three pints of good White-wine boyl them over a gentle Fire for an hour then let them cool being almost cold take out the Roots and press them then put the Juyce with the Decoction into a new earthen pot when 't is clear'd by seething and that you would use it take three Pills of fresh Butter having swallow'd them drink a glass of the Decoction fasting as early as you can and two hours after a Porringer of clear Broth for three dayes together at each decrease of the Moon Laxative Clysters are excellent you must take them the night before you take the Decoction For the same Take Eglantine Berries dry the Seeds in the Sun or in an Oven powder them put a dram of them in a small glass of White-wine to steep seven or eight hours drink it half an hour before you go to bed stirring it well that nothing remain in the bottom This produces great Effects for it drives out all sorts of Gravel and breaks the Stone so that you will void it by small pieces Probatum But you must take it but for two dayes together and eight dayes after and at the decrease of the Moon You may make a Marmalade of the red Fruit and cat thereof after meals and it will hinder any thing from coagulating in the Body For the same Take Wild-Parsly seeds infuse them in White-wine for twelve dayes and drink a glass thereof three mornings fasting For the same Take the skins within the Gizards of Pullets and wash them with White-wine dry and powder them the dose is a dram in as much White-wine as you please To cure all Ruptures a Remedy much approved of by the Cardinal de la Rochefoucault Take a pound of black Pitch yellow Wax and Rosin twelve ounces Mutton Suet eight ounces Cats-tail and Dragons-blood four ounces Gum dragant Arabic and Gauls one ounce Blood-stone two ounces severally prepar'd and dryed with Vinegar Pepper beaten two ounces Wood-lice and Cumin-seed dried and powdered two ounces green Acorns prepar'd with Vinegar and powdred two ounces they are mixed by melting the Suet with a pint of thick red Wine to which add the Galls bruised and boyl them to a consumption of the Wine that done strain it and put it on the fire adding the Wax and Rosin which you must melt therein melt the black Pitch in another Vessel then pour the first mixtion into the melted Pitch stirring it continually with a stick to incorporate them then you must take away the Fire and put it upon hot Embers then pour in the Powders by little and little stirring them very well that the Plaister may be well mix'd before you apply it you must shave away the hair if there be any and foment the place where the Malady is with strong Vinegar wherein Allum hath been dissolv'd and change the Plaister every two dayes and renew the Fomentation every four and twenty hours Moreover let the Patient keep his Bed for about a fortnight more or less and lye upon his back with his head as low as he can and drink no Wine unless it be allay'd with Water or small Beer c. and eat no salt meats Pulse nor Beef For the same whether Man or Woman though aged experimented by one that was bursten thirty years Take an ounce and half of white Mastich Troy weight an ounce and half of common Turpentine an ounce and half of Masticorum which is a sticking Gum or Liquor found in the head of great wild prickly Thistles which have a head like Artichoaks from which having taken the prickly leaves you will find this glewish Humour stick to your fingers Mix all together in a little earthen pot new
it and wash it twelve times changing your Water every time then infuse the Powder in a pint of White-Wine in the Sun a whole day and all Night over hot Cinders then take out the Wine and Powder of Steel and put to it half an ounce of Senna and a little Scolopendria you shall take every morning four ounces in a Glass walking about the Chamber and fasting two hours after unless some Broth wherein a good many Herbs have been boil'd to which you may add Ceterach Probatum For a Pain in the Side Take black Pitch Capons Grease new Wax and Rosin of each one Dram Oyl of Camomil one ounce Sulphur Orris of each about an half ounce Turpentine one ounce make an Emplaister of them all and apply it to the Part grieved For the Pleurisie Take an handful of Perwincle steep it an hour or two in White-Wine strain it and give it the Patient to drink For the beating of the Heart Take distilled water of Balm it cures the beating of the Heart and hinders vomiting For those that are poyson'd by some Metal or Mineral Take two or three drops of Oyl of Tartar in Broth or Wine and swallow it down and it will precipitate all the Poyson To cure a swell'd and inflamed Knee Make a Cataplasm of Milk white-bread Crums Hony Butter Marsh-Mallows all well beaten and mixt together and apply it to the Pain Against the Plague Take one or two of the biggest Toads you can get put them into an unvarnish'd earthen Pot lute it well and put it into a Furnace till the Toads be burnt and reduc'd to Ashes of which give a dram in a Glass of Wine this is good before and after the Plague For the same Take Carduus Benedictus in Powder one Dram in a Glass of Wine it helps before and after the Plague The Juyce of Carduus Benedictus made into a Syrup is excellent for the same To take away the Marks of the Plague Take Carduus Benedictus and apply it to the Cicatrizes and it will take away the Marks For swelled Cods Take Salt of Carduus Benedictus and mingle it with sweet Wine and lay Linnen Cloth wet therein to the Parts For the same Take Marigold Flowers beat them and press out the Juyce and foment the part afflicted therewith warm and lay the Dreggs thereon dipt therein Probatum A Preservative against the Plague Take three or four great Toads seven or eight Spiders and as many Scorpions put them into a Pot well stopt and let them lye some time then add Virgin Wax make a good Fire till all become a Liquour then mingle all with a Spatula and make an Oyntment and put it into a Silver Box well stopt the which carry about you being well assured that while you carry it about you you will never be infected with the Plague Against the Plague approved Take Rue Wormwood Juniper Berries well beaten Garlick cleansed from its Pills Angelica cleansed from its Bark and Wood Cloves Nutmegs of each one ounce beat them grosly in a Mortar then mingle them together in a quart of the best Vinegar and boyl them in a new Pot to the Consumption of the third part then strain them and let them cool being cold put it into a Glass Bottle and use it as followeth Dip a Linnen Cloth therein and smell thereto from time to time Or else take half a Spoonful fasting every morning being amongst the infected and rub your Joynts and Parts of the Body which the Plague ordinarily seizes on and if you be infected drink a Glass thereof A Remedy wherewith Madam the Marquess of Chenoise cured divers Phrensical People You must begin with bleeding three days before you use this following Receipt Take a glased earthen Pot that holds six quarts wherein put three handfuls of Tree-Ivy with three pints of White-wine stop the Pot with Paste for fear the Air enter then set it over hot Cinders with a gentle fire for twenty four hours together without ceasing keeping it always after the same fashion then take it off and pour out the Wine that remains therein and take the Ivy and beat it in a Marble Mortar an hour without ceasing then add six ounces of Sallet Oyl and mingle them well in the Mortar reducing them to the form of an Unguent which divide into three equal parts of which take one part and strain it through a linnen Cloth and with the Juyce that comes forth rub the sick Persons Head first cutting off the Hair then the Temples and the Dregs that remain put between two linnen Cloths and bind them on which let lye eight hours without removing then proceed thus five times keeping eight hours of interval no more nor less without failing For a Noli Me tangere Take of Crabs Eyes calcin'd an ounce a day in White-wine or Broth in the Morning fasting and put some of the same Powder upon the Plaisters To cure all sorts of Vlcers and Gangrenes Take an handful or two of quick Lime quench it in common Water take a dram of Sublimate which dissolve also in common Water pour on by inclination the Lime Water upon the sublimate Water which will become red wash the part with this Water and it will make the Escar fall off An admirable Plaister for Wounds Vlcers Cancers Kings-Evil Bubo's Corns in the Feet and Tumors that come in such like Places Approved Take the best Sallet Oyl a pound put it in an earthen Vessel upon the Fire and when 't is hot add yellow wax cut in pieces three ounces stir it with a wooden Spatula when 't is melted put in six ounces of Ceruse finely powdred always stirring it very well and the mixture will become white the which in boyling will lose its colour and become dark and before it be so add Litharge of Gold very finely powder'd and sears'd one ounce and when 't is well incorporated add half an ounce of Terra Sigillata and incorporate them very diligently then add half an ounce of white Baum continually stirring them that they do not stick to the Bottom and to know when all is well boil'd put a drop in a Spoonful of Water if it be black 't is a sign 't is enough then take it from the Fire and add two drams of Oyl of Rosemary and incorporate it with the rest then let it rest about half a quarter of an Hour and when you shall hold it to the Light if it begins to separate put it into a great Bason of cold Water and incorporate it with your hands to mingle it well then make it into Rowls that it may keep the better For all sorts of old Vlcers Take a dry Walnut-leaf powder'd put it on the Ulcer and lay a Walnut leaf thereon the which leaf alone will cure the Ulcer For the Hemorrhoides Take a Tobacco-leaf steep it a Day and Night in Water and apply it to the Hemorrhoides and it will cure them For the same Take a Sorrel-leaf put it
of Sallet Oyl three quarts of White-wine and half a pound of Salt let them boyl together for some time then add a a pound of Turpentine which dissolve in Wine and Oyl and afterwards Wax if you will make a Balsam Arceus his Balsam Take Sallet Oyl Venice Turpentine Gum Elemy Oyl of St. John's-wort of each three ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl them all till 't is enough 't is most excellent for Gun-shot and all other Wounds A red Oyntment Take Sallet Oyl Litharge wash'd white Hony of each four ounces new Wax two ounces red Lead half an ounce melt the Wax in the Oyl then add the Honey and Powders finely beaten being well incorporated take them from the fire and your Oyntment is made 't is good for the Scurf of Womens Breasts for Ulcers to incarne and dry them both at once For a Scal'd Head Take the Buttons of vvild Cucumbers for vvant of them the Leaves one handful Oyl of Nuts half a pound tvvelve musty Pilchards beat them together and put them into a glaz'd Pot vvith a pint of the blackest Wine you can get boyl them to the vvasting of the Wines then shave the Head and vvash it vvith Ox Piss and anoint it vvith this Ointment for four days vvhich vvill be about the time of the Cure and the longest that may be Probatum For a Paraphymosis Take what quantity of Snails you please beat them in a Marble Mortar with their Shells and towards the end add a little Pork Grease beat and mingle all together and apply it to the Part and repeat it Night and Morning till it be cur'd A most sovereign Remedy for Persons that lose their Blood from what Part soever either Man or Woman Take fresh Asses Dung beat it in a Mortar and press out all the Substance in a course Linnen Cloth take a Spoonful thereof with twice as much Syrup of Plantan For the Ptysick Take half an ounce of Crab-fish alive beat them well in a Marble Mortar and distill the Water that comes from them give half a Glass every Morning fasting for eight or ten Days To Bind Take Cypress-Nuts bruise and boil them in Red Wine and give it to the Patient A gentle Purge Take a dram of Jalap with a little Powder of Liquirice infuse them all night in White Wine A Ptysan that Purges gently Take half a Pint of Verjuice infuse therein half an ounce of Senna in a new Pot over hot Coals when the Verjuice is hot put the quantity of a Nut of fresh Butter and as much Salt as is enough for one Egg boil it a little and take it from the Fire and let it infuse all night i' th' Morning strain it through a