slit them in the middle, and cut away all the blacke veines, and the
fat, and wash them very cleane, and so put them in a bucket of faire
water, and let them lye foure and twentie houres, and in that time the
oftner you shift them in faire water it will be the better; then set
them on the fire in two gallons of water, or somewhat lesse, and let
them boyle very softly, continually taking off the scumme and fat which
riseth; and when the liquour is more then halfe boyled away, put into
it a pinte and a halfe of white wine, and as it boyleth there will come
a foule scumme upon it, take it off still cleane, and when the Ielly is
boyled enough, you may know, for your fingers will sticke to the
spoone; then take it from the fire, and with a Cullender take out all
the bones and flesh, and when the Ielly is almost cold, beat the whites
of sixe Egges, and put into it, and set it on the fire againe, and so
let it boyle till it be cleare: then straine it through a cleane cloth
into a Bason, and so let it stand all night long; the next morning put
it into a skellet, and put to it a pound of Sugar, halfe an ounce of
Cinamon broken in peeces, one ounce of Nutmegs, an ounce of Ginger
bruised, and a good quantitie of large Mace; boyle all these together
till it taste of the Spices as much as you desire, and when it is
almost cold, take the whites of six egs, and beat them, and put into
it, and set it on the fire, and when it riseth wilde it in halfe a pint
of white wine; then strain it through a jelly bag.
_To stay the flux._
Take Date stones, and beat them to fine powder, and take the quantity
of one of them, and drink it with posset drink, or beere; use these two
or three mornings together, and after as often as you finde occasion;
this is very good.
In the month of May gather of the reddest Oak leaves you can get, and
still them, and when need requireth make pap thereof, mingled with milk
or fine flower, suger, and Cinamon, as oft as your stomack serveth to
eat it.
_To make green Ink._
Take greene bice and grinde it with gum water, and if you will have it
a sadder green, put a little saffron to the grinding.
_To make blew Ink._
Take fine flower, and grinde it with a little chalk, and allum, and
then put it in a violl.
_For an Ague._
Take a handfull of hartstong that groweth in the field, and a handfull
of bay salt, and beat them both together in a morter, and lay this to
both the wrists.
_A water good against the plangs, or to be given
after a surfet._
Take red Sage, Celendine, Rosemary, Hearbegrace, Wormwood, Mugwort,
Pimpernell, Dragons, Scabious, Egrimony, _Rosa solis_, and Balme, of
each a handfull, or like quantity by weight; wash and shake them in a
cloth; then shred and put them into a gallon of white wine, with a
quarter of an ounce of Gentian roots, and as much of Angelica roots;
let it stand two dayes and two nights close covered, and then distill
it at your pleasure, and stop the glasse very close in which you keep
the same.
_To avoyd urine that stopped with
the stone._
Take as much black sope as a walnut, temper it with eight or ten leaves
of English saffron, spread it upon a round leather as big as the palme
of your hand, and cover the navell of your belly therewithall, and it
shall cause you to make water.
_For the stone and strangury._
Take the filmes that is within the mawes of geese, and let them bee
purely dried, and then make powder thereof, and drink it with stale
ale, and it will help him with Gods grace. Proved.
_For scald heads._
Take green Coperas, and mingle it with creame till it bee turned
yellow, and let it stand three or foure dayes: then take primrose
roots, leaves and all, with May butter, and beat the roots and leaves
in the butter, and boyle them together with a little beere and butter,
and let it touch no salt.
_To cure an old Vlcer._
Take a quart of the strongest Ale that is to be gotten, or brewed,
halfe a pint of raw honey, two ounces of roch allum beaten, halfe a
pint of Sallet oyle, and the quantitie of a Tennis ball of common
washing Sope, one ounce of stone pitch beaten; one ounce of Rosin
beaten, two ounces of yellow waxe: boyle all these together, and
straine them through a thin linnen cloth; and this will cure any old
Vlcer.
_A Water to cleanse, and mundifie old rotten
sores and ulcers._
Take a wine pint of stilled water of Planten, as much white wine; put
therein two ounces of Roch allum, a dramme of Verdigrease, a dramme of
Mercurie sublimed: boyle all these together, and keepe them in a thicke
glasse being stoped with waxe very close that the strength go not out;
this will cleanse and mundifie old sores: It will also heale a Fistula
if you use a siering, so that the water may come to the bottome of the
sore.
_The Medicine of medicines proved for
the Stone._
Take a quantity of eg-shels, wash them cleane; those are the best
whereout chickens are come; dry them very dry in an oven, or betweene
two tile stones; then make powder thereof, searce it, and mingle it
with sugar, or powder of licoras to give it taste, and let him use it
as often as hee needeth, morning and evening, either with Rhenish wine,
white wine, or stale ale, a spoonfull of the powder at a time, and use
to make water in a cleane bason, and so you shall see the deliverance
hereof.
