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
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
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
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-water two ounces Milk one ounce Verjuice half an ounce Incense beaten two drams the white of an Egg well beaten rub the Face before you go to bed For them that Spit or Vomit Blood from a Fall Take the Powder of the Vine-leaves in three ounces of Broth one Pugil then being setled you must take half a Glass of the Vulnerary decoction for eight days For Pain o' th' Teeth Take equal parts of Honey of Roses and Aqua-Vitae boil them together and wash the Mouth therewith Contusions Falls Blows without Wounds Take a Cake of Honey let it boil in the best red Vinegar till it come to a Pap make an Emplaister thereof and apply it For Wounds and Pricks Take Night-shade Leaves bruised and apply them For the Head-ach Take the shavings of Harts-horn drink it in Wine and powder the head therewith For Warts Take the Juice of Celandine let it drop upon the Wart first cut and then apply the Herb do this two or three times Oyl of Juniper Take Juniper-berries gathered from the month of August to the end of September bruise them and infuse them in Fountain-water three or four days and the Water of the first infusion will serve for the rest for the first is the best take two earthen Alembics the one full of Berries and the other half full of the Infusion this put into the Earth and the one fastned upon the other after having strained it through a Cloth put it into a Furnace being cold open it and gather the Oyl letting the water run out take care that it take not wind The Vse A Secret for Wounds Cancers Reins Spleen Leprosie the Dose is two or three drops in Broth. For the Tooth-ach Take good Honey two ounces a glass of the strongest Vinegar Cloves half an ounce let them boil in a new Pot till a quarter be wasted rub your Teeth therewith morning after dinner and at night To turn a Defluxion from the Breast Take Cephalic Powder put in your Broth a little Anula abstain from all sharp things The Cephalic Powder Take Grape-flowers half an ounce Violet-flowers white Nutmegs half an ounce Betony-flowers two ounces all dry'd and powdred besprinkle them with Rose-water dry them again beat them together with a grain of Amber-grease An Oyl as good as Balm Take flowers of St. John's-wort half an ounce put to two ounces of Sallet-Oyl one spoonful of the Juice of Coronata put them all in a glass and set it in the Sun for three or four hours Hyppocras Extempore Take a quart of Aq. Vitae in which infuse four ounces of Cinamon an ounce of Cloves and Nutmeg or else Ginger infuse them all together and to make Hyppocras put two or three spoonfuls in a quart of Wine Rosa Solis Take two quarts of Aq. Vitae of Sugar or powdred Sugar a pound and half common Water a pint and half wherein you shall boil them to the consistence of Syrup not quite boil'd enough then put in half an ounce of Cinamon powdred and put it to the Syrup when 't is boil'd enough to scent it pour it through a Cloth with two grains of Musk and half an ounce of Sugar Candy Of Jewels and Pearls CHAP. VI. Artificial Pearls as fair as the Natural TAke the fairest and greatest Seeds of Pearls bruise them and dissolve them in Allum-water which is all the Secret then make them into a Paste and wash it gently with distilled Water afterwards make it into a Paste with Bean-flower-water and digest it in Dung the space of fifteen days then having the consistence of Paste you shall form Pearls thereof with a silver Mold and pierce them with Hogs-hair and hang them in an Alembic stopt close to the end the Air alter them not then you shall after this manner Roul each one apart in Leaf Gold then cleave a Barble in the middle and put them therein make a Paste of the said Barble with Wheat-flower and bake it in an Oven as you bake Bread If they have not lustre enough take the Water of a kind of Herb called Grastuli with six ounces of Pearls in Powder one ounce of Salt-Petre two ounces of Roch-Allum and Litharge of silver the Pearls being made you shall heat them a little and quench them in this Composition then dry and wash them repeating this five or six times To harden them Take Lapis Calaminaris in powder and Vitriol of each one ounce the whites of Eggs beaten to a Water mingle them together and distill them and there will come forth a clear Water with which and with very fine Barly Meal you shall make a Paste in which you shall put your Pearls to be bak'd in an Oven An admirable Secret to whiten Pearls Take Common and Roch-Allum of each one pound distill this to a Water half an ounce of Camphire Solomon's Seal two ounces rectifie it then use it with a moist Linnen Cloth Another more Excellent Take half an ounce of Bean-flowers Lime and Eggs an ounce white Salt one pound Water of Confound Alcobol of Wine eleven ounces distill them and use it For the same Take an handful of Wheat Bran boil it in a Posnet with a pint of Water and when 't is boil'd pour out half of the said Water and then in an earthen Porringer varnish'd wherein shall be the Pearls strung which you shall let steep therein till the Water be almost cold that you may rub them gently with your hands till the Water be wholly cold then throw away that Water and put on new upon the Pearls do thus often and then your Water will be clear which you shall warm and put into the said Porringer wherein you shall clear the said Pearls without rubing them and do it so
afterwards well wash'd are very effectual Likewise burnt Nettles mixt with Cloves Sugar and Nutmeg Probatum To destroy Buggs Boyl the Paunches or Gutts of Rabbits in Water set it hot under the Bed and the Fume will destroy them To prevent the smoaking of Lamp Oyl Steep your Match or Cotton in Vinegar and dry it before you use it Against Lice Fleas and Buggs Stretch out a Bears Skin and hang it up in the Chamber and you 'l soon be rid of them To whiten a red Rose This is done by holding it over the smoak of Brimstone To make Pinks or Gilliflowers blue Take a Root of wild Succory slit it and set your Gilliflower in it To make very sharp Vinegar Put into the Vessel a piece of Barly Bread and in two daies it will be eager To keep Pease Green Put them in a Pot with one part Water and as much Vinegar when you take them out to use soak them in fair Water To preserve Fruit to the very Kernel Incorporate Honey and Water very well put in your Fruit half ripe and keep them in a Cellar A most exquisite way of invisible Writing The first Ink. Take a penny-worth of Litharge of Gold or Silver unprepared beat it then infuse it in a Viol half full of strong Vinegar having well shaken them together leave them to settle and being clear write upon your Paper with a new Pen and it will not appear at all The second Ink. Take Cork burn it till it has done smoaking extinguish it in Aqua Vitae or Spirit of Wine dry it and mix it with Water and a little Gum Arabic to the consistence of thin Paste when you would write with it make it thinner with common Water and write upon what 's written with the foremention'd Ink. The third Ink. Take yellow Orpiment and quick Lime of each an ounce beat them and put them in four ounces of common Water stir them well this Water will take away the second Ink and make what was written with the first appear A Glew both for Fire and Water Mix quick Lime and Lynseed Oyl together and whatsoever you shall glew with it dry in the shade and 't will become as hard as Iron Against Buggs Take Spriggs of Fearn and lay upon the Boards To give a lustre to Plaister of Paris Take a piece of Soap of the bigness of a Nut dissolve it in a Glass of Water and pass it over the Plaister being dry burnish it with a Tooth To whiten a false piece Take Salt rub it with a piece of good Silver till it become black with this Salt rub the counterfeit piece and 't will be as white as the other Probatum To separate Silver from other Metals Melt the piece in a Crucible cast in some Sulphur the Silver will remain and the allay will look like Dirt. Probatum A most excellent writing Ink. Take Gum Arabick three ounces Vitriol two ounces Galls three ounces White-wine two pounds and a half beat the Gall put them with the Wine into an earthen Vessel set it in the Sun for six days stirring them every day twice or thrice then set it over a moderate heat for half a day or a day then strain it then having dissolv'd some Vitriol and Gum in a little Wine put it into it then put it in to the Sun three daies more and it is made To keep it from freezing put into it a little Aqua Vitae Excellent Spanish Wax Melt in an earthen Dish one ounce of Rosin to which add as much Vermilion and two ounces of Shell-lach being well melted and mixt rowl it into Sticks A Counterfet Ink which will vanish in five dayes Take Sal Armoniack an ounce infuse it four or five dayes in strong Water make Ink of it with a piece of Touch-stone beaten fine what is written with this will be gone in five dayes Aqua fortis for etching Take Verdigreece an ounce green Copperas an ounce Salt an handful these being put into strong Vinegar set them in a pot of boyling Water for half an hour or more To know true Mercury from Sophisticate Put some Mercury upon a Plate of Silver or Copper and evaporate it over some fresh Coals if it leaves a white spot behind 't is fine if black or yellow 't is not To soften Ivory Take Vinegar three times distill'd with Sage leaves put in your Ivory and boyl it a little To take out Spots of Pitch or other Gums Take common Oyl the oldest you can get warm it a little rub the Spots with it and so leave it twenty four hours then rub it well and wring it well with your hands then wash it with warm Water and Soap To stop the freeting of Wine Cast in a little of Cheese To purifie Gum-Lack Soak it in strong Lye three or four dayes To gild Iron Take common Water three pound Roch Allum two ounces Roman Vitriol one ounce Verdigreece two ounces Sal Gemma four ounces Orpiment two ounces make them all boyl then throw in some Tartar and Salt-peter of each a little then boyl them a little more and take them off with this Water rub your Iron then warm it well and burnish it Another for the same Take Roch Allum burnt Nitre of each half an ounce Sal Armoniack an ounce beat them fine and boyl them in strong Vinegar in a brass Vessel and with this Water rub the Iron To counterfeit Ebony Take Box or any other hard Wood rub it with Allum-water near the Fire then take Sallet-Oyl or Linseed-Oyl into which cast some Roman Vitriol and Sulphur of each about the bigness of a Nut put all into a Kettle and boyl your Box for some time and t' will appear to be perfect Ebony the more you boyl it the fairer it will be but more brittle To calcine Tartar quickly Take the best Tartar the finest Nitre of each a like quantity beat them apart then mix them put them in a new Pot on a Charcoal Fire and the Nitre will melt mix them with a stick till they become like Salt then put some Fire into the Pot and they will melt and the Tartar will be calcin'd if it be not white add a little Salt-peter to reduce it into Oyl of Tartar put it in a Cellar upon a Marble and it will run into Oyl To make Brass of a true Gold colour Take Sal Armoniac mingle it in a Mortar with Spittle till it become like a liquid Ointment rub the Brass with it put it on burning Coals and when 't is well dryed rub it well with a Linnen Cloth and it will appear like Gold To make clean Silver Take Wheat-straw burn it to Ashes and rub your Silver with it Or else take strong Lye of Soap Ashes put some Allum into it wash your Silver with it and dry it in the Sun To make Muscadel Take Flowers of the wild Vine dry'd one part Elder Flowers dry'd two parts Coriander three parts beat the Coriander put all these