clean Linnen Cloth and take a Dose thereof every Morning in fat or lean Broth. Foelix's Ptysane Take Liquirice Polipody red Roses of each one ounce Senna half an ounce a Pugil of Annise a dram of Chrystal Mineral a Renet Apple and a Citron cut in pieces infuse all in a quart or three pints of cold Water and take a Glass thereof Morning and Night A Medicine that Purges gently Take an Handful of March Violets and an Handful of the Herb Mercury boil them in a little Earthen Pot with Mutton or Veal Broth then strain it and take it at Pleasure if you desire to add a few Mallows and an Handful of Sorrel 't will not be amiss Excellent Purging Lozenges Take of the three Sanders red Roses Nutmegs Cinnamon Turbith Scammony of each half a dram of Senna two Scruples Melon and Gourge Seeds of each five Scruples powder them all with four ounces of Sugar make them into Lozenges according to Art A Syrup for those that are subject to Swooning Fits and cannot recover Take as much rose-Rose-water as of the Queen of Hungary's Water and Sugar-Candy which melt over a gentle Fire and you will have a Syrup which mingled with Cinnamon-water works Wonders with those that are subject to Swooning-Fits Madam the Countess of Daillon's Water by Monsieur de Forgeray M. Take three Handfuls of Cow-dung Scabious Lungwort Veronica Flowers of each an Handful Plantan Queen of the Medows Shepherds Purse Pimpernel Bugloss Fennel of each an Handful two River-Crabs bruised distill all in an Alembic in Balneo Mariae the Dose four ounces every Morning Otherwise Take 4 l. of Cow-dung Flowers of Perwincle Scabious of each two little Handfuls four Pugils of red Poppy Flowers Flowers of Coltsfoot as much of the Tops of St. Johns-wort distill all as before and take the same dose To preserve Health Easter Dwarf Elder Leaves in the Season without any Dew and set them to dry in the Sun and take them in about four a Clock i' th' Afternoon to serve you in Winter Make a Bed of these Leaves and let the Party lye thereon whom cover over with other Leaves then with a Sheet and Covering which will make him sweat and by this means one may keep himself in perfect Health Magistery of Pearls Take Oriental Pearls put them grosly powdred into a Matrice and pour distill'd Vinegar thereon or Citron Juyce which is better as not having so much Sharpness let it be three fingers breadth above the Powder then stop the Vessel with good Wax and put it to digest upon hot Cinders stirring it two or three times a day till you see the Pearls in the bottom of the Vessel converted into a Lemony Juyce pour off the Juyce of Citron gently by Inclination and evaporate the rest over a gentle Fire till the Pearls remain in the bottom of a white Powder which wash five or six times with distill'd Rain water till they have lost all their Sharpness and then the Powder being wholly dry'd 't is the true Magistery of Pearls Note You must pour on a few drops of Oyl of Tartar which will make the Magistery precipitate to the bottom of the Vessel The Spagiries attribute to it these wonderful Virtues following nigh to those of Aurum Potabile They say 'T is good to preserve the Body in Health to drive away all ill Dispositions and particularly the Frenzy the Vertigo the Apoplexy the Falling Sickness and other Diseases of the Brain They say also 't is a powerful Cordial and has very great Effects upon them that are subject to Swoonings Palpitation of the Heart and those that are seiz'd with a pestilent Fever Briefly they accommodate it for the Cure of all the principal Parts The Dose is twelve Grains or one Scruple in Juleps or other convenient Liquors An Aurum Potabile and an inestimable Treasure which cures Leprosies Falling-Sickness the Pox the Palsie and all incurable Maladies Take seven old double Ducats cement them with half a dram of Sal Gem well prepar'd in an earthen Pot well boil'd over a gentle Fire then wash them and dry them and make them very red in the Fire keeping them in an earthen Vessel very clean and new being very red quench them in Sallet Oil
doing all this seven times then they will be calcin'd and may be made into Powder of a Saffron Dye if you rub it between your Fingers Take a Pound of Sugar-Candy finely powdred and therewith make one Lay upon another in a Retort of sealed Earth the which bury in a Pot full of Sand and cover the said Pot with another Pot to keep in the Heat and give it a gentle Charcoal-fire above and below let it be such a Heat as that when they bake the Bread in the Oven without being excessive twenty four Hours then take it from the fire and bray all in a Marble-Mortar and put it into a Vessel that the Matrice hold about twice as much as the Alembick and at the sides a Neck for the Matter which put into the said Vessel with a Pint of pure Aqua vitae and let them be sealed well twenty four Hours together over a good Fire that the Aqua vitae may always boil and when you see a Whiteness at bottom which is the Calx of the Gold 't is done pour out the said Water by Inclination which will be of a Violet Tincture approaching to red or yellow the which will cure the Leprous giving them one grain a day and all other forsaken Maladies and all incurable Diseases Another manner of making Aurum Potabile Take three Pints of Leaves of Gold three of Glass of Antimony three Pints of Sugar-Candy the whole well powdred mingle them together and put them into a Glass Alembick the which being cover'd with its Head and Recipient distill them with a gentle Fire at first and at last a strong one the whole will turn into a Liquor which will be done in five or six hours The Dose is four or five Drops in some specifick Water and purges very gently A most excellent Preparation of Antimony and its Vertue Take mineral Antimony at least fifteen or twenty pounds bruise it grosly that done take three Pots of Earth of an Alembic or of another sort that will endure the fire well pierce it at bottom with little holes and there put a great Iron Pan full of holes wherein you shall put your Antimony then put it upon another Pot and cover it with a third that the Mouth of the one may just go into the other lute the Joynts well the Lute being dry and without clefts bury the first in the Earth and make round about that which shall contain the Antimony a four-square Fornance of Brick within the distance of four fingers which you shall fill with burning Char-coals encompassing all the said Pot with the Pot above and there continue a great Fire for a long hour let it be dying a whole Night that it be all wholly cold then unlute it and you will find all your Antimony in your Pot below which make into an impalpable Powder which you shall put in an earthen Plate like a pastry Cooks which is very large at the bottom the which place upon a Furnace wherein you shall make a gentle Fire stirring the Powder continually with a Spatula till it smoak not and be of a greenish Color taking heed that it melt not through too much Fire then melt it in a new earthen Vessel with a great Fire in an open Furnace when you have put it in Water plunge in it a Rod of Iron and taking it presently out see at the Light if it be transparent and of a Citron Colour then pour it out into a clean Copper Bason being cold make it into an impalpable Powder and put it into a glass Cucurbite and pour thereon Vinegar thrice distilled cover the Cucurbite with a glass Box luted with a starched Cloth being very dry put half the Cucurbite into Horse Dung for three daies then taking it out of the Dung unlute it and having rested a good hour pour out clear that coloured Vinegar by inclination into an earthen Vessel without disturbing it stop the Vessel well then pour other Vinegar upon your Powders digest them as before in the Dung for three Daies then pouring them gently into the said Vessel continue this extraction and process as long as the Vinegar will colour it this done take the Dreggs at the bottom of that Cucurbit and wash them well with clear Water and being well rubbed with a dry Cloth pour on the Vinegar coloured then having put on its top distill it dry in the Cinders and there will remain a yellowish Powder in the bottom upon which you shall pour the quantity of two ounces of good spirit of Wine then having stirred it well and covered the Cucurbit with its Box that is one of those glass Vessels where they put the preserved Cherries lute it well with starched Bands and the lute very dry put it in Horse Dung half covered for three daies then having taken it out of the Dung unlute the Cloths letting it stand an hour pour out your Tincture into a clean Vessel without any Dregs then stop the Vessel well and put into the Cucurbit other Spirit of Wine high two Fingers bredth repeating this operation as long as the Spirit of Wine will colour it self then put all the Spirit of Wine so coloured into a clear Cucurbit and covering it with its top luted with a Recipient distill entirely all the said Spirit of Wine and keep the Powders which you find in the bottom of the Alembic upon which you shall pour Rain-water distilled thrice in Sand with a very gentle Fire and pour it on your Powders and distill it as before after which your Powders will not be any wayes vomitive the Virtues and Doses of which are as follow Four grains taken in White-wine drives away the Leprosy Pox purifying the corrupt Blood Purges the Malancholic resists Worms cures the Asthmatics Purges without Stool or Vomiting but by Sweat Urine and Spittle removes the cause of Diseases and restores what is corrupted To incite Venery Easter Satyrion at the end of the Month of May and take the two Kernels that are within its root that o th' lest side is the better and put five or six whole Kernels or in pieces into a Bottle of Spanish Wine and stop it very close and put it very deep in Horse-Dung the space of two or three Months then take thereof at your Discretion fasting in a Morning and at Night going to Bed For the same Take a Quart of Spanish Wine wherein put half a dram of Salt of Sage and stop it well then bury it in Sand for a fortnight or three weeks and take thereof as before To bereave one of their Wits and make them come again Eat of the Root of Faba Inversa in Powder and to make them come again take the Juice of an Onion and put it into the Ears For the same and amaze a Person Infuse the Berry called Strammonium in White-wine for twenty four hours and make him drink it and immediately he or she that drank shall fall down to the Ground as if they were
keep good fifty years and 't is not good to use it till it hath been made two or three Months You need not use any Tents nor Lint unless the Wound whereon you apply it close up or that the Flesh encrease too much To be cur'd quickly you must eat no Garlick or Onions 't is very good for old or new Wounds it cleanses and makes Flesh come without Corruption it unites Nerves cut asunder and strengthens the bruised ones it cures any Windiness even in the Head it cures Wounds made by Gun-shot allays the Inflammation draws out Iron and Bullets out of Wounds and Splints of Bones if they be in the Body It cures the Bitings of venemous and mad Beasts sensibly drawing out the Venom it cures all sorts of Apostumes and Kernels Cancers King's Evil Fistula's and even the Plague it self It is also very good to make rebellious Haemorrhoids flow it is also very good to cure the Farces in Horses In short 't is daily approv'd of for curing a multitude of Diseases For the Megrim In the Month of May and in a fair Morning early before the Sun rise take Mallow-leaves and draw up the Dew thereof into your Nose This absolutely cures the Megrim without Relapse For the Diseases of Women and Children CHAP. II. To make a Woman lose her Milk within a Day or two TAke Rue and put it between the two Arm-holes night and Day and she will quickly lose her Milk Probatum For an Infant dead in the Mothers Womb. Give the Mother the Juyce of Hysop to drink in warm Water and she will immediately be deliver'd though it were rotten Probatum To deliver a Woman quickly and make her void the After-birth or dead Child and for the Apoplecticks Take seven or eight drops of the Essence of Rosemary in a Glass of good White-Wine Note The Patient must stand upright and you must rub their Stomachs to make the Remedy penetrate the better and if it succeeds not the first time 't will not fail the second For the same Take half a quarter