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 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Tooth Powder,—-Take have an ounce of pow- 
 dered gum myssh, one ounce of powdered bark, 
 two drachms of cream of tartar, one drachm of 
 bole ammoniac, mix in a mortar. A constant 
 use of this powder will cause the teeth to obtain 
 a beautiful whiteness, and preserve them from 
 decaying, and prevent the tooth-ache. As some 
 persons prefer using a tooth-paste in preference to 
 a powder, the above mixture need only be made 
 into a paste with the addition of honey. : 
 
 Salts of Lemons.—Take equal parts of cream 
 of tartar and citric acid powdered very fine, and 
 mix together; This forms the salts of lemons as 
 sold at the druggist’s shops in small oval boxes 
 at 1s. each, printed directions for using, which 
 may be had of any druggist. 
 
 Matchless Blacking.—Take a quarter of a pound 
 of ivory black, two ounces of the coarsest brown 
 sugar, three pints of sour table beer, mix it well 
 together, then throw in abouta small tablespoon- 
 ful of sweet oil, and as much vitriolic acid ; stir 
 it well together, and in a few hours buttle it for 
 use, . 
 
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 Bailey’s Patent Cakes for Liquid Blacking.— 
 This blacking has been the source of an ample 
 fortune to the patentee, the celebrated Mr. Bai- 
 ley, of Cockspur-street, Charing-cross, whose 
 exclusive right has lately expired. It is made, 
 according to the specification in the patent office, 
 with one part of the gummous juice which issues 
 from the shrub called goat’s thorn, during the 
 months of June, July, and August ; four parts 
 of river water, two parts of neat’s. foot or some 
 other softening oil, two parts of a deep blue co- 
 lour, prepared from iron and copper, and four 
 parts of brown sugar-candy. The water is then 
 evaporated till the composition becomes of a pro- 
 per consistence, when it is formed into cakes of 
 Such a size as to produce, when dissolved in hot 
 ah a pint of liquid blacking. 
 
 German method of llacking leather -Takke 
 two pounds of the bark of elder, and the same 
 quantity of the filings of rust of iron; steep them 
 in two gallons of river water, and put them ina 
 cask or earthen vessel closely stopped. After it 
 has stood two months, put to the liquid when 
 well pressed out, a pound of powdered nut-galls 
 and a quarter of a pound of copperas ; then, after 
 stirring-it over a'good fire, press out the liquid, 
 with which the leather is to be three or four 
 times brushed over, when it becomes of ¢ an n excels 
 feat and most durable black. ore 
 
 Invisible Ink. —Put litharge of lead into very 
 strong vinegar, and let it stand twenty-four hours; 
 strain it off, and let it be till settled, then put the 
 liquor in a bottle. 
 
 » You next dissolve orpiment in quick lime water, 
 by setting the water in the sun for two or three 
 days, turning it five or six times a day. Keep 
 the bottle containing this liquor well corked, as 
 
 the vapour is highly pernicious if received into 
 the mouth, 
 
 
 
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 . Write what you wish with a pen dipped in the 
 first liquid, and, to make it visible, expose it to 
 the vapour of the second liquor. 
 
 If you wish them.to disappear again, draw. a 
 Sponge or pencil dipped in aqua-fortis over the 
 paper, and if you wish them to re-appear, let the 
 paper be quite dry, then pass the solution of orpi- 
 ment over it. 
 
 : Another.—Dissolve bismuth in nitrous acid, 
 when the writing with the fluid is exposed to the_ 
 vapour of liver of sulphur it will become quite 
 black. ‘ 
 
 * Anoiher.—Dissolve green vitriol and a little ni- 
 tric acid in common water, write with a new pen, 
 next infuse Aleppo galls slightly bruised in water. 
 In two or three days pour the liquor off. By 
 drawing a.camel’s hair pencil dipped in the second 
 solution over the characters written with the first, 
 they will appear a beautiful black. 
 
 Another.—Mix alum with lemon juice; the 
 letters written with this ink are invisible till 
 dipped in water. 
 
 Ink.—Take two gallons of soft water and a 
 pound and a half of bruised galls; infuse them 
 one month, and stir them daily ; then add half a 
 pound each of green copperas, logwood chips, 
 gum arabic, and a gill of brandy, 
 
 Red Ink.—Boil an ounce of fine Brazil wood, 
 (in the chips) and halfa pint of water, and add 
 three drachms of gum arabic, and half an ounce 
 of allum. 
 
 Blue Ink—Dissolve a small quantity of indigo 
 in a little oil of vitriol, and add a sufficient quan- 
 tity of water, in which is dissolved some gum 
 arabic, 
 
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 Yellow Ink,—Dissolve gamboge in a solution 
 of gum. 
 
 Scarlet Ink.—Dissolve vermillion in gum water. 
 
 Permanent Ink for Marking Linen.—Dissolve 
 a drachm of lunar caustic (which may be had at 
 any druggists) in three drachms of distilled rain 
 water; then add about half a drachm of gum 
 arabic. This forms the ink with which you 
 must write with a clean pen upon the linen, pre- 
 pared as follows :—Dissolve half an ounce of sub 
 carbonate of soda in an ounce of water, and add 
 twenty grains of gum arabic. This forms the 
 liquid, which is to be kept in a separate bottle ; 
 well moisten the part of the linen you wish ta 
 write on with this liquid, dry it before a gentle 
 fire, then write as before directed. The writing 
 when exposed to the sun becomes black. 
 
 Permanent Red Ink for marking Linen.—This 
 useful preparation, which was contrived by the 
 late learned and ingenious Dr. Smellie, of Edin- 
 burgh, who was originally a printer in that city, 
 may be used either with types, a hair pencil, or 
 with a pen :—take half an ounce of vermillion, 
 and a drachm of salt of steel; let them be levi- 
 gated with linseed oil to the thickness or limpi- 
 dity required for the occasion. This has not 
 only a very good appearance, but will be found 
 to resist the effects of acids as well as all alkaline 
 leys. It may be made of other colours, by sub- 
 stituting the proper articles instead of vermillion,. 
 
 Ink for printing on linen with types.—Dis- 
 solve one drachm of asphaltum in four drachms 
 of oil of turpentine, then add lamp black or black 
 lead, in fine powder, in sufficient quantity to ren- 
 der ‘the ink of a proper consistence for printing 
 with types. 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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 To ‘make mock Indian ihk.—Dissolve six parts 
 of isinglass in twice its weight of boiling water, 
 one part of liquorice in two parts of boiling “wa- 
 ter, mix both together while warm, then incor- 
 porate by little at atime, on a stone with a spa- 
 tula, one part of the finest ivory black. When 
 the mixture has been perfectly made, heat it ina 
 water bath till the water is evaporated; it will 
 then form a paste ; any form may be given it by 
 moulding it as usual, 
 
 ' White Ink for writing on black paper.—Hav- 
 ing carefully washed sume egg-shells, remove 
 the internal skin, and grind them on a piece of 
 porphyry. Then put the powder in a small ves- 
 sel of pure water, and when settled at the bottom 
 draw off-the water, and dry the. powder in the 
 sun. This powder must be preserved in a bottle ; 
 when you want to use it, put a small quantity of 
 gum ammoniac into distilled vinegar, and leave it 
 to dissolve during the night. Next morning the 
 solution will appear white; ‘and if you strain’ it 
 through a linen cloth, and add to it the powder 
 of egg-shells, you will obtain a very white ink. 
 
 - To make old Writing legille.—Take six bruised 
 galls, and put them toa pint of strong white’ 
 Wine ; stand itin the sun forty-eight hours ; dipa 
 brush into it and wash the writing, and, by the: 
 colour, you will discover whether your mixture 
 is strong enough of the galls. 
 
 ‘Never-yielding Cement.—Cal¢ine oyster-shells, 
 pound and sift them through a sieve, and grind’ 
 them ona flat smooth stone with a muller till 
 they are reduced to the finest powder, then take 
 the whites of several eggs according to the quan- 
 tity of powder, form the whole into a paste, 
 With it join the pieces of china or glass, and press 
 them together for six or eight minutes. This ce~ 
 
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 ment will stand both heat and water, and will 
 never give way, even if the article should fall to 
 the grounds . 
 
 To make Phosphorus-Match Bottles.—Nothing 
 more is necessary for this purpose than to drop 
 small pieces of phosphorus into a common vial, 
 heat it till it melts, and then turn the bottle round 
 that it may adhere to the sides. The vial should 
 be closely corked, and, when used, a common 
 brimstone match is to be introduced and rubbed 
 against the side of the vial; take it out instantly, 
 cork the bottle, and if the match does not 
 ignite quiekly, rub it briskly on a smooth bir of 
 cork, The vial that should be used ought to be 
 shallow, such a one as is generally used for hold- 
 ing hair oil is well adapted for the purpose. A 
 tin case should be made that will hold the bottle 
 and a small piece of cork, with a vacancy for the 
 matches. 
 
 Water-Gilding upon WSilver.—Take copper 
 flakes, on which pour strong vinegar; add alum 
 and salt in equal quantities ; set them on a fire, 
 and when the vinegar is boiled tili it becomes one- 
 fourth part of its original quantity, throw into it 
 the metal you intend to gild, and it will assume a 
 copper colour. Continue boiling it and it will 
 change to a fine gold colour. 
 