into a linnen Cloth and put it through the hole of the Vessel so that it may hang in the middle of the Wine without touching a part of the Vessel continue it so about ten dayes then draw it forth by the string you tyed to it This secret has been often experimented and found true To keep wine from growing eager Take the Fat of Bacon melted pour it into the hole of the Vessel so it may only touch the Superficies of the Wine and it will never grow eager To restore the colour of Cloth when lost Take quick Lime two parts Ashes one part Lye six parts put them into a Copper Vessel and mingle them well with a stick let it settle and when clear wash your Cloth in it To whiten Pearls Wash them with Lye made of the Ashes of burnt Tartar and boyl them upon a warm Stove To melt Amber Put it into Vinegar or Juice of Citron so that it swim above it about an Inch or two set it over a slow Fire To preserve Roses Tulips and Pinks Take a glazed earthen Pot fill it with sharp Verjuice put some Salt into it cut the Flowers before they are blown put them in this Liquor cover the Pot with Parchment set them in a moist place and when you take them out hold them near the Fire to make them blow To make a very fair green Take Verdigreece Tartar and Vinegar boyl them altogether and it is done A Walnut-tree colour on other Wood. Take the Pills of Walnuts dry them in the Sun boyl them in Oyl of Nuts and rub your Wood with it To lay Gold and Silver upon Paper Grind Bole-armoniac with Verjuice-water lay it on the Paper when dry glaire it with the white of an Egg mixt with sugar-candy-Sugar-candy-Water and immediately lay on the Gold when dry burnish Excellent Pastills of Roses Take four ounces of Rose Buds cutting only so much of them as shall be red beat them Benjamin beaten four ounces Musk four grains as much Amber mix them with Essence of Oranges or Roses grind them well together form them into Pastills and dry them in the Shade An Ink which vanishes in twenty four hours Boyl Galls in strong-strong-water put to it some Vitriol a little Sal Armoniack and a little Gum Arabic and it is done Another for Pastills but more rich Take four ounces of Benjamin Storax two ounces Lignum Aloes a dram and half boyl the Storax and Benjamin in a clean Skillet with Rose-water the space of half an hour then put in the Lignum Aloes in very fine Powder that done put all into a warm Mortar with two drams of Amber-Greece and one dram of Civet and whilst warm quickly make up your Grains or little Balls Excellent sweet Baggs Take Florence Orris one pound and a half Rose-wood six ounces Calamus Aromaticus half a pound yellow Sanders four ounces Benjamin five ounces Cloves half an ounce Cinnamon an ounce To preserve Rose-buds to make sweet Baggs Take Province Rose-buds pull off the green cut off the Stalks thrust into the Bud a small Clove with a little Civet at the end of it dry it in the shade between two linnen Cloths Violet Powder for Cussinets and sweet Baggs or to strew amongst Linnen Take Florence Orris one pound Roses two pound Rose-wood one pound and half yellow Sanders one ounce Benjamin two ounces Storax one ounce Calamus Aromaticus and Cyperons or Galingale of each an ounce and half about half-penny-worth of Coriander one Nutmegg a penny-worth of Cinnamon an ounce and half of Cloves a little Citron Pill and Orange Flowers beat all in a Mortar take it out and being well mingled together in a Silk or Hair Cieve according to the fineness you would have it then put it into your Baggs or amongst your Linnen True Cypress Powder Take Oak-moss put it in a Linnen bag and lay it to soak a whole day in water then trample it with your feet two or three times dashing clear water often upon it then set it three or four days to dry spreading it on a boarded Floor being dry beat it well and spread it again on a boarded Floor to dry it then beat it again and spread it again and sprinkle it with Rose-water dry it again and beat it then pass it throw a Cieve or fine Searce and mix it with the following perfum'd Composition more or less according to the goodness you intend it A most admirable Composition of Perfume Take Musk one dram four Cloves four ounces of Lavender-seed Civet one dram and half Ambergreece half a dram warm the Pestel and Mortar then take the Musk Cloves Lavender and about a penny worth of white Sugar and a glass of eau d'Ange or Rose-water grind them all in the Mortar take a handful of this Powder incorporate them well together then pass it throw a Searce with so much of the Powder as shall abate of the force of the Perfume till it come to your liking whether three four or five pound or more for the Civet it must be put at the end of the Pestel rubbing and grinding the Powder well then take six pound of the said Powder put it by little and little into the Mortar incorporate the Powder and the Civet in braying it well with the Pestel then pass it again through a hair Cieve to mix with the other Musk-powder for the Ambergreece it must be well beaten in the Mortar putting by little and little about two pound of the white Powder before mention'd or else of the gray until the Amber be all beaten into it then pass it a hair Sieve and mix all three Powders togeâ—… Take a little bag of white Sheeps Leather well sewed with bands in the seams wherein put the Powder and Perfume to preserve it mingling the Perfume more or less according as you would have the scent A Varnish of a Gold Colour Take Sandrac two ounces Lytharge of Gold one ounce the clearest Linseed-oyl four ounces boil them all in a glaz'd earthen Pot. A Varnish for Images Take Oyl of Turpentine and Turpentine mingled together stirr them with your finger till it become of a convenient thickness to work withal To make Porcelane of Majorca Take calcin'd Egg-shels Gum-Arabick water and Glaire of Eggs make all into a paste shape it with Moulds dry it in the Sun and 't will be very neat To whiten Copper Put a piece of Copper in a Crucible with Sublimate Sal Armoniack Allum and Borax melt it and quench it twice in Sorrel-water Writing not to be Read but in Water Write with the Juice of Spurge or Allum-water dry it 't will not be legible without wetting A Fire that burns under the Water Take three ounces of Powder Salt-peter one ounce Sulphur three ounces beat silt and mix these together fill your Moulds fire them and throw them in the Water An Excellent transparent Varnish to lay upon any white thing to make it seem Marble Take the clearest Turpentine put it in an
earthen glaz'd Pot boil it till it has quite done smoaking then put in half an ounce of Sandrac as much Mastick well beaten mix them till they are all well incorporated then take off the Pot adding half a pint or more as you see cause of oyl of Turpentine upon a slow fire for a quarter of an hour and keep it for use if it be too thick 't is but adding more Turpentine To make Red soft Wax Take Vermilion one pound common Oyl one pound Wax twenty pound Rosin ten pound work them well together To Dye a Yellow Colour Take the inner bark of a Plumb-Tree cut in pieces put it in Allum-water boil what you think fit in it and it will be of a fair Yellow the like is done with Sumach and Allum-water A Cloth Shasse Take half a pound of Lytharge of Silver well ground three pound of clear Oyl of Nut set it over a small fire that it do not boil the next day pour out the Oyl by Inclination what remains at the bottom will serve another time then take Rosin a pound and a half beat it and mix it with the Oyl upon a Charcole fire always stirring it till it be melted then take it off and put in half a pound of Venice Turpentine being cold anoint the Cloth this will last many years Also you may mix Burgundy Pitch with Oyl of Nuts or else Rosin and Virgins Wax Another for Shasses with Glew and Varnish Take Glew made of Glove Leather very clear Vellum Glew is better lay it on the Cloth and let it dry at leisure then give it one laying more and leave it again to dry then take Virgins wax and Turpentine melted together and lay that on letting it dry to a pound of Wax allow a quarter of a pound of Turpentine To Gild or Silver over Metals Take a little Fish-Glew dissolve it in Aquae Vitae lay on the Glew with a little Cotton and apply the Gold or Silver in Leaf or else temper the Leaves and apply them with Glew to give them a lustre take a Horse-hoof put it on a Chaffindish of burning Coals and dry the thing gilt over the fume of it To make Copper white quite through Take Kettle Copper not that which is cast add to it some Arsenick well ground mix them well in the Crucible and when they have done smoking cast it in the Mould you have ready A fair Blew Colour Take Turnsole infuse it all night in Urine the day following grind and mix it with a little quick Lime according as you intend the Colour If you 'd have it a little shining add a little Gum Arabick To take spots of Ink out of Paper or Parchment Rub the spot with a little Aqua-fortis at the end of a Feather and it will soon vanish then wash it with fresh Water with the edge of a Feather To take them out of Parchment scrape it with a Pen-knife and rub it with a Pumice-stone An Excellent Water Perfume Take Benjamin Storax-calamita a few Cloves and Mastick beat all put them in Aqua Vitae or Spirit of Wine in a glass Vial when the Water becomes red add a grain of Musk and strain it A very good Pomatum Take the fat of unsalted Bacon stick it full of Oats roast it by a slow Fire take up the Dripping and save it Divers sorts of Perfumes CHAP. VII To counterfeit Amber-greece TAke Starch Florence Orris root of each an ounce Aspaltum or Bitumen half an ounce Benjamin one ounce Sperma Ceti Ben-nuts an ounce and halt Musk a dram Gum Tragacanth a sufficient quantity Take the Starch the Benjamin and Sperma Ceti and make them into a Paste which being done take one part in which make up half the Aspaltum the other part make into a black Paste and then mix them altogether with your hand To augment Civet Take the pulp of Raisins of the Sun very cleanly pulped one ounce musk one dram mix and incorporate them well together put them into the same Retort wherein you put the Civet and set it in a Horse-dunghill seven or eight days upon two drams of Civet put one dram of this Composition To make Essence of Cinnamon in consistence of an Extract Take Oyl of Nutmegs set it in the Sun in Summer to make it lose its Scent then put in the half part of Oyl of Cinnamon which you may reduce to the consistence of an Extract To make Cassolet or Perfume Cakes to burn Take Storax two ounces Benjamin four ounces twelve Cloves Laudanum a dram Calamus Aromaticus a dram a little Citron Pill take a new glaz'd earthen Pot in which boyl the Storax and Benjamin in half a pint of Rose-water for several hours the Pot being well cover'd then put the Cloves Laudanum Calamus and Citron Pill in a little Linnen bag and boyl them with the fore-menon'd things when boil'd enough take off the Pot strain all through a Linnen Cloth not squeezing it too hard then put the Paste in a Paper Excellent Pastills or Perfume Cakes Take Benjamin two ounces Storax half an ounce Lignum Aloes a dram Coals of Sallow or Willow Wood according to discretion reduce all to fine Powder adding twenty grains of good Civet and fine Sugar as much as you think fit pulverize and mix all the Druâ—s and put them in a Skillet with rose-Rose-water which must rise above all the Ingredients make them boil a little till the Paste be well digested always stirring with a stick lest it burn then if you desire to make the Pastill somewhat better add twelve grains of Amber which you shall before have ground on a Marble with a little Sugar put it in the Skillet when the Paste shall be boyl'd enough and not before all being well incorporated form your Pastills Several Grounds for Hair-Powders To make the Ground for white Powder Take one pound of Orris twelve pound of Cuttle-bone eight pound of Starch a handful of Beef or Mutton Bones burnt white beat all very well in a Mortar and pass them through a fine hair Cieve A Ground for gray Powder Take what remains in the Cieve of the foresaid Powder which you must beat again and mix with a little Starch and a little yellow Oker to give it a colour then coals of White-wood or for want of that some of the fresh Coals out of a Bakers Oven mix all these well together in a Mortar you may make it of what colour you will then pass it through a hair Cieve what goes not through keep to beat again as before Another ground for powder Take worm-eaten or rotten Wood beat it well and pass it through a Cieve then mix it with the aforesaid Powder Perfume for ordinary Powder Take Florence Orris one pound dryed Roses one pound of Benjamin two ounces Storax one ounce yellow Sanders an ounce and half Cloves two drams a little Citron pill beat all to fine Powder in a Mortar put twenty pound of Starch or the aforesaid