of Eeles Livers wash them in White Wine and dry them upon a Tyle and powder them and give a dram thereof in white Wine to the Woman in Labour For the same Take Mallows and beat them in a marble Mortar and apply them in form of a Cataplasm or Pultis to the Reins of the Back Note You must not let them remain there long For Pains after Child birth Take two new-laid Eggs and swallow them with the quantity of a small Nut of Sugar immediately after she 's deliver'd then drink a little Water and Wine For a Fever coming from Milk Take white and green Populeum melt it upon hot Cinders then rub the Breasts therewith and lay waste-Paper upon the Teat and lay a Cloth four double thereon and let not the Air come to them For the same Take Potters-Earth Beans the Husks taken off Whites of Eggs Eels boil'd in Vinegar Oyl of Roses all beaten and well mingled together make a Pultis and apply it cold To procure the monthly Courses Take two Daisies wash them in clean Water and dry them then boil them with the White of an Egg in Water in a glaz'd Pot and strain them then put them into a Pot again with Wine wherein put half a dram of Saffron dry'd let it boil three or four times and of this take a full Glass Night and Morning for three days together For the same Take black Chick Pease boil them in Water and strain them when they are boil'd whereof take a full Glass every other morning for three mornings To make them have their Courses in order that have them not Take a good Handful of Feverfew boil it in Water strain it through a course Cloth and take thereof a good Glass-full three mornings every other morning To know if a Woman be with Child Take her Urine and put it in a Copper-Pot wherein put a piece of Iron filed bright all Night if she be with Child you will see red Spots if not it will become black and rusty To provoke the Terms Take the Leaves Bark or Berries of Privet beat them and infuse them twenty four Hours in White Wine whereof take two or three ounces for three mornings together To make the Small Pox come forth Take a Piece of Pork enterlarded with Fat and Lean roast it upon a Spit and as long as 't is roasting besprinkle it with Rose-water till it taste no more of Grease keep that which remains in the Dripping-Pan which put in a Glass-Vessel for your use and anoint the Face and other Parts therewith and it will assuredly and perfectly make them come out Probatum To prevent the Marks of the Small Pox. Take a Calf's or Oxe's Lungs put them upon burning Charcoals and when they begin to drop take a Sponge and suck up the Water and press it out into an earthen Vessel adding thereto the same weight of male Pork's Grease and as much of the Juice of Wormwood mingle them well and incorporate them upon a good Chafing-dish then with a Sprig of Wormwood which you shall moisten therein sprinkle it upon the Face Note You must not use this Remedy till nine days be past For Worms in Little Children Melt fine Tinn several times and every time quench it in Fountain Water which give the Children for their common Drink To cure Infants of the Convulsion Take Hens-dung Peacocks Dung dry is yet better part each piece in two and you will find a little white inside which you must take out dexterously with the Point of a Knife and beat it with Loaf-Sugar and make thereof a Powder and give half a dram thereof as you see occasion or a little more in Broth or White Wine To cure a sore Throat Take Roche Allum two ounces dry'd Cutle-bone sandy Spunge of each one ounce calcine them in an unglaz'd Earthen Pot in an Oven when the Bread's taken out night or morning lay some of this Powder upon the Tongue at your Discretion rubbing the Throat well above and below and in the morning drink good and strong Aqua Vitae so continuing for twelve or fifteen days For the same Take a Sheeps small Guts put them about your Neck till they be cold then apply others hot from the Sheep new kill'd and so continue this as long as you please For the same Take the Powder of a Vipers Head and sow it in a Ribbon and hang it about your Neck To stay Womens Fluxes Take white Vine-Leaves dry'd in the Shade the Dose is half a dram or a little more in White Wine To stay the Blood in Women Take a dram of Pomegranate Rinds in Powder in two ounces of Plantan-Water then take a Skain of new Thred moisten it in strong Vinegar and apply it to the part An Opiate for the Green-sickness Take Crocus Martis Harts-Horn prepared of each one ounce Aromaticum Rosatum Sugar-candy of each two ounces liquid Conserve of Rosemary one ounce
of the Leaves of Chicory Baum and Ceterach a little of each beat and mingle them well together and take thereof the quantity of a Filberd Night and Morning Imperial Violet Water Take a quart of Rose-water half a quartern of March Violet-Flowers put them into an open Glass-bottle that will hold two quarts the Violets being stripped and the white cut away and set them in the Sun till the Leaves be white then strain them and put them in the Sun again for about a fortnight or three weeks taking them in every Night then add a pound of fine Sugar powdred and let it dissolve then an ounce of good Cinamon beaten which leave therein for about twenty four hours to draw out all its Virtue then strain it and stop it take a Spoonful thereof when one hath the Fits of the Mother or a Catarrh or in Child-birth or Weakness or the Colick To embellish and preserve Beauty CHAP. III. The Receipt of the Queen of Hungaries Water IN the City of Buda in the Kingdom of Hungary is to be seen the present Receipt of the most serene Princess Donna Isabella Queen of Hungary I Donna Isabella Queen of Hungary aged seventy two years infirm in my Members and Gouty have used this present Receipt a whole Year which an Hermite whom I never saw before nor since gave me which had such effect upon me that from that instant I was cured and recovered my Strength insomuch as appearing beautiful to every one the King of Poland would have espoused me whom I refused for the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ believing it was given me by an Angel Take Aqua Vitae distilled four times thirty ounces Rosemary-flowers twenty ounces put all into a Vessel close stop'd the space of fifty hours then distill them in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae and take thereof a dram in the morning once a week in some other Liquour or else with your Victuals and wash the Face every morning and rub the infirm Members therewith This Remedy renews the Vigor causes a good Spirit cleanses the marrow fortifies the animal Spirits renewing their Operations restores the Sight and preserves it to old Age it is excellent for the Stomach and Brest rubbing them therewith When you use this Remedy you need not warm it For the Pimples in the Face Put Salt-petre into a Linnen-cloth and tye it well then having wet it in fair Water wash them therewith For the Redness in the Face Take Monks-Rubarb and Mutton boil them together and wash the Face with the Water thereof For the same Upon a pound of Veal put six new laid Eggs beat them together and add half a pint of White-Wine-Vinegar and an handful of wild Tansy distill them in Balneo Mariae and wash the Face therewith For the same Take Plantan-water with the Essence of Sulphur put them together and apply them night and morning with a Linnen-Cloth To take the Spots out of the Face Take the Roots of sharp pointed Docks and Melons of each two pounds ten Swallows Eggs Salt of Nitre half an ounce white Tartar two ounces beat and mingle them all together and distill them in a Glass Alembic and wash with this Water and you will see Wonders Cloths for Masques Take four ounces of white Wax Goats Grease Sperma Coeti of each two ounces Camphir one ounce melt them all together and dip your Cloths therein A most excellent Water for the Face Take a Loaf of Wheat flower moistned with Goats-milk put it into the Oven and draw it our before it be baked enough and take out the Crumbs which you shall crumble as small as you can and soak it in new Goats milk to which add half a dozen oâ— the whites of Eggs strained through a Sponge this done take an ounce of Powder of burnt Egg-shells and put them all together being well mingled into a Glass Alembick and distill them with a gentle Fire and you will have an excellent Water to take away the Spots and Redness of the Face and will whiten and beautifie it wonderfully A Water to whiten the Face Take of the Root of the wild Vine and of the Roots of Narcissus put them both into an Alembic of Glass with a pint of Cows milk and the Crums of white-bread â—…till them and to use it mingle it half with the Queen of Hungaries Water and you will see it will whiten very well Water of Venice very good for the Face Take two quarts of black Cows Milk in the month of May put it into a Glass Bottle with eight Citrons and four Oranges pill'd and slic'd an ounce of Sugar-Candy and half an ounce of Borax put them all in Balneo Mariae or in Sand to distill them in a fire always equal which is the principal thing and stop not the Bottle till the day after 't is distilled For the same Take two Citrons without their Peels and slice them twelve new-lay'd Eggs six Sheeps-feet cut in pieces with their Bones Sugar-Candy four ounces a good slice of a Melon as much of a Pompion two drams of Borax distill them all in a Glass Alembic with a Leaden Cover To take away Spots in the Face Take Housleek and Clary and distill them in Balneo Mariae and wash them with this Water How to prepare Oxe-Gall Take such a quantity of Oxe-gall as you will and put it into a glass Vial and for one ounce of Gall add a drachm of Roch Allum half an ounce of Sal Gemma or Salt of Glass an ounce of Sugar-Candy two drachms of Borax and one drachm of Champhire beat them apart then mingle them together and put them to the Oxe gall and stir them the space of a quarter of an hour or thereabouts then let them settle do thus two or three times a day for a Fortnight till the Gall become as clear as Water the which you shall filtre through a brown Paper and keep it for your use 'T is us'd to preserve Persons from being Sun burnt in putting it upon the Face when you would go in the Country washing them at night with common Water and this will take off all the gross Tan. A Water for a tan'd Face Take half a quarter of Wheat-Bran sift it well till there remain no meal infuse it in good Vinegar for at least three or four hours then add the yolks of Eggs dissolve or distill it in B. M. from this Distillation will come an admirable Water which will set a wonderful Lustre upon the Face you will do well to put it in the Sun for eight or ten days the Bottle being well stop'd A Water to Beautifie the Face and to take away the wrinkles Take River Water and strain it through a white Linnen Cloth put it into a new glaz'd earthen Pot with an handful of Barley well wash'd and cleans'd from dust and boyl it over a Charcoal fire till the Barley be broken then take it from the fire and let it stand and then strain