 Fulminating Silver.—Put into a small-necked 
 bottle, resting on a little sand, one part of fine 
 silver filings and three parts of aqua-regious (ni- 
 tre-muriatic acid). When the silver is dissolved, 
 pour the solution into a glass, add five times the 
 guantity of water, then take spirit of salammo- 
 niac, and pour it into the solution drop by drop, 
 until the silver is entirely precipitated to the bot- 
 tom of the glass ; decant the liquor that swims at 
 the top, and having washed it several times in 
 
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 warm waters, dry it and place it on paper capable 
 
 of absorbing the moisture. Ifa grain of this pow- 
 
 der put into a spoon, (it should be an iron one) 
 be exposed to the flame of a candle, it will ex- 
 plode with aloud report. The crackers are made 
 with this powder, a small quantity being placed 
 
 in a bit of paper with a pea and a bit of sand 
 
 twisted up, 
 
 The art of Bronzing.—Bronzing is that pro- 
 cess by which figures of plaster of Paris, wood, 
 é&c., are made to have the appearance of copper 
 or brass. It is as follows :—Dissolve copper fil- 
 ings in aqua-fortis ; when the copper has impreg- 
 nated the acid, pour off the solution, and put into 
 it some pieces of iron filings. The effect of this 
 will be to sink the powder to the bottom of the 
 acid, Pour off the liquor, and wash the powder 
 in successive quantities of fresh water. When 
 the powder is dry, it is to be rubbed on the figure 
 with a soft brush or piece of leather ; but observe 
 that previously to the application of the bronze 
 powder, a sort of green is to be laid on the 
 figure ; and if you wish the powder to adhere 
 stronger, mix it with gum water, lay it on like 
 paint, or previously trace the parts to be bronzed 
 with gold size, and when nearly dry, rub the 
 powder over it. 
 
 To give silver the eolour of gold,—Dissalve in 
 common aqua-fortis as much silver as you please : 
 
 to eight ounces of silver take four ounces of hep- 
 
 atic aloes, six ounces of turmeric, two ounces of 
 prepared tutty, that has been several times 
 quenched in urine. Put these to the solution of 
 the silver, they will dissolve, but rise up in the 
 glass like a sponge ; the glass must therefore be 
 large to prevent running over, then draw it off, 
 and you will have ten ounces of silver as yellow 
 as gold. 
 
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 To take rust out of steel.—Sweet oil must be 
 well rubbed on it, and in forty-eight hours use 
 unslacked lime powdered very fine, rub it till = 
 rust disappears. 
 
 A liquor to remove spots, &c.—Dissolve two 
 ounces of pearl ash in a quart of spring water, to 
 which add two lemons cut into small piecés’; 
 mix this well, and keep it in a warm state two 
 days, by placing it near the fire ; strain itoff, and 
 keep it in a bottle for use. To use it, pour a 
 little upon the part, and when it disappears, wash 
 the part in cold water. This is a useful article 
 to remove pitch, grease, &c. F 
 
 To stain Leather Gloves.—Those pleasing hues 
 of yellow, brown, or tan colour, are readily im- 
 parted to leather gloves, by this simple process : 
 steep saffron in boiling hot water for twelve 
 hours, then,. having sewed up the tops of the 
 gloves to prevent the dye from staining . the 
 insides, wet them over with a sponge dipped in 
 the liquid. The quantity of saffron, as well as 
 of water, depends on how much dye may be 
 wanted, and their relative proportions on the 
 depth of colour required, A common tea cup 
 will contain sufficient in quantity for a single 
 pair of gloves. 
 
 Portable Glue.—Take half a pound of fine 
 glue, boil and strain it clear, then boil two 
 ounces of isinglass, put it in a double glue-pot 
 
 ith- four ounces of brown sugar, and boil it 
 pretty thick; pour it into plates; when cold, 
 cut them into small pieces, and dry them. “This 
 is an excellent cement for paper, as it instantly 
 dissolves in warm water, and fastens ho paper 
 very firmly, aa 
 
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 Chemical Soap.—Take about an ounce of Ful- 
 -ler’s earth crumbled into powder, moisten.it with 
 a little spirit of turpentine, then take half an 
 
 cunce of salt of tartar and an ounce of the best 
 
 pot-ash, and work the whole into a paste with a 
 little soft soap. Form it into squares, and they 
 ‘will be fit for use. 
 Directions.—Moisten the spots of grease, and 
 -with a little water rub the soap weil on it till it 
 Jathers, persevere in this for a short time until 
 the spot disappears, then rince the sloth with 
 clear water, 
 . N.B.. This soap is precisely the same as sold 
 in the streets of London. 
 
 _ Windsor Soap.—Cut some new white soap into 
 thin slices, melt it over a slow fire, and scent it 
 with oil of carraway ; when perfectly dissolved, 
 pour it.into a mould and let it remain a week, then 
 cut it into such sized squares as you may require, 
 
 _ Soft Pomatum.—Melt in a water bath half a 
 pound of the best lard, take it off the fire, and add 
 half a pint of rose water, stir it continually witha 
 clean piece of wood or ivory, made in the form of 
 a spatula or knife, until it-is cold, then drain off 
 the superfluous water that swims on the surface, 
 add a few drops of the otto of roses, or any other 
 scent you please. In order to prevent its turning 
 rancid, add a table spoonful of spirits of wine. 
 
 -. Hard Pomatum.—Melt in a water bath a 
 quarter of a pound of lard, quarter of a pound of 
 mutton suet, and one ounce of white wax, take it 
 off the fire, adda little spirits of wine, and for 
 scent, otto of roses, or any other you choose. Stir 
 it continually till nearly cold, turn it into moulds; 
 when cold take them out, and put paper round 
 them. 
 
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 making preparations in as plaina method as possi- 
 ble, it perhaps may be necessary to inform my 
 readers of the simplest method of making a water 
 bath. I do it more readily as the numerous 
 receipts for ointments, &c. will require its use. - 
 
 Geta glazed earthen pot capable of holding two 
 quarts, take a good sized sauce-pan, or, if it can 
 be had, a large sized stew or preserve pan would 
 be preferable, half fill it with water, and place the 
 earthen pot (which holds the ingredients) in it, 
 which forms at once a water bath ; nothing more 
 is required than placing it over the fire, and the 
 heat of the water boiling melts whatever may be 
 placed in the earthen pot, 
 
 Eau de Luce—Is a kind of liquid volatile soap, 
 of a strong pungent smell, and is prepared as fol- 
 lows :—'fen or twelve grains of white soap are 
 dissolved in four ounces of rectified spirits of wine, 
 after which the solution is strained ; a drachm-of 
 rectified oil of amber is then added, and the whole 
 filtered. With this solution mix, in a crystal 
 glass bottle, such a proportion of the strongest 
 volatile spirits of salammoniac as will, when 
 sufficiently shaken produce a beautiful milk-white 
 liquid, If akind of cream should settle on the 
 surface, add a small quantity of the solution of 
 soap. Those who may wish to have this liquor 
 perfumed may employ lavender or Hungary in- 
 stead of spirits of wine. eet 
 
 Pomad Divin.—Clear a pound and a half of 
 beef marrow from the strings and bones, put it 
 into an earthen pan or vessel of water fresh from 
 the spring, and change the water night and morn- 
 ing for ten days, then steep it in rose-water twenty= 
 four hours, and drain it in a cloth till quite dry. 
 Take an ounce each of storax, gum benjamin, 
 cypress powder, half an ounce of cinnamon, two 
 drachms of cloves, and two drachms of nutmegs, 
 

 
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 all finely powdered, and mix them with the mar- 
 row before prepared. Put allthe ingredients into 
 a pewter pot that holds three pints; make a paste 
 of white of egg and flour, lay it upon a piece of 
 rag, and over it another piece of linen. With this 
 cover the top of the pot very close that none of 
 the steam may be evaporated ; put the pot into 
 a larger Copper pot with water, taking care to 
 keep it-steady, that the water may not reach to 
 the covering of the inner-pot. As the water 
 shrinks, constantly add more, boiling hot; it 
 must boil four hours without ceasing. 
 
 When the steam has ceased to rise, uncover 
 and strain the ointment through a linen cloth into 
 small pots, and cover these up close with bladder 
 and paper as soon as cold, Silver knives and spa- 
 tula should be used, as those of other materials 
 absorb a part of the odours, 
 
 To make old Gold uppear like new.—Dissolve 
 salammoniac in urine, boil the article in it, and 
 it will have the desired effect. 
 
 Gold Lacquer.—Take fine sulphur and pulvarise 
 
 it, then boil some stale spring water, pour it hot. 
 
 upon the powder and stir it well together, boil it, 
 and pour into it an ounce of dragon’s blood, after 
 it is well boiled, take it off and filter it through a 
 fine cloth, pour this water into a mattass (a che- 
 mical vessel) place in the liquor what you wish to 
 colour or lacquer and boil it, and it will be a 
 beautiful gold colour. 
 
 Another.—Take hepaticaloes, nitre and Roman 
 vitriol, of each equal quantities, and distil them 
 with water in an alembic, till all the spirits are 
 extracted, it will at last yield a yellowish water, 
 which will tinge any sort of metal a gold colour. 
 
 To clean Silver Plate.—Dissolve alum in 3 
 
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 strong ley, scum it carefully, and mix it up with 
 
 soap, and —_ your silver with it, using a linen 
 rag. 
 
 To render Boots ssi Shoes snow and waters 
 pron, —Dissolve a little bees’ wax and mutton 
 Suet in a pipkin, then slightly rub it over the 
 shoes and the stitches, which will repel the wet, 
 and not in the least prevent the hese ¥ ao 
 pl the usual) effect. 
 
 To produce fire by the mixture of two cold 
 liquids —Take half a pound of pure dry nitre, in 
 powder, put it in a retort that is quite dry; and 
 distilling the mixture in a moderate sand heat, it 
 will produce a liquor like a yellowish fume; this 
 when caught ina dry receiver, is Glauber’s spirits 
 of nitre; probably the preparation under that 
 name tnay be obtained at the chemist’s, which 
 
 will of course save time and trouble. ee 
 
 -Youtben put a drachm of distilled oil of cloves; 
 turpentine, or carraways in a glass vessel, and, if 
 you add an equal quantity, or rather more of | the 
 above spirits, though beth are in themselves per- 
 fectly cold, yet, in mixing them together, a great 
 flame will arise and destroy them both, ee 3 
 ony a little resinous matter at the bottom, 
 
 To make a ring suspend ly a thread, after wh 
 
 \ thread has been burned.—Soak a piece of thread in 
 
 urine, or common salt and water. Tieit toa ring 
 not larger than a wedding ring. When you apply 
 the flame of a candle to it, it will burn to ie 
 but yet sustain the ring. ‘ 
 
 To melt Iron in a moment and make it run into 
 drops.—Heat a piece of iron thoroughly, and then 
 apply it to a roll of sulphur, the iron will imme- 
 diately run into drops, This experiment should 
 be performed over a bason of water, in which the 
 drops that fall down will be cooled, 
 
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 _ Lead Tree.—To a piece of zinc fasten a wire 
 twisted in the form of the worm of a still, introe 
 duce it into the bottle, suspended to the cork. 
 Let the bottle be filled with spring water, with a 
 small quantity of sugar of lead added. Ina few 
 days the tree will begin to grow, and produce a 
 most beautiful effect. 
 