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-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-water to make it shine you must put to it a handful of Pomegranate shels which put into the bottle with the Galls being in want of Ink you may boyl it a quarter of an hour but it is never so good but thick and muddy A very useful way to write upon greasie Paper or Parchment and make the Ink run Take an Oxes gall which prick and put into a Pot with a handful of Salt and a little Vinegar then stir it all very well and thus you may keep it a year without spoiling when you write and meet with any Paper or Parchment that in some place is greasy take one drop of that Gall which mix with the Ink in the Ink-horn and you will write with ease Rain or nut-Nut-water is excellent and the Ink made of it is very good White-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-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
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
the Ash-tree Berries after taking off a little Skin that is upon them putting it to this end upon a Brick into an Oven not too hot do the same with the Cummin-seeds and Eglantine Apples alwaies taking care none of them boil in their moisture all being thus dry you must pound it either together or separately How to use it Bleed the Horse in the Morning and at Noon begin to give him the Powder three days after bleed him again and the eighth day repeat Bleeding if he be very ill give him the said Powder Morning Noon and Night The Dose of the said Powder is what you can take up between your Finger and Thumb The way of giving it is in Bread till he be cured For the same Take a little handful of ground Ivie which squeeze in your hand adding a little Salt put it into his Ear on the side the Farcie is stopping the Ear close with Cotton binding it up with a Cord leave it there about thirty hours in which time it will be cured For the same Take the Roots of round Sorrel and Leaves of ground Ivie mixed together which mix with the Horses Oats and he will recover provided the Farrier has not touched him For a swelling in the hollow of the Pastorn of a Horse Take the white heads of five or six Leeks four ounces of old Lard new Wax common Oyl of each two ounces two quarts of Vinegar put all into a new earthen Pot and let it boil up two or three times till the Vinegar be consumed it is enough to make four Plaisters or more For short Wind or Pursiness in Horses After the purging that follows if they but draw their Wind hard mix with their Oats for three daies Morning and Evening a pint of warm Milk a handful of Hemp-seed beaten this Seed is excellent for this use Jockies use it much to give their Horses Pills to purge Horses Take Calafin Aloes an ounce and half Agaricum half an ounce prepared Coloquintida a Dram Treacle an ounce and half mix all together and incorporate it in a pound of Hogs Lard that has been steeped forty eight hours in fresh Water which must be changed every three hours make thereof Pills as big as a Nut which cover with Powder of Liquorice or Bran and make the Horse swallow them the Horse must have stood bridled three hours before After taking them make him swallow half a pound of common Oyl mixed with a Pint of warm Wine covering him warm and walking him three hours then put him in the Stable and give him no Oats in three daies He must not be watered till next day at Noon when you shall make him drink white Water in the Stable with Flower and a little Bran at the same time lead him to water making him wet all his Belly to his Ribs the space of half an hour but let him not drink for it would give him the Gripes carry him back to the Stable and give him Hay it is commonly thirty hours before it works begins when he comes out of the River and sometimes lasts two days they void and incredible Filth and sometimes Gravel Whilst it works they are sad and drooping after the three daies you must cleanse his Mouth with Leek Salt and Vinegar and give him a drench after which he will have an incredible Stomack and grow very fat in a little time it is the best Receipt in the World to recover Horses that seem to be quite gone some purge their Horses once a quarter with these Pills and that gives them a good meene A Drench for a Horse Take Rose-Honey Cordial Powder powdered Aniseed of each an ounce five penny-worth of Scammony Oyl two ounces Saffron one penny-worth a pint of White-wine with Coloquintida and Rubarb A Drench for a Horse that has caught cold Take Cloves Nutmeg Pepper of each half an ounce Cummin-seed Fromagy of each an ounce and half Ginger one Dram common Oyl and Honey of each four ounces of the strongest White-wine half a pint mix all together and make the Horse drink it For Distempers in Horses Heads There is under their Tongue a thing like the Pip to which with a little Spunge you must lay Treacle dissolved in Rose Vinegar doing it often and they will certainly recover For the same Take Wheat-flower Turpentine Dragons Blood of each four ounces Mastick in Powder one ounce four yolks of Eggs mix all well together and apply it to the Horses Forehead for three daies To make a Horse foam that has a moist Mouth Wrap up the nether part of his Jaw with Powder of Staphifegria A Horse that has a moist Mouth is esteemed because those that have it dry want taste and are almost half an hour in the Stable before they eat To dye saddle Horses when they are old Take equal parts of unslacked Lime and prepared Litharge of Gold mix it like an Ointment with which rub the Hair against the grain and lay over some green Leaves at twice it is quite died and dyes Bay if you put to it a little Ink. To make a Horse have good Hair in Winter Take Myrrh Aristolochium Gentian Angelica scrapings of Ivory of each two ounces Crocus one ounce melt them and give the Horse two or three spoonfuls of it in a pint of White-wine every Morning for three days together and keep him three hours without eating then give him what is usual this strengthens their Stomach and Appetite and keeps their Hair together For gaul'd Horses Make them swallow Decoction of Scabious in half a pint of White-wine in which must be dissolved an ounce of Synoper in Powder with a little crust of toasted Bread make them drink three days together fixed Sulphur with some of the Decoction The Dose is an ounce a time giving them the same Drench the fourth day For the hard sores in Horses Fundaments Take Spirit of Nitre Spirit of Salt of each an ounce Mercury two ounces with it rub the sore and it will come to a head when it is broke cure the Ulcer with Oyntment of Pilosella For bruises or sores in Horses Legs The head and tall of Vipers when they are well beaten with the blood that runs from them when they are killed and the White-wine they are washed in all put together into a Pot with a little Puppy covering it with common Oyl and boyl'd till the Wine be consum'd putting through it a thick Cloth is excellent for the pains and certainly cures the bruised or sore Legs of Horses rubbing them with it For Horses feet Take some of the herb Short-foot and a quantity of Elder-leaves two ounces of Coperis the whites of four Eggs one penny-worth of Honey half a glass of Vinegar put all into a new Pot and boyl it till it comes to an Oyntment and before you rub the Horses foot cut off the Hair the closest you can and wash it with Pork brine To make a Horses Tail and Main grow Take Cows-piss and
and if the Wood were white you will have an admirable Blew To make a Purple upon Wood. Having your Turnsole steep'd as above add to it the Tincture of Brazil boyl'd in Lime-Water and it will be an excellent Purple these Colours ought to be varnish'd as well to beautifie as to preserve them To imitate Inlaying or Marble upon Wood. Beat the Yolk of an Egg with water till it be thin enough to write with take a Pencil and with the Yolk vein the Wood according to your Fancy being dry some slake Lime in Urine till it become thick like Mud with a Brush lay this on the Wood when dry clean it with a Rubbing-Brush rub with a clean Cloth burnish and varnish it and you will have a very pleasant piece of Work To make all sorts of Vessels as Flower-Pots or Dishes to imitate very neatly fine Porcelain or China ware Turn your Vessels according to the Fashiâ—… 〈◊〉 the true China 't is no matter what 〈…〉 except Beech first glew it and whiten it with Whiting and glew very smoothly three or four times make it more smooth with a wet linnen Cloth last of all pollish it with dryed Rushes then give two layings of Cerus with Oyl of Turpentine and white Varnish then with a Knife mix upon a Pallet a little Blew Ammel with Cerus till the Colour become only a little blewish the Cerus and the Ammel must be ground very fine with water and left to dry when this last laying of Blewish White is laid on with Varnish and dry'd design your Figures upon it with very fine blew Ammel spread on the Pallet with Oyl of Turpentine in laying on this Blew moisten the end of the Pencil in Varnish to mingle with the Blew taking care that the Ammel grow not hard in mixing and by that means trouble some to lay on when dry if you find occasion you may with the point of the Pencil touch it over again Another way of Staining or Marbling Wood. Grind White-Lead and Chalk together on a Marble put it in a Pot and temper it again with the Yolk of an Egg beaten with water then with a large Pencil lay on this White when dry repeat it that being dry take a Point made of Stags-Horn draw off the white where and in what Form you will then sprinkle the Lime mixt with Urine the Violet Wood which Dyers use will become black as Ebony by sprinkling the Lime and Urine Plum-Tree and Cherry-Tree turn of a deep Red the Pear-Tree and Service-Tree turn Reddish Wallnut-Tree grows black by mingling some Galls in Pouder with the Lime and Urine A Pencil made of Mutton Suet rub'd in those places where you would draw with Yolks of Eggs will do the same thing 'T will be excellent upon Black-Cherry-Tree or Plum-Tree or any Wood of a dark Colour To counterfeit Ebony The most solid Wood and freest from Veins is best such as Pear-Tree Apple-Tree and Service-Tree black well either of these when dry rub it with a Cloath then make a little Brush of Rushes tyed near the ends melt some Wax in a Pot mixing with it some Lamp-black then with the Brush throw on some of the Wax brushing it till it shine like Ebony then rub it with a Cloth and some of the black Wax the Wood should be well pollisht and rusht before you do it To counterfeit Ebony Holly is the best of all Woods which you must put into a Hat-makers Furnace where he dyes his Hats when you find it by cutting to be struck in about the thickness of a Sixpence take it out and dry it in the Shade that it may the better drink up the Dye-Water then pollish it with an Iron to take off the foulness of the Dye then with Rush and Pouder of Charcoal and Sallad Oyl as is done to Ebony the Wood of Tunis pollishes easily it also burnishes well with a Tooth and is better to cut than Ebony which is very brittle A pollisht Black Grind Lamp-Black with Gum-Water and with a Pencil cover the Wood when dry pollish with a Tooth 't will look very well Another black Dye for Wood. Put into good Ink little pieces of Iron very rusty leaving it so some days then rub the Wood which 't will penetrate pollish with a Tooth and 't will be very beautiful To make Wood of â— Silver Colour Beat Tin-glass in a