A Brief COLLECTION Of many Rare SECRETS. Most of which are approved, and Physical, and the rest most Pleasant and Recreative. Very necessary for all sorts of People. Newly set forth and published by LA fountain an Expert Operator, living over against Essex House in the Strand near Temple-bar. LONDON, Printed Anno Dom. 1650. To the Reader. I Do not attribute to myself to be sole inventor of these insuring Secrets; yet know that here are none concerning Curo but what I have experimented, or had from good Authors, great imitators of Galen, and Hippocrates, the famousest men of their calling in the World; as for what is recreative, herein they need no other testimony but your own judicious application. The general acceptance of a little Book of twenty secrets, which I published formerly, hath obliged me to present you here with a far better, concealing nor retaining nothing to myself from your view that I think may do you good: Here you may have more instructions in the things it treateth off, for a couple of pence, than you can have of another that is more covetous than charitable (of which there are many now a days) for twenty shillings: I direct this chiefly to the poor that are not able to go to the price of higher matters, though others may profit by it: However to as many as will accept hereof, if possibly it lieth in my power, I will study to present them with a better thing hereafter. In the mean time, my greatest ambition shall be, always to deserve the title of your Friend and well wisher, EDW. FOUNTAIN. A Brief Collection of many Rare Secrets. I. How to make ordinary diet drink, of which good purging diet drink may be easily made, as after you may see, very good and necessary for most diseases. TAke a good handful of Barley, pick and wash it in fair water, and a dram of green fennel seed, or anise seed, and half an ounce of liquorish prepared, that is, scraped clean and somewhat bruised; put all this in a pottle of running water to boil, skim it when it boils while it yields any skim, and then it is boiled enough, then take it off, let it cool, and keep it for your ordinary drink; this is good drink for most diseases, especially being feverish or hot. II. How to make the same drink, a most excellent purging diet drink. Take a pint of the said drink, and steep therein half an ounce of seen, and a dram of green fennel, tied at liberty in a little clean linen cloth, or bag for the purpose, over night; then strain it, and take a good glasseful of it in the morning fasting, and half an hour after a mess of clear fresh broth. That many thousands have been cured of sundry dangerous diseases hereby, I can justify it, continuing to do the same every morning for three or four days together, as your Doctor shall think best, and your necessity require. III. How to make and take a vomit. Take about twelve spoonfuls of warm water, mingle therein four or five spoonfuls of salad-oil, and drink it; a little while after thrust your finger or a feather in your throat to make it operate the better, if it be necessary; note that the best time to take this vomit is, when your stomach is full presently after dinner or supper; for then your victuals will bring up all the phlegm, and ill humours from the very bottom of your stomach. IV. An excellent purging Glister which may easily be made at any time. Take a handful of Barley, as much clear bran, and a quart of running water; boil this a little space, as two or three boils; then take a pint of the said water strained but not squeezed, and boil therein half an ounce of Seine one boil or two, together with two drams of green Fennel-seed, or aniseed; then strain it through a clean linen cloth, squesing it somewhat softly; then take a dish and put therein two or three ounces of good honey, and an ounce of the coursest red Sugar, and seven or eight spoonfuls of the said water hot, mingling or stirring all well together with the rest of the foresaid pint of water; which done, you shall strain it again, and put therein five or six spoonfuls of salad-oil, or half a quartern of fresh butter, which you shall give warm but not too hot, and let the patient retain it as long as he can, so it exceed not half a quarter of an hour, or thereabout. V. An other easy Glister, both to refresh, cool, and purge if need require. Take a quart of Whey, and boil therein a good big handful of the best great lettuce you can find, and as much purslain; then take a pint of the said liquour strained, and put therein a quartern of honey and it is done, giving it warm as above. VI. An Astringent or Stopping Glister. Take a pint of new milk, and then take a good big piece of any Steel red hot, and quench it in the said milk, than heat and quench it as before in the same milk, continue to heat and quench in the same manner, three or four times over, then strain it, and put therein two ounces of oil of Quinces, with two yolks of Eggs, and so give it the Patient. VIII. An easy remedy for them that are bound in their bodies, and will by no means take any Glister, as I have seen many. Take a dram or two (a little more or less according to the strong or weak Constitution of the Patient) of good Seine, half a dram of green Fennel-seeds, or