 To make beautiful transparent colour water.— 
 The following liquors which are coloured, being 
 mixed, produce colours from theirown. ‘The yel- 
 low tincture of roses, when mixed, produces a 
 green. Blue tincture of violets and brown spirits 
 of sulphur, produce acrimson. Red tincture of 
 roses, and brown spirits of hartshorn, make a blue. 
 Blue tincture of violets, and blue solution of cop- 
 per, give a violet colour. Blue tincture of cyanus 
 and blue spirit of salammoniac coloured, make a 
 green. Blue solution of Hungarian vitriol, and 
 red tincture of roses, make black; and blue 
 tincture of cyanus and green solution of copper 
 produces red. 
 
 To soften Horn.—To one pound of wood ashes 
 add two pounds of quick lime, put them into a 
 quart of water, let the whole boil till reduced to 
 one-third, then dip a feather in, and if on drawing 
 it out the plume should come off, it is a proof 
 that it is boiled enough ; when it is settled filter 
 it off, and in the liquor thus strained put shavings 
 of horn. Let them soak three days, and first 
 anointing your hands with oil, work the whole 
 inte a mass and print or mould it into any shape 
 you please. 
 
 To take a plaster of Paris cust from a person's 
 face.—The person must lie on his back, and his 
 hair to be tied behind, and in each nostril put a 
 conical piece of paper, open at each end to allow 
 for breathing, The face is to be lightly oiled 
 
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 ever, and the plaster prepared, it is to be poured 
 over the face (taking particular care that the eyes 
 are shut) till it is a quarter of an inch thick, 
 Thus a mould is formed, from which a second 
 cast is to be taken, that will furnish casts exactly 
 like the original. 
 
 Modelling.—The slcdeat and cheap shimney 
 ornaments; mostly manufactured by oriental sea= 
 men here in London, are formed of rice flour cast 
 into moulds, shaped with tools while plastic. 
 
 An elegant cement may also be made from rice 
 flour, which is at present used for that purpose in 
 Chinaand Japan, Mix the flour with cold water,’ 
 and gently simmer over the fire; when it readily 
 forms a delicate and durable cement, not only an- 
 swering all the purposes of common paste, but is 
 admirably adapted for joining together paper, 
 card, &c. in forming the various beautiful and 
 tasteful ornaments which afford somuch ag 
 ment and amusement to. the ladies. 
 
 When made of the consistence of plastic clay, 
 models, busts, basso relievos, &c, may be form- 
 ed 5 and the articles, when dry, are susceptible of 
 a high polish, and are very durable, 
 
 Cure for Sx.oky Chimnies,—Inflate a large ox’ 
 bladder with air, and tie it by the neck to the mid-’ 
 dle of a stick, which place across the inside of the 
 chimney, about two feet from the top, or at the 
 foot of the chimney-pot. The buoyancy of theair’ 
 keeps the bladder continually in a circular motion, * 
 and thereby prevents the rush of air into the tun- 
 nel from descending so low as the fire-place. 
 
 “To clean Oil Paintings.—Oil paintings free 
 quently become soiled with smoke or dirt, when. 
 they must be treated with great care; dissolve a 
 small quantity of salt in some stale urine, dip a 
 woollen cloth in the mixture, and rub the paint-/ 
 
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 ings over with it till they are clean, then wash 
 them with a sponge and clean water, dry them 
 gradually, and rub them over with a clean cloth. 
 Should the dirt be not easily moved by the above 
 preparation, add a small quantity of soft soap; be 
 very careful not to rub the painting too hard. 
 
 
 
 To vurnish drawings or card-work,—Boil some 
 parchment in clear water in a glazed pipkin, till 
 it becomes a fine clear size, strain, and keep it for 
 use ; give your work two coats, observing to do it 
 quickly and lightly ; when dry apply your varnish; 
 
 
 
 Blackman’s cetebrated oil coloured cakes for 
 artists.—The following is the process, as described: 
 in the transactions of the Society of Arts.—Take 
 four cunces of gum mastich, and a pint of spirits 
 of turpentine; mix them together ina bottle, stir- 
 ring them often till the mastich be dissolved. 
 Where haste is required, some heat may be ap- 
 plied, but the solution is better when made eold. 
 Let the colours be the best you can get; taking 
 care that, by washing, &c. they are brought to the 
 greatest degree of fuenets. ‘When the colours are 
 dry, grind them on a hard close stone, for which’ 
 purpose porphyry is best, in spirits of turpentine, 
 adding a small quantity of the mastich varnish. 
 Let the colours so ground become again dry, then 
 prepare, in the following manner, the composition 
 for forming them into cakes ; procure some of the 
 
 _ purest spermaceti, melt it in a clean earthen vessel 
 over a gentle fire, and when fluid adding one-third 
 its weight of poppy oil—work the whole well 
 togcther.. These things being in readiness, place 
 over a frame, or support, the stone on which the. 
 colours were ground, with a charcoal fire to warm 
 it. This being done, grind the colour fine witha | 
 muller on. the warm stone, after which, adding‘a 
 sufficient quantity of poppy oil and spermaceti, 
 work the whole together with a muller to the | 
 
 
 
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 proper consistence. Lastly, taking a piece of the 
 fit size for the cake intended to be made, roll it 
 into a ball, put it into a mould and press it, and 
 the processis completed. ‘These cakes, on being 
 wanted for use, must be rubbed down in poppy 
 or other oil, or in a mixture of spirits of turpen~ 
 tine and oil, as may suit the convenience or 
 intention of the artist. 
 
 To construct Paper Balloons.—Take several 
 sheets of silk paper, cut them in the shape of a 
 spindle, or, to speak more familiarly, like the 
 coverings of the sections of an orange ; join these 
 pieces together into a spherical or globular body, 
 and border the aperture with a ribbon, leav ing the 
 ends, that you may suspend from them the follow- 
 ing lamp. Construct a small basket of very fine 
 wire, if the balloon is small, and suspend it from 
 the following aperture, so that thesmoke from the 
 flames of a few sheets of paper, wrapped together 
 and dipped in oil, may heat the inside of it, Be- 
 fore you light this paper, suspend the balloon so 
 that it may, in a great measure, be exhausted of 
 air, and as soon as it has been dilated, let it go, 
 together with the wire basket, which will serve 
 as ballast. 
 
 The Fiery Fountain.—If twenty grains of phos- 
 phorus cut very small, and mixed with forty 
 grains of powder of zinc, be put into four drachms 
 of water, and two drachms of concentrated sul- 
 phuric acid be added thereto, bubbles of inflamed 
 phosphorated hydrogen gas will quickly cover the 
 whole surface of the fluid in succession, forming 
 a real fountain of fire. 
 
 To Silver Iron.—Dissolve mercury in marine 
 acid, and dip a piece of iron into it, or rub the 
 solution over the iron, and it-will assume a silvery 
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 A powder whieh cutches fire when exposed to 
 the air,—Put three ounces of rock alum, and one 
 ounce of honey or sugar into a new earthen dish, 
 glazed, and which is capable of standing a strong 
 heat; keep the mixture over the fire, stirring it 
 continually till very dry and hard; then remove 
 it from the fire, and pound it to a coarse powder. 
 
 Put this powder into a long-necked bottle, leaving - 
 part of the vessel empty ; and having placed it in 
 
 a crucible, fill up the crucible with fire sand, and 
 surround it with burning coals When the bottle 
 has been kept at red heat for about seven or eight 
 minutes, and no more vapour issues from it, 
 remove it from the fire, thenstcp it with a piece 
 of cork, and having sufferedic tc cool, preserve 
 the mixture in small bottles wei ejosed. If you 
 unclose one of these bottles, and let fall a few 
 grains of this powder on a bit of paper, or any 
 other very drysubstance, it will first become blue, 
 then brown, and will at fast burn the paper on 
 which it is placed. 
 
 To take owt Mildew from Clothes—-Mix some 
 soft soap with powdered starch, half as much salt, 
 and the juice of a lemon, lay iton the part witha 
 brush; let it lay on the grass day and night till 
 the stain comes out. Iron-moulds may be re- 
 moved by the salt of lemons. Many stains may 
 be removed by dipping the linen in sour butter 
 milk, and then drying it in a hot sun ; wash it in 
 cold water, repeat this three or fourtimes. Stains 
 caused by acids may be removed by tying some 
 pearlash up in the stained part ; scrape some soap 
 in cold soft water, and boil the linen till the staia 
 is gone, 
 
 Lavender Water.—Take a quart of rectified 
 spirits of wine, essential oil of lavender two 
 ounces, essence of ambergris five drachms ; putit 
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 Or, put two pounds of lavender blossoms into 
 half a gallon of water, and set them in a stillover 
 a slow fire, distil it off gently till the water is all 
 exhausted; repeat the process a second time; 
 cork it closely down in bottles, Ath 
 
 Rose Water.—When the roses are in fall bloom 
 pick the leaves carefully off, and to every quart of 
 water put a peck of them; put them in a cold 
 still over a slow fire, and distil gradually, then 
 bottle the water; let it stand in the bottle three 
 days, and then cork it close, 
 
 Milk of Roses—Mix four ounces of the oil of 
 almonds with half a gallon of rose water, and 
 then add forty drops of the oil of tartar. 
 
 Hungary Water.—Put some rosemary flowers 
 into a glass retort, and pour on them as much 
 spirits of wine as the flowers will imbibe; dilute 
 the retort well, and let the fowers stand six days, 
 then distil in a sand heat. 
 
