Foot-ball, as, A, let it have a long Pipe at the top as G, which must
be made so that you may upon occasion screw on lesser, or bigger vents
made for the purpose. Fill this one third part with water, and set it
over a fornace of coals, as E, G, H, I, and when the water beginneth to
heat, there will come a strong breath out of the nose of the vessell,
that will force the flame of a lampe placed at a convenient distance as
K: if you hold your glasse in the extention of the flame it will melt
suddenly; so you may worke what you will thereof. There are that
instead of this globe make use of a Pipe, as A, fastned in a sticke as,
F, of which I have made use, but hold it not so convenient for those
that are not accustomed thereunto.
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_An excellent Water for any Morphue, or scurvinesse
in the Face._
Take of quicke Sulphur 2. ounces, blacke Sope, the rankest and illest
favoured that can bee got: binde them up in a cloth, and hang them in a
pint of the strongest wine-vineger for the space of nine dayes;
herewith wash the Morphue in the Face or elsewhere, and let it dry in
of it selfe. This Water will for the present staine the face with a
yelow collour, which will weare away in time.
_How to soften Iron._
Take of Allum, sal Armoniacke, Tartar, a like quantitie of either, put
them into good vineger, and set them on the fire: heat your Iron, and
quench it therein.
_A good Cement for broken glasses._
Take raw silke, and beat it with glasse, and mixe them together with
the whites of Egges.
_Another._
Take of calcined flints, quicke lyme, and common salt, of each a like
quantity: mingle them all together with the whites of Egges; then take
a linnen cloth and spread it over with this mixture, and put it upon
the fracture, and let it dry; afterwards annoint it with Linseed oyle.
_How to cause that the same quantitie both of powder
and shot discharged out of the same peece
shall carry closer, or more scattering._
Take the quantitie of a pease of Opium, and charge it amongst the shot;
and this will make the shot to flie closer together then otherwise it
would. This I had of a Sea-man, who had made triall hereof, as he said,
and unto whom I sold some for the same purpose.
_A Baite to catch Fish with._
Take _Cocculus Indiæ_ ℥ ss, Henbane-seeds, and wheaten flower, of each
a quarter of an ounce, hive honey as much as will make them into paste.
Where you see most store of Fish in the River, cast of this paste into
it in divers little bits about the bignesse of barley cornes, and anon
you shall see the fish swimme on the top of the water, some reeling to
and fro as drunken, others with their bellies upwards as if they were
nigh dead; so that you may take them either with your hands, or a small
net at the end of a sticke made for the same use. Note here, that if
you put the Fish that you thus take, into a bucket of faire and fresh
water, or if it raine after that you have cast this your bait into the
water, they will revive and come to themselves to your admiration; and
this was told me by a Gentleman of good credit, that hath often made
use thereof.
I have heard that the stinking oyle drawne out of the roots of Polipody
of the oake by a retort, mixed with Turpentine, and hive-honey, and
being anointed upon the bait will draw the fish mightily thereto, and
make them bite the faster: and I my selfe have seene fishes, as Roches,
and taken in the dead time of Winter with an angle, bayted onely with
paste made of Wheaten flowre, but it hath beene in the morning, and
when the Sunne hath shined.
_How to write without inke that it may not be seene,
unlesse the paper be wet with water._
Take some Vitriol, and powder it finely, and temper it with faire water
in any thing that is cleane, when it is dissolved, you may write
whatsoever you will with it, and it cannot be read, except you draw it
through water wherein some powder of galls hath beene infused, and so
it will shew as blacke as if it had beene written with inke.
_How to make white letters in a blacke Feild._
Take the yelke of a new layd egge, and grinde it upon a marble with
faire water, so as you may write with it: having ground it on this
wise, then with a penne dipt into it, draw what letters you will upon
paper, or parchment, and when they are through drie, blacke all the
paper over with inke; and when it is drie, you may with a knife scrape
all the letters of that you wrote with the yelke of the egge, and they
will shew faire and white.
_How to sodder upon Silver, Brasse, or Iron._
There are two kindes of Sodder, to wit, hard Sodder, and soft Sodder.
The soft Sodder runneth sooner then the hard: wherefore if a thing be
to be sodered in two places, which cannot at one time well be
performed, then the first must be sodered with hard soder, and the
second with soft: for if the first be done with soft, it will unsoder
againe before the other be sodered. Note, that if you would not have
your soder to runne over any one part of the peece to be sodered, you
must rub over that part with chalke that you would not have it runne
upon.
