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 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._
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