Mortar to fine Pouder then put some Water to it grinding it to the fineness of Paint or grind it on a Marble then put it into an earthen Pan washing it two or three times till it be very clean mix it with clear Glew and lay it upon the Wood being first warmed lay it on the Wood with a Pencil when dry pollish with a Tooth To make Wood of the Colour of Gold Silver Copper or Brass Take Rock-Cristal beat it very fine in a Mortar then grind it on a Marble with clean Water then put it in an earthen Pot with a little Glew warm it and lay it on when dry lay it on as above rub it with Gold Silver or Copper and 't will be of the same Colour you rub it with then pollish To lay on Pencil-Gold or Silver on Wood. Temper the Gold or Silver with weak Gum-Tragaganth-Water very clear with a Pencil lay it on the Lights of your Work without touching the Shadows which must be made with Indico ground with a very weak Gum-Arabick Water then varnish it with drying Varnish made of Spike-Oyl and Gum Sandrac if it be too thick add some Oyl in making it let it not have a greater heat than may be endur'd by the Hands black Wood or Wood so dyed is most proper to gild For Silver upon Wood. First glew your Wood over with Parchment Glew when dry figure it as you think fit as before mentioned shadow and finish with Water in which Tallow has been boyled heighten with Silver as in the Chapter for Gold and varnish it A Red Colour for Wood. Take Orchanet beaten in Pouder mix it with Oyl of Nuts make it luke-warm and rub the Wood. A Yellow Colour Is made with French Berries and Allum also with Turmerick or Saffron also with Merita Earth Yellow in most cases is an easie Colour A Violet Colour Take four ounces of Brazil and half a pound of Logwood boyl these together in two quarts of Water adding an ounce of common Allum in this boyl the Wood. An excellent Blew Take four ounces of Turnsole boyl it an hour in three pints of Lime-water and paint your Wood. To make Bronze or Pouder of the Colour of Gold Take Gum Elemi twelve Darchms melt it then crude Mercury one ounce Sal Armoniac two ounces put all in a Glass Viol with Bole and Whites of Eggs make all melt when melted add Orpiment at discretion with some Filings of Brass being well mingled together lay it with a Pencil on that which you would bronze CHAP. XXI Divers ways of Beautifying things made of Wood Stone Plaister
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
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
must be six ounces of the Root Mandrake and it will be as soft as Wax An excellent Receipt to whiten discouloured Ivory Take a sufficient quantity of Roch-allum according to the number of pieces you would whiten and when the Water is very white which must be made to boil up and put the Ivory into soak for an hour or thereabouts and rub it with a little hair Brush and then put it into a wet Cloth that it may dry leisurely or else it will split Another way Lay black Soap upon Ivory placed near the fire so that it may by little and little bubble up then clear it To whiten green Ivory and restore that which is spotted Take unslacked Lime and put it with water into an earthen Pot in which shall be the Ivory you would whiten put it upon the fire and make it boil till such time you see the Ivory is white to be polished it must be turned in a Lath after having worked it as you desire take some of the Lime and Pummice stone in very fine Powder and with water rub till you see it every where well coloured to polish you must first warm it turning it in the Lath and rubbing it with a white Linnen Cloth and a piece of Sheeps Skin When it is very hot take Cerus with some Sallet-Oyl and rub it till it is dry with Cerus alone and at last only with a white Cloth very dry and your Ivory will be very white and smooth To whiten Bones Take unslacked Lime and put to it one handful of Bran into a new Pot letting them boil till all the grease is out Rare and Admirable Curiosities CHAP. X. A Representation of the four Elements in a Glass Vial. FIrst you must dye some Aqua-Vitae with Turnsole to represent the Air then take some of the Ethereal Oyl of Turpentine which dye of a fire Colour with Saffron then some Alkanet and Oyl of Tartar to which add a little Lapis Lazuli to give it a Sea Colour and to represent the Earth a little bruised Enamel it is good to stir and mix them together each thing after a little standing will return to its place for those three Liquors never mix To make several Colours upon Water If you throw some drops of Nut Oyl upon still water that runs not fast but rather lyes without motion there will appear to you as many Colours as are in the Rain-bow To break an Iron as thick as an Arm. Take melted Soap with which anoint the Iron in the middle then with a Thread clear the place where you would have it break next take a Sponge dipped in Aqua Vitae thrice distilled wrap it round the Iron and within six hours it will break Another way to do the same Take two pound of Aqua fortis make it dissolve for the space of twenty four hours Orpiment Sulphur Aconite Verdigreece of each an ounce unslacked Lime killed in two ounces of Vinegar thrice distilled put it all into a Limbick with one ounce of Salt peter two ounces of Antimony and all the Water shall come from it pour it again upon the Dregs with two ounces of Arsenick in Powder and distill it when you would use it dip in it a Napkin or handkerchief which wrap about the Iron Barr and when it has so lain three hours you may break it with ease Take care of the Fumes when you distill it A wonderful Spirit that dissolveth all sorts of Stones though never so hard Take the Flower of Rye make it into small Balls which dry then put them into a Retort well closed with a strong Fire as is used for Aqua Fortis and there will distill a Liquor that will perform as above How to melt all manner of Metals in a Nut-shell without burning of it Take Salt-peter two ounces Sulphur half an ounce sawings of Oak Walnut-tree or other dry Wood half an ounce the said Saw-dust must be very small the Salt-peter and Sulphur powdred to impalpable Dust mix it altogether and fill a Nutshell with this Powder to the Edges then put a piece of Gold Silver or other Metal upon it and cover it with the said Powder then set fire to the Powder that is under it that Metal that shall be between the two Powders will melt and remain at the bottom of the shell How to dissolve Gold upon ones Hand You must distill the Blood of a Deer newly killed in Balneo Mariae and soak the Gold upon the Lees three times and at the third it will certainly dissolve A perpetual Motion Take Aqua fortis into which cast filings of Iron of the smallest and leave them there till the Water has taken the quantity of Iron that is requisite which will be in seven or eight hours take off your Water and put it into a Vial an inch wide with a large Mouth and put in a stone of Lapis Calaminaris stop the Bottle well and keep it very close To make a Mans Face appear hideous Take common Salt and fine Chalk in Powder with which powder very well some Hemp or Flax dipping them in good Aqua Vitae then set them on fire first putting out all other Lights and you will see wonderful things A waggish way to make Pease leap out of a Pot. Take some of the Herb Clary and put a sprig of it into a Pot in which Pease are boyling so the Water be not very low nor the Pot too close covered you will see it succeed according to your Desire The like to make an Egg move about You must first empty it through a little hole then put never so little Vitriol into it stop it up presently and you will see the effect The same is done by putting a Leech into it having some Water spilt in some part of the Room To make all the People in a House to sleep without being able to wake Take half a quarter of an ounce of the herb called Dragon-wort which put into a Gourd or Pumpkin which cover with another and put it in a Horses belly for the space of nine days after which time you will find it converted into little red Worms from which according to Art extract an Oyl which put into the Lamps which being lighted all that are in the House will be seiz'd with a profound Sleep so that they cannot be awaked without putting out the Lamp An Excellent way to cleanse Silver without boyling Take four ounces of white Soap scraped in a Plate with half a pint of hot Water a penny-worth of old dry Lees of Wine in another Plate with the same quantity of hot Water as in the other and in a third Plate one penny-worth of Ashes of Wine Leesburned with the same quantity of Water as before then take a hair Brush which first dip in your Liquor of dry Lees next in the burnt Lees then in the Soap that done wash it in hot Water and wipe it with a dry Cloth A Cloth that wholly resuts a Sword
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
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
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-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
White-wine boil them together three or four hours then wash his Tail and Main Another way Rub the Tail and Main with Lye made of Vine-ashes To hinder Horses from Neighing after a Mare and carry her any where amongst Horses Take Oyl of Petroleum and rub the Mares privities once a week with a Quill or once a fortnight and the Horses will not care for her To keep a Horse from Neighing Rub the Bitt when you bridle him with common Oyl and glass Oyl mixed together and the Horse will not Neigh in three hours or else put a stone under his Tail For a Horse that has been over-heated Take half a pint of Milk which boyl with four ounces of fresh Butter Laurel-berries Pepper Sene fine Sugar of each an ounce all in Powder well mixed together must be put into Wine which make the Horse drink without covering or walking him and he will void at the Nostrils and recover To fatten a Horse Take good White-wine two pound juice of Sorrel one pound common Oyl one pound mixt together and warm it then make the Horse drink it being bridled before after which cover him warm walk him an hour and put him into the Stable continuing this fifteen days and he will certainly grow fat Of Dogs CHAP. XXIV For Dogs Mange TAke large Millet and sweet Turnep-roots which boyl in Cows-piss till it is all like a Broth with which rub the Dogs For Dogs bitten by mad Beasts Take Rue Comfrey and Mugwort more Rue than Comfrey and of this than Mugwort with a head of Garlick beat all together with a handful of Salt and steep the herbs in White-wine and Water make the sick Dog drink it fasting and take care in two hours after he neither eats drinks nor sleeps You must also make the Sore bleed and lay over it the remainder of the herbs This Receipt is most certain To cure Dogs of the burst Wash them in water in which Hemlock has been boyled then cut the flesh so that he may not feel it and wash the place with juice of Hemlock To destroy a Dogs Fleas Take a quantity of Worm-wood and boil it in water an hour and half take it from the fire when cold take the Herb and rub the Dog against the grain of the Hair and wash him with that Water and the Fleas certainly dye in the place you have touched To cure Sheep Burn and powder some of their Wool and make them drink it To cure the Hogs Meazles Take a little mineral Antimony in Powder which wrap up in a Linnen Cloth and infuse in Lye made of white Briony twenty four hours adding two fingers of Salt of Saturn make them drink the quantity of a Glass full mixed with Bran and within eight or nine daies they will be cured For Fowl that are hurt Pull the place that is hurt gently or else cut off the Feathers and take a Plaister of Villemagne made upon sofâ— Leather lay it upon the sore and it will heal To make Fowl feed well Take Rhubarb Agaricum Aloes Saffron Cinnamon Aniseed Sugar-candy of each a Dram beat it to Powder At Night give them as much as will lye upon a Shilling this draws a great deal of moisture from their Brain and their Maw in the Morning will be found full of Water if you squeeze it You must give