Note likewise that your soder must be beaten thinne, and then laid over
the place to be sodered, which must be first fitted together, and bound
with wyer as occasion shall require. Then take Burras, powder it, and
temper it with water like pap, and lay it upon the soder, and let it
drie upon it by the fire: Afterwards cover it with quicke coals, and
blow them up, and you shall see your soder run immediately: then
presently take it out of the fire, and it is done.
_Hard Soder is thus made._
Take a quarter of an ounce of silver, and a three penie weight of
copper, melt them together, and it is done.
_Soft Soder is thus made._
Take a quarter of an ounce of silver, and a three penie weight of
brasse, melt them together, and it is done.
_How to gild Silver, or Brasse, with water-gold._
First take about ℥. ii. of quicke silver, put it into a little melting
pot, and set it over the fire, and when it beginneth to smoke, put into
it an angel of fine gold: then take it off presently for the gold will
presently be dissolved in the quicke silver, which if it be too thinne,
you may through a peece of fustian straine a part of the quicke-silver
from it. Note likewise that your silver, or brasse, before you go about
to gild it, must be boyled in argol, and beare, or water, and
afterwards scratcht with a wyer brush: then rub the gold, and
quicke-silver upon it, and it will cleave unto it, then put your siluer
or brasse upon quicke coales untill it begin to smoke: then take it
from the fire, and scratch it with your wyer brush: Do this so often
till you have rubd the quicke-silver as cleane off as you can, then
shall you perceive the gold to appeare of a faint yellow colour, which
you may make to shew faire with sal armoniacke, bole armoniacke, and
vardigrece ground together, and tempered with water.
_How to take smoake of Tobacco through a glasse
of water._
First fill a pinte glasse with a wide mouth, almost full of faire
water: fill also a pipe of Tobacco, and put the pipe upright into the
glasse of water, so that the end of the pipe may almost touch the
bottome of the glasse: then take another crooked pipe, and put it into
the glasse, but let the end thereof not touch the water: waxe then the
mouth of the glasse, that no ayre may come in nor out, but at the
pipes: then put fire unto the Tobacco, and sucke with your mouth, at
the end of the crooked pipe, and you shall see the smoake of the
Tobacco penetrate the water, and breake out of a bubble, and so come
into your mouth.
_To colour Ivory or any other bones, of an excellent
greene colour._
Take _aqua fortis_, wherein dissolue as much Copper, as the said water
is able, then let the bones that you would have coloured, lye in the
same all night, and they will be like a Smaragdin colour: _Mizaldus_.
_How to make birds drunke, so that you may take them with
your hands._
Take such meate as they loue, as Wheate, Barley, and lay the same to
steepe in the lees of Wine, or else in the juyce of Hemlockes, and
sprinckle the same in places where Birds use to haunt.
_A way to catch Crowes._
Take the Liuer of a Beast, and cut it in diuers pieces, put then into
each piece, some of the powder of _nux vomica_, and lay these pieces of
Liuer in places where Crowes and Rauens haunt. Anon after they haue
eaten them, you may take them with your hands, for they cannot flye
away.
_How to take Crowes or Pigeons._
Take white Pease, and steepe them eight or nine daies in the Gall of an
Oxe: then cast the same where they use to haunt.
You may make Partridges, Duckes, and other birds drunke, so that you
may take them with your hand: if you set blacke wine for them to drinke
in those places whereunto they resort.
_Another._
Take Tormentill, and boile it in good wine: put into it Barley or other
graine: Sprinckle this in those places you haue appointed to take Birds
in, and the Birds will eate the pieces amongst the graine, which will
make them so drunke, that they cannot flye away. This should be done in
the winter; and when it is a deepe snow.
_Another way to take Birds._
Make a paste of barley meale, onion blades, and Henbane seeds; set the
same upon seuerall little boards, or pieces of tiles, or such like, for
the birds to eate of it.
_How to make Brasse white for ever._
Take Egge shels, and burne them in a melting pot: then powder them, and
temper them with the whites of Egges; let it stand so three weekes:
heate your brasse red hot, and put this upon it.
_How to make Marble._
Take ℥ vj. of quicke Lime, put it into a pot, and poure upon it, one
pinte of good wine: let it stand fiue or sixe dayes, stirring it once
or twice a day: then poure off the cleare, and therewith temper flint
stones calcined, and made into fine powder, then colour it, and make of
it what you please, and let them dry.