_A precious water for the sight._
Take Smallage, Fennell, Rew, Verveine, Egrimony, Daffadill, Pimpernell,
and Sage, and still them with breast milk together with five drams of
frankincense, and drop of it in your eyes each night: often proved.
_For the Fluxe to stay it._
Take the yolke of an Egge, and beat it, then mixe with it one grated
Nutmegge, and lay it on an hot tyle stone to bake, and eate thereof
fasting, and before Supper, and after meales, and it will stay it.
Often proved to be excellent.
_A good Powder for the Gout._
Take fine Ginger the weight of two groats, and Enula campane-roots
dryed, the weight of foure groats, of Liquorish the weight of eight
groats, of Sugar-candy three ounces; beat all these into a powder,
searce them fine, and then mingle them together, and drinke thereof
morning and evening, and all times of the day. Approved.
_A speciall Medicine for the
Collicke._
Take Horehound halfe an handfull, of Sage, and Hysope of either as
much, twelve leaves of Betony, of Centaury sixe crops, one
Alexander-root, foure penie weight of Enula-campana roots powdered,
Spikenard of Spaine one penie worth; seethe all these in three quarts
of fine wort to a pottle, and draw it through a linnen cloth, and take
three spoonfuls at once morning and evening.
_To take away rednesse of burning of
the Eyes._
Take the white of an Egge, and beat it very well with a spoonfull or
two of red Rose-water, then put thereto the pap of a rosted apple,
mingle them well together, and spread it upon a little Flaxe; so lay it
on the eye, binding it on with a linnen cloth.
_For the Rheume in the Eyes._
Take the white of an Egge, and so much Bolearmoniacke as will thicken
it, and spread it on a round plaister of sheeps leather, and lay it on
the temples on that side the Rheume is.
_The Oyntment for the same._
Take _Lapis Tutiæ_ and burne it in a fire-shovell of quicke coales,
quench it in a poringer of womans milke, do so halfe a score times,
then grinde it in a cleane morter till it be very fine powder, then
mingle it with fresh Barrows grease till it looke russet: anoint your
eyes with a little of it when you go to bed.
_For Deafenesse._
Take Rew, and rub it betweene the palmes of your hands untill it be so
brused that you may make thereof a tent; then dip it in sweet sallet
oyle, and put in each eare one, so that you may pull them forth againe.
This doe for seven or eight dayes, and change the tent every day.
_Another._
Take a quarter of a pinte of Angelica water, of _Cardus Benedictus_
water, and of white wine, of either a like quantity: mingle them
together, dividing the same into two equall parts; drink it in two
severall mornings: then the next night after the taking of the second
draught of water, take the fish of an oyster, and put it into a fayre
linnen cloth, and stop the same into the eare that is thickest of
hearing, and lie on that side as long as you can: in the morning pick
that eare as cleane as you can, and after that take a draught of the
best ale you can get, with a toast of houshold bread toasted very dry,
a reasonable quantity of nutmegs; use the same every morning for five
or six dayes, fasting after the taking hereof two houres, every time
you take it.
_For the cough of the lungs._
Take two handfuls of Rosemary, and strip it of the stalk, one of
Hissop, and seethe them in a pottle of running water, till it come to a
quart, and then put a quarter of a pound of fine sugar, and let it
seethe a little, and scum it, drink it morning and evening.
_A present remedie for all manner aches, and
bruises in the Bones._
Take a good quantitie of Wallwort, and a certaine quantity of Balme,
and Smallach, and stamp them, and take a pound of May Butter, and
temper them very well together, then make them into round bals, and let
them lye for the space of eight dayes after, and then stampe them again
as you did before; then take it, and fry it, and straine it, and put it
into an earthen pot: This will helpe the bruise, be it never so blacke.
_For burning, or scalding._
To take out the fire, beat onyons very small, and binde them to the
place. To heale it, take halfe a pound of sheeps suet, as much sheeps
dung, a quarter of a pound of the inner rinde of an Elder tree, and a
little Housleeke: fry them altogether, and straine it, and use it as a
plaister, or make a serecloth of it, and apply it to the grieved part.
_For Burstnesse of old, or young._
Take nine red Snailes, lay them betweene two tyles of clay, so that
they creepe not nor slide away, and bake them in the hot embers, or in
an oven, till they may be powdered, then take the powder of one of the
Snailes, and put it in white wine, and let the patient drinke it in the
morning at his rising, and fast two houres after, and drinke these nine
Snailes in eighteene dayes, that is, every other day one. And if the
sicknesse be so old that it will not heale in eighteene dayes, begin
againe, and drinke other nine Snailes, and he shall be whole. _Probatum
est._
_A Salve for all sores._
Take a pound of sheepes-tallow, and a pound of Turpentine, and a pound
of Virgin waxe, a pint of Sallet oyle, a quarter of a pound of Rosin:
take also Bugle, Smallach, and Plantaine halfe the quantitie of the
other, or so much as will make a pint just: boyle all these together
upon a soft fire of coales, alwayes stirring it till a third part be
consumed; then take it from the fire, and straine it through a new
canvas cloth into an earthen pot.