aniseeds, put them in a porringer, and pour thereon four or five spoonfuls of clear water, more or less according to the quantity of Seine that you use, and if the Patient be not troubled with a Cough, pour an equal quantity of juice of Lemons and water, instead of water alone; cover the said porringer, and put it upon the hot ashes with few or no cinders; there let all infuse or steep together an hour or there about; then strain and squeeze it a little through a clean cloth, put thereto twice or thrice as much clear broth, without salt; finally let the Patient take this in the morning fasting, two or three hours before he eat any thing; this is likewise a very good purge for many diseases, and may be taken by young, or old, or women with child, without any peril or danger using discretion. VIII. An excellent remedy for either Quartan, Tertian, or Quotidian Ague. It is good first to be let blood and purged, before you take this ensuing Medicine, yet I have cured many hereby without either; take Roch-allum, cut or scrape them round as near as you can, in fashion of Pills, as big as you think you can swallow them; let them that are very young, very old, or very weak, take three of these Pills, in three spoonfuls of Angellica-water; the stronger Constitution may take five in the same manner; the time to take them is when you begin to feel the fit a coming on, and drink not if you can help it during the cold fi●; but during the hot fit which ordinarily cometh after, drink as much Carduus benedictus Posset drink as you please; it is best hot to provoke sweat if your drought can possibly endure it; if not, better cold than not at all; this will much weaken your Ague at the first taking, and at the second or third taking totally cure you, God willing. Ix.. How to procure Rest and Sleep, to them that are hindered there from by headache, or any such like pain. Take violet-oil, with the yolk of an egg, and b●east-milk, of each a like quantity; which being well mingled, apply like a plaster upon the forehead and temples; this will appease the pain, and bring on rest and sleep suddenly. X. A good and easy remedy for Children troubled with Worms. Take of the finest wheat flower you can yet, very well sifted, as much as a six pence will hold three times covered over: then mingle as much fountain-water with the said flower in a glass as will make it look like milk, which you shall give the Child to drink, and soon after you shall see the worms come out dead in the child's excrement. XI. How to cure any swelling in ones head, caused by a fall, a blow or the like, very suddenly. Take an ounce of salt, three ounces of ordinary honey, three ounces of Cummin, two ounces of Turpentine, all which you shall mingle well together about a quarter of an hour, upon a soft fire, in any clean thing; then spread it like a plaster upon a clean piece of linen cloth, and apply it hot upon the swollen place; a better cure can hardly be had, for this purpose. XII. How to increase milk in a woman's breast, if need require. Take a good handful of green Fennel, picked from the great stalks, and boil it very well in a pottle of white wine, or strong ale, either being very good for that purpose; then keep it up close, and let it be your ordinary drink at meals and other times; the longer you continue to drink of the said drink, the more your milk will increase; in this I never saw any to fail. XIII. An approved remedy to cure Warts. Take any piece of Gold, or Gold-ring without any stone; heat it red hot in the fire, and l●y ●t as hot as ever you can endure it upon each w●rt, until they be well cauterised thereby; instead of Gold you may use Iron or a red coal in the same manner; then wash them with good strong lie; do this three times a day, or several days if you will; it importeth not much whether; lastly take Radishes and cut them into thin slices in a platter, and strew over them a reasonable quantity of salt, then lay on another bed of sliced radishes upon that, and salt as before, and so three or four times, let all this lie and steep over night in the said platter, and in the morning you shall find the salt melted, and the virtue of the said radishes in it, with which water you shall often wash the warts, and lay a linen rag or cotton dipped in the said water upon them, in which doing they will in few day's fall, or at the least be easily drawn off: likewise any scratching, black or blue spots, got by fighting or she like, the said water will suddenly cure, using it as above said. XIV. How to cure any kind of Itch, though ever so bad, either inward or outward, with a sweet water: very cheap and very easy to be done, than the which there is nothing better, as I can justify, both for this and divers other diseases. Take a quartern of Plantain-water, half as much Rose water, half a wine-glass of Lemond or Orange flower water, and an ounce of Sublimatum beaten into very fine powder, all which you shall mingle in a clean skillet upon the fire, and there let it boil for a quarter of an hour; then let it cool, and keep it close in a viol for your use; then wash the place or places where you have the itch with the said water, and let it dry of itself; your convenientest time