 Honey Water.—To every quart of spirits of 
 wine, put six drachms of essence of ambergris 5 
 pour it into a bottle and shake it well daily. 
 
 \. Saloop.—Boil some -wine, water, sugar, and 
 ‘Jemon peel together; then add the saloop powder 
 gubbed smooth with a little cold water, and boil 
 ‘the whole a few minutes, 
 
 « Sago.—Soak your sago in cold water one hour, 
 ~wash-it-well and pour off the water, add some 
 more, and simmer the whole till the berries are 
 elear; add lemon, wine, spice, and sugaty 4 gra 
 boil the whole up together. 
 
 ware ow Root.—Care must be taken to arate: 
 ‘that which is genuine, mix itin the same manner 
 
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 as you would starch, then add a glass of sherry 
 with sugar and nutmeg to fancy, or a little brandy. 
 
  Topioca Jelly,—_Wash some tapioca in. cold 
 water, and soak it in fresh water six hours, let it 
 simmer in the same water with a bit of lemon- 
 peel, till it becomes clear, then add lemon-juice, 
 wine, and sugar, agreeable to the taste. ; 
 
 ‘The artificial Rainbow.—Opposite a window 
 into which the sun shines direct, suspend a glass 
 
 _ globe filled with clean water, by means of a spring 
 
 that runs overa pulley, so that the sun’s rays may 
 fall on it. Then drawing the globe up, you. will 
 observe, by placing. yourself in a proper situation, 
 a purple colour in the glass; and, by drawing 
 it up gradually highter, the other prismatic co- 
 lours, blue, green, and fed, will successively ap- 
 “pear ; after which the colours will disappear till 
 the globe is raised to about fifty degrees, when 
 ‘they will again appear, but in an inverted order, 
 the red appearing first, and the blue or violet 
 
 last; on raising the globe a little “higher, they 
 | will totally vanish, . i 
 
 ‘ Curious experiment with the Magic Lantern.— 
 The construction of this amusing optical machine 
 is so well known, that to.describe it would be &, 
 superflous, particularly as it can now be pur- 
 ‘chased very reasonably at any of the optician’s ; 
 ‘but as many persons who have a taste for drawing 
 might not be pleased with many designs to be 
 
 _ had at the shops, or might wish to indulge their 
 fancy in a variety Of objects, which, to purchase, 
 
 Sere ee 
 
 would become expensive, we present our readers 
 in the first place with the method of drawing 
 them, which will be succeeded by a plain aged 
 tion of diverting experiments. 
 
 Of Painting the Glasses. You first draw.ona 
 
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 paper, the size of the glass, the subject you mean F 
 to paint ; fasten this at each end of the glass with 
 
 paste, or any cement to prevent it from slipping. 
 Then with some very black paint mixed with 
 varnish, draw, with a fine camel’s hair pencil, 
 very lightly, the outlines sketched on the paper, 
 
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 which are reflected through the glass. Some per- 
 
 sons affirm that these outlines can be traced with _ 
 japan writing ink, and a common. pen with a fine 
 nib; but this, even if it succeeds in making a 
 delicate outline, is likely to be eflaced by dampor 
 wet. It would add to the natural resemblance if 
 the outlines were drawn with a strong tint of each 
 of the natural colours of the object; but in this 
 respect please your own fancy. When the outlines 
 are dry, colour and shade your figures, but ob- 
 serve to temper your colours with strong white 
 varnish. A pleasing effect will be produced, if 
 
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 you leave strong lights in some parts of the dra- — 
 
 pery, &c. without any colours, The best colours 
 for this purpose are transparent ones—opaque or 
 
 mineral colours will not do. The following are 
 
 in most repute :— 
 For pink and crimson 
 Blue ‘ . 
 Green .. “ 
 
 Yellow . . 
 
 Lake or carmine, 
 Prussian blue, 
 Calcined verdigris, 
 or distilled do. 
 Gamboge. 
 
 A liquor that shines in the dark.—Take a bit of | 
 phosphorus about the size of a pea; break it into — 
 small parts, which you are to put into a glass half 
 full of water, and boil it ina small earthen vessel 
 over a moderate fire. Have in readiness a long 
 narrow bottle, with a well fitted glass stopper, and 
 immerse it with its mouth open into boiling water. 
 ‘On taking it out, empty the water, and pour inthe — 
 mixture ina boiling state ; then put in the stop- 
 per and cover it with mastich, to prevent the en- — 
 
 trance of the external air, 
 
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 in the dark for several months without being 
 touched; and if it be shaken in dry warm wea- 
 ther, brilliant flashes will be seen to rise through 
 the middle of the water. 
 
 To melt a piece of money ina walnut shell withe 
 out injuring the shell.—Bend any thin coin and 
 put it into half a walnut shell; place the shell on 
 a little sandto keep itsteady. Fill the shell with 
 a mixture made of three parts of very dry pounded 
 nitre, one part of flowers of sulphur, and a little 
 saw-dust well sifted. If you then set light tothe 
 mixture, you will find, when melted, that the 
 metal will also be melted in the bottom of the 
 shell in form of a button, which will become hard 
 when the burning matter round it is consumed ; 
 the shell will have sustained very little injury. 
 
 Luminous Liquor,—Put a little phosphorus 
 with essence of cloves into a bottle, which must 
 be kept closely stopped. Every time the bottle 
 is unclosed the liquor will appear luminous. This 
 experiment must be in the dark, 
 
 The burnt writing restored.—Cover the outside 
 of a small memorandum book with black paper, 
 and in one of its inside covers make a flap to open 
 secretly, and observe there must be nothing over 
 the flap Lut the black paper that covers the book, 
 Mix soot with black or brown soap, and rub the 
 side of the black paper next the flaps; wipe it 
 clean, so that a white paper pressed against it 
 will not receive any mark. Provide a black lead 
 pencil that will not mark without pressing hard on 
 the paper. Have a small box about the size of a 
 memorandum book, and that opens on both sides, 
 but on one of them by a private method. Givea 
 person the pencil and a slip of thin paper, on 
 which he is to write what he thinks proper; you 
 | present him the book at the same time, that he 
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26 THE RECEIFT BOOK. 
 
 may not write cn the bare board. You tell him 
 to keep what he writes to himself, and direct him 
 to burn it on an iron plate, laid on a chafing dish 
 of coals, and give you the ashes. You then go 
 into another room to fetch your magic box, before 
 described, and take with you the memorandum 
 book. Having previously placed a paper under the 
 flap in the cover of the book, when he presses 
 hard with the pencil to write on his paper, every 
 stroke, by means of the stuff rubbed on the black 
 paper, will appear on that under the flap. You 
 take it out, and put it into one side of the box.— 
 You then return to the other room, and taking a 
 slip of blank paper, you put it into the other side 
 of the box, strewing the ashes of the burnt paper 
 over it. Then shaking the box fora few moments, 
 at the same time turning it dexterously over, you 
 open the other side, and shew the person the 
 paper you first put in, the writing on which he 
 will readily acknowledge to be his- Ifthere bea 
 press or cupboard that. communicates with the 
 next room, you need only put the book in the 
 press, and your assistant willopen it, and put the 
 paper in the box, which you presently after take 
 out and perform the rest of the amusement as 
 before. ‘There may likewise be a flap on the 
 other cover of the book, and you may rub the 
 paper against that with red lead. In. this case 
 you give the person the choice of writing either 
 with a black or red pencil, and present him the 
 proper side of the book accordingly. 
 
 To soften Iron or Steel.—Either of the follow- 
 ing simple methods will make iron or steel as 
 soft as lead :— 
 
 4. Anoint it all over with tallow ; temper it in 
 
 gentle charcoal fire, and Jet it cool of itself. 
 
 2. Take a little clay, cover your iron with ity 
 temper it in a charcoal, fire. 
 
 3. When the iron or steel: is: seaulikt, strew 
 hellebore on it. . 
 
 
 

 
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 4. Quench the iron or steel in the juice of 
 water of common beans, 
 
 To cast Figures in imitation of Ivory.—Make 
 isinglass and strong brandy into a paste, with 
 powdered egg-shells very finely ground. You may 
 give it what colour you please; but cast it warm 
 into your mould, which you previously oil over. 
 Leave the figure in the mould till dry, and you 
 will find on taking it out that it bears a very 
 strong resemblance to ivory. 
 
 To destroy Bugs.—Mix half a pint of spirits of 
 turpentine and half a pint of best rectified spirits 
 of wine in a strong bottle, and add about half an 
 ounce of camphor, which will dissolve in a few 
 minutes. Shake the mixture well together, and 
 with a sponge or brush dipped in it, well wet the 
 bed and furniture where the bugs breed. This 
 will destroy both them and their nits, though they 
 swarm. ‘The dust, however, should be brushed 
 from the bedstead and furniture, to prevent, from 
 carelessness, any stain. If that precaution is at- 
 tended te, there will be no danger of soiling the 
 richest silk or damask, On touching a live bug 
 with only the tip of a pin put into the mixture, 
 the insect will be instantly deprived of life, and 
 should any bugs happen to appear after using the 
 mixture, it will be from not wetting the linen, &c. 
 of the bed, the foldings and linings of the curtains 
 near the rings or the joints, or holes in and about 
 the bed, in which places the vermin nestle and 
 breed; so that those parts being well wetted with 
 mare of the mixture, which dries as fast as it is 
 aad, and pouring it into the joints and holes 
 where the sponge and brush cannot reach, it will 
 never fail totally to destroy them. The smell of 
 this mixture, though powerful, is extremely 
 wholesome, and to many persons very agreeable. 
 It exhales, however, in two or more days Onty 
 
 
 
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 one caution is necessary, but that is important. 
 The mixture must be well shaken when used ; 
 but never applied by candle light, lest the spirits 
 being attracted by the flare of the candle, might 
 cause a conflagration. 
 