Enemies kill it and give the quantity of two Glasses full of its Blood and it will infallibly cure The same doth the Juice of Ivy mingled with Honey and the weight of two drams drank thereof For the Yellow Jaundise This is caused by Mercury Take the Flowers or Seed of Rosemary in the Hour of Sol Luna or Mars his Enemies powder them and mix therewith the Juice of Cinquefoil what quantity you please For Obstruction of the Spleen This Disease is caused of Luna Take Gum Ammoniacum in the Hour of Mars or Mercury her Enemies dissolve it in Vinegar and give thereof the weight of two drams to Persons of riper years to drink it works admirable effects For the Stone in the Reins This Infirmity is caused by Saturn Take Pellitory of the Wall in the Hour of Mars or Venus his Enemies press out the Juice and give what quantity thereof you please to drink in White-wine it purges the Reins and infallibly breaks the Stone For difficulty of Vrine This Disease comes from Luna then take in the hours of Mars or Mercury her enemies the Leaf and Seed of Trefoil and Southernwood-seed boil them in Water to which Decoction add a Spanish Fly powdred without its Head Wings or Feet and give a spoonfull to drink and it will quickly cause one to void Urine For the Stone in the Bladder This comes from Luna Take what quantity of Snakes you please in the hour of Mars or Mercury her enemies and put them into a new earthen Pot with a narrow Neck put it into an Oven that is not too hot and there let it remain for six hours space then take it out and powder them finely and give a dram thereof For the Cholick This Disease comes from Luna Take Powder of Bay-berries and give two drams thereof to drink in Aromatick Wine For the Flux and bloody Flux These are caused by the Moon Take Pomegranate Flowers and Hypocistis in the hour of Mars or Mercury her enemies powder them and give two drams thereof to drink in red Wine or Cistern Water For difficulty in Child-birth This is caused by Venus Take then in the hour of Saturn her enemy Basil and powder it and give it to drink in good Wine and she will suddenly be deliver'd To provoke the monthly Courses and the Secondine This Disease is caused by Luna Take Fupaterium in the hour of Mars or Mercury her enemies powder it finely and likewise the Seed of Mountain Smallage and give two drams to drink in the Water of Maiden-hair and it will quickly work the effect For the immoderate flux of the Courses unto the Mouth of the Womb. This Infirmity comes from Venus Take the Root of Hysop in the hour of Saturn her enemy with the middle rinds of Chestnuts and the rinds of Pomegranates powder them very fine and give often a dram thereof to drink For Ruptures These are caused by Sol. Take Cypress Nuts in the hour of Mars Saturn or Luna powder them and mingle them with the juyce of their lops when they are green apply them in the form of an Emplaister but you must first put up the Gut that is fallen For the Hemorrhoids This Disease is caus'd by Luna Take the Juyce of Sow-bread in the hour of Mars or Mercury her Enemies apply it to the Fundament after what manner you will and it will perfectly cure the Malady For the Pain of the Gout This Infirmity comes from Saturn Take a Hen of four years old in the hour of Mars or Venus his Enemies kill her and fill her with Vervain and Worm-wood in six quarts of Water and let it boil till it be wasted to the half and with the Liquour that remains bath the grieved parts For a Tertian Ague This Fever is caused by Mars Take Centaury in the hour of Luna Mercury Saturn Sol or Jupiter his enemies powder it and give two drams in Wine fasting For the Quartan Fever This Fever is caused by Saturn Take Myrrh and Castor in the hours of Mars or Venus his enemies of each one dram powder them and give it to drink in Wine fasting 't will work Wonders To take away the Spots of the small Pox Meazles and Purple-fever This is caused by Mars Take in the hour of Luna or Mercury Saturn or Jupiter his enemies the Roots of Beans dryed Flower of Chick-Pease Rice Meal and Garlick powder them all very fine and mingle them with Oyl of sweet Almonds and Mutton fat melted and anoint the Face therewith and let it remain on all Night and in the Morning wash it with warm Water For the King 's Evil. This Infirmity is caused by Luna Take the Boughs and Roots of Castors in the hour of Mars or Mercury beat them and apply them in form of an Emplaster Maiden-hair doth the same For Wounds in any part of the Body These are caused by Mars Take Savine in the hour of the Moon or Mercury Saturn or Jupiter his enemies and powder it and mix it with Honey and apply it to the Wounds and it will cure them For Scabs and Leprosie These Maladies are caused by Saturn Take Ivy in the hour of Mars or Venus his enemies what quantity you will and boil it in Water and bath the Body therein hot 't is the last Remedy for this Disease For Corns or Agnails These come from Saturn Take the Bark of Willow and mingle its Powder with strong Vinegar and in form of an Emplaster apply it to the Corns and it will work great effects For Cancers This Disease is caused by Mars Take the Boughs of white Galingale the Root of Dragon-wort in the hour of Luna Mercury or Saturn his Enemies press out the Juice and mix it with Honey and apply it to the Disease For Fistula's These are caused by Mars Take Orris-root in the hour as abovesaid powder it and mingle it with the powder of burnt Oisters and apply them to the Fistulas To preserve one from the Gout in the Feet This Disease is caused by Luna Take Iva Arthritica in the hour of Mars or Venus beat it and mingle it with the Yolk of an Egg dress'd after the manner of a Pancake and eaten fasting will certainly preserve one from the Gout in the Feet To know if one sick shall live or dye Diverse are the Judgments which pass upon a sick Person whether he will live or die but I shall publish this present infallible sign which any one may make use of and make certain Judgment thereof Take a Nettle and put it into the Urine of the sick Person presently after he hath voided his Urine and that it be not corrupted and leave the Nettle in the said Urine the space of twenty four hours then if the Nettle be found dry 't is a sign of Death but if it be found green 't is a sign of Life An admirable Secret to keep one alwayes in Health which Charles the Fifth made use of Take in the hour of Sol as the
reiterating it with a second warm Water at last you shall put up the said Pearls without fouling or unstringing them on white Paper and carry them into a Cellar upon a Board or Bench without covering them and let them remain there only twenty four hours Note For fear the Rats or Cats should enter and throw them down you must put at the bottom some weighty thing To make excellent Saphyrs Take white River Crabs and calcine them so that they look red i' th' fire and quenching them in strong Vinegar repeating this Operation six or seven times in the same Vinegar reduce them into powder in an Iron Mortar then put it into a Crucible with the weight of the Crabs and moss of Tartar which is thus to be ordered Calcine the Tartar and put it in a moist Place in an Hippocrates sleeve and in the bottom of the said sleeve there will be gathered a moss which the said Tartar makes in liquifying and turning it self into Water Then cover the Crucible and set it to dissolve for the space of four hours To Dye Crabs white and Transparent You must Calcine them after the manner before prescribed and reduce them to powder within the space of four hours and cast thereon very fine Powder of Salt of Tartar and of Salt of Alcali and towards the end throw in of Bay-Salt fixt a very little a quarter of an hour after let it cool of it self Before you put your Crabs in Infusion you must take a part of them and beat them in a Brass Mortar and you will make an Emerald the second part you must beat in an Iron Mortar with a Pestle of the same and this will be of a Rubie Colour and the third part in a Glass Mortar with a Pestle of the same and this will be a Diamond To reduce a Crab into Paste and make it into what form one would Take River Crabs and calcine them and break them into little pieces then let them steep twenty four hours or more in strong Vinegar till they may be reduc'd to a Powder the which Powder you shall mix with Turpentine and Organicum the whole being well pasted together make them into what form you please and then bake them in an Oven To make yellow Amber white Take for Example a pound of yellow Amber and put it into a very strong Cucurbit of earth and add thereto two pounds of Sal Gemm or Bay Salt and upon them as much Fountain Water as will serve to dissolve the Salt which being dissolv'd pour on a little River Water and boil them all together in an Alembick without a Neck the space of four Hours China Ink. Take an ounce of Lam black two drams of Indigo half a dram of Peach black Endive burnt one dram beat them all with a moity of Fig-Leaf Water and another part of common Milk and a very little Gum Arabick being all well beaten form Tablets thereof Note you must clarifie your Lam-black in an earthen Pot to take away all the filth To make Lavanturine You must lay one or two lays of Cinaber beaten with Isinglass being dry moisten them with Gum Arabic somewhat strong and then presently searce your Lavanturine with a little Silken Searce by beating the Searce with your hand and your Powder will equally garnish all that you have moistned with your Gum Water To make Horn for Lanthorns Take a dram of Lytharge of Gold half an ounce of quick Lime mingle them together with Wine in form of Paste and with this Composition make divers lays of one side and th' other of the Horn having first well clear'd it being dry take out all the Powder and repeat it as I have said being dry take out your white Powder unite them and lute them with Tripolis and Sallet Oil and Linnen rubbing them well To make the Grain of Walnut upon white Wood. You shall spread upon the Wood seven or eight lays of strong Glew till it become shining and then quickly give a good many blows with a wooden Brush well wet in common Water An excellent Varnish to lay on Copper Plates for Etching Take two ounces of clear Linseed-Oyl two ounces of Benjamin the bigness of a Nut of Virgins Wax boil them to the consumption of a third part alwayes stirring it with a stick and 't is done when you would use it warm a little the Plate you are to Engrave and with your Fingers end take up a little of the Varnish and spread it as thin and even as you can the thinner the better then smoke it with a Candle and lay your Plate on burning Coals till it has done smoking then draw your Design and engrave with a Needle or Point A very fair Green for Minature Grind Verdigreece with Vinegar and a little Talk or Tartar being well ground add a little quick Lime and Sap-green grind all very well together and keep it in Shells if it grow hard make it thin with Vinegar To make Shasses as clear as Glass Take Parchment Vellum or fine Paper very thin and smooth on both sides being wet stretch it on the Shass and let it dry then take two parts of Nut-Oyl or Linseed-Oyl two parts of fair Water and a little beaten Glass make them boil in a Glass on a Tile pretty near the fire till the water be quite consumed and t is done lay it on in the Sun or a little warm A Varnish as bright and shining as Glass for Frames Leather or what else you shall think fit Take Amber a quarter of an ounce Gum-Lac two drams Oyl of Turpentine two drams Turpentine one dram Litharge and Linseed-Oyl as much as is sufficient The way of making this Composition is to take a Pot or Glass in which put a quantity of Linseed-Oyl which boil till it burn a Feather being put into it and 't is enough then melt the Amber in a clean earthen Pipkin and put it into the Linseed-Oyl the Gum-Lac must be melted by it self in the Turpentine which pour into the same Pot the Gum-Lac will melt if you lightly anoint the Pot with Linseed-Oyl then strain all through a Cloth if you would use it on Silver or Gold take the finest yellow Earth well washed from Gravel and other foulness and being well dryed add a little Minium and Cerus with an equal quantity of Oyl of Nut and Spike Oyl boil them well and with this Composition design what you will when 't is cold and with what colours you please mixt with Glew water After all repeat the Varnish and 't will be as bright as a Looking-glass To gild Paper Grind Bole-armoniac with Rain-water and give one laying of it being dry beat the White of an Egg to Water or Glair adding a little Sugar-candy and Gum-water lay it over with this and lay your Leaf gold or silver upon it To harden Tin and give it a Silver colour Make a mixture of Tin and Lead with Greek Pitch then take a piece of Potters Earth
