Take a new earthen vessel never used & so many gallons as it will hold pound so many ounces of white copperice in fine powder & when snow is on the ground fresh gather it very clean and put some snow in the pot & then some of the powder doing so untill all the copperice powder be spent and the vessel full then cover it with a clean cloth & set it in a cellar till the snow is all melted off the ground then strain it & keep it for use in bottles. It is good for Ruehmetick eyes being dropt in when they go to bed it will take away pearls phillmes, webbs & blood sheds in eyes if you take a piece of red rose cake enough to cover and soake it in some of this water warme and lay it to the eye when you go to bed and let it lay on ye eye till the next morning. In short it is good for all distempers in ye eyes & for old sores in legs if bathed warme with, but to drop in ye eyes it must be cold. 521. _To make Wigs._ Take 3 pound and a half of flour a pound of butter melt’d in a pint of milk a quart of yest half a pound of Sugar mixt into the milk butter & yest half an ounce of cloves and mace a quarter of an ounce of carraway seeds a little salt and put all this into the flour and mix it up into a pretty stiff paste then weigh them into 4 ounces a piece & rowle them into wigs & bake them upon paper or tin plates butter’d. 522. _Pills for Vapours of Spleen & Fits of ye Mother to Suppress and cure them._ Take castor, saffron, Gallbanum orsephetita and make them into fine powder of each half an ounce, half an ounce of methridate added in which well mix your powder with as much oyle of amber as will make it into pills of the largest size (or half an ounce of the powder) as the receipt exprest and then as much oyle of amber as will make it up in pills and of them one large or 2 middle size when you find the fits comeing keeping y^r selfe fasting an hour before & an hour after but if followed with ye fits then take one of them being of ye largest size morning afternoon and last at night if you drink anything after them let it be a little hystericall water. 523. _For a Cold._ Take 4 ounces of old conserve of red roses 2 ounces of white sugar candie 2 ounces of raisons of the Sun Stoned beat all these till well incorporated then add the quantity of a small walnut of diescordium and 2 spoonfulls of Sirrop of popies 7 drops of oyle of sulphur 11 drops of spirit of vitriol mingle all these very well together and take of it as much as a large nutmeg first in the morning fasting 2 or 3 hours after it & last at night leting it melt (as it were) gently down y^r throat. 524. _For the Scurvy._