_How to whiten copper._
Take a thin plate of copper, heat it red-hot divers times, and
extinguish it in common oyl of tartar, and it will be white.
_To make Saltpeter._
Take quick lyme, and poure warm water upon it, and let it stand six
dayes, stirring it once or twice a day: take the cleare of this, and
set it in the Sunne untill it bee wasted, and the Saltpeter will
remaine in the bottom.
_How to make Corall._
Take of red Lead ground, ℥. I. vermilion finely ground, ℥ ss.
unquenched lyme, and powder of calcined flints, of each ℥ vj. these
powders must bee tempered with a _Lixivium_ that is made with quick
lyme and wine: adde unto the whole a little salt; then make thereof
what you list; then boyle them in linseed oyle.
_How to make Pearles of Chalk._
Take some Chalk, and put it into the fire; there let it lie untill it
break: temper it then with the whites of _egs_. Then make of it divers
fashions of Pearles, both great and small: wet them being dried, and
cover them with leafe gold, and they are done.
_An approved and excellent plaster for ach in the
raines of the back, or in any other part
whatsoever._
Take one pound of black Sope, and foure ounces of frankincense, and a
pinte of white wine vineger: boyle all together upon a gentle fire,
untill it be thick; spread it then upon a lether, and apply it unto the
grieved place. If the ach bee very great and fervent, then adde unto it
a little _aqua vitæ_, and it will be much better.
_An excellent oyntment for the Shingles, Morphew,
Tetters, and Ringwormes._
Take a quarter of a pound of sope, and mingle with it two drams of the
powder of black Ellebor, litharge of silver in fine powder, two ounces,
vardigrease halfe an ounce, and a quarter of an ounce of glasse in
powder, and as much quicksilver, make them all into an oyntment by
stirring them well together; wherewith anoynt the grieved parts. This
is approved and true.
_An excellent Balme, or water for grievous sore eyes,
which commeth either of outward accident, or
of any inward cause._
Take two spoonfuls of the juyce of Fennell, and one spoonfull and a
halfe of the juyce of Celandine, and twice as much hony as them both;
then boyle them a little upon a chafingdish of coales, and scum away
the dregs which will ascend, but first let it coole somwhat, and then
let it run through a fayre cleane cloth: then put it into a violl of
glasse, and stop it close. Put a little quantity of this into the eye.
This medicine is approved, and more precious than gold.
_A speedy way to asswage the paine of any scald, or
burne, though never so great, and to take
the fire out of it._
Take old lawn rags, dip them into Runnet, for want of it dip them into
verges, and apply them cold upon the grieved place, shifting them for
halfe an houre together, as oft as they dry: this I have known to give
ease in an instant, and quickly to take out the fire.
_An approved oyle for to heale any burne
or scald._
Take of housleek one handfull, and of brooklime as much, boyle them in
a quart of creame untill it turne unto an oyle; boyle it very gently:
with this oyle a little warmed, anoint the grieved place twice a day,
and it will soone make it well.
_An oyntment, very excellent and often proued,
for the same._
Take a good quantity of mosse scraped from off a stone wall, fry it in
a fryingpan with a call of mutton suet a good while, then straine it,
and it is done. Dresse the grieved part therewith once or twice a day,
as you shall see fitting.
_Another oyntment for a burne._
Take one part of sallet-oyle, and two parts of the whites of egs, beat
them together exceeding well, untill they come to be a white oyntment,
wherein dip the feather of a black hen, and anoynt the grieved place
divers times every day, untill such time as the scales fall off, using
in the meane while neither clothes nor any outward binding. This, sayth
_Minshet_ the authour, though it seeme to be a thing of no estimation,
yet was there never found any more effectuall for a burn than it is.
_An excellent oyntment for a green wound._
Take foure handfuls of Clownes, Allheale, bruse it, and put it into a
pan, and put to it foure ounces of barrowes grease, sallet-oyle halfe a
pound, Bees wax a quarter of a pound; boyle them all untill the iuyce
be wasted; then straine it, and set it over the fire againe, and put
unto it two ounces of Turpentine, then boyle it a little while more,
and it is done. Put hereof a little in a saucer, and set it on the
fire, dip a tent in it, and lay it on the wound, but first lay another
plaister round about the wound, made of diapalma mollified a little
with oyle of Roses. This cureth very speedily all greene wounds, as
saith M. _Gerard_.