will be when you are going to bed; do this three times, leaving four and twenty hovers respite between each time; the first and second time will bring them all forth, and the third time will dry and take them quite off; thus leaving aside all stinking ointments, and inward physic whatsoever; you may have a safe, sweet, speedy, and infallible cure for your itch: Likewise using this water as above said, it will draw out all kind of foul corrupted humours, and leave the skin clear and white; what virtue the said water may have to cure the Pox, and other soul diseases being rightly used, I leave to the judicious Artists censure. XV. How to cure one that spits blood, having some broken vein in his breast. Take Mice-dung dried and beaten into powder, as much as a sixpence will hold at a time, in half a wine-glasseful of juice of Plantain, with a little sugar; drink this every morning fasting, and as much every night when you go to bed, for a week or there abouts; and this with God's help will cure you. XVI. For the squinsy. Take two or three drops of oil of Vitriol, in a glass of white wine; gargle often your mouth and throat therewith; this hath cured many, and this you see is very easy to be done. XVII An excellent Remedy to Cure the Evil. Take four ounces of Ceruse, otherwise called White-lead, in fine powder, and boil it five or six hovers in half a pint of salad oil, or until all be very black, stirring it continually wh●le it is on the fire; then spread of this upon a piece of leather or clean linen cloth, and apply it upon the Sore, and if the Sore runs, using this often it will heal it; if not, it will first dissolve it and afterwards perfectly heal it, if it be not too inveterate: XVIII. How to cure a Cough, or Cold, either old or new. Take Brimstone well powdered half an ounce, and mingle it with a new laid egg boiled soft, and half a scruple of Beniamen softly reduced to powder. Take this in the morning fasting, and as much going to bed at night, and you shall be cured thereby at the second or third taking: But if your Cough be very inveterate, you must take it oftener. XIX. An assured Remedy for the Plague, approved of throughout Venice, in the year 1504 Take of a healthy Male young child's water, fine Treacle and anise seed-water, of each a like quantity, mingle them, and give about a quarter of a pint or a little more at a time of it to the Patient in the morning fasting, for three mornings together; this hath cured many. XX. An infallible remedy for any Burning, or Scalding. Cut an ounce of the newest wax you can get in thin slices, and melt it in two ounces of salad oil; then take it off the fire and mingle well therein two yolks of Eggs, roasted hard under hot ashes; spread a little of this very thin being cold upon a clean linen cloth, and apply it upon the Sore, changing the same twice a day; this will in very short time appease the pain, and heal without leaving any scar at all: this is the only thing I have always used for this purpose, not without good success. XXI. An excellent Perfume in a Chamber, to drive away all ill air. Take ten or twelve Cloaves somewhat bruised, and three or four little slices of Orange or Lemond pill, put these in a clean porringer with six or seven spoonfuls of rose-water, upon a few cinders or coals in a chasingdish about the middle of the room, and it will perfume the place, and expel away the ill air. XXII. How to cure a strong Breath proceeding from the stomach. Take Sage-leaves dried and powdered an ounce, Rosemary flowers in the same manner three ounces, Cloaves beaten into powder half an ounce, cinnamon beaten two dramms, two Nutmegs grated very small, and two grains of musk; incorporate all this with as much clarified honey as will make it into a soft paste; then put it in a box five or six days together, where the Sun may shine most upon it, and it sufficeth. Take of this every morning half an ounce fasting, and as much after supper going to bed; this will keep what you have eaten from putrifying over night in your stomach, and continuing thus a while, you shall by God's help be delivered from all strong or stinking breath whatsoever. XXIII. A present remedy for them that are much troubled with the Hickock. Eat every morning that you fear to be troubled with the Hickock three hours before dinner time, a good piece of green Ginger, and drink thereon two good draughts of Malmsie, and you shall be soon cured thereof God willing. XXIV. How to be never troubled with the colic. Take two pounds of the outward thickest skin of radishes, and four pound of good honey; boil all this together until half the honey be consumed, then mingle therein cinnamon, Cloaves, Mace, nutmeg and Pepper, of each two drams beaten to powder, which done, set it up in a vessel for your use; finally take of the said radish skin's thus prepared half an ounce every morning; they that use this remedy are never troubled with the colic. XXV. How to make Red, or grey hair, black. Take five flagons of Rain water, as much Oake-ashes, or other good strong ashes as will make lie thereof, six ounces of lethargy of Gold, Sage, and black-figtree-leaves, of each a handful; if you cannot get this last, take the more Sage, boil this