The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and InventionBate, John
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The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention
Bate, John
Art -- Early works to 1800; Fireworks -- Early works to 1800; Science -- Early works to 1800; Waterworks -- Early works to 1800
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._
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