and with a stick make a hole in it into which put your mixture upon which pour six ounces of Tin melted in a Crucible before it be cold make also a hole in that into which pour half an ounce of Mercury which will penetrate the substance of the Tin and both harden and colour it To colour Straws of divers sorts of Colours Having the largest Barley Straws which must be gathered in the shade take the yellow Bark of Barberry-tree according to Discretion boyl it in clear Lye then throw in your Straws and boyl them till you like the colour which you may make of several degrees then put them in cold water take them out and dry them To colour them red use Brasil as aforesaid For a dark colour steep them four or five days with Indian wood and the shells of green Nuts For blue take Litmos or Logwood and when blue boyl them in the yellow Decoction and they 'l become green Oat-straws are many of them naturally of a flesh-colour How to counterfeit Coral Take Ox-horn cut or rasped small put it in a strong Lye made of the ashes of Ashwood for five dayes then take it out and add to it some Vermilion dissolved in Water put it over the fire to thicken and form your figures as you think fit To preserve Wine sweet Stop your Vessel very well and sink it under water for thirty dayes and you 'l have the desired effect To make an Excellent Red of Brasil Take a pint of fair Water into which cast a piece of unslack'd Lime let it stand all night then decant all that is clear of the Water to which put half the quantity of Brasil rasped let it infuse four hours then boil them to the Consumption of half then whilst it is very hot cast in the bigness of a Pea of Roch-allum in Powder and a little Gum Arabick To soften or dissolve Horn. Make a Lye of the ashes of Bean-cods burnt Tartar quick Lime and strong Vinegar boil therein pieces of Horn and they will either soften or dissolve according to the time you allow To Dye Bones of an Excellent Black Take Lytharge quick Lime of each alike heat them in fair Water till ready to boil always stirring the Bones with a stick till they boil apace then take it off the fire stirring it till it be cold and the Bones will be very black An Excellent way to take Spots of Oyl or Grease out of white or red Silk without changing the Colour Take Aquae Vitae Spirit of Wine is better wet the spot well with it then take Glaire made of the white of a new Egg with which rub well the spot and dry it in the Sun then wash it with clean water and press it well To soften Bones Take equal Parts of Roman and Common Vitriol distill them in an Alembick and with this Water rub the Bones and they will be soft To take away the mustiness of Wine Take Medlars cut them in four pieces hang them so in the Vessel as they touch not the Wine To make a Bullet that Kills without making a Wound Melt some Lead when it begins to grow cool make a hole in it by thrusting in a stick fill the hole with Quick-silver which by that means will be fixt and when cold melt it in an Iron Ladle and cast it in a Bullet-mold they keep not above eight days nor is any Fowl thus kill'd fit to be eaten A Powder to take out spots Burn the Bones of Sheeps-feet till they become white beat them to fine Powder warm some of it and lay it on the spot or stain till it begins to change Colour then take that away and apply more till the Spot be quite gone Another for the same Take a piece of White-bread just drawn out of the Oven lay one piece above and the other underneath the Silk and it will draw out the Oyl or Grease Another for the same Take raw Honey Glaire of Egg and Sal Armoniack lay them on the Spot for some time and wash it with fair Water An excellent Violet Colour Take Turnsole the Ashes of Lees of Wine which is burnt Tartar of each four ounces beat them tye them in a Linnen Cloath and steep them in Water A very fair Blew Take quick Lime and Sal Armoniack of each half a pound Verdet two or three ounces put all in a Viol and set it in a Horse-dunghill for forty days An Excellent Pomander of Cloves Take four ounces of Cloves Gum Arabick Coals of burnt Sage of each four ounces beat them all apart mix them in a metal Mortar with Oyl of Roses make it into a Past anoint your Hands with Oyl of Cloves knead it and form it as you please To make Brass look as well as when 't was new To a pint of strong Lye add an ounce of Roch Allum boyl them and wash your Brass to take out all the Spots dry it well and rub it with Tripoli 't will be as bright as Gold To make Silver clean Take the Ashes of Wheat-straw burnt and rub your Silver with it Another for the same Make a Lye of Soap Ashes into which throw some Roch Allum mix the froath in with it wash your Silver and dry it in the Sun To keep Roses fresh all the Year Take Rose-buds when almost ready to blow gather them with a Knife without touching the bud lay them so in the Air all Night as that the Dew fall not upon them in the Morning put them in a Glass Vessel upright upon the Stalks cover them close set them in a Vault or Sellar and bury them in dry Sand. To take out Writing without spoyling the Paper Take Roch Allum beat it with Juice of bitter Orenges dry it in the Sun and with this Powder rub your Paper To take Spots of Ink out of Silk Take strong White-wine Vinegar hot Ashes rub them well upon the Spot and wash it afterwards with Soap Water thus may you take out all sorts of Spots from coloured Silks To recover the Colour of black Cloth when decay'd Take Fig-tree Leaves boyl them well in Water wash your Cloth in it dry it in the Sun and it will be a much fairer black A truly Experienc'd Remedy against the Plague Take Bay-berries full ripe take off the skins beat the remainder of them into fine powder put a little Salt to it mix it with Vinegar and give it thus to the Person infected if he hath a hot Fever but if he has the cold Fever which is an Ague give it in Wine instead of Vinegar cover him well for he 'll sweat afterwards dry him well and the day after repeat it again Multitudes have been cured by this means For the Tooth-Ach Take a little Honey a little Pepper a little powder of Sage boyl them together and apply it to the Tooth To whiten the Teeth Rub them with the Roots of Spurge also the Ashes of burnt Barley or burnt Nettles rub'd about the Teeth and
Take a strong new Linnen Cloth fold it and rub it with Fish-Glew dissolved in common Water then dry it upon a Rail that done take yellow Wax Rosin and Mastick of each two ounces melt it all with an ounce of Turpentine stirring it well and laying it upon the Cloth till it is all soaked in To make a Jerkin or Coat-Armour Proof against a Musket Take an Oxes Hide cut off the Hair as it is just taken off cut out your Armour sew and finish it then soak it in Vinegar for 24 hours then take it out and dry it not at the Fire nor the Sun but only in the Air. This steeping in Vinegar must be repeated six times changing the Vinegar each time then colour it To hinder the Pot and Meat from boyling Put Nettle Seeds into it and no fire will make it boyl To make boyled meat bleed A Hares blood powdered and strowed upon boyl'd meat makes it look as if it bled To make Wind blow out of a River Take an Egg and empty what is in it at the ends fill half with unslack'd Lime and the other half with natural Brimstone then stop the passages with Wax put the Egg into water and you will see Wonders A Water that will give light in the dark of the Night Take some Glow-worms pound and put them into a glass Vial which close up in hot Horse-dung and leave it there fifteen days after which distill it in a glass Limbick and put the Water shall come from it into a Chrystal Vial and it will give so great a light you may see to read by it Probatum A strange way to hold Fire in ones hand without burning Put some Vitriol into strong Vinegar with an equal quantity of juice of Plantain anoynt your hands Probatum To touch Fire without being burnt Take the Juice of Marsh-Mallows Seeds of Psillium in Powder mix all together with the whites of Eggs and Juice of Radishes anoint your hands and let it dry then anoint them again and you may touch fire without danger to make it burn there must be powder of Brimstone To make a Light in a Chamber at Night Take unslacked Lime and mix it in Water leaving it till it is clear then put it into a Chamber in a Vial and you will see a great Light To make Glass or Chrystal clear Rub the Glass or Chrystal with a piece of Lead that will make it very clear To make Parchment Shasses as clear as Glass Take a very white and smooth Skin of Parchment which steep twenty four hours in whites of Eggs and Hony well mixed together then wash your Parchment very well and put it upon your Shasses when dry varnish it To whiten Paper glewed upon Windows or Shasses to endure for several Years Take white Lead ground in water when dry grind it again in Oyl and paint your Paper you must mix with it some fat Oyl which will make it resist Rain the better and to make it the more lasting cover it twice To make fat Oyl Take a flat piece of Lead and encompass it round fill it with Nut or Linseed Oyl and cover it with a Glass expose it to the Sun and it will soon be thick or fat An unluckey way to melt or calcine the Blade of a Sword without damaging the Scabbard You must put down to the bottom of the Scabbard some Arsenick in Powder and upon it some drops of Lemmon Juice then put up the Sword again in a quarter of an hour or little more you may see the Effects A secret way to write white and invisible upon a Mans Flesh and after make the Writing appear You must write with a new Pen and Urine what you will upon the Palm of your hand or where else you please and let it dry of it self when you would have the Writing appear lay upon it some burned Paper and rub it a little and it will appear perfectly Probatum To write white upon Paper and make it appear black Write what you will with Milk and do as above Probatum Divers useful and curious Compositions CHAP. XI Several sorts of Inks. To make black Writing vanish and appear again TAke one pound of burnt Tartar which dissolve in common Water and filtrate it and when you would make use of it strike it over the Writing and it will suddenly vanish To recall and make the Letters appear again Take an ounce of white Vitriol dissolve it in a pound of Water which filtrate then strike the Paper over with it and presently the Letters will appear as before An Ingenious way to Write so as it shall or shall not appear or the double Letter Take a quarter of a pint of distill'd Vinegar which put into a Vial wherein must be half an ounce of Gold Litharge in fine Powder stirring it from time to time four or five times an hour then let it stand twelve fifteen or twenty four hours then pour off what 's clear into another Vial by Inclination and throw off the dregs stopping the bottle close and keep it against you would write white or the double Letter with the Ink that follows The second Ink. Take Cork as much as you please burn it well and when it flames no longer put it into a Dish with a little Aquae Vitae over it and cover your dish close with another then pound it well and make it up into a Paste which keep to use thus Take some of this Cork burnt and pounded and dissolve it in water and with fine Cotton till your Ink runs and will write To make a Water that will make this second vanish and the first appear Take Rose-water and Sorrel water of each half a pint which put into a Vial and add to it two ounces of unslack'd Lime and one of Orpine both well beaten and mixed stirring all from time to time as the first take off the clear by Inclination after it has stood fifteen or twenty hours throw off the Lees and when you would make the second Ink vanish and the first appear put one or two drops upon the Line and with a little Cotton make it run upon the place where your writing is and it will appear Ink that may be rubbed out when you will Take Flax well burnt and put out in Aqua Vitae then ground upon a Stone to Paste which put into a new earthen Pot covering it well lest it turn to Ashes dissolve it with Gum-Water and write any Water will wash away that Writing Ink that will vanish within six dayes Take some Coals made of Willow well ground and dissolved in common Water and write Ink for Parchment that will last till you rub it out Take Cannon-Powder dissolve it in fair Water and write upon Parchment when you would put it out take a Hancherchief and rub it Indian Ink. Take dry Beans all black burn them to Coal then beat them to Powder dissolve it in March Dew in which Gum Arabic has been dissolved