together until the fourth part of the liquour be consumed in boiling, with which you shall wash your head twice a week; and when your hair is dry, take Sage juice four ounces, Tartar of Redwine in powder one ounce, and of lethargy of Gold reduced to powder likewise half an ounce, mingle these three last things together, and there with anoint a lead-comb, with which you shall comb your hair often, and they will become black in a short time. XXVI. Likewise if you take oil of Tartar, and warm it a little, and anoint your comb in combing your hair well before the Sun, two or three times a day for a whole week, after you have washed and dried your hair as before, it is an approved remedy to make hair of any colour black. If you think all these things too tedious or troublesome, take twenty or thirty horseleeches, or as many as you can get, and put them to steep and rot in a viol with half a pint or a little more of course Red wine for two months together, which done, anoint and comb your hair often therewith before the Sun, and they will soon become brown at the least if not quite black. XXVIII. An infallible way to make a grey beard black, by once anointing it, which is not so convenient for the hair of the head, by reason of the care which ought to be had in using it. Take half an ounce of Aqua fortis in a vial, put therein to dissolve by the fire side the quantity of three pence or a groat in silver, and when you would use this, anoint the roots of the hair a little with oil of Roses; then wet the hair well with a little sponge dipped in the said Aqua fortis, (having a care not to touch the skin but as little as may be for that it is apt to raise a blister) then let it dry, and finally wash it over with a little lie, wherein hath been boiled a little Red-roses, and Pomgranet-flowers; this Secret as well as many others in this little Book, is a rare experiment, easy, useful, and profitable for my greatest envyers: but I stick not to let them know, that my ambition is to restore good for evil, rather than seek revenge. XXIX. An infallible remedy for them that are come to age to have a beard yet want it, so nature do but co operate ever so little. Shave the place often where you would have hair to grow, then presently anoint the place shaved with a little spirit of Honey, or oil of Tartar, either being very good and best for that use of any thing that ever nature hath produced, I am confident of it: the best time to use this is during the increase of the Moon, in the spring season going to bedward, to make the hair of your head grow in a short time fair, long, thick, and curled; use the same wearing a periwig, or a leather Cap with borders to it which is far better, by reason that a periwig for the most part is too hot for that use, and doth often hinder somewhat therefore the growth of the hair more, than a Cap and Borders doth. XXX. How to take Wrinkles out of one's Face, Forehead, or any other part. Take a little of the wood of a white Vine, that is such as bears white Grapes, or a little Briony, and beat it well in a mortar with a good big Fig or two, such as you may buy at the Grocers; which done, anoint the wrinkled place therewith, and walk thereupon until you sweat: otherwise the Vine wood will take of the skin, or the Briony make it black. XXXI. How to soften hard Hair, and to hinder the groweth of it. Take Bean-cods, bruise them, and apply them like a poultice over night upon the place, where you would hinder the growth of hair, or at least to soften it; the next morning wash the place with water wherein beans have boiled; the best time to use this is during the decrease of the Moon, and the oftener you do it the sooner you shall obtain your desire herein: if some find that no hair will ever grow upon the foresaid place, yet I cannot affirm that it will do the same to all; for I am of opinion, that it is not easy to change the ordinary course of Nature in this particular. XXXII. How to take out Freckles or other Spots out of one's Face, and likewise to make it fair. Take a little Roch-allum and bruise it somewhat small, together with the white of a new laid egg, warm from the hen, and put them in a dish upon the fire until they begin to boil, mingling them together until they be incorporated, and somewhat hardened, with which you may anoint your fate several times, for two or three days together: this hath been often experimented, and found to be excellent for this use. XXXIII. An easy way to take all Colours, Painting, or any other Spots from ones hands, very necessary for so●● Artists and Tradesmen. Take juice of Lemond, with a little fair mingled therein wash your hands therewith, and let them dry of themselves; which done, wash, them in fair water: moreover this is good to take away the Itch, using it in the same manner. XXXIV. How to make one's hair to become of a yellow Golden Colour. Take the rind, or outward parings of rhubarb, and put them to steep in Whitewine, or clear lie; wet a sponge or linen cloth therein, and anoint your hair therewith, and let them dry before the fire or sun; the oftener you do this the sooner they will become yellow: note that before you use this, it is good to clear your head and hair from