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
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Take Rew, and rub it betweene the palmes of your hands untill it be so
brused that you may make thereof a tent; then dip it in sweet sallet
oyle, and put in each eare one, so that you may pull them forth againe.
This doe for seven or eight dayes, and change the tent every day.
_Another._
Take a quarter of a pinte of Angelica water, of _Cardus Benedictus_
water, and of white wine, of either a like quantity: mingle them
together, dividing the same into two equall parts; drink it in two
severall mornings: then the next night after the taking of the second
draught of water, take the fish of an oyster, and put it into a fayre
linnen cloth, and stop the same into the eare that is thickest of
hearing, and lie on that side as long as you can: in the morning pick
that eare as cleane as you can, and after that take a draught of the
best ale you can get, with a toast of houshold bread toasted very dry,
a reasonable quantity of nutmegs; use the same every morning for five
or six dayes, fasting after the taking hereof two houres, every time
you take it.
_For the cough of the lungs._
Take two handfuls of Rosemary, and strip it of the stalk, one of
Hissop, and seethe them in a pottle of running water, till it come to a
quart, and then put a quarter of a pound of fine sugar, and let it
seethe a little, and scum it, drink it morning and evening.
_A present remedie for all manner aches, and
bruises in the Bones._
Take a good quantitie of Wallwort, and a certaine quantity of Balme,
and Smallach, and stamp them, and take a pound of May Butter, and
temper them very well together, then make them into round bals, and let
them lye for the space of eight dayes after, and then stampe them again
as you did before; then take it, and fry it, and straine it, and put it
into an earthen pot: This will helpe the bruise, be it never so blacke.
_For burning, or scalding._
To take out the fire, beat onyons very small, and binde them to the
place. To heale it, take halfe a pound of sheeps suet, as much sheeps
dung, a quarter of a pound of the inner rinde of an Elder tree, and a
little Housleeke: fry them altogether, and straine it, and use it as a
plaister, or make a serecloth of it, and apply it to the grieved part.
_For Burstnesse of old, or young._
Take nine red Snailes, lay them betweene two tyles of clay, so that
they creepe not nor slide away, and bake them in the hot embers, or in
an oven, till they may be powdered, then take the powder of one of the
Snailes, and put it in white wine, and let the patient drinke it in the
morning at his rising, and fast two houres after, and drinke these nine
Snailes in eighteene dayes, that is, every other day one. And if the
sicknesse be so old that it will not heale in eighteene dayes, begin
againe, and drinke other nine Snailes, and he shall be whole. _Probatum
est._
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