Pieces of linnen cloth gathered, and got from Sempsters being cast into the furnace upon living coals, yield a most acid spirit, which tingeth the nailes, skin, & hair with a yellow colour, restores members destroyed with cold, is good in a gangrene, and erysipelas if linen clothes wet in the same be applyed thereto, _&c._ The same doth spirit made of paper, _viz._ of the pieces thereof. _The spirit of silk._ After the same manner is there a spirit made of pieces of silk, which is not so sharp as that which is made of linnen and paper, neither doth it tinge the Skin, but is most excellent in wounds as well old as green, and it makes the Skin beautiful. _The spirit of mans hair, and of other animals, as also of horns._ Out of horns also, and hair is made a spirit, but most fetid, wherefore it is not so useful, although otherwise it may serve for divers arts: being rectified it comes clear and to be of the odour of the spirit of urine. It dissolves common sulphur, and yields a water, that cures the scab in a very short time. Now for this business, shreds of woollen cloth undyed may serve, being cast in a good quantity into the furnace. Pieces of cloath dipt in this spirit and hanged in vineyards, and fields, keep out Deer and Swine from coming in, because they are afraid of the smell of that spirit, as of an huntsman that waits to catch them. _The spirit of vinegar, honey, and sugar._ He that will distil liquid things, must cast red hot coals into them, as for example into vinegar in the furnace, or if it be honey, or sugar, let them first be dissolved in water, by which means they will be drank up by the coals, which being therewith impregnated, must afterwards at several times be cast into the furnace, and be burnt; and whilst the coals are burning, that which is incombustible comes forth. And by this means you may distil liquid things in a great quantity. Vinegar which is distilled this way, is of the same nature, as that which is distilled in close vessels. But honey and sugar that are distilled after this manner, are a little altered, and acquire other vertues: but how they shall be distilled without the loss of their volatile spirit shall be taught in the second Part. Also after this manner may all liquid things being drunk up by living coals be distilled. Of the use of distilled vinegar many things might be said, but because the Books of all the Chymists treat abundantly thereof, I account it needless to repeat what they have writ. Yet this is worth taking notice of, that the sharpest vinegar hath a great affinity with some metals, which may be extracted by the help thereof; also dissolved, and reduced into medicaments; yea, many things may be made with the help thereof, as the books of all the Chymists testify.