a little Rag and thrust it never so little into the muzzle of your Gun with the scowring Rod and having put in your shot fold the four corners of the Rag that hang over the muzzle of your Piece over one another and drive them down with your scowring Rod then shoot either at Quelsts Stock-doves Ducks c. and you will see strange Effects and you need not come so near as is usual because this carries a great way so when the Birds run upon the Ground you must shoot at them as they rise To make Powder strong To eight ounces of Powder add one of Borax well pounded and mix them together To catch Partridges Steep Wheat in Aquae Vitae strew it where the Partridges repair and they will fall down drunk To make Rabbets come out of their Berries without a Ferret Take Powder of Orpiment Sulphur and an old shooe or Parchment or Cloth which burn at the Mouth of the Berrie upon which the Wind blows and spread your Bags under the Wind. Another way Put one or two Cray-fishes into the Mouth of the Berry and they will certainly make the Conies come out To gather together a great number of Hares Take juice of Henbane mixed with the Blood of a young Hare and sew it in a Hares Skin whi4ch bury in the Earth An admirable way to preserve Arms from rusting and take off the rust Take a pound and half of Beef Suet a pound and half of Oyl of sweet Almonds extracted without Fire one pound of freshned Olive Oyle four ounces of Camphire twelve ounces of Lead burnt with Sulphur make a Composition of them and boil it to the substance of an Oyntment with which rub the Armes to prevent rusting Note that Lead is burnt by melting and then throwing upon it powdered Sulphur always stirring the Lead with an Iron Rod till it remains in a black Powder Olive Oyle is freshned with luke-warm Water beating them together and then letting them settle again lastly put them into a Funnel to filtrate the Water will run out first when you unstop the bottom hole Another way Take new white Wax heat the Iron you will rub with the Wax very hot and when it is so hot you can hardly hold it rub it well and let it soak the said Wax letting it afterwards dry before the Fire that it may suck in the said Wax rubbing and cleansing it with a piece of Serge and thus it will never rust To make an unextinguishable Wild fire Take live quick Sulphur Tartar Sarcocolla Oyl of Pitch boyled or decrepitated Salt Petroleum and common Oyl and boyl them well together it cannot be extinguished but by Vinegar Another way Take Oyl of Petilium Oyl of Turpentine of each an ounce Camphire six drams in Powder hard Rosin half an ounce melt all together then take Hemp or Flax and dip it in this Composition then throw it upon the place you design A Fire that burns upon Armour Take Cannon-powder five parts Salt-peter three Sulphur two parts Rosin and Turpentine of each one part white Vitriol half a part Oyl of Acorns the same quantity as much Linseed Oyl and one part and half of Aqua Vitae To make a Pistol carry far Put a good charge of Powder into it and instead of Paper ramm a Bullet of Camphire upon your Powder beating it well down then you must have a thin skin dipped in Oyl of Petroleum in which wrap up your Bullet over that a little more Camphire which you must not ramm too much A pleasant way to catch Crows You must mince some Oxes Liver or Lights with some Nux Vomica which make up into little Balls as big as small Nuts and spread them in any Field as soon as the Crows eat of them they fall down stounded and you may easily catch them with your hands Of Fishery A sure way to catch Fish Take fresh Horse-dung and put it into a Bag or Net throw it into the Water and the Fish will gather about it Another way Take Quick-silver which put into a thick glass Vial fasten it to a Pack-thread and let it down to the bottom of the Water in the Night especially when the Moon shines and you will see a multitude of Fish come together To catch Fish Put Oyl of Camomil into a Vial and when you would fish you must have some Worms and kill them in the said Vial of Oyl and bait your Hooks with those Worms A wonderful Secret to bring the Fish to the place you desire Boyl Barley in Water till it bursts and boyl it with Liquorice a little Mummy and Honey beat all together in a Mortar till it is stiff as Paste which put into Boxes close stopped when you would fish in any place take about the quantity of a Walnut of it and boyl in an earthen Pot with two handfuls of fresh Barley and a little Liquorice leaving it till it is almost dry then throw it into the place whither you would have the Fish come and they will gather there To catch Fish Take the Herb Dragon-wort from which extract the Juyce with it rub your Hands and the Fish will come near and suffer themselves to be taken holding them in the Water the proper hour for fishing is from five till six in the morning Another way Take some of a Herons Flesh and put it into a Bottle close covered with Clay or Wax with some Musk Amber and Civet put the Pot into a Kettle full of Water and make it boil till you are sure the said Flesh is converted into Oyl then take out the Bottle and pour out the Oyl with which rub your Line and all the Fish will come to be taken Another way Take fat of a Heron Mummie Galbanum of each two drams Musk one grain Aqua Vitae two ounces mix all together in an Earthen Porringer over a gentle Fire and stir till it be as thick as if boiled keep it in a leaden Porringer and with it rub the Hook or the ends of the Line or Cork and all the Fish will come so that you may take them with your Hands Otherwise Take the Belly of a Heron that is the Bowels or Entrals cut it in pieces and put it into a Glass Vial which stop close with Wax then bury it in hot Horse-dung and let it turn to Oyl which will be within ten or fifteen daies then take an ounce of Asa foetida and mix it with the said Oyl it will all thicken like Honey with which noynt a Line Stick or Rod or else the bait you put upon the Hook Another way to do the same You must kill a Cat by smothering bleed him and having flayed and panched rost him upon a Spit without larding and keep the dripping that falls which mix with Yolks of Eggs and an equal quantity of Oyl of Spicknard which mix well together in a Mortar to the thickness of an Oyntment and use it as above To make Worms for baits come out
an Egg beaten to a froth and let it lye till next day take that which runs in which steep four or five Quince-seeds a whole day that being somewhat thick let it dry when you would use it dissolve it in fair water and grind all well together you must scrape a little Soap upon it if you use the bigness of a Nut of Bole Armoniack put the bigness of a Pea of Soap write with a Pen and let the Writing dry then strike it over with a Pensil dipped only in fair water and lay upon it the Leaf or Shell-gold when it is thoroughly dry polish it with a Tooth but observe it must be very dry before you rub it and the best way is to let it lye a day Take a very smooth white Paper and put the sleekest side upon the Gold then polish it over the Paper that it may be well united take off the Paper and rub it without and it will be very beautiful To make excellent Creyons and as hard as Vermilion invented by Prince Rupert Take some white Clay as it is prepared to make Tobacco Pipes which grind upon a stone with fair water as thick as Paste and take what colours you will each by it self grind them dry upon the stone the finest you can then sift them through a very fine Cloth and mix each of the Colours with the said Paste according as you design to make the Creyons deep or pale in colour and mix with it a little Honey and Gum Arabick-water at Discretion Note that of each colour you must make some deeper then others that they may serve for shadowing then take each Paste by it self and make it up into little rouls as thick as your Finger or Thumb roul them between two Boards well joyned to bring them to the thickness you desire for use that done lay them a drying upon a clean Board or upon Paper without Fire or Sun for two daies then to dry them thoroughly lay them in the Sun or before the Fire and when dry they will be fit for use This is a very good and rare Receipt for this purpose To preserve Silver upon Wood or Plaster and prevent its turning Red. Wash it every Month with Water-glew made as above with a Pensil Ho to gild Lead or white Lattin or any other thing provided you tin it over first Take black Pitch Oyl of Turpentine two ounces Rosin a very little melt all upon the Fire and make a Vernish which strike over your Work To soften Ivory and Bones Take Roch Allum and melt it in water over the Fire then put in one part of Rose-water and of fine sifted Ashes and let the Ivory and Bones steep therein twenty four hours and they will grow soft boyling them in fair Water they will return to their former hardness To draw without Ink or Creyons Rub your Paper with Tripoly To hinder Beech from cracking upon the Fire You must boil it in fair Water Divers sorts and imitations of Marble and Jasper Stone and how to repair decayed Marble CHAP. XVII To make very good Marble or Jasper Stone TAke unslacked Lime which dissolve with Whites of Eggs and Linseed Oyl of it make several Balls into one put Lake to make it red your Lake must be in very fine Powder in another Azure for blue in another Verdigreece for green and so of other Colours keeping one or two white squeeze all these Balls flat and lay them one upon another the white ones in the middle then with a Knife cut slices all the length of the Paste and having cut it all mix all the slices in a Mortar and beat them when thus mixed you will have a fine Jasper stone take it and with a Masons Trowel or your Hands spread it upon the Place you design it for striking it over till you see it sticks being polished if you have not before put Oyl to it but only the Whites of Eggs boil some and lay it scalding hot upon the Work running it all over as long as it drys in for the Oyl will soak in and give it a good Gloss but if you put in the Linseed Oyl at first to dissolve the Lime there is no need of adding any more that done dry your Work in the Shade Of this Jasper you may make Chaplets the Work whereof being cast in a Mould you must lay them in a Pot full of Linseed Oyl where they will dry and vernish For black Jasper Take Water of unslacked Lime and Aqua fortis and rinds of green Walnuts dissolve and mix all together then taking this black which is very good lay it with a Brush upon what you desire to imitate Jasper that done set your Work black as it is in the Smoak for eight daies then take it out and it will be all marbled Another way Make your black into a great Ball and leave it the same time in the Smoke and with that rub your Column or other Work as above and whether you use the one way or the other when your Work is marbled you must vernish it to give it a gloss The Vernish of these marbled Jaspers is set down at large in the Chapter of Vernishes in the fifth Paragraph To counterfeit Marble Take white Plaster well beaten powdered and sifted and make Parchment Glue when it is melted dissolve your Plaster in it till it comes to a Paste in which mix what Colours you please and spread it upon a Table with a Trowel laying it as smooth as you can let it dry fifteen daies when dry polish it with a Pumice stone pretty hard at first afterwards more gently sprinkling it with fine Tripoly then rub it with a Hone and at last with a piece of Oxes Hide to make it shine and it is done To whiten Alabaster and white Marble Beat some Pumice stone into fine Powder and infuse it in Verjuice twelve hours or thereabouts then take a Spunge and dip it therein with which rub your Alabaster or white Marble then take fair Water and with a Cloth wash them and lastly wipe them dry with a clean Cloth To white-wash Plaster Walls It must be supposed the Wall is very well plastered with very fine Plaster well layed after which you may whiten it with Lime-milk very clear as shall hereafter be described The Wall should be very well wetted with Water for all the Secret consists in the White not drying too fast but rather very slowly which gives the Lime time to fasten drying leisurely and thus the Walls will neither whiten your Hands nor your Clothes If there were any Dirt upon the Wall it ought to be scraped off the same upon Free-stone and strike it over equally two or three times Within an hour or two strike it over with the Palm of your hand and it will polish like Marble The best Lime-milk is made after the Lime has been a long time slack'd into which having put a sufficient quantity of Water it must be stirred