_A Balsam of wonderfull efficacy._
Take Burgundie pitch, brimstone, and white frankincense, of each one
ounce: make them into an oyntment with the whites of egges: first draw
the lips of the wound, or cut, as close as you can, then lay on some of
this spread upon a cloth, and swathe it ouer afterwards.
_An excellent healing Water, which will drie up any
old sore, or heale any greene wound._
Take a quarter of a pound of Bolearmoniacke, powder it by it selfe,
then take an ounce of Camphire, powder it also by it selfe: also take
foure ounces of white Coppras in powder: mixe the Coppras and Camphire
together, and put them into a melting pot, and set them on the fire,
untill they turne unto water: afterwards stirre it untill it come to be
as hard as a stone: then powder it againe, and mixe it with the
Bolearmoniacke: keepe this powder close in a bladder, when you would
use it, take one pinte and a halfe of faire water, set it on the fire,
and when it is even ready to boyle, put into it three spoonfuls of the
powder; then take it off from the fire, and put it into a glasse, and
let it stand untill it be cleare at the top, then take of the clearest,
and wash the sore very warme therewith, and dip a cloth foure double in
the same water, and binde it fast about the sore with a rowler, and
keepe it warme: dresse it thus twice a day.
_A Water for a Fistula._
Take one pint of white wine, 1 ounce of juyce of Sage, three penie
weight of Borace in powder, Camphire in powder the weight of foure
pence: boyle them all a prettie while on a gentle fire, and it is done:
Wash the Fistula with this water, for it is certainly good, and
approved to be true.
_A Water for the Toothache._
Take ground ivie, salt, and spearemint, of each an handfull: beat them
very well together, then boile them in a pint of vineger; straine it,
and put a spoonfull of it into that side that aketh, and hold downe
your cheeke.
_Another Water approved for the same._
Take red rose leaves halfe a handfull, Pomegranate-flowers as many, two
gaules sliced thinne: boyle them all in three quarters of a pint of red
wine, and halfe a pint of faire water untill the third part be wasted:
then straine it, and hold a little of it in your mouth a good while:
then spit it out, and take more. Also if there be any swelling on your
cheeke, apply the strainings betweene two clothes as hot as may be
suffered. This I have knowne to do good unto divers in this Citie, when
as they have beene extreamely pained.
_To make a Water for the eyes._
Take _Lapis Calaminaris_, and burne it in the fire nine times, and
quench it in white wine, and beat it into powder, and when you use it,
put it into rose-water, and drop the water into the eye.
_For Deafenesse._
Take a good quantitie of Camomill, and two handfuls of greene
Wormewood, and seethe them in a pot of running water till they be very
well sodden, and put a funnell over it, and let the steame go up into
the eare, and then go to bed warme, and stop your eare with a little
blacke wooll, and a grain of Civet: do this morning and evening, and
with Gods assistance you shall finde ease.
_An excellent Electuary for the Cough, Cold
or against Flegme._
Take of Germander, Hissope, Horehound, white Maidenhaire, Agrimony,
Bettony, Liverwort, Lungwort, and Harts-tongue, of each one handfull:
put these to nine pints of water, and let them boyle to three pints;
then let it coole and straine it. To this juyce put of clarified honey
halfe a pound, fine powder of Liquorice fiue ounces, fine powder of
Enulacampana root three ounces, boyle them to the thicknesse of an
Electuary. Take of this at any time, but specially in the morning
fasting, as also at night when you go to bed, or two houres after
supper, the quantitie of a Wallnut or Nutmeg.
_A very excellent salve to heale, well proved, for
any old sore, or new wound._
Take of Waxe, Rosin, Sheeps suet, Turpentine, of each a like quantitie,
Sallet oyle also as much: mixe them all together, and take the juyce of
Smallach, of Planten, of Orpin, of Buglosse, of Comfery, of each a like
quantitie: let them boyle untill the iuyce of the hearbes be consumed;
and in the seething put a quantitie of Rose-water, and it will be a
very good Salue.
_A soveraigne Water to heale a greene wound:
and to stanch bloud._
Take a pottle of running water, and put thereto foure ounces of Allum,
and one ounce of Copras, and let them seethe to a quart, and then
straine it, and keepe it in a glasse, and wash the wound, and wet a
cloth, and lay to the fore, and with Gods helpe it will soone be healed.
