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 the feet of a Calfe, and when the haire is cleane scalded off,
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._
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