this when the Bird is full or when you would have it do strange things To purge them To purge and give Fowl a Stomack we use Pills of old Preserve of Province Roses liquid about the bigness of a Pea. The last and XXV Chapter In which are contained many Secrets which have been tried by the Author since the foregoing And also some excellent Remedies not spoken of before To make a thick course Dye thin and delicate TAke Aloes Borax Salt Bones Mastick of each three Drams pound all and incorporate it with French Soap and Oxes Gall. To beautifie the Face and other parts of the Body Take Oyl of Myrrh or Water of Linden Flowers rub with it twice a Week when you go to Bed To make the Hair bright or shining When you comb your self dip the Comb in Oyl of Lillies Roses or Violets To make the Hair grow long Take Ashes of Venus Hair Polythricon and Cane Root with Hemp seed of which make Lye melt some Myrrh into it adding one part of White-wine with which wash your Head every fortnight To make Hair Curl First shave it off and then rub the Skin with Daffodil Roots Another way Take Roots of Marsh-mallows Hemp and Psillium-Seed boil them long together and with the Decoction wash your Hair Another Take Daffodil Water mixed with thick Juice of the Roots of white Mallows as much of one as of the other For swetty stinking Feet Take Roch-allum dissolved in hot Water and wash your Feet often therein A Bath to beautifie the Body Take sweet Almonds blanched four pound pure Apple Kernels one pound Hemp-seed four handfuls Marsh-mallow-roots and Lilly-Seeds of each an ounce Roots of Elicampane a pound and half all cut and beaten very small make three or four Bags of it and in each put a handful of Bran. Having well prepared the Water for the Bath it being taken near the Wheel of some Mill take some to boil the Bags in then sit down in the Bath-Tub upon one of the Bags and with the others rub your Body You may put into the Bath a pound of Roses or sweet Waters or Oyl of Spikenard about two ounces or Musk Amber Civet Benjamin Storax or Orange Flowers You must stay in the Bath three hours A secret for making artificial Wine Take a Loaf as it comes out of the Oven steep it in strong Vinegar then lay it by and keep it to make Wine immediately you need only steep a piece of this Bread in a Glass of Water and it will give it the colour and taste of Wine A good secret for Ladies to beautify their Faces Take Parsly-Seed and Nettle-Seed the Kernels of Peaches boil them together and with that Water wash your Face A true secret to catch all sorts of Birds with your Hands without any other Instrument Take some Oxes Gall and white Hellebore then Hony and Corn boil them in the said Gall strew them where there are any Birds you would catch and when they have eaten it they will fall down dead within half an hour then you may take them with your Hands To get a good Memory either in Man or Woman Take the blood of a Swallow and Rosemary-flowers Borrage Bugloss of each two drams then take Cinnamon beaten small Nutmeg Clove long Pepper of each half a dram fine Musk two grains Preserve of Violets and Roses of each an ounce powder it all very small and sift it very fine mix the said Powder with an ounce of Syrup of Roses and make an Electuary of which take every Morning the bigness of a small Nut for a Month together This will certainly make you have a good
to the same quantity that the Figure contain'd that none be left behind this done heat your Figure at a small Fire so that it be throughly penetrated the more the better for you need not fear the too much baking it while this is heating melt the Metal to a good heat and to the end it may be very clean its necessary to have two Crucibles in the Furnace to pour the Metal out of one into the other to clear it of the Scum your Metal being very hot set your Mould fast in Sand pour in the Metal and let it cool break it and you 'l have a Figure without hem or Joynt if your Figure be somewhat large bind your Mould with iron Wier well neal'd Another way to make both outside and inside Mould Make a hole in the top of the Head or at the Feet through which pour into the Figures of Wax a Composition of equal parts of Plaister and Brick-dust made very fine and tempered in water wherein Plume Alum has been dissolved let it be of such consistence as to run through a Tunnel leave it to dry at leisure and stick in the Points Or else when you have cut the Figure of Wax in two pieces and made the Kernel or inward Mould take it out and make it red hot which is the surest way to cast clean and without repairing because the Moulds are strong enough to endure the baking and are long a drying in the Figure of Wax CHAP. II. To cast Figures of Copper or Tin with Drapery or Garment very light and thin HAving your Figure of new Wax without Garments the Kernel or inward Mould of it being well baked as aforesaid take a piece of well polisht Glass about six eight or more inches square make it very clean and lay it in water then having your Wax melted in a Pot dip your piece of Glass with a pair of Plyers or Pinchers in the Wax take it out and dip in water and take the Wax off the Glass in form of a Skin which you may make of what thickness you please or if you mix a little Turpentine with your Wax when well melted 't will be more supple and flexible which you may stretch out with a Knife or Foulding-Stick upon a piece of Glass to what thickness you please and to a size fit to Cloath the Waxen Figure like a piece of Silk or linnen Cloth en volant carrying it on the Arm or supporting it with a Stick as you shall think fit shaping the Foulds with a Small according to Art and cover it with Earth as before directed The same another way Take a piece of fine Linnen make Paste or Starch tempered with Brandy or Aquavitae to the end that burning the Mould it may Colly or Blacken it moisten this Cloth in the Starch and Cloath your Figure as you think fit supporting the Foulds with little Sticks till they be dry and supports its self and will hold moulding with Earth but more especially with Plaister This Invention is very proper to mould off Figures of Tin because the outward Mould may be made with burnt Plaister and a fourth part of Brick in fine Powder mixt with Plume Alum and temper'd with water wherein Sal Armoniac has been dissolved by this means you may cast small and indifferent large Figures very clear and neat but take care that in heating the Mould to melt out the Wax you make it not boyl and when empty keep it at a slow Fire till red hot If your Figure be of Tin leave your Mould to cool in the Fire but warm it when you cast in the Tin in all these cases Experience is the best Master To consume and bring forth the Cloth that it hinder not the running of the Metal place your Figure upright and make a Circle or counter Mould of Earth about the Figure to keep in the Plaister before you cast take some good Iron Wier and lay cross or overthwart the Counter-Mould of Earth upon these Wiers lay so many more smeer'd with Grease then having cast your Plaister and that 't is set take out the Wiers the Wax also being melted out and the Mould well bak'd or burnt blow out the burnt Cloth through the holes and stop them with fat Earth or Clay if you dip very fine Cloth in melted Wax you may Cloath your Figure as you please in baking your Mould the Wax will run out and the Cloth easily consume Or else to get out the Wax set the Figure in a brass Pan the Casting-hole being downwards and put it into an Oven after the Bread is bak'd be sure it be not too hot to know the degree of heat put some Wax in a small Viol and set it in the Oven if neither Bubbles nor Scum rises 't is a convenient heat when you use a Wax Cloth be very careful to get out all the Wax All these ways have been sufficiently experimented and proved to be the best for casting small Figures for adorning Cabinets and other pieces of Closetry in like manner you may cast Figures of Silver Copper and Tin very thin and light nay I have known them cast not much thicker than a sheet of Paper when the inner Mould has been taken out in short lute well your Mould put in your Points of Iron make your Casting-hole long enough as also your Breathing-holes as well to empty out the Wax as to pour in the Metal bake your Moulds well and if for Silver or Copper let them be very hot before you run your Metal put a little Borax into the Crucible tye your Moulds well with iron Wire and set them in Sand and the Metal being well scum'd and clean or you spoil all the least Filth destroying your Figure therefore try all with patience CHAP. III. To cast large or indifferent Figures without Seam or Mark. WHen you have made your hollow Mould of Plaister take a piece of Oak about a Foot long half a Foot broad and two or three Inches thick being first well Glew'd then make a Groove or Channel such a one as you think fit to give to your Wax to make the Figure the Ledges of the Wood being a Fingers breadth above the said Grove or Channel then take some sifted Ashes and put them in a linnen Cloth to pouder lightly the bottom of the piece of Wood in the Groove or Carving that the Earth may not stick then take Potters Earth very well beaten and mould it with your hand into pieces of the same size of the Groove press them down unto it and with a Rule cut off the edges so that the Earth may lie even with the Wood then take the Earth out of the Groove and and make more of 'em this done take your Plaister-Mould and make a laying of those pieces of Earth you took out of the Wood which you shall press gently with your Thumb to make them joyn among the hollow places of the Mould as if you were to make a
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
all in Water to a convenient thickness and cast it as in the Chapter of Fishes in Plaister but be sure to run it but at one place to prevent its gathering wind and that it be of a fit thick-to run this done take away the Circle of Earth turning up your Mould and Fish together letting it so lye about a quarter of an hour or more to dry or till you think the Plaister is set when dry grease the edge of that first Joynt which must always be uppermost when you run the second make the Circle of Earth and run the Plaister the other part of the Fish being lightly oyl'd with a piece of Cotton in an hour or two open the Mould take out the Fish and set the Mould to be perfectly dry when 't is so take a Skin of Wax Potters Earth or Paste rouling it as you do Covers for Tarts then lay it on the Mould and with your Thumb press it into every part of the hollow Mould making one hole under the Head to put the end of an Iron Tunnel into and another near it for the breathing place about the size of a Tag or great Pin then take some ends of brass wier tin'd over somewhat bigger than a Needle thrust these Wiers into the most convenient places to support the Kernel or inner Mould every Wier going through the Wax Clay or Paste till it touch the Plaister this done joyn the Mould and tye it put the Tunnel into the Hole pour in the prepar'd Plaister taking care it be not too thick being dry open the Mould take off the Plaister or Earth and and leave the Kernel or middle Mould to dry at leisure being dry bake it in a slow Fire till it be red hot then cover it with ashes and let it cool by degrees then take the two Moulds bind them with small iron Wier neal'd then plaister up the Joynts with Potters Earth put all in a small Fire to bake slowly untye it and cover it with Ashes and leave it to cool having first stopt both the holes that nothing get in then make a Git or casting place in form of a Tunnel more than four Fingers high above the Head of the Fish the Mould being hot as you can possibly handle without burning your Fingers your Tin mixt with one fourth of Lead and melted to a convenient heat which is known by putting a piece of Paper into it if it burn 't is too hot if only scorch't 't is well if not scorch't 't is not hot enough being thus heated cast it into the Mould and you 'l have a perfect Fish without repairing