_For the Byting of a mad Dogge._
Take brine, and bathe the wound: then burne Claret wine, and put in a
little Mithridate, and so let the patient drinke it; Then take two live
pigeons, cut them through the middle, and lay them hot to his hand if
he be bitten in the armes. If in his legges, to the sole of his feet.
_An Oyle for any Ach._
Take a pound of unwashed butter, and a handfull of red mints, and a
handfull of camomill, a handfull of rew, two ounces of oyle of Exeter:
stamp the herbs to a juyce, and boyle them with the butter; straine
them in a cloth, and rub them out very well: this so done, take the
oyle of Exeter, and put to them, and stir them well together, and put
them into a gally pot, and where the ach is anoint the place against
the fire, and lay a browne paper on it, and wrap a cloth about the
place, and keepe it warme: proved to be excellent.
_To stanch the bleeding of a cut._
Take a peece of a felt hat, and burne it to a coale; beat it to powder,
and put it in the cut, and it will stanch the bleeding presently. Or
else apply linnen rags that in the spring of the yeere have beene often
washed in the sperm of frogs, and afterward dried in the Sunne.
_For an ague, to bee layd to the wrists._
Take a handfull of soot, a spoonfull of bay salt, halfe a spoonfull of
pepper; bruse them together, and temper them with two yelks of egs;
spread it on a cloth, and lay it to the wrists.
_Almond milke for the cough of the lungs._
Take foure spoonfuls of French barly well washed, and boyle it in three
wine pints of faire water, unto a pint and a halfe; then take it from
the fire, and let it coole, and settle; then take the cleere liquor,
and straine therewith a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds blanched,
and beaten; then set it on the fire, and let it boyle a while till it
begin to grow thick; then beat two yelks of egs, and put them to it;
stirre them well together, and put to it as much fine suger as will
sweeten it, and a spoonfull of damask rose water, and so let it boyle a
while longer, till it be as thick as good creame; eat of it warm twice
or thrice a day, but at breakfast especially.
_For a scald head._
Take a pinte of running water, and as much Mercury as a good walnut,
three or foure branches of Rosemary; boyle these all together till a
third part be boyled away, or thereabout, and every morning and evening
wash the infected place with some of this water cold, and a quarter of
an houre after or lesse anoint the place with lamp oyle, and every
morning after the first dressing try to pull up some of the hayre as
easily as you can: have care where you set this water, for it is
poyson. If you shave the head, and apply a plaster called _Emplastrum
Cephalicum cum Euphorbio_, it is also excellent.
_For to heale a red face that hath many
pimples. Proved._
Take foure ounces of barrowes grease, and as much oyle of bayes, halfe
an ounce of quicksilver killed with fasting spettle, then take two
spoonfuls of wilde tansie water, or honisuckle water, and let all be
ground in a morter three houres at the least, untill you see nothing of
the quicksilver, and so keep it close in a glasse; the older, the
better; and when you go to bed anoint the face, and look that you keep
it from your eyes.
_To wash the Face, if it be given to heat._
Take Snailes, beat them shels and bodies together: steep them a night
in new milke: then still them with the flowers of white Lillies.
_To make Vsquebach._
Take a gallon of the smallest _Aqua vitæ_ you can make, put it into a
close vessell of stone; put thereto a quart of Canary Sacke, two pounds
of Raisons of the Sunne stoned, but not washed, two ounces of Dates
stoned, and the white skinnes of them pulled out, two ounces of Cinamon
grossely bruised, foure good Nutmegs bruised, foure good Liquorish
sticks sliced, and bruised, tye up all your Spices in a fine linnen
cloth, and put them into your _Aqua vitæ_, and tye up your pot very
close, and let this infuse a weeke, stirring it three times a day, then
let it runne through a jelly bagge close covered; keepe it in glasse
bottles.
_To make Almond Butter._
Take two pound of Almonds, and blanch them, and let them lye all night
in cold water: then grinde them in a mortar very small, and put in a
blade of Mace or two; then straine it through a strong cloth as neare
as you can, that the milke be not too thin, and let it seethe a prettie
while: then put in a little Rose-water, and a little salt when you take
it off the fire, and stirre it still: then take a bigge cloth very
cleane, and let two hold it; then you must take the milke and cast it
round about the sides of the cloth that the whay may come from it; then
with a saucer put it downe from the sides: then knit the cloth, and
hang it up untill it have left dropping; then take it forth, and season
it with fine Sugar and Rose-water.
_To make Ielly for one that is in a Consumption, or
troubled with a loosenesse._