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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 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

Name: 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
Author: Bate, John

Bate, John

Art -- Early works to 1800; Fireworks -- Early works to 1800; Science -- Early works to 1800; Waterworks -- Early works to 1800

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._

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