 _ Syrup of Ginger—An agreeable and mode- 
 rately aromatic syrup, impregnated with the fla- 
 vour and medicinal virtues of ginger, is thus 
 prepared :—Macerate an ounce and a half of 
 beaten ginger in a quart of boiling water, closely 
 covered up for twenty-four hours, then, straining 
 off the infusion, make it into a syrup by adding 
 at least two parts of fine loaf sugar, dissolved and 
 boiled up in a hot water bath. 
 
 To make Spruce Beer.—This cheap and whole- 
 some liquor is thus made: take of water sixteen 
 gallons and boil the half of it, put the water thus 
 boiled to the reserved cold part, which should be 
 previously put into a barrel or other vessel ; then 
 add sixteen pounds of treacle or molasses, with a 
 few spoonsful of the essence of spruce, stirring the 
 whole together, add half a pint of yeast, and keep 
 it in a temperate situation with the bung-hole 
 open for two days, till fermentation subsides, 
 then close it up, or bottle it off, and it will be fit 
 for drink in a few days. 
 
 _, Superior Bilters.—Take half an ounce of the 
 yolks of fresh eggs, carefully separated from the 
 white, half an ounce of gentian root, one drachm 
 and a half of Seville orange peel, and a pint of 
 boiling water, pour the water hot upon the above | 
 ingredients, and let them steep in it for two 
 hours, then strain them through cap paper ard 
 bottle it for use. 
 
 _  Orangeade or Lemonade.—Press the juice out, 
 then pour boiling water on a part of the peel, and 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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 cover it close, boil some water and sugar to a 
 thin syrup and skim it well; when all are cold, 
 mix the juice, the infusion, and the syrup, and 
 strain the whole. 
 
 Mutled Ale.—Boil a quart of good ale with 
 some nutmeg, beat up six eggs and mix them 
 with a little cold ale, then pour the hot ale to it, 
 and return it several times to prevent it curdling ; 
 warm, and stir it sufficiently thick, add a piece 
 of butter ora glass of brandy, and serve it with 
 dry toast, 
 
 To make improved wholesome Purl.—Take Ro- 
 man wormwood two dozen, gentian root six 
 pounds, calamus aromaticus (or the sweet flag 
 root) two pounds, a pound or two of the galien 
 gaie root, horse radish one bunch, orange-peel 
 dried, and juniper berries each two pounds, seeds 
 or kernels of Seville oranges dried two pounds. 
 These being cut and bruised, put them into a 
 clean butt, and start mild brown beer upon them, 
 so as to fill up the vessel about the beginning of 
 November, and let it stand till the next season ; 
 make it thus annually, 
 
 Persian art of making Yeast with Pease.—The 
 preservation of yeast having been a subject of 
 much research in Europe, the following parti- 
 culars may, perhaps, be entitled to attention. On 
 the coast of Persia bread was made in the English 
 manner of good wheat flour, and with the yeast 
 generally used there, which is thus prepared :— 
 Take a tea cup or wine glass full of split or bruised 
 pease, pour on them a pint of boiling water, and 
 set the whole in a vessel all night on the hearth 
 or in any warm place; this will be a good yeast, 
 and have a froth on its top next mornings In 
 this cold climate, especially at a cold season, it 
 should stand longer to ferment, perhaps twenty- 
 
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 four or forty-eight hours, and the quantity of 
 pease should be larger. Experience must deter- 
 mine this: the above quantity made as much 
 bread as a half quartern loaf, the quality of which 
 was very good and light. 
 
 Useful properties of Charcoal.—All sorts of 
 glass vessels and other utensils may be purified 
 from long retained smells of every kind in the 
 easiest and most perfect manner, by rincing them 
 out with charcoal powder, after the grossest im-= 
 purities have been scoured off with sand and pot- 
 ash. Rubbing the teeth and washing out the. 
 mouth with charcoal ‘powder will render the 
 teeth beautifully white, and the breath perfectly 
 sweet, where an offensive breath has been owing 
 to a scorbutic disposition of the gums, Putrid 
 water is immediately deprived of its smell by 
 charcoal. 
 
 To make Starch.—Peel and grate a quantity of 
 potatoes, put the pulp into a coarse cloth between 
 boards, and press it into a dry cake; the juice 
 thus pressed out of the potatoes must be mixed 
 with an equal quantity of water, and in an hour’s 
 time it will deposit a fine sediment. 
 
 A cement to join broken Glass—Take one. 
 ounce of isinglass, steep it in half a pint of spirits 
 of wine for twenty-four hours, then let it dissolve. 
 overt a slow fire (always keeping it closely covered, 
 or the spirit will evaporate), then take six cloves 
 of garlic, bruise them well in a mortar, put it in 
 a linen cloth, and squeeze the juice into the 
 isinglass, mix it well together, and keep it for 
 use, it being excellent to join glass, ornaments, 
 &e. &c. 
 
 Cephelic Snuff.—Take half an ounce each of 
 rosemary, sage, lilies of the valley, and the tops 
 
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 of sweet marjoram, with a drachm each of asara- 
 bacca root, lavender flowers and nutmeg. Reduce 
 the whole to a fine powder, and take it like 
 common snuff, as offen as may be necessary for 
 the relief of the head, &c. There are many more 
 powerful snuffs for medicinal purposes, but few 
 so useful, agreeable, and innocent, to be used at 
 pleasure. 
 
 The art of making Briliaws incomparatle 
 liquid for changing the colour of the hair.—This 
 is said to be the best liquid in the world for mak- 
 ing the hair curl, as well as for changing that 
 which is disagreeably sandy to a pleasant colour ; 
 the method of preparing it is as follows :—Take 
 two ounces of scrapings of lead, an ounce of 
 hartshorn shavings, a quarter of an ounce of 
 litharge of gold, anda drachm of camphor, put 
 them into a pint of soft water, and let them boil 
 for halfan hour. When cold and fine, pour the 
 diquid off and add a drachm each of sugar of 
 lead and rosemary flowers. Boil these up toge- 
 ther, pour off the liquid, and, when fine, it is fit 
 for use. 
 
 Admirable wash for the Hair, said to thicken 
 tts growth better than Bear’s Grease.—Take two 
 ounces each of rosemary, maidenhair, southern- 
 wood, myrtle-berries, and hazel-bark, and burn 
 them to ashes on a clean hearth or in an oven; 
 with these ashes make a strong ley, with which 
 wash the hair at the roots every day, and kcep it 
 cut short; this wash destroys the worm at the 
 root, and proves far more effectual than bear’s 
 grease or pomatum, which rather feed than de- 
 stroy that unsuspected enemy to the human hair. 
 
 Easy method of restoring and rendering legille 
 damaged Parchment Deeds, &c.—When a parch- 
 ment deed becomes obliterated and discoloured by 
 
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 mioisture, on simply i immersing it in spring water * 
 
 for about a minute, then pressing it between 
 sheets of blotting paper to prevent it shrivelling 
 up while getting dry, it will generally, when it 
 has nearly approached that state, be found to have 
 resumed its original colour, and appear perfectly 
 plain ; but should the characters not prove legible 
 on its becoming moderately dry, the operation 
 must be repeated as often as it may be necessary. 
 The following mixture, it is asserted, will make 
 writing which has been obliterated, faded, or sunk, 
 either on paper or parchment, immediately legic 
 ble :— Bruise two or three nutgalls, infuse them 
 in half a pint of wine, and let the bottle stand for 
 two days in the sun, or in any other equally warm 
 situation ; then wash the part of the parchment or 
 paper which is wanted to have the writing reco- 
 vered, by means of a sponge or soft brush dipped 
 in the vinous infusion, and the purpose will be 
 immediately answered if it be sufficiently strong, 
 Should that not happen, its powers must be in- 
 creased by an additional quantity of galls; and, 
 perhaps, in some cases stronger heat and even 
 stronger wine may also be necessary 
 
 Ginger Drops—These drops may be made in 
 the following manner :—Beat, in a marble mor- 
 tar, an ounce of the best candied orange peel, with 
 a little loaf sugar, and, when it becomes asmooth 
 paste, add halfa pound of loaf sugar, and half an 
 ounce of the best powdered ginger. Then, with 
 a little water to dissolve the sugar, boil the whole 
 to acandy and drop it off from the point of a 
 knife on writing paper, in small round drops. 
 They will come off the paper. When quite cold 
 are to be keptin papered boxes, Among the other 
 good qualities of ginger, it is said to be beneficial 
 in dimness of sight, &c. 
 
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 drops are made by sifting finely-powdered loaf 
 sugar into lemon juice, sufficient to make it of a 
 proper consistence ; then, gently drying it over 
 the fire fora few minutes, and stirring’ in about 
 fifteen drops of oil of peppermint for each ounce 
 ofsugar, dropping them from the point of a knife 
 like the ginger drops in the preceding article: 
 some, instead of using lemon juice, or any heat, 
 merely mix up the sugar and oil of peppermint 
 with whites of eggs, beating the whole well toge- 
 ther, dropping it on white paper, and drying the 
 drops gradually before the fire at a distance. 
 
 Art of making Barley Sugar.—Put some com- 
 mon or clarified syrup into a saucepan witha 
 spout, such as for melting butter, if little is want- 
 ing to be made, and boil it till it comes toa thick- 
 ish consistence, carefully taking off whatever 
 scum may: rise; and, having prepared a marble 
 stone either with butter or oil, just sufficiently to 
 prevent sticking, pour the syrup gently along the 
 marble, in long sticks of whatever thickness may 
 be desired ; twist it, while hot, at each end, and 
 let it remain till coid, when it will be fit for im- 
 mediate use. The rasped rind of lemon boiled 
 out of the syrup gives a very agreeable flavour to 
 barley sugar, and, indeed, the best are so prepared. 
 So are barley sugar drops, 
 
 Best method of making Coffee.—It is observed 
 by Mr. Eton, in his Survey of the Turkish Em- 
 pire, that coffee, to be good, must either be ground 
 to an almost impalpable powder, or pounded, as 
 is done by the Turks, in an iron mortar with a 
 heavy pestile ; they put the coffee quite dry into 
 the pot over a slow fire, shaking it often until it 
 gets warm and begins to send forth a fragrant 
 smell ; then from another coffee-pot they pour on 
 it the boiling water, or water in which the grouts 
 of the last made coffee had been boijed, and set to 
 
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 become clear, holding it over the fire till there is 
 a white scum, without suffering it ‘to boil, but 
 only gently to rise. It is then poured from one 
 pot into the other, and thus soon becomes clear; 
 they often drink it quite thick. Some, to make 
 it clear sooner, either put in a spoonful of cold 
 water, or lay a cloth dipped in cold water on the 
 top of the pot. 
 