sweat, and all other filth whatsoever. XXXV How to take off hair, so that it shall never grow again. Some that have the hair of their forehead growing too low, others the hair of their eyebrows growing too thick; and some women that have hair growing on their lips, (an unseemly sight to see) would give any thing for this Secret; Take a Ring without a stone, of the best Gold you can get, or any other piece of fine Gold, make it red hot without melting it, and touch only the place suddenly therewith where you would never have hair to grow again; if it should, as very seldom it doth, return to do the same again, and infallibly no hair will ever grow in that place; note that presently you must anoint the place with oil of Roses, or of Violets: The conveniency of this good Gold, is, that it leaves no scar at all, as other Metals applied hot, would do. The Author hereof found this Secret, much practised amongst the moors, and since used it much himself throughout Europe, to many Ladies and Gentlewomen to their great content, and to his own Fame and Credit. XXXVI. How to make a most excellent Water, which I always use to fasten Teeth that are loose, to clear the gums from putrefaction; to cause them to grow if need require; to sweeten the breath; and finally to divert away the rheum from that place, it being very astringent, and cleansing. Take two ounces of good White wine vinegar, four ounces of Rosemary flower-water, Myrrh, mastic, bowl Armenick, fine Dragons-blood in leaf, of each an ounce; Roch-allum burnt, and fine beaten cinnamon, of each half an ounce; a pint of fair water, and half a pound of good honey, with a little Benjamin; mingle all these together, and put it to boil for a quarter of an hour, skimming it well, then take it off, let it cool, and set it up in a viol for your use; gargle your mouth well with a little thereof, every morning, and before and after meals: I cannot extol this Secret too much, having experimented it with good success to many people of quality, within this City of London, as I can justify. XXXVII. How to keep Wine fresh, as if it were in a cellar, though it were in the heat of Summer, and without Ice or Snow, yea, though it were carried at a Saddle bow, and exposed to the Sun all the day. Set your Wine in a Viol of glass, and place it in a box made of wood, leather or such like; about which Viol place saltpetre, and it will preserve and keep it very fresh: this experiment is not a little commodious, for these which are not near fresh waters, and whose dwellings are much exposed to the sun. XXXVIII. How to melt Mettle very quick, yea in a shell upon little fire. Make a bed upon a bed of Mettle, with powder of sulphur, of saltpetre, and saw dust a like; then put fire to the said powder with a burning charcoal, and you shall see that the Mettle will dissolve incontinent, and be in a mass: this Secret is most excellent and often practised. XXXIX. How to make the string of a Viol sensibly shake, without any one touching it. This is a miracle in music, yet easy to be experimented: take a Viol or other instrument, and choose two strings, so that there be one between them; make these two strings agree in one and the same Tune; then move the Viol bow upon the greater string, and you shall see a wonder; for in the same time that that shakes, which you play upon, the other will likewise sensibly shake, without any one touching it; and it is the more admired, that the string which is between them will not shake at all; and if you put the first string to another Tune or Note, and losing the pin of the string, or stopping it with your finger in any feet, the other string will not shake: and the same will happen if you take two Viols, and strike upon a string of the one, the string of the other will sensibly shake. XL. Of a Vessel which contains three several kinds of liquour, all put in at one bunghole, and drawn out at one tap, severally without mixture. The Vessel is thus made, i: must be divided into three Sells for to contain the three liquours; which admit to be Sack, Claret, and Whitewine: now in the bunghole there is an engine with three pipes, each extending to its proper Cell; into which there is put a broach or funnel, pierced in three places, in such sort that placing one of the holes right against the pipe which answereth unto him, the other two pipes are stopped; then when it is full, turn the funnel, and then the former hole will be stopped and another open, to cast in other wine without mixing it with the other. How to draw out also without mixture: At the bottom of the Vessel there must be placed a Pipe or Broach, which may have three Pipes, and a Cock pierced with three holes, so artificially done, that turning the Cock, the hole which answereth to such of the Pipes that is placed at the bottom, may issue forth such Wine as belongeth to that Pipe; and turning the Cock to another Pipe, the former hole will be stopped: and so there will issue forth another kind of Wine, without any mixture: but the Cock may be so ordered, that there may come out by it two Wines together, or all three kinds at once: But it seems best, when that in one Vessel and at one Cock, a man may draw several kinds of Wine, and which