not wanting the thinnest Scale then with an Iron Rod empty the Kernel through a Hole which you must make in the most convenient place afterwards stopping it by sodering a piece to it that the water get not into it if you desire to put it in the Water and that it should stay at the Bottom fill it full of Sand befor you close it up if at the top fix a piece of Cork so that it be equally pois'd then make a Counterpoise of Lead which you must stick with Wax and Turpentine melted together till you find the Fish right upon the Water then soder the Lead mix a little Tinglass with the Soder to make it run thin and 't is done if you 'd have it in the middle of the Water stick a small brass Wier coloured with black Oyl to the Fish and the other end of it to the Botton of the Tub or Cistern at what degree of height you think fit To paint the Fish that the water may not deface them In colouring proceed according to former Directions but use not the drying Varnish this following being much stronger boyl Linseed-Oyl over a gentle Fire put into it some fine Mastick till so much be dissolved in it as will reduce it to the thickness of liquid Varnish with this you may also mix your Colours which will make them wonderfully durable A most impenetrable Varnish against the Water Take Linseed-Oyl put it in an earthen Pot well glaz'd upon a chaffing-Dish of hot Coals add about a fourth of Rosin which boyl together very gently lest it run over at first 't will smoke and bubble but in continuing the boyling 't will all fall continue boyling till it be so thick as to rope or thread like Varnish when you have taken it off if too thin add more Rosin with this varnish your Fish or any thing else and dry it in the Sun Of such strength is this Varnish that neither cold nor hot Water can any way hurt it when dry take care the Rosin be very clean and that it boyl enough CHAP. VII To cast all sorts of little Animals as Lizards c. and all sorts of Flowers and Leaves that are not too thin IF you would cast a Lizard in Silver or Tin prepare your Plaister with Brick and Plume Alum make a Bed of Potters Earth in which make a hollow place with your Finger to set the Lizard half way in and with some Instrument set up the Earth against the sides of it not so as to press it or alter the form set it in what manner you will whether two or three twisted together or otherwise then temper your Plaister with water in which three or four ounces of Sal Armoniac or more has been dissolved cast it upon the Lizard being dry turn it upside down and if you find the Plaister has gone beyond the Belly so as to hinder its coming out or that the Feet or other parts are covered take it gently and carefully off with the point of a Pen-Knife then oyl the oynt of the Mould make a Circle of Earth and cast again leaving it a day to dry then open it take out the Lizard and leave it a day to dry tie it with iron Wier and bake it as in the Chapter of Fishes pour in the Tin and you have a Lizard not at all differing from the Original If you would have them of Silver the Mould must be red hot when you run the Metal which ought to be mixt with a little but very little Copper if it be a very large Adder make an inner Mould as is taught in the Chapter of Fishes To cast the same sort of Animals after another manner If you 'd cast Butter-Flies Flowers or Lizards so as no Seam or Joynt shall appear having plac'd the thing you intend cast the Plaister as above being dry without oyling the Joynts cast again being dry bake it till 't is red hot that the Lizard or Flower may be burnt the Mould being cold open it at the Joynt and with the point of a Needle or Feather take out the Bones or Ashes very gently then joyn your Mould and run the Silver or Tin having made the Git or Casting place as long as you well can if you would not open the Mould do after this manner before you mould off the Lizard or other Animal stick
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
wonderfully beautiful after this manner you may make large Pieces and add to their Beauty by tempering Shell Gold or Silver with fasting Spittle and laying it on that side of the Glass which you intend to lay upon the Medal or Figure but because the taking away of the Earth does insure the Pollish when 't is clean hold it at some distance from the Fire which will recover it taking care you hold it not too near An Emrald Colour Is made with Verdigreece finely poudered and mixed as above Coral with Vermilion Jet with Ivory or Lamp-black CHAP. XIII To mould Embolished Figures in Plaister or coloured Paste tempered with Gum Tragaganth Water the Drapery being Laced or Seamed with Mother of Pearl TAke little Shells that are shining on the inside those that are brought from the East-Indies are the best break them in pieces and with a little Paste or Gum dissolved to the thickness of Honey or Varnish and with a Pencil stick the shining side of the Shell upon the Plaister Mould till you have disposed of all the Pieces according to your Fancy if some of the hollow places are too narrow to receive the pieces of Shell some small Seed Pearl will do well remember that small Pieces render the Work more beautiful and free from unevenness of larger Pieces having thus set the Pieces as close as may be make a Paste of Yellow and Chalk or what colour you think fit make it into flat pieces about half a finger thick with your Tiâ—…ino press it into every part of the Mould that done place some little sticks where occasion requires to support it then fill the Mould with Gum Tragaganth Water that it may glew all the parts together then joyn the Mould and tye it with a Cord when 't is near dry take it out and you 'l find your Figure curiously adorned with Mother of Pearl thus may you have them of any colour having well oyled the Mould you may guild them if you think fit the same may be done with pieces of thin Blew Purple Green or other coloured Glass having laid on Silver or Gold with fasting Spittle thus you may imitate all sorts of Mosaick Work CHAP. XIV To make Medals or embolish'd Figures of Plaister of a Japan Colour TAke a Syringe at the end of which make fast a thin Plate of Iron in which make little Holes of several sizes then have Paste of all colours not too thick nor too thin of which fill your Syringe and by thrusting the Sucker force it through the Holes thus will your several Pastes be formed in Threads which lay apart and with your Thumb press them into the Mould till covered then fill it up with yellow Ocre having before given a laying of Fish Glew The same another way Make a Paste of all sorts of Colours tempered with Gum Tragaganth of each of Pastes make a thin Cake with a Roleing-pin like the Lid of a Tart lay one upon another being joyn'd place the Colours in order then extend them again with the Rouling-pin then roul them up round as you would a quire of Paper then beginning at one end cut in thin round slices with which fill your Mould pressing it with your Thumb and shutting it cast in the Paste dry it and pollish with a Tooth CHAP. XV. To make Medals of Fish-Glew TAke your Medal of Lead Tin or other Metal oyl it then wipe it gently off not quite clean with a linnen Cloth then having steep'd the Fish-Glew in water about three days boyl it to a degree thinner than Glew for Wood make a Circle of Clay about the Medal pour on the Glew to the edge of the Circle laying a Paper over it to keep off the Dust and leave it to dry when 't is so lift up the Medal by degrees and you will find it hollow on one side and emboss'd on the other more clear than the Horn of a Lanthorn strain it before you use it To colour them Boyl Brazil in Rain-Water till it become strongly tinctured divide it into three parts to one add a spoonful of Lye to the other part a little Lime-Water with these you may make your Glew of three different colours also for Yellow take Saffron for Green take Verdigreece beaten very fine and ground with Water stirring it well with a Stick for Violet Turnsole in Lime-Water of these you may fix several sorts on Cabinets and pieces of curious Work CHAP. XVI To mould off the Medals of Fish-Glow in Plaister and to make Medals of Tin or Lead HAving made your Medal of Fish-Glew about the thickness of a Sixpence or Shilling lay it on a little Bed of Potters Earth and with the Thumb press it about the edges that done make a Circle of the same Earth then cast the Plaister mixt with Plume Alum and tempered with Sal Armoniac ut dictum est supra being moulded turn the Plaister oyling the edges and making a new Circle about it and casting the same Plaister upon it you will have the Mould of a Medal of which one side will be hollow the other embossed being dry bake it throughly ut supra and cast your Lead or Tin to strengthen the Mould lay on both sides of it some Potters Earth joyn it together bind it with an iron Wier and bake it to make it fit to receive the Metal CHAP. XVII To make hollow Moulds of Sulphur in which to cast Medals of Plaister very neatly MAke the Medal very hot before the Fire oyl it with Linseed oyl make a Circle of Potters Earth round about it then have your Sulphur ready melted not too hot but only that it begins to warm as it were atop pour it on as gently as you can least it blister and become knotty and 't is done To mould off Medals of Plaister in the hollow Moulds of Sulphur Take a short Brush and rub the Sulphur Mould with Sallad Oyl dry it up lightly that it be not too Oyly then mix your Plaister about as thick as Pap and with a Brush sprinkle it nimbly on the Mould and with your hand throw on more of the same Plaister pressing it with the Thumb into the hollow places of the Mould then with a Knife lay more on to what thickness you think fit the Plaister should if not fine enough be brayed in a Mortar with a wooden Pestle To print Paper upon the Sulphur Moulds Oyl your Mould then take Paper or Pasteboard well beaten and soak'd in water till it become a soft Pap lay some of this on your Mould upon that a Towel press it with your Thumb to get out the Water if you find the Paper to lye thick enough press it with a Sponge till there remain no Water and that the Paper be entred into all the hollow places being dry rub over with a Dogs Tooth to fix it in the finest Engraveings you may strengthen your Mould with Plaister on the back of it To make a Varnish to lay on the Figures or
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-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