 English modes of making. Coffee.—One of the 
 best methods of preparing coffee in England is by 
 making four coffee cups, or about a pint, withan 
 ounce of coffee, pouring on it that quantity of 
 
 water, boiling it up for five or six minutes, pour- ~ 
 
 ing out and returning a little of the coffee two or 
 three times, then putting in two or three small 
 shreds of isinglass dissolved in a cupful of boil- 
 ing water, boiling the whole five minutes longer, 
 and keeping the coffee-pot close to the fire ten 
 minutes more, to clear: some put in, with the 
 coffee, a small bit of vanilla, which gives a fine 
 flavour, but it must not be suffered to predomi- 
 nate; thus made, though it be too weak, it is 
 pleasant. The strength might be sufficiently 
 augmented by pounding the coffee as stated 
 above, and adopting the same method with re- 
 spect to the coffee grouts. Good cream, too, 
 instead of very middling milk, makes a vast dif- 
 ference in drinking coffee, however prepared; the 
 ‘Sugar, if pure, seems of less importance, though 
 some insist that Liston sugar is the best, while 
 ‘Many others insist on the appecianity of sree 
 candy powdered. 
 
 Inebriation.—When men arte reduced to this 
 degraded state by the inordinate use of fermented 
 ‘liquors, they may be restored by administering a 
 tea-spoonful of spirits of hartshorn in a glass. of 
 water, © Smelling at the spirits dissipates the 
 fumes arising from the same beastly cause. 
 
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 The Lamp Chronometer.—It represents a 
 chamber-lamp, A, consisting of a cylindrical ves- 
 sel made of tin, in the shape of a candle, and is to 
 be filled with oil. This vessel should be about 
 three inches high, and one inch diameter, placed 
 in a stand B. The whole apparatus of lamp and 
 stand can be purchased, ready made, at any tin 
 shop in London. ‘To the stand B 1s fixed the 
 handle C, which supports the frame D, about 
 twelve inches high, and four inches wide. This 
 frame is to be covered with oiled paper, and 
 divided into twelve parts by horizontal lines, at 
 the end of which are written the numbers for the 
 
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 hours one to twelve, and between the horizontal 
 lines are diagonals, divided into halves, quarters, 
 &c. On the handle C,- and close to the glass, is 
 fixed the stile or Hand, E. Now, as the distance 
 of the stile from the flame of the lamp is only 
 half an inch, then, if the distance of the frame 
 from the stile be six inches, while the float thar 
 contains the light descends by the decrease of the 
 oil one inch, the shadow of the stile on the frame 
 will descend twelve inches, being its whole length, 
 and show, by its own progression, the regular 
 
 increase of the hours, with their several divisions. 
 
 You must be careful always to burn the same oil, 
 which may be the’best, and the wick must never 
 vary in size; if these precautions are not attended 
 to, the dial never can be accurate, 
 
 Patent Potatoe Composition, 10 Le used instead 
 ‘af Yeast.—To make a gallon of this composition, 
 boil eight pounds of potatoes as for eating; bruise 
 them smooth, and mix with them, while warm, 
 two ounces of honey or any other sweet, and a 
 quart of yeast. For making bread, mix three pints 
 of the above composition with a bushel of flour, 
 using warm water in making the bread. The 
 water to be warmer in winter than summer, and 
 the composition to be used in a few hours after it 
 is made; and, as soon as the sponge, or the mix- 
 ture of the composition with the flour, begins to 
 full the first time, the bread should be made and 
 put in the ovem 
 
 Plain directions for the martling of paper ané 
 look edges.We presume that the following ‘in< 
 structions for the marbling of paper, witl be of use 
 to our readers generally. To bookbinders in 
 
 country towns we know they will be invaluable ; 
 
 and they must be serviceable to all others who 
 have occasion to make use of marble paper, and 
 wish to have it cheap. These instructions are 
 
 
 
THE RECEIPT BOOK. 37 
 
 Written from the experience of years employed in * 
 the operations that they describes and they con- 
 
 tain more information relating to the subject than 
 
 is to be obtained from any ‘‘ Schoo! of Arts,” or 
 
 “Encyclopedia” in the kingdom. The first thing : 
 required is a wooden trough made of inch deal, : 
 about one inch and three-fourths in depth, and half 
 an inch in length and breadth larger than the 
 sheets of paper that are to be marbled. This 
 proportion between the size of the trough and 
 paper should always be observed, to prevent waste 
 of colour ; of course, troughs of various sizes will 
 be required. where paper of various sizes is to be 
 marbled. The trough must be water-tight, and 
 the edges of the sides must be sloped or levelled 
 off on the outside, to prevent any drops of colour 
 which may fall on them from running back again 
 and sullying its contents. A skimmer or clearing 
 stick must be provided for each trough ; this isa 
 piece of wood two inches and a half wide, half an 
 inch thick, and as long as the trough it belongs to 
 is wide inside—the use will be explained hereafter. 
 A stone and muller of marble, or some other hard 
 stone, the size according to the quantity of colour 
 required to be ground. Also, a flexible knife for 
 gathering the colour together. A dozen or two 
 of small glazed pipkins to hold colours in; the 
 pots being furnished with brushes made as fol- 
 lows :—Take around stick as thick as your finger, 
 and cut a notch all round one end of it, next, take 
 some bristles, four or five inches long, and place 
 them ‘evenly round the stick at the notched end, 
 letting them project one inch and three-fourths 
 beyond the wood ; cut away the ragged bristles, 
 and tie up the brush firmly with fine cord. The 
 use of the notch round the end of the handle is to 
 make the bristle spread out when firmly tied up, 
 so that the colour may be scattered about more 
 abundantly.’ Rods for drying the paper on when 
 marbled, ate better than lines; they should be 
 
 
 
38 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 
 round, at least the upper side should, .and siden 
 
 an inch and a quarter in breadth and thickness.. 
 Twelve rods 11 feet long will hang 32% quires of 
 
 demy, or 4 quires of foolscap. Colowrs—of these 
 the following assortment ; Red—Vermillion, drop= 
 lake, rose-pink, Venetian red, red ochre. Bisigos 
 Indigo blue, Prussian blue, verditer. Orange— 
 
 Orange lead, orange orpiment. Black—Ivory. 
 
 blue, black. Yel/ow—Dutch pink, yellow ochre, 
 king’s yellow, English pink. With respect to 
 grinding your colours, observe the finer the colours 
 are ground, the better and the cheaper will your: 
 work be, First, your colours should be finely 
 pounded, then mixed with water to the consis- 
 tence of paste, and put in a colour-pot with the 
 knife. From the pot the colour must be taken out 
 a little at a time, and levigated very fine with 
 pure water. Compound colours are made by mix- 
 
 ing the colours mentioned in the foregoing para-. 
 
 graph in certain proportions, The following may 
 be particularised :—To make red colour, mix 
 three parts of rose pink with one of vermillion. A 
 finer red—four parts of rose-pink, two parts of 
 vermillion, and one part of drop-lake; for very fine 
 work use drop-lake alone, but use it sparingly, for. 
 it is a dear article. Yellow—Two parts of Dutch 
 pink, and one part each of king’s yellow and Eng- 
 lish pink. Green—made by mixing blue and 
 yellow. Dark llue—Indigo, which may be made 
 lighter by the addition of verditer. Orange brown 
 
 —two parts of Venetian red, and one part of or-. 
 dnge lead. Fine orange —Put some yellow ochre. 
 
 in a ladle overa fire, and keep it there till it assumes 
 a dark red colour. ‘Take of this red ochre, finely 
 pounded, and of Venetian red equal quantities, and 
 add a little orange orpiment or rose-pink mixed 
 together. Umber colowr—equal quantities of 
 
 Venetian red and ivory black. Cinnemon colour—. 
 
 Venetian red witha little Prussian blue. All other 
 colours can be made by mixing together those 
 
 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 89 
 
 already described, as experience will dictate. In 
 addition to the articles already mentioned, obtain 
 the following—a bottle of ox-gall, a bottle of good 
 oil of turpentine, and some pure water. Suppos- 
 ing you to be provided with the materials for 
 marbling, the next thing is to shew you hew to 
 set about the operation. In the first place, the 
 trough already described must be filled, at least to 
 the eighth of the top, with a solution of gum tra- 
 gacanth, which is to be prepared as follows :—= 
 gum of pale white, semi-transparent appearance, 
 (gum ofa pure white or of a brownish colour is 
 often bad) is to be suaked in water for at least forty- 
 eight hours, in the proportion of half a pound toa 
 gallon and a half; this should make a gum water 
 as thick as that used in miniature painting. Pass 
 this solution through a hair sieve or linen cloth, 
 and pour it intothe trough. In all cases where 
 the trough is to be used, the solution should be 
 Stirred with a few quills, and the surface of it 
 cleared from film, &c. by the skimmer as described 
 before. Colours intended to represent veins are 
 made by adding a small quantity of gall to the 
 colours, and stirring each up well with a brush, 
 in order that they may be properly mixed. Pre- 
 vious to use, those mixtures of colourand gall are 
 to be thinned with water to the consistence of 
 cieam, and are to be well stirred up. 
 
 Singular effect of heat.—If a piece of tinfoil be 
 wrapped in a piece of platinum foil of the same 
 size, and exposed on charcoal to the action of the 
 blow-pipe, the union of the two metals is indicated 
 by a rapid whistling, and by an intense brilliancy 
 in the light which is emitted, If the globule thus 
 melted is allowed to drop in a basin of water, it 
 remains for some time red-hot at the bottom ; and 
 such is the intensity of the heat, that it melts and 
 carries off the glaze of the basin from the part on 
 which it happens to fall. 
 