he pleaseth to drink. XLI. How to find the new and full Moon in each month. Add to the Epact for the year, the month from March; then subtract that surplus from 30. and the rest is the day of the month, that it will be new Moon; and adding unto it 14. you shall have the full Moon. XLII. How to find at any time which way the wind is in one's Chamber, without going abroad. Upon the planching or floor of a Chambe●, parlour, or Hall, that you intend to have this device, let there come down from the top of the house, a hollow post, in which place an Iron-rod, that it ascend above the house ten or six foot, with a Vane or a Scouchen at it, to show the winds without: and at the lower end of this rod of Iron place a dart which may by the moving of the Vane with the wind without, turn this dart which is within: about which upon the plaster must be described a circle divided into the 32 points of the Mariners compass, pointed and distinguished to that end; then may it be marked by placing a compass by it; for having noted the North point, the East, and so forth, it is easy to note out all the rest of the points: and so at any time coming into this room, you have nothing to do but to look up to the dart, which will point you out what way the wind bloweth at that instant. XLIII. How to practice excellently the reanimation of Simples, in case the plants may not be transported to be replanted, by reason of distance of places. Take what simple you please, burn it, and take the ashes of it, and let it be calcinated two hours between two creusets, well luted, and extract the salt, that is, to put water into it, in moving of it; then let it settle, and do it two or three times; afterwards evaporate it, that is, let the water be boiled in some vessel, until it be all consumed; then there will remain a salt at the bottom, which you shall afterwards sow in good ground well prepared; such as the theatre of husbandry showeth, and you shall have your desire. XLIV. Of the admirable invention of making the philosopher's tree, which one may see with his eye to grow by little and little. Take two ounces of Aqua fortis, and dissolve in it half an once of fine Silver refined in a Capel; then take an ounce of Aqua fortis, and two drams of quicksilver, which put in it, and mix these two dissolved things together; then cast it into a Viol of half a pound of water, which may be well stopped; for then every day you may see it grow both in the Tree, and in the Branch: This liquor serves to black hair which is red, or white, without fading until they fall: But here is to be noted that great care ought to be had in anointing the hair, for fear of touching the flesh; for this composition, is very corrosive or scarching, that as soon as it toucheth the flesh, it raiseth blisters and bladders very painful. XLV. How to roast a Capon, carried in a budget at a Saddle bow, in the space of riding five or six miles. Having made it ready and larded it, stuff it with butter; then heat a piece of steel which may be formed round according to the length of the Capon, and big enough to fill the belly of it; and than stop it with butter, then wrap it up well, and enclose it in a box in the budget, and you shall have your desire. It is said that Count. Mansfield served himself with no others, but such as were made ready in this kind; for that it loseth none of its substance, and it is dressed very equally. XLVI. How to make two Marmousets, one of which shall light a Candle, and the other put it out. Upon the side of a Wall, make the figure of a Marmouset, or other animal or form, and right against it on the other Wall make another; in the mouth of each put a quill or pipe so artificially, that it be not perceived; in one of which place saltpetre very fine, and dry, and pulverised, and at the end set a little match of paper; in the other place sulphur beaten small; then holding a candle lighted in your hand, say to one of these images, by way of command, blow out the candle; then lighting the paper with the candle, the saltpetre will blow out the candle immediately; and going to the other image (before the match of the candle be out) touch the sulphur with it and say, light the candle, and it will immediately be lighted, which will cause an admiration to these which see the action, if it be done with a secret dexterity. I have some things extraordinary, which I cannot communicate to any but them that have need of my help, and will make use of me. What I have writ here, is very good and necessary; yet know, my manual operation excels them beyond proportion, in which I presume to be as expert in, as any man in Europe whatsoever he be; as the approbation of some of the best Doctors of this age shall justify, if need repairs. I glory not in knowing or doing much, but in doing well that little which I undertake, and the things which I undertake are these: First, I draw out hollow Teeth or roots, though ever so short, with wonderful dexterity, facility, and ease: I make even, smooth, and plain, Teeth that are extravagant, or sharper, longer or ruggeder then the rest. Hollow Teeth that for some reason you would not have drawn, as the falling in of the cheek, or an invincible apprehension or