_For Bleeding._
Take a blacke Toade in May, drie it betweene two tile stones, and hang
it in Sarcenet about the parties necke.
_To procure sleepe._
Take Betony, Roseleaves, Vinegar, Nutmeg, and the crummes of Rye-bread:
put this in a cloth warme to the poll of the head.
_For the Cough._
Two handfuls of last Saverie, steepe it five dayes in white wine
vineger, put into the vineger halfe an ounce of Pepper, at the five
dayes end draine out the vineger, and as soone as the bread is drawne,
set them in a Pewter dish into the oven, and stop it up, and let them
stand all night. In the morning take them out of the Oven and powder
them. Take of this powder and drinke it with Sacke, so much of it as
will lye on a three-pence.
_A Gargill for the Vvula._
Take a pint of good strong Ale, and as much Sacke, and a good quantitie
of long pepper, and bruise it grossely, and boyle it from a quart to a
pinte, and let the parties gargle their mouthes, and throats as warme
as they may suffer it.
If the pallat of the mouth be downe, it will fetch it up.
_For Deafnesse very excellent good._
Take the hoofes of the Neats feet after they be sodden, and hold them
in a cloth so warme as may be to your eare, divers times together one
after another: they will last to be warmed in the same they were sodden
in some three or foure dayes without sowring.
_FINIS._
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Transcriber's note:
Variable capitalisations and hyphenations in the original have been
retained.
Unusual and multiple spellings in the original have been retained.
All scribal abbreviations have been expanded.
All instances of 'VV' standing in for 'W' have been changed to 'W.'
First Booke
_Title Page:_
Comma inserted after 'workes,' "The first of water workes, The"
_To The Reader:_
'me' changed to 'be,' "hap as hap may be"
_How to harden Leather:_
'grinstone' changed to 'grindstone,' "under a grindstone, into"
_Experiments of forcing water by ayer compressed:_
'hol' and 'low' joined, "a round hollow ball"
_Experiments of forcing water by Engins:_
Full stop added after 'side,' "from it on the side. Having thus"
_Experiments of producing sounds by Engins:_
'de-' struck from 'de-desired,' "to expresse your desired tune"
Second 'it' struck, "it will play upon the bels"
_How to make the double perpendicular glasse:_
Second 'the' struck, "it will suck up the water"
_How to make the treble perpendicular glasse:_
Heading added, "How to make the treble perpendicular glasse."
_A Water-clock, or a Glasse shewing the houre of the day:_
'K, G, G' changed to 'E, F, G,' "the length of the glasse E, F, G"
Second Booke
_A Receipt of a Composition that will kindle with the water:_
'limekill' changed to 'limekiln,' "set it in a limekiln"
Second "Another." heading added.
_How to make Balloones, also the morter Peece to discharge them:_
Full stop and comma exchanged, "with its portfire, O."
_How to make Saucissons:_
Second 'a' struck, "forme having a hole"
_The description and making of three sorts of Fire-lances:_
Second 'and' struck, "staffe, and prime it"
_How to make Rockets for the water:_
Second 'the' struck, "while above the water,"
Third Booke
_A Carnation, or Flesh-colour:_
'Canation' changed to 'Carnation,' "A Carnation, or Flesh-colour."
_A good yellow:_
Comma changed to full stop, "with gum-water. Sad it with"
_To temper Azure or Bise:_
'of' changed to 'or' in heading, "To temper Azure or Bise."
The Booke of Extravagants
_To make Iron have the colour of Brasse:_
'wherin' changed to 'wherein,' "aqua fortis, wherein the filings"
_A good Cement for broken glasses:_
Sub-heading 'Another.' italicised.
_An excellent oyntment for the Shingles, Morphew, Tetters, and
Ringwormes:_
'anyont' changed to 'anoynt,' "wherewith anoynt the grieved parts."
_To make Almond Butter:_
'prettle' changed to 'prettie,' "let it seethe a prettie while:"
_To stay the flux:_
'cinamom' changed to 'Cinamon,' "or fine flower, suger, and Cinamon"
_To make blew Ink:_
'Tae' changed to 'Take,' "Take fine flower, and grinde"
_For Deafenesse:_
Sub-heading 'Another.' added.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Mysteryes of Nature and Art, by John Bate