bak't Earth or Paste-board also to work in Gold or Silver burnisht or in Oyl with all sorts of Colours as well Bronze as others and to Stain and Varnish Boards of several sorts For Burnish't Gold MAke Glew of the cuttings of white Leather or Vellum which wash and boyl till it comes to a good thickness strain it through a Cloth take of this Glew and add to it a third part of Water boyl it and while 't is hot strike over your Wood being clean with a Brush do this three times each Course being first dry last of all give one laying of only Glew without Water then take Whiting grind or mix it in fair Water let it be thick enough then take your Glew in which throw your Whiting stirring it with a Stick till 't is cold taking especial care that it be neither too strong nor too weak being that on which the whole Work depends take a little off in a Pot to which pour a little of the weak Glew warm it a little at the Fire that it be almost as clear as Glew alone give a laying or two of this White upon your Work leaving them to dry one after another then give a laying of White a little thicker taking care it be not too hot which will occasion little holes or blisters use it therefore when 't is but just melted laying it gently and smoothly on working nimbly with the end of the Brush to stop the holes if any should happen you may give from four to eight layings on as you find cause be sure the Whiting be not too thick for if you guild carved or emboss'd Work you 'l hide all the fine Work of your Figure Being dry repair it with Fish-skin then rush it lastly smooth it with a wet fine linnen Cloth observe that the more even you make it and the freer it is from little holes or knots the more beautiful will the Gold be for the least defect in the White will be a great fault when gilt The Size to lay on the Gold Take Sanguine or Burnishing-Stone the reddest is the best grind it on a Marble with fair Water and to the quantity of a Pencil as big and as long as a Finger add about half the Yelk of an Egg which you must grind with it adding the quantity of a great Pea of white Soap then put your Colour in some Pot adding a convenient quantity of Water till it become about the thickness of Milk a little curdled for it must not be laid too thick How to lay this Size on Make tryal upon a piece of Board covered with the white Ground when the Size is laid on and that 't is dry rub it with a linnen Cloth if the Colour stick to it and leaves behind it upon your Work only the Flower of the Colour of your Size then 't is good but if you find it sticks not at all to the Cloth put a little more Water to it because there was too much Yolk of Egg if then in rubbing it your Cloth take off all the Colour from the White then add a little more Yolk mixing them all well together make another tryal and finding it in fit temper cover your Work and leave it to dry when you would lay on the Gold wet the place first with a large Pencil letting a drop or two run between the Leaf-Gold and the Size leaving your Work accordingly that it may run then leave it to dry before you burnish the whole try upon a corner if it peal not you may go on when burnisht rub it with a Cloth if any chance not to stick dissolve a very little of your Vellom Glew in a little Water by warming it touch the place and 't is done taking care that no greazy Cloth or Hands do touch your Gold Another more easie Size for Gold or Silver Take yellow Ocre of Berry English is as good provided it be not stony or sandy wrap it in a linnen Cloth tye it with a Thread and burn it in a red hot Fire till from Yellow it become of a red Colour the Fire having throughly penetrated all parts of it having also a care it be not too sharp a Fire then grind it well and make it of a sufficient thickness if it be hard to burnish add a little of the Yolk of an Egg and a very little white Soap and grind them together To Gild a Carved or Embolish'd Figure so that none of the finer Stroaks of the Work may be lost Having with boyling Glew washt over your Figure give it three or four Courses of Whiting very even being dry mix your Size as before directed and lay it on being dry burnish it then take Shell-Gold or Silver temper'd with weak Gum-Tragaganth Water or Arabick cover your Work with it and burnish with a Tooth Note that you may lay on Gold or Silver with one course of Whiting if it be Pencil Gold or Silver To Silver any thing over with Tin-Glass Grind Tin-Glass very fine wash it till it leave the Water clean mix it with the aforesaid Glew and use it when dry burnish this may be used without the aforesaid Size only laying it on the white Ground and your Work will appear like Silver Wash well your Tin-Glass glew it well burnish the white Grounds before you lay on the Tin-Glass and afterwards with a Paper between the Tooth and the Tin-Glass To Bronze with Copper Take Pin-dust grind it well and wash it till the Water be quite clear mix it with Glew as the Tin-glass lay it on the white Ground with a Pencil and burnish the same may be done with Antimony Another excellent way to Silver Figures Take Silver in Froth or Scum which the Refiners use to separate from Gold in washing the sweep of Gold-Smiths grind this Silver gum it a little and lay it on your Figure burnish it and you 'l find your emboss'd Figure well silver'd being laid on a white Ground and the Size us'd for burnisht Gold 't will be very fine appearing like Massy Silver To grind Gold to lay on Figures Reduce a piece of gold into small File-dust grind it on a marble when throughly ground wash it in a shell till the water be clear then with glew or gum lay it on the size as you did burnisht gold You may also melt gold with quick-silver evaporate the Mercury by encreasing the heat when cold beat it in a mortar then grind it and lay upon the size as as you did the burnisht gold then burnish it How to Bronze Your figure being whited and made smooth grind Cristal and Touchstone with water temper it with glew and lay it on your work instead of burnishing rub the metal of which colour you would have your figure rub it well and the invention will be very neat CHAP. XXII To discover Gold under a black Colour with an Ivory Point a great Secret and as beautiful as those things gilt in China HAving well burnisht your
Gold without fault grind Lamb-black with Linseed Oyl or Oyl of Nuts adding as much Umber as Black to make it dry then as much Spike-Oyl as Linseed Oyl make tryal with one Leaf of Gold burnisht lay the Black upon the Gold very smooth and even then dry about a day more or less according to the time if dry enough 't will not stick to your Fingers then take a Point of Ivory or Stags-Horn well sharpned rub it on a piece of Glass to take off the ruffness that it scratch not the Gold or the White then draw what you please with the Point discovering the Gold if it appear bright and shining and that the Black be not uneven and slovenly about the edges of the Stroaks you have made then is your Black in good temper but if in discovering the Gold it seem tarnish't your Black is not dry enough if the Black be troublesome to get off and cannot be easily done with an unslit Pen then mix Spike-Oyl till it comes to work easily clean and bright then may you easily draw the finest hair Stroaks your Black thus made cover your burnish't Gold all over with a soft Pencil then with the Feather of a Turky Cocks Tail paste over the Black as even and smooth as you can free from all manner of Dust or Filth being dry and having made your Draught or Figure as large as the Work follow the Tract of the Line with the Point and discover or lay open the Gold If you would have the Figures of Birds or little Beasts or whatsoever else find out the strong Lights of them discover them by hatching with a Pen or the point of a Pin if not too sharp but if by the Stroaks approaching too near each other you make a Fault you may mend it by laying on a little Black letting it dry if the way of making great Lights be not profitable or that Shadows are more easie and pleasing to you discover the Gold with a point of soft Wood that it may not scratch the Gold which you must discover or lay open to the bigness of your whole Figure shadowing the proper places as the Nose Eyes Hair c. leaving it to dry then hatch it with a point according to the Judgment of him that draws it to know when 't is dry enough to hatch always at the same time you cover your Work cover a little waste piece for tryals to prevent the spoiling your Work being finished leave it three or four days to dry and varnish it with drying Varnish twice if you see cause when you lay on the Black do but one piece at a time because some by being too dry will be troublesome to discover the Gold take care also that in the first laying on of the Varnish that you spread it gently for fear of defacing For the same after a more easie manner Your Work being covered with burnisht Gold or Silver it matters not which mix and grind Lamp-black and Umber together very well with Water taking care you put not so much Umber as to destroy the Black then add some of the Yolk of an Egg which grind with it and lay it on your Work with a soft Pencil or Brush very smooth when dry if you find cause give a second laying of the same Black and with an Ivory Point very smooth discover your Work if the Black come not easily off then there was too little of the Yolk if the Stroaks be too broad and ragged then there was too much Yolk of Egg this way of discovering the Gold is more shining than the other but be sure to be careful that in varnishing you pull not off the Black nor cause it to fully to that end be sure to work with a soft Pencil and smooth Stroak you need not much fear the laying on the Varnish the second time provided it be not too thick and that it be Oyl of Spike Varnish To do the same another way Having laid your Black on the burnisht Gold as aforesaid mix equal parts of Linseed Oyl and Oyl of Spike which lay lightly on with a large Pencil let it dry four or five days more or less according as you find the Gold more or less easie to appear bright and shining by this way you may allow almost what time you will always remembring to make a tryal before you fall to work for Blew take Azure for Red fine Lake for Green Verdigreece and so in all other Colours being mixt and ground with the Yolk of an Egg as before directed CHAP. XXIII An exquisite way of enriching and beautifying all sorts of wooden Work COver your Work with hot Glew then with the aforesaid Mixture of Glew and Whiting upon this lay the Size for burnisht Gold and lay on the Gold or Silver and burnish then take right Indico grind it with Water and Yolk of an Egg being very thin and clear lay it on the Silver so as the Silver may appear through it being dry pounce your Pattern of Paper being whitened with Chalk then with the same Indico draw over the pounced Stroaks of your Figure as neatly as you can so as if you were to draw a Figure with a Pen upon a piece of Paper then with the same Indico made thinner make the necessary Shadows after that with Umber then heighten with a wooden Point by hatching the Lights then varnish the Work which will seem enamell'd For the same another way but a more glorious Colour Instead of Indico steep Dutch Turnsole a day or two in Water strain it through a Cloth from the Dregs grind and mix this Water with some Yolk of an Egg lay this on your Silver then with Turnsole ground with Turnsole-Water draw with a Pencil what Lines or Figures you think fit which you may shadow and hatch in the proper places which heighten in discovering the Silver as before directed then varnish To make a Purple Ground boyl Brazil in Lime-Water and mix with turnsole-Turnsole-Water This will not last so well as that done with Indico because the Turnsole in time is apt to turn red and will stain the Silver therefore before you varnish lay upon it the White of an Egg beaten into Glair which will make it much more durable and wonderfully beautiful CHAP. XXIV To enrich carved Work as Pictures Frames and all other sorts of wooden Work HAving your Work covered with burnisht Silver take Glew of Vellum or Parchment boyl'd to a thick Jelly strain it through a Cloth when setled strain it again then with this Glew give one laying upon your Work with a soft Brush if that be not enough give a second then varnish it but before you varnish if you think fit you may paint in Oyl or Water colour Flowers Fruits Leaves or Birds in their proper Colours and varnish them having first laid them over with Glew Note you may mix with your Glew either Milk or Soap of Alicant How to embellish a Frame with green Leaves Take Indico a