fear, or the like, I can stop them so that they shall neither ache, putrify, nor smell ill. I have the best secret in the world, absolutely and infallibly, to make Teeth most perfectly white and clean, though they be ever so black or rusty. Foreteeth that are loose, I can fasten very well in less than half an hour. I can set in artificial Teeth so well, that none can possibly know them from natural ones. Finally, I cannot choose but convince their ignorance, that are against drawing hollow Teeth or roots; their common foolish objection is, that I do it more for my own profit, than the patient's ease. I say they may as well object the same against all other Arts, Sciences, or Trades in the world; for it is evident and clear, that the drawing of Teeth from others, is as necessary for them, as the profit is for me; by reason that all the Art in the world, cannot make a perished Tooth sound again, nor hinder it from infecting the next adjoining teeth in time. Besides, hollow teeth breed often a stinking breath, a canker in the mouth, and other diseases in the body, and their intolerable aching is able to make a body fall into a dangerous fevers; all which inconveniences may be shunned by having such teeth and roots neatly drawn. Lastly, if it be true, that it is good to take the broken from the whole, or that one scabbed sheep may spoil a whole flock, or that it is good and necessary to repair imperperfections of nature with art, than all that I have said herein is true, and so I rest fully satisfied An Excellent remedy for sore eyes. TAke three ounces of the best honey, an ounce of Venice Turpentine, and the yolks of twelve eggs that hath been roasted hard under hot ashes, then mingle them in a dish pouring thereon the said Turpentine and honey, and put them to seeth a little upon a soft fire, then press it in a press in the same manner that oil of Almonds is made; this is called oil of eggs, and though there be sundry other ways to make it, yet this is one of the best and easiest, however it hath a most admirable operation for curing of sore eyes, anointing them a little therewith sometimes, especially at night going to bed. The use and virtue likewise of Roman Vitriol, so called by some, by others the celestial or blue stone, is publicly known to be good for this and many things else besides, yet let a thing be ever so good when it is once made common it is not half so much esteemed as that which is not a quarter so good, especially if it be dearer and harder to come by, such is the unsatiable profitless curiosity of most people. A Remedy for noise or buzzing in the ears. TAke half a pint of good old white Wine in a porringer, and two ounces of Roch alum, put it to boil upon a chafing-dish, then hold your ear over it and receive the smoke and vapour thereof into your ear as well as you can; finally put two or three drops thereof into your ear and keep it stopped with black wool or Cotton till you be cured; likewise drop sometimes two or three drops of the joice of a Leek in your ear, keeping them stopped as before, this is easy, and commonly cureth the said noise in the head, and often restores perfect hearing to many that accidentally have lost part thereof. For Hemeroids or Piles. TAke a fresh eel roast it and with the dripping thereof anoint the afflicted part often, it helheth beyond expectation. A cure for Corns. STeep your feet (the space of a quarter of an hour, going to bedward) in warm water wherein hath boiled three or four sorts of sweet smelling Herbs, as Rosemary, Time, Hi●op, Spearmint, or the like, then pare a little of the outward hardest part of your Corns, having a care you cut not to the quick, then apply the breadth of your Corn of this plaster upon each Corn, and as much fine Leather upon that as will keep it from sticking to your stockings, continuing and renewing this plaster as need requires for a whole week, it will soften the very roots of your Corns, so that you may easily pick them out with the point of a pen knife. The use and virtue of my Powder for Teeth. TAke as much as you can hold between your two fingers at once of this Powder, and rub your Teeth well therewi●h, then take three spoonfuls of water, and half a spoonful of Wine-vinegar mingled together, and wash your mouth and teeth therewith: the best time to use this is in the morning, as often as you please, or as necessity requires: this is as good to take away all rust, to divert away the rheum from the Teeth, and consequently to keep them perfectly white, as any Powdet can be for this purpose. To conclude as there is no man free from the aspersions and slanders of envious tongues, so I shall think myself sufficiently vindicated that the discreeter sort will suspend their judgement at the first view, until they hear what others will say that have been under my hands, for I desire no other praise save what they can justly give me: and though some out of ignorance, malice, or both, cannot or will not make any distinction between an Operator and a cheating mountebank, yet they nor no man can deny but that in all vocations there are some honest men as well as knaves, both which I heartily wish may prosper and fare as they deserve, and no otherwise. FINIS.