 
 
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 Mode of imitating Seed Pearls.—Cut silver lace 
 into pieces of various lengths, put them into a 
 small crucible with pounded charcoal, one stratum 
 
 above another ; give it a heat sufficient to melt. 
 
 the silver, which will be found, on cooling, fused 
 into round grains resembling pearls. rn 
 
 Imitation of Mother-of-Pearl.—The imitation 
 of mother-of-pearl is produced by a preparation of 
 sea-shells, reduced to powder and formed into a 
 paste. The Chinese is said to form their imita- 
 tions of mother-of-pearl from rice glue, which is 
 nothing more than rice ground to an impalpable 
 powder, intimately mixed with cold water, and 
 then gently boiled; a paste is thus produced 
 which may be formed into moulds or figures. 
 
 Method of cleaning Playing Cards.—Nothing 
 soils sooner than playing cards, and they are an 
 expensive article to replace, owing to the high 
 duty they pay. The following method will be 
 found to remove every thing from them but a 
 Stain, and will give the dirtiest pack possibie the 
 appearance of being new. Rub the soiled card 
 with a pieceof flannel and good fresh butter until 
 the butter shall have cleaned off all the dirt. So 
 soon as the dirt is removed, wipe off the butter 
 with a clean rag, and to restore the card to its 
 former gloss, rub the surface sharply with a piece 
 of flannel and some flour; cut the edges neatly 
 with a pair of scissors, and the operation is com- 
 pleted. , 
 
 Epsom Salts.—To form the sulphate of magne- 
 sia, commonly known by the name of Epsom 
 salts, take a quantity of common Magnesia, and 
 saturize it with diluted sulphuric acid (oil of vi- 
 triul with water,) filter the solution, and chrys- 
 talize the salt by concentrating the solution, and 
 then allowing it to cool, sh iia 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 41 
 
 To distinguish the solution of Epsom Salts from 
 that of Oxalic Acid.—ist. Taste a single drop of 
 the solution—if it is Epsom salts it is bitter, if 
 ‘oxalic acid extremely sour. 2nd. Pour a little 
 ‘tincture of litmus into the solution, if it isa solu- 
 ‘tion of Epsom salts, the blue colour of the litmus 
 in it will be unchanged—if oxalic acid, the blue 
 will be turned to red. Srd. A few drops of come 
 mon black ink thrown into it, if it is Epsom salts 
 it appears rather purple, if, on the contrary, it is 
 oxalic acid, it will change to a reddish colour. 
 Ath. Oxalic acid, when dropped in water, makes 
 a crackling foise—Epsom salts doesnot. Should 
 the above remarks be attended to, no mistake 
 can possibly occur by taking the poison (oxalic 
 acid) instead of Epsom salts. 
 
 To chrystalize Tin.—After cleansing away every 
 extraneous matter, as dirt or grease, with warm 
 soapy water, rinse your tins in clean water, then 
 after drying it, give ita heat to the temperature of 
 bare sufferance to the hand, and expose it to the 
 vapour of any acid that acts upon tin, or the acid 
 itself may be poured on, or laid on with a brush, 
 the granular crystallization varying according to 
 the strength of the wash, and the heat of your 
 plates. Hence it must be perceived, whatever 
 quantity is required for any particular job of work 
 should be made all at one time ; notwo makings 
 coming away alike, but depending entirely upon 
 accident. Wash 1. Take one part by measure of 
 sulphuric acid, and dilute it with five times as 
 much water. 2. Take of nitric acid and water 
 equa! quantities, and keep the two mixtures sepa- 
 rate. Then take of the first, ten parts, and one 
 part of the second, mix, and apply the same with 
 a pencil or sponge to the surface of the heated tin, 
 repeating the same several times, until the mate- 
 rial acted upon loses its heat, or you may be 
 satisfied with the appearance of your work, A 
 
 
 
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 -transparent varnish is now to be laid on, mach 
 “whereof will be absorbed, and will of course be 
 
 “affected by any colouring matters you may mix 
 
 with it; these, however, should not be opaque 
 .colours, and-a good polish being given to the 
 work, produces that enviable brilliant covering we 
 
 find lately so much in vogue for carating iron 
 
 Story posts, 
 
 Another.—The fancy may be employed in 
 using your acids in various degrees of dilution, 
 whereby the cloudy reflections more or less resem- 
 ble mother-of-pearl, or assume the deep shades of 
 rude leaves, of stars, and other figures, or simply 
 shapeless granulations. Thisis the process of M. 
 Baget, and these his various mixtures.—1. Dis- 
 solve four ounces of muriate of soda in eight 
 ounces of water, and add thereto two ounces of 
 nitric acid. 2. To eight ounces of water put two 
 ounces of nitric acid, and three of muriatic acid. 
 3. To eight ounces of water add two ounces of 
 amuriatic acid, and one of sulphuric acid. One of 
 those mixtures, at your pleasure, is to be poured 
 upon the heated-tin, while it rests upon a vessel 
 of stone ware, the mixture isto be thrown on by | 
 instalments as it were; the tin is then to be 
 thrown into a slightly acidulated water, and 
 afterwards washed in clean water.. The subse- 
 guent treatment is to be the same as before 
 detailed. 
 
 Gold Varnish—-To be laid on the tin which 
 has been ornamented, by undergoing the. Propem 
 just described, 
 
 Take of shell lac = 2 ounces 
 Arnatto - 1 ounce, 
 Turmeric « 1 ounce. 
 
 Dragon’s blood —_- 30 grains. 
 Dissolve the whole in twenty ounces of spirits of 
 Wine, in a gentle heat. 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 43 
 
 Art of making Red Sealing Wax.—To every 
 ounce of shell lac take half an ounce of resin and 
 - vermillion, all reduced toa powder; melt them 
 over a moderate fire, and, when thoroughly incor= 
 _ porated, and sufficiently cool, form the composi- 
 - tion into sticks of any length. or thickness, and 
 _ either flat or round, as may be best. On account 
 of the dearness of “shell lac, seed lac is usually 
 _ substituted, even in what is denominated the 
 best Dutch sealing wax. Boiled Venice turpen- 
 _ tine may be used with good effect, instead of 
 resin ; thus may be made a fine red sealing wax. 
 _ A more ordinary sort, but very good for most 
 occasions, may be made by mixing equal parts of 
 resin and shell lac with two parts of red lead, and 
 one of vermillion, according to the proportion 
 directed for the best wax, and to be made in a 
 similar way. In a still commoner sert the ver- 
 million is often omitted, and even a large propor- 
 tion of whitening, strange as it may seem, is also 
 actually introduced, 
 
 The art of making Black Sealing Wax.—This 
 sealing wax is made by stirring into any quantity 
 of gum lac or shell lac, half its weight of finely 
 powdered ivory black, adding, to improve the 
 beauty of the wax as well as to prevent its becom- 
 ing too brittle, half their weight of Venice 
 turpentine. When the whole is melted and in- 
 corporated by sufficient stirring over a slow fire, 
 is poured on a stone or iron plate, which has been 
 previously well oiled, and, while soft, rolled into 
 sticks ; the sticks, Batty oF red and black wax, are 
 lastly exposed to a. proper degree of heat fox 
 acquiring a glossy surface. In a similar way, 
 substituting verditer, Prussian blue, and other 
 proper powder, for ivory black, may easily be 
 made sealing wax of any desired colour. 
 
 Soft Sealing Wax for impressing Seals of 
 
 
 
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44, THe RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 Office, &c,—This sealing wax, which is seldom 
 used for any other purpose than that of receiving * 
 the impression of seals of office to charters, pa- 
 tents, proceedings in chancery, &c. is prepared,’ 
 when to be used white, by mixing half a pound 
 of bees’ wax, an ounce and a haif of turpentine, 
 and half an ounce of sweet oil, and carefully 
 boiling them together till the compound becomes 
 of a fit consistency for moulding into rolls, cakes, 
 or balls for use. If colour be wanted, it is readily 
 obtained by stirring into the melted mass about’ 
 half an ounce of a proper pigment, as in making 
 the red or other coloured hard sealing wax. 
 
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 Curious metho’ of separating Gold and Silver 
 From Lace without burning it.—Cut in pieces the 
 gold or silver lace intended to be divested of every 
 thing but the pure metal; tie it up tightly in 
 linen, and boil it in soap ley till the size appears 
 diminished ; then take the cloth out of the liquid, 
 and, after repeatedly rincing it in cold water, 
 beat it well with a mallet to draw out all the 
 alkaline particles. On opening the linen, to the 
 astonishment of those who have never before 
 witnessed the process, the metallic part will be 
 found pure and undiminished, in all its natural 
 brightness, 
 
 .To wash Chintz so as to preserve ils gloss and 
 beauty.—Take two pounds of rice and boil it im 
 two gallons of water till soft ; when done, pour the 
 whole into a tub, and let it stand till about the 
 warmth. you in general use for coloured linens, 
 then put the chintz in, and use the rice instead 
 of soap; wash it in this until the dirt appears to 
 be out, then boil the same quantity as above, but 
 strain the tice from the water, and mix irin warm 
 water, Wash it in this till quite clean, afterwards 
 rinse it in the water the rice was boiled in, and 
 this will answer the end of starch, and no dew 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 45 
 
 wl] adect it, as it will be stiff while itis worn, 
 lf a gown, it must be taken to pieces, and, when 
 dried, hang it as smooth as possible; after it is 
 dry rub it with a sleek stone, but use no iron. 
 
 Instantaneous production of Curds and hey 
 from Milk.—A very ready and elegant mode of 
 procuring curds, and also a pleasant acidulous 
 whey, is by adding toa glassful of milk a little 
 solution of citric acid, taking care not to add too 
 much: an experiment or two will readily show 
 the quantity necessary tg effect the purpose. 
 