little Orpiment ground with Water inclining towards a greenish Brown mixing with about half a pint of your Colour the quantity of a Muscle Shell of the Yolk of Eggs and as much Size as is requisite to make it stick Having first laid on your White in the same manner as if you were to gild it with burnisht Gold you shall then paint the Freezes of your Frame with this brown Colour leaving untoucht the Mouldings which you shall have before gilt with burnisht Gold Your Work being thus prepared you shall either by pouncing or otherwise draw what ever you please then with Indico alone ground with Water a little Size and a drop of the Yolk of Egg you shall draw your Figures or Leaves which you shall shadow and in shadowing sweeten heightning them with Green viz. You shall take Orpiment well ground with the greenish Brown wherewith you laid the first Layer upon your Frame then heighten it with Orpiment alone ground with Water and Size and a little drop of the Yolk of Egg amongst your Colours because it would dry in burnishing for the Yolk of Egg serves only to burnish the easier of which things you may make an experiment But if you desire to paint your Leaves in Oyl you shall burnish the first Layer of greenish Brown then you shall paint your Leaves with drying Oyl boyled with Litharge of Gold but instead of Orpiment you may if you will work with Masticat How to beautify with Yellow making it Wainscot Colour Having laid your Frame with White as you are told take Yellow Oker of Berry or smooth English Oker which you shall grind exactly with Water putting thereto a little Yolk of Egg then put Size to your Colour and having mixt it all well upon the Marble you shall therewith paint your Frame being dry you shall draw and shadow with a little of the black Hematite wherewith Cutlers sanguine their Hilts ground with Water and a drop or two of Yolk of Egg then mix Size to make the Colour wherewith you are to shadow stick and for the shadow observe to take Umber or Moss or else Lamp-black Water then heighten it with Oker and Chalk mixt together with a little Yolk of Egg whereof you shall make tryal before you lay on your Colours then burnish it with a Dogs Tooth If you desire to varnish it you shall give it a Layer of Size before you lay on your Varnish and if you will you may paint your Figures and Leaves in Oyl varnishing the Figures without varnishing the Ground Another way upon Black discovering the White with an Iron Pencil Having well covered your Frame with White well polished and rusht take Lamp-black and having ground it with Yolk of Egg make tryal thereof a part to see whether the Black when fixt will burnish very bright you shall size your Black as much as is necessary to make it stick With this Black you shall colour your Frame and being well laid on and dry you shall burnish it with your Tooth Then taking an Awl or Bodkin of Iron sharpned and flatted at the end like a little Chisel of such breadth as you desire your Fillet to be you shall with your Ruler and this Iron thus sharpned draw Fillets scraping off the Black till you come to the White you may also if you will with a Bodkin make Moresk Works which you may hatch into every Leaf as also other branched Works the Imbossment wereof you may hatch by scraping off with your Iron or Bodkin the Black till such time as the White be seen still keeping your Iron sharp and smooth Hereby your Work will be of a fine Black well burnisht or polisht like Marble wherein you will have branched Works which will seem like Ivory or Harts-horn inlaid in the Wood. If your Figures appear too much shadowed after you have drawn out all your Work with a Bodkin take one or more Irons like a Folding-Stick or yet blunter as you shall see convenient with which Iron well smoothed and hardned you shall the most evenly you can rub your Figures till there no longer appears any Black not letting your Iron enter any farther than the Superficies of the White that is when the Black shall be rub'd off and the Figure shall appear very white and smooth then shall you burnish with your Tooth the White you have discovered afterwards with a little Pencil you shall draw the Lines and hatch the Shade as if it were Horn engraven or carved How to make upon an open White Ground Fillets Branched Works or Figures with Black You shall lay your Frame or other Work with boiling Size as hath been said when we speak of laying upon White to Gild with burnisht Gold Having sized it take Lamp-black well ground with Water then size it as the White and go over your Work therewith five or six times then rush it then take off the same White amongst which you shall grind as much Yolk of Egg as may make the White polish and with this White go once or twice over your Work when it is very dry burnish your White with the Tooth then with your Iron draw upon the White Fillets branched Works or Portraits according to your Fancy till the Black appears The Freezes of your Frame will seem to be of Ivory and your Black will seem to have been engraved or like pieces of Ebony inlaid upon Ivory But to make it the better resemble Ivory you shall have by you a little piece of polisht Ivory the better to represent its Colour which is not so white as Chalk but a little inclining to Yellow And this you may imitate by grinding with your Chalk a little yellow Oker or a little pale Masticot or the Bones of Sheeps Trotters burnt and ground to Powder Another way representing Enammel Having gone over your Work seven or eight times with White and polisht it with Rushes you shall go over it once or twice with Lamp-black mixt with a little Yolk of Egg and pretty store of Saffron all well ground together with Water putting thereto as much Size as is necessary to make it stick but have a care of putting too much and make a Tryal to see whether the Black when burnisht shine like unto polisht Marble from which this Black doth no way differ provided the Yolk of Egg be put exactly in such quantity as is fit because if there be too much it will not polish bright and will in time lose its polishing Your Work being thus well laid and polished with the Tooth longways and overthwart draw by pouncing such Figures as you please this done take off your Black mixt with a little White to render it somewhat Gray and with your Pencil draw out the Proportion or Lines of your Work which must be done to hinder your Oyl Colour from separating upon your black Ground then draw with White-Lead in Oyl such Figures as you please which shadow according to Art with White and Black as
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
varnish'd then take about twenty knots which are found in the sides of the Firr-Tree which you shall scrape or rasp very small put them into a Pot almost full of Water and make it boil very leisurely and the Fat and Scum that comes uppermost you shall take dextrously with a Spoon and put into the other Pot amongst your Drugs untill you see that it is well mixed for an Unguent which you shall spread upon Leather and apply to the place For Ruptures Probatum Take Cypress-Nuts Acacia Galls Pomegranat-Flowers of each six drachms Gum-Draganth Myrrh Frankincense Gum-Arabick Sarcocol of each three drams Sanguis Draconis fine Bole red-Lead Aloes Succotrine of each two drams make a fine Powder of them all and a paste thereof with Vinegar whereof you shall make an Emplaster and apply it to the Malady For the Wind in the Kidnies Probatum Take of the Roots of wild Chichory Parsly Sorrel Sparagus Scolopendria Betony Dogs-tooth Liquorice of each an handful white Hony a Citron cut into four parts boil them all in a quart of White Wine to the consumption of half or the third part strain it and take 3 ounces in the Morning Fasting To stop the Vrine of those that piss in Bed Take of the inward Pill of Pomegranat-Flowers Provence Roses Mastich of each half a dram Seeds of Sumach one dram Dragons Blood two drams red Sanders half a dram roots of Solomon's Seal half an ounce a Mouse prepared and flead throwing away the Head and Feet wash'd in White-Wine and dry'd in an Oven one ounce powder all apart then mix them with two ounces of Sugar of Roses in Powder whereof a dram is to be taken every morning steept in White-Wine two hours before breakfast A sure and ready Sudorific Take a dram of Tortoise-shell calcin'd in a Glass of Beer The Receipt of the Antidote call'd Orvietan Take the Roots of Carline Gentian Dyttanie Anthora Swallow-wort of each two ounces and a half great and little Centaury round and long Birth-wort Scordium Bistort Betony Tormentil of each half a dram Diptany of Crete Angelica Rue Master-wort Scorzomens Valerian leaves of garden and wild Bugloss Viper Powder of each one ounce make a Powder of all whereof take five ounces to a pound of clarified Hony wherein was first dissolv'd Venice Treacle and Mithridate of each half an ounce with a little good Wine The dose is one dram dissolved in Broth or Wine and if you find that gives not ease repeat it two hours after and six hours for the third time and twelve hours for the fourth time To cause one to piss and cure the Kings-Evil Burn and reduce Cantharides to a fine Powder draw off the Salt thereof with Vinegar whereof give twelve fifteen or sixteen grains For the Cholick and that it shall return no more Take the outward pill of a fine Orange and Clove-gilli-flowers of each one ounce boil them in a good Glass of Wine to the third part give it to drink and it shall cure for ever For the same Take three grains of Laurel and powde◠them finely then put them into a Glass 〈◊〉 White-Wine and drink it Probatum For the same Take of the entire fresh Dung of a black Horse put it into a Napkin and pour thereon a glass of White-Wine and take it For the same Take half a Glass of Aqua Vitae wherein put seven or eight drops of Spirit of Salt For the same Take the Skin that divides the Kernels of old Walnuts powder them and take a dram thereof in White-Wine An admirable Remedy for a bloody Flux Shut up a Dog for three days so that he eat nothing but Bones take his dung and dry it and powder it then take River flint-stones heat them red hot then throw them into a Vessel full of Milk in which mix a little of the Powder and give thereof to the Patient twice a day For the same Take half a quartern of Rice Flower then mix it with the Juyce of Elder berrys and make thereof a Paste whereof make little cakes and bake them in an Oven after the Bread is taken forth which you shall beat and moisten again with the said Juyce and boil it then beat it afresh doing thus seven times then powder it to serve for use the dose is one dram in Broth or White-Wine For the same Take the Skin of an Hare burn it in a Furnace in an Earthen Pot unglaz'd with a cover of this Powder take a dram in Broth or White-Wine if you have not a Fever the same will serve for bleeding at Nose drawn up the Nostrils For the same Take a dram of Langue de boeuf dryed and powdred as aforesaid The said Herb stays the Flux being applyed fresh to the Soles of the Feet To make one piss tho he have not made Water in a fort-night and to cause one to void the Gravel and Stone Take wild Ivy with its root wash it well and cleanse it beat it well in a Mortar and let it steep about two hours in three or four ounces of White-Wine there must be about ten or twelve Plants of this Herb strained through a Cloth and given the Patient to drink Probatum For a Tertian Ague Take three or four ounces of the Juyce of Vervain in a little White-Wine before the shivering and walk you must not eat a Supper when you take this Remedy For the same Take wild Smallage Rue male Thistles of each a little beat them well with a little Salt then add the yolk of one Egg beaten with a spoonful of Vinegar apply it to the Wrist after well rubbing the Wrist For the same Take half a Glass of Aqua Vitae wherein beat one yolk of a new lay'd Egg with the third part of a Nutmeg grated take it just before the fit use this Remedy thrice if you are not cured the first or second time Note 't is good to purge before with this Medicine following Rubarb Scammony Turbith Hermodactils Ginger Senna Anniseeds Sugar of each one dram powder all apart and scarce them then mingle them and scarce them the dose for a Child of ten years is half a dram one of ripe years one dram in Broth taking some Broth an hour after Note you need not keep your Bed nor Chamber For the same Take two ounces of the Syrup of Carduus Benedictus in a Glass of Water when the shivering takes you An assured Remedy for a Quartan Ague Take Wall-Gilliflowers Leaves and Flowers beat them well with a little Salt and when the fit comes apply it to the suture of the Head between two linnen Cloths and there let it rest twenty four hours For the same Take a Pennyworth of Camphir sow it in a piece of Scarlet with right crimson Silk and make a Cord of the same Silk and hang it about the Neck so that it reach to the Stomach and as the Camphire wasts so will the Fever the Camphir being wasted take more till you be cured For