till it make a white Froth on the top which must be immediately taken off and kept for Use The last passing over it ought to be with Milk of unslack'd Lime that the white may be the glossier Another way It must be done over with Lime and Black well layed by the Rule and Plummet and be rubbed over smooth then whiten it three or four times together with Lime-milk the first white must be very clear the second somewhat thicker and the third more putting to it more or less Water as you think fit This way may be called cold Whitening and is the best most beautiful and quickest of all To rub and colour Plaster-Cielings or Floors You must scrape it very well then take Urine and Soot of a Chimney or of an Oven is better mix and dissolve it well letting it infuse two days then with a brush or rubber rub the Floors and let them dry before you walk over them when dry rub them go over them again with a rubbing brush as you do boarded Floors CHAP. XVIII To Dye white Martins Skins of long Hair of a very good Black that never fades BOyl two pound of fresh Galls over a gentle Fire with two ounces of Beef-marrow in an earthen Pot close stopped often shaking it lest the Galls burn letting it boyl till the Pot makes no noise when you stir it which beat and strain then take half a pound of it and three ounces of green Coperis three ounces of Roman Allum two ounces of Litharge one ounce of Verdigreece one ounce of Sumack one ounce of Sal Armoniac each beaten by it self then mix them together boyl and keep it to Dye Note That before you apply the Dye you must wash the Skin two or three times in very clear and clean Lime-water and when you apply the Dye let it be with a Pensil against the grain of the Hair and the other way if requisite These Skins when dry differ not from Sables All the Powders being together must be put upon the fire without any other Liquor for they will melt and boyl the Verdigreece may be left out but it does no harm To make the Spanish Carnation Take bastard Saffron wash it well dry it and beat it being beaten to one pound of it add a quarter of Tartar burnt and grind all together then put all into a double course linnen bag and just warm a quarter of a pint of Lemmon juyce which pour upon the said Saffron put in that which you would dye and it will take the colour You must first boyl the Stuff you would dye in Allum water then wash and dry it and put into the dye To make excellent red Paper Take half a pound of bastard Saffron which wash in a bag by the River side till it hardly gives any colour put what 's left into a Bason sprinkling it with the powder of Glass-wort one ounce and put it into a little bucket of luke-warm water alwayes stirring it after straining it add a little juyce of Lemmons which gives it the red colour it must be fine Paper and dip'd in the said Bason To Marble Paper Grind your Colours as Lake Mastick Azure yellow Oker red Lead red Oker and others with the Gall of an Ox then fill an earthen Bason full of luke-warm water and with a stick turn it round till it work at the same time let your Colours be ready and taking a little of each with a thick Pensil touch the middle of the Water and you will see all the Colours spread then presently with another Pensil or Feather take another Colour with which touch the Water in the same place as before and so presently set in all the Colours whilst the Water is stirring and goes round when it stops you will see it all spread with sundry Colours then lay your Paper upon the water and without dipping of it take up your Sheet drawing it over the Water to the edge of the Bason then lift dry and burnish it The Paper must be good and the water prepared with Gum-Dragacanth CHAP. XIX To restore Tapistry to its first beauty when the Colours are decayed SHake and cleanse the Tapistry very well then take a hard Hair Brush to take off the Fullers-earth that must be spread all over it after it has been on seven or eight hours that being off put on more again and having left it on the same time take it off after the same manner Then shake the said Tapistry and beat it very well with a Switch to drive out the Dust next cleanse it well with a Brush and it will return to its former beauty To restore the Colour to Turkish Carpets Beat them well with a Stick till all the dust be out and if they have any Ink spots rub them with Lemmon Juice and let them soak well then wash them well in fair Water and strike the backside till all the Water be out when it is very dry take the Crum of white-bread hot and rub the Carpet then choose one or two fair Nights and hang out your Carpets in the dew To restore Gold or Silver Lace to its former Beauty Take the Gall of an Ox and the Gall of a Pike mix them in fair Water and rub your Gold or Silver and you will find it change Colour How to drive away Fleas Punaises and other Insects CHAP. XX. To destroy the Punaises TAke Juice of Worm wood and common Oyl enough of each which boil together till all the Juice be consumed then strain the Oyl and cast it into live Sulphur and with this Oyl rub the Bed and Craneys Otherwise Take the Gall of an Ox and Oyl of Hemp-seed mix them together and rub the joints and wood of the Bed and where you have rubbed never any Punice will come Item Rub the Wood with the Juice of old Cucumbers that are let run to seed Another way Steep Oxes Liver in strong Vinegar and wash your Bed-stead and lay some great Comfrey under your Boulster Probatum Item Take some Cypress Nuts and beat them then infuse in Oyl which must be two fingers above them and leave them in the Sun and the Evening Air for forty eight hours and having strained the Oyl squeezing out the said Nuts very well rub your Bed-stead To destroy the Fleas Upon a pound of white Copperas pour a Bucket of Water and when the Copperas is sunk sprinkle your Chamber with that Water Otherwise Sprinkle the Chamber with Decoction of Rue mixed with Asses Piss Probatum Another way for the same which is also good against the Punices the Wezils in Corn and Worms in Trunks Dry black Hellebore and strow it in your Chamber as you would do Flowers or in your Bed or among Corn or Cloths and none of the aforesaid things will hurt them Probatum For Moths in Cloths The Herb called Botris dryed and layed among Cloths keeps them from Moths and Worms Another way Candles made of Mutton Grease wrapped in Paper and
the Rroots of Orris or Wormwood are very good For Punaises Boil Coloquintida with Rue and Water wash the Bed-sted therewith and no Punices will come To destroy Flies Put Leaf Tobacco into a Pot and infuse it in Water twenty four hours then add Hony and boil it an hour and strew over it some Flower in the manner of Sugar that draws the Flies and all that taste it certainly die Another way Take what quantity you think fit of Citrul or Gourd-leaves pound them to extract the Juice with which wash the Walls or other thing you desire to preserve from the Flies and they will not come there for certain you may rub a Horses Thighs and Belly to the same intent To drive Mice from the House Take Vervain and steep it in Water letting it infuse twenty four hours then strew it about the House and the Mice will fly Of House-keeping CHAP. XXI How to make Bread much more substantial than ordinary WHen you would make Bread take the Bran which has been boulted off put it into a Kettle of Water and make it boil then strain and make your Bread with that white Water and it will be much more substantial and you will have a quarter more Bread than the common way Another sort of Bread which besides being better keeps above a Month longer than ordinary Take Pompions and boil them in fair Water till the water grow thick and with that water make your Bread which will be very good and will increase a quarter and keep a Month longer than the common Bread Probatum A sort of Bread of which a Mouthful can maintain a Man eight daies without eating any thing else Take a quantity of Snails and make them void their sliminess then dry and reduce them to fine Powder of which make a Loaf with a Mouthful of which a Man may be eight days without eating To grease any creaking in Wood. Rub it with Soap and that is enough An unluckey way to hinder making of Butter Put powdered Sugar into the Cream whereof the Butter is to be made How to make a great deal of Cream Take a red Snail and hang him by a Thread in the middle of the Vessel wherein the Milk is and all that is above the Snail will turn to Cream To bring up Fowl You must have some of the Lees of Wine that remain in the Fat after drawing off the Wine mix it well with Bran then make a hole in the Ground into which lay the said Lees and Bran in Layers one upon another over all a Layer of fat Earth then one of Lee mixed with Bran and so continue to the last Layer To fatten all sorts of Fowl in fifteen days whether Hens Geese Ducks or others from All-Hallows till Lent Take Nettle leaves and Seed gathered and â—ryed in the proper Season which beat to Powder and sift when you would use it make it into a Paste with Wheat-Bran or Flower making it up with Dish-water for want of it with warm Water give it to your Fowl once a day and you will see the effect Another way to fatten Fowl First put them into a Coop and three times a day give them to eat a sort of Paste made of two parts Barley and one of black Wheat or Millet ground together the Flower sifted and the Bran taken off of which make bits rather long then round of a convenient size and give them seven or eight a day and in fifteen days or thereabouts they will be very fat To fatten Turkicocks and Pullets as is used at Laval You must Coop them up as is said of other Fowl then feed them with Nettles mixed with Bran and hard Eggs viz. Two Eggs a time three times a day you must make it up for them like Pills of the bigness of a Nut. To hinder Worms from coming to Corn. Lay Lees of Wine in the four corners of your Loft and Barn An excellent way to whiten Linnen as is used in Flanders You must first wash the Linnen as it comes from the Loom in hot water to cleanse it then put it into Lye made of good strong Ashes with Roots of Wallwort the Lye being made and the Cloth well washed in fair water and with black Soap hang it out in the Air and the Dew upon the Grass sprinkling it in the Sun and so leave it seven or eight days and it will be very white but if you think it not white enough put it into the Lye again and it will be perfect Another way that is used at Laval in Britany When the Linnen comes from the Weaver it must be soaked in hot Water then wash it very well to take off the stifness of it then dry and wash it again in luke-warm water then dip it in Cows Dung dissolved in hot water and leave it thore twenty four hours then wash it again in warm water and leave it four or five daies out in the Dew sprinkling it in the Sun them put it into Lye and within eight or ten days it will be very white Curiosities in Gardening Fruits and Flowers CHAP. XXII To make Herbs grow quickly TAke Ashes of the Moss of Trees and Dung well worked together which sprinkle with the moisture comes from a Dunghill several times and dry it so often at the Sun till there comes from it a fat cloggy Earth which keep in some earthen glaz'd Pot that is very hard Earth for those of common Earth suck in the Fat use it in Summer and Winter If it be in Winter put the Earth into an earthen Pot stir and work it well sprinkling it with moisture of Dung till it be so wet that it looks like Earth that you would sow being thus prepared set it upon a Chafindish giving it a Heat like that of July being brought to that Heat sow your Seeds to wit Purslane and Lettice having first moistened it a whole Night in the heat with the moisture of rotten Dung being these Seeds are sowed upon the top of the Earth sprinkle as you find the Earth dry with warm Rain-water in less than two hours these Seeds will produce every one in its kind enough to make a good Sallade to eat and by the like industry you may make Plants bud and bear Fruit and Flower without the help of the Sun even out of Season How to preserve Grafts They must be layed into Lattin Pipes and covered with Honey and thus they will keep four Months To drive Moles out of a Garden Make a bundle of green Hemp which bury in a Hole two or three foot deep and cover it over with Earth and as it rots away it will stink so that all the Moles will either dye or run away For the same Strew about some Hogs-dung To make Caterpillers fall off Trees Fill a new Pot with burning Coals and put in some Frankincense and black Gum hold the Pot under the Branches where the Caterpillers are the said Smoak will make them fall and
