Of the soot, which is taken from Chimneys, where nothing is burnt but wood, there may be distilled a sharp volatile salt and a hot oyl. The salt is in vertue not unlike unto that which is made of harts-horn or ambar, and it quencheth inflammation, from what cause so ever it do proceed: The oyl may without rectification externally be used very successfully for all loathsome scabs, and for a scald head, _&c._ But if it be rectified, as hath been taught to be done with the oyl of Tartar, of Ambar, and of Hartshorn; then it may safely be used inwardly, as the above written oyls are used; for it doth as well as these, yea better in some special cases. _How to make a good oyl out of soot without distilling._ Boyl the soot in common watter, till the water turn blood red (urin is better than water) and set this solution (being in an earthen pot) in winter time into the greatest frost so long till all in the pot be frozen into one piece and turned white: then break the pot and the ice, and in the midst thereof you will find the hot oyl unfrozen and liquid in colour like blood, which is not much inferior in vertue unto that which is distilled, yet afterward it may be rectified, and so exalted in its vertue, when you please, and it is to be noted, that this separation doeth only succeed in the greatest frost and cold, and not else. _Of the spirit and oyl of honey._ Of honey there may be made a subtle spirit and a sowre vinegar, if it be mingled with twice as much of pure calcined sand and so distilled; and it falleth much better yet if it be made with the flores of Antimony, which were taught to be made in the first part, whereby the spirit is increased in its vertue, and its running over hindred thereby; and so distilling it, there will come over a pleasant spirit, a sharp vinegar and some red oyl also, which must be seperated: the spirit after the rectification inwardly used is good in all diseases of the lungs. It openeth and inlargeth the Breast, strengthneth the Heart, takes away all obstructions of the Liver and Spleen; it dissolveth and expelleth the Stone, resisteth all putrefaction of the Blood; preserveth from, and cureth the Plague; all Agues, Dropsies, and many other diseases, daily used from ℈ j. to ʒ j. taken with distilled water proper for the diseases: the sower vinegar coloureth hair and nails as yellow as gold: it cureth the itch and scabs of the skin; it cleanseth and healeth old and new wounds, they being bathed and washed therewith. The red oyl is too strong to be used of it self, it may be mingled with the subtle spirit which came over first and so used, and the spirit will be exalted thereby in its vertue. _Of the oyl and spirit of sugar._