Water will so oppress his Stomach that he 'l be apt to shrink or lift up his Shoulders and so deform the Mould to prevent which let the Water be lukewarm if you mix a third of fine Brick with Plaister and some Plume Alum you may cast Brass in it only making a thickness of Earth for to make the Kernel but before you bake it give a laying or two of Sal Armoniac Water in all the hollow places of the Mould tying it with strong Iron Wier or Hoops and putting in the Broches Thus may you cast very fine Figures also in Lead or Tin the chief thing is to find out well shap'd persons and hard Labourers who have always their Muscles more strong and better shap'd than such as live a finer Life who often have their Bodies forc'd to their Cloaths nor those whose Toes grow over one another set the Person right that the Posture seems not aukward especially in upright Figures How to mould off the face of any person without being troublesome to him Take a little Brush or Pencil lay some warm paste upon the Hairs of the Eye-Brows the Forehead all along the Roots of the Hair and upon the Beard lay the person on his Back and with a Napkin roul'd up compass the Face about to hinder the Plaister from falling into the Neck or upon the Hair your Plaister being good well temper'd neither too thick nor too thin that you may soon have done let there be two to lay on the Plaister with their hands beginning at the Forehead and so all along the Face except at the Nostrils which you must not stop charging your Mould with as much thickness as 't will bear not stopping the Nose if the Plaister be good 't will set presently then take it gently off and you have the Mould of the Face to the Life Now to remedy the defect under the Nose 't is but clapping a Chissel or repairing Tool to it and pouring on a little Plaister which being dry you may mould off a Head of Plaister or Potters Earth then having the Person before you open the Eyes of your Mould some use to put Quills into the Nostrils but I prove not of it this being a more sure way of practice always advise the person not to force his Face or frown to prevent which temper the Plaister with luke-warm water the Hair being well pasted thus may you cast all sorts of Faces Laughing Crying Grimaces that is crabbed or wry Faces To cast Hands to the Life Place your Hands in what Posture you think fit grease them and proceed as before putting little Boards greased to divide the several pieces thus may Feet and Legs in all Postures be done observing to put a Cloth under the Mould in opening it so that if any small pieces happen to break off they may be gathered and joyned with strong Glew for it cannot be but some pieces will happen to break on the inside of the Hand not on the outside if you desire it should hold something make the form of it in Potters Earth and you may easily take it off then having cast the Plaister into the Mould break off with a Chiszel the pieces that cannot be taken off do all with care and patience that you break not your work CHAP. VI. To cast Fish to the Life either in Plaister or burnt Clay to put into Fountains also to cast them in Brass Tin Lead or Pastboard and to make them swim on the top or middle of the Water TAke any sort of Fish put it in what Posture you think fit wash it in clean water to take off the Slime rub it lightly with Sallad Oyl and mould it in Plaister in two parts turning and repairing the frost side of the Mould and with red Ocre temper'd with Water cover the Joynt and grease it then Oyl the other half and cast the Plaister which being done with a Knife trim it all along the Joynts then strengthen it with Clay and let it dry being ready and well greased put in the beaten Paper or Past-board press it with a Linen Cloth and a Spunge to take out the Water lay the Cloth upon it and with the Spunge press it into the Gravings and hollow places till it be as dry as you can make it when dry take out and joyn the two pieces with strong Glew then lay in size afterwards in white and press it How to colour the Pastboard Fish If it be a Carp lay on Leaf Gold with Gold Oyl Size where a Carp seems most of a Golden Colour in other places as under the Belly and upon the Back you ought to paint with fit Pencil Colours and umber ground very thin with oil and with a Pencil draw the scales and shadow'em to the life then paint the head and the eyes having a natural Carp before you having painted the Carp dry it and varnish it with drying Varnish made of Spike Oyl and give it so many courses as is usual in Varnishing when dry with your Finger give a gentle touch of the same Varnish upon its Head which being so dry as that will but just stick to the Fingers even as when you are to guild in Oyl then take shell Gold temper'd only with Water and with a Pencil gild those places that require it with the same Pencil heightning some Scales but those above the Back with the washing of your shell that they appear not so strong as in other places then with your Finger varnish it let it dry and with the washing of your Shell of Silver and with a large Pencil frost over those places that seem Silverish then with a small Pencil draw the Scales with shell Silver all being dry give another course of Varnish and let it dry to make the Eyes perfect get some hollow Beads blown at the Glass-House of the size of the Fishes Eye divide them in two pieces and paint in them with the Colours of Gold and Silver paint the Eye to the Life being dry make a hollow in the place for the Eye and place them in fit more may be added but the rest is left to the patience and ingenuity of the industrious Artist if you would have them in Brass do as in other Figures How to cast Fish which in the Water shall seem natural viz. one at the bottom of the Tub the other in the middle and others on the top Take what Fish you will set it upon the Belly on a Bed of Earth made edging up but very even set the Fins as they carry them when alive in the Water make a circle of Earth about it to keep in the Plaister which must be new not stale but if it be so make it boyl in an iron Kettle or else put it in an earthen Vessel in a hot Oven then put to it a third part of new Brick in fine Powder choose the finest and tenderest Brick to these add one third part of Plum Alum ground on a Marble temper
with the Varnish made of Linseed-Oyl and Rosin After this manner you may mould off all sorts of little Figures in Plaister Paste or Clay if you 'd have some guilt Figures take Leaf-Copper being well boil'd and clean'd cover it well with Ground Gold and print it on the Mould thus may you do in any Form whatsoever with Gold or Silver CHAP. X. A neat way to mould off Figures in Paste TAke the Crum of a White-Loaf new drawn mould it till it become plyable and close as Wax roul it with a Rouling-Pin as far as 't will go then print it in the Moulds when dry 't will be very hard to preserve it from Vermin mix some Aloes with it Also you may make a Paste of all sorts of Pouder mixt with Mill-dust as Chalk Azur Ammel Smalt Red-Lead Vermilion c. Steep Gum Tragaganth about eight days in water till it be very strong with this temper your Pouder and mould them in hollow Moulds of Plaister being first oyl'd when dry they 'l seem wood by their excessive hardness pollish them with a Tooth or varnish them they 'l be very strong and serve for many uses thus may Joyners print off small Figures to imboss the Frizes or to set in the Nicks or hollow places the more Gum you allow the harder they will be CHAP. XI To counterfeit Porphir or Red Marble TAke English Brown if it seem too redish put some Umber or Soot then take a very smooth Board a well polisht Marble or a large piece of Glass a little oyl'd then take some English Brown with some Roset or Lake and grind them with Gum Tragaganth then with a large brush flurt or sprinkle the Glass according to the Marks and Veins of that Stone when 't is enough spotted let it dry then temper your English-Brown and Umber with Gum Tragaganth Water into a Paste which being lai'd on the spotted Glass or Marble let it dry and pollish it To counterfeit the Serpentine Take Orpiment grind it in water with a little Indico when dry reduce it to fine Pouder and temper it with Gum Tragaganth water into a Paste then by adding more Orpiment to the Indico you 'l have a brighter Green according to the Colour of the Spots of Serpentine take this Colour with a Pencil and lay the Marks upon the Marble or Glass then lay on the Paste which you have made of a deeper Green many other sorts may be made after the same manner Another way to counterfeit Marble Take several sorts of Colours and with a Pencil sprinkle them on a Glass or Marble very thick or in what order you please then lay on the Paste of what colour you will if White take white Lead and Chalk and a little yellow Ocre when dry varnish it with clear drying Varnish having first well glew'd it with clear white Glew To mould small Figures of a Jasper Colour Having oyl'd your Moulds with a Pencil diversify them with what Colours you think fit tempered with Gum Tragaganth if the Colours will run or spread put in a little Ox Gall but the thicker it is the harder they will be then make your Paste of what Colour you will fill the Mould tye it and leave it to dry then Burnish or Varnish the Iron Wier to tye it must be very small To mould carved Figures in Fashion of an Agat If it be of a Medal or other Figure cover the Field of it with Lamp-black tempered with Gum-Water cover it pretty thick temper White-lead with Gum-water into a Paste Mould your Medal being dry pollish it after this manner you may have various sorts very beautiful and easie to make as with yellow Ocre which you may guild with Shell Gold To imitate Coral Grind Vermilion very fine make it into Paste as above take bits about the bigness of a Penny made very thin press these very smooth and closely into the Mould then make yellow Ocre and Chalk into a Paste fill the Mould dry and pollish For Lapis Lazuli Take fine Azure or blew Amel ground very fine made into Paste mould it and Vein it with shell Gold and burnish To counterfeit Marble with Brimstone Take a well pollished Marble oyl it make a Circle of Clay of the bigness you design your Piece having ready all sorts of Colours in fine Pouder as Ceruse Vermilion Lake yellow Orpiment wash't Masticot Indico and red Orpiment mix'd for a Green then melt your Sulphur in several Crucibles over a slow Fire putting into each a several Colour then nimbly strew drops of each upon the Marble turning them up and down by turning the Marble to make them run this done if you would have the Body of the Marble Grey take Ashes well sifted mix them with Sulphur till it looks Grey if of a Reddish Brown take English Brown with a little Black if White take White Lead and so of the rest being mixed with the Sulphur in a good heat cast it on the Marble but pour it very gently that it run not into the Eyes or Blisters if you will you may lay upon it a well seasoned Oak Board well warmed and before the Sulphur be cold that it may stick fast and not break the Brimstone which is brittle then trim the Edges with a Knife pollish it with a Cloth and it will have the Brightness of Marble To make Marble of the Colour of Coral Mix Vermilion with Sulphur and cast into Moulds of Plaister well oyled or into Moulds made of Paste before they be dry if you 'd have the Figures diversified pour in a little of every Colour one after the other and though at first they seem to mix yet they will separate before they be cold try and judge CHAP. XII To cast Medals or carved Figures in trasparent Colours to Embellish Glasses Windows or Shashes as if they were of Ruby Amber or Coral TAke a Medal or piece of carved Work which mould off in prepared Earth it will do well in a pair of Flasques then raise an Edging of Earth near half a Finger thick about the Figure experience will better teach the thickness for clear Amber take Venice Turpentine put it in a Pot well Leaded boil it over a small Fire till by letting a little drop fall on your Nail or Knife it become so hard when cold that you can hardly break it with your Nail if it be not hard enough give it more boiling and cast it in the Mould For the Ruby Colour Mix fine Lake in fine Pouder with Turpentine boiled and cast it into your Mould of Clay before it be dry because they are apt to break cut a piece of Glass of the size of your Medal and whilst the Turpentine is yet melted stick it to the Medal when dry take away the Earth gently with a wooden Point of Willow then with Water and a gentle Brush of Bristles clear away what may be sticking of the Earth place them in a good Light and you will find them