 To detect copper in Pickles or Green Tea.— 
 Put a few leaves of the tea, or some of the pickles 
 cut small, into a phial, with two or three drachms 
 of liquid ammonia diluted with one-half the 
 quantity of water. Shake the phial, when, if the 
 most minute portion of copper be present, the 
 liquid will assume a fine blue colour. 
 
 To discover if Bread be adulterated with Alum, 
 —The bread must be soaked in water, and to the 
 water in which it has been soaked a little of any 
 test for sulphuric acid must be added, (solution of 
 muriate of lime will do.) Upon which, if any 
 alum be present, the liquid will be pervaded with 
 milkiness, but, if the bread be pure, the liquid 
 will remain limpid. 
 
 To make Solder from Lead.—Two parts of lead 
 and one part of tin; its goodness is tried by 
 melting it, and pouring the size of a crown-piece 
 upon the table, and, if it be good, there will arise 
 little bright stars in it. Apply resin when this 
 solder is used. 
 
 To prepare parohments for Painting—Take 
 about a yard and a half of list and roll it up very 
 tight in a circular form, then take some finely 
 powdered white pumice stone, put the list in it, 
 
 
 

 
 46- THE RECET?¢T BOOK. 
 
 and rub it over the parchment. This plan, which 
 is simple and very common, answers the best of 
 any. If you wish to take water-colours without 
 sinking, choose that which isnot spongy and soft, 
 and use alum water with the colours when you 
 mix them for use. 
 
 
 
 The Air Pump.—The above figure represents - 
 the cheapest form, end in action it exactly re- 
 sembles the common sucking pump, with this 
 difference, that the valves are ede of moistened 
 bladder instead of leather. 
 
 Glass lroken. by Air.—Lay a squate of glass on 
 the top of an open receiver, and exhaust the air. 
 ‘The weight of the external air will press on the 
 glass and break it to atoms. 
 
 The hand fixed by Air.—If a person holds his 
 hand on an open receiver, and the air be ex- 
 hausted, it will be fixed as if pressed by a Weight . 
 of sixty pounds, 
 

 
 THE KECEIPT BOOK. 47 
 The Floating Stone.—Toa piece of cork tie a 
 
 small stone that will just sink it, and, putting it 
 
 
 
 in a vessel of water, place it under the receiver, 
 
 Then exhausting the receiver, the bubbles of the 
 
 air will expand from its pores, and, adhereing to" 
 
 its surface, will render it, together with the stone, 
 lighter than water, and, consequently, they will 
 rise to the surface and float. 
 
 Withered Fruit restored.—Take a shrivelled 
 apple, and, placing it under the receiver, exhaust 
 the air, The apple will immediately be plumped 
 up, and look as fresh as when first gathered. — 
 
 The Magic Bell.—Fix a small beli to the wire 
 that goes through the top of the receiver. Ifyou 
 shake the wire the bell will ring while the air is 
 in the receiver, but, when the air is drawn off, 
 the sound will by degrees become faint, till at 
 
 last not the least noise can be heard. As you let 
 
 in the air again, the sound returns. 
 
 Feathers heavier than Lead.—At one end of a 
 balance hang a piece of lead, and at the other as 
 many feathers as will poise it, then place the 
 balance in.the receiver. As the air is exhausted, 
 the feathers wiJl appear and overweigh the lead, 
 and when the air is drawn off the feathers will 
 preponderate, and the lead ascend. 
 
 The Artificial Halo.—Place a candle on one 
 side of a receiver, and let the spectator place him- 
 
 self at a distance from the other side. Directly 
 
 the ait begins to be exhausted, the light of the 
 candle will be refracted jn circles of various 
 colours. 
 
 The Artificial Balloon.—Take a bladder con- 
 taining only a small quantity of air, and a piece 
 of lead to it, sufficient to sink it if immersed in 
 
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 48 THE RLCEIPT BOOK, 
 
 water. Put this apparatus into a jar of water, 
 and place the whole under a receiver. Then ex- 
 haust the air, and the bladder will expand, be- 
 come a balloon lighter than the fluid in which it 
 floats, and ascend, carrying the weight with it. 
 
 To cause a Stone to be in perpetual Motion.— 
 Put small filings of iron into aquatortis, let them 
 remain there until the water takes off the iron 
 requisite, which it will do in seven or eight hours. 
 Then take the water and put it into a phial an 
 inch wide, with a large mouth, and put in a stone 
 of lapis calaminaries, and stop it close ; the stone 
 will then keep in perpetual motion. 
 
 To Gild the edges of Writing Paper or Leaves 
 of Books.—Screw a quantity of pages strongly 
 into a press, after being cut as smooth as possible. 
 Size them with isinglass glue mixed up with 
 spirits of. wine, and then apply the gold leaves 
 when the size arrives at the proper degree of 
 thickness. 
 
 To Silver the back of Looking glass——Take a 
 sheet of tin-foil and spread it upon a table, then 
 rub mercury upon it with a-hare’s foot till the 
 two metals incorporate. Lay the plate of glass 
 upon it, and load it with weights, which will have 
 the effect of pressing out the excess of mercury, 
 that was applied to the tin-foil.. In a few hours 
 the tin-foil will adhere to the glass and convert it 
 into a mirror. About two ounces of mercury are 
 sufficient to cover three feet of square glass. 
 
 Method of rendering Glass less brittle—Let the 
 glass vessel be put into a vessel of cold water, 
 and let this water be heated boiling hot, and then 
 allowed to cool slowly by itself, without taking 
 out the glass. Glasses treated in this way may, 
 while cold, be suddenly filled with hot water, 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 49 
 
 without any risk of their cracking. Ifthe glasscs 
 ~ are to be exposed to a higher temperature than 
 that of boiling water, boil them in oil. 
 
 Red Fire of the Theatres.—The beautiful red 
 fire which is now so frequently used in the thea- 
 tres, is composed of the following ingredients :-— 
 forty parts of dry nitrate of strontian, thirteen 
 parts of finely-powdered sulphur, five parts of 
 chlorate of potash, and four parts of sulphuret of 
 antimony. The chlorate of potash and sulphurct 
 of antimony should be powdered separately in a 
 mortar, and then mixed together on paper, after 
 which they may be added to the other ingredients 
 
 | previously powdered and mixed. 
 
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 Green Fire.—Green fire has long been a desi- 
 deratum in protechny, and when burned in a 
 reflector, sheds a beautiful green light upon all 
 sutrounding objects. ‘Take of flowers of sulphur 
 thirteen parts, of nitrate of baryta seventy-seven, 
 of oxymuriate of potassa, five, of metallic arsenic, 
 two, of charcoal, three. The nitrate of baryta 
 should be well dried and powdered; it should 
 then be mixed with the other ingredients, all 
 finely pulverised, and the whole triturated until 
 perfectly blended together. A little calamine 
 may be occasionally added, in order to make the 
 compound slower of combustion, and it is above 
 all things requisite that the rubbing together of 
 
 the materials should be continued until they are 
 - Inixed. 
 
 Chemical chunge ina fair Lady’s complexion. 
 —It is well known that white oxide of bismuth, 
 
 _ under the name of pearl white, is used-as a cos- 
 metic by those of the fair sex who wish to be- 
 
 ceme fairer, A lady thus painted was sitting in 
 
 a lecture room, where, chemistry being the sub- 
 
 ject, water impregnated with sulphuretted hydro- 
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50 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 gsn gas, (Harrowgate water) was handed round 
 
 for inspection. On smelling this liquid, the 
 
 lady in question became suddenly black in, the 
 face! Every one was, of course, alarmed at this 
 
 sudden. chemical change, but the lecturer ex- 
 
 plaining the cause of the phenomenon, the lady 
 received no further injury than a practical lesson 
 to rely more on mental than personal and artifi- 
 cial beauty. 
 
 To beautify Glass, &c.—Spread ona plate..of 
 glass or smooth slate a few drops of nitrate of 
 silver, previously diluted with double its quantity 
 of soft water; place at the bottom of it, flat 
 upon the glass, and in contact with the fluid, a 
 copper or zinc wire, bent to any figure, and let 
 the whole remain undisturbed in a horizontal 
 position. In a few hours a brilliant crystalliza- 
 tion of metallic silver will make its appearance 
 around the wire upon the glass, and this arrange- 
 
 ment of crystals will extend gradually till the 
 
 whole quantity of fluid has been acted on brs this 
 wire. 
 
 To preserve Fruit and Flowers the whole year 
 wiihout spoilzng.—Mix one pound of nitre with | 
 two pounds cf bol ammoniac, and three pounds 
 of clean common sand; then, in dry weather, 
 take fruit of any sort which is not fully ripe, 
 allowing the stalks to remain, and put them one 
 by one into an open giass, until it is quite full); 
 cover the glass with oiled cloth tied closely down, 
 Put it three or four inches down in the earth, in 
 a dry cellar,.and surround it on all sides. to the 
 depth of three or four inches with the: above 
 mixture. The fruit will thus-be preserved quite 
 fresh all the year round, 
 
 Improved Copal Varnish.—It appears, from. ace 
 tual experiment, that the solution of gum copal 
 

 
 THE RECEIFT LOOK. 51 
 
 ‘in spirits of wine, or alcohol, an operation usu- 
 ally attended with considerable difficulty, may 
 readily be performed by the following simple 
 process :—Dz.ssolve one ounce of camphor in a 
 quart of alcohol; put it ina circular glass, and 
 add eight ounces of copal in small pieces ; set it 
 ina sand heat, so regulated that the bubbles may 
 be counted as they rise from the bottom, and 
 continue the same heat till the solution is com- 
 pleted. Camphor acts more powerfully upon co- 
 
 “pal than any substance yet tried: if copal be 
 
 ‘finely powdered, and a small quantity of: dry 
 ‘camphor be rubbed with it in the mortar, the 
 whole: becomes, in a few minutes, a tough cohe- 
 rent mass. The process above described will 
 alissolve more copal than the menstruum will re- 
 tain when cold; the most economical method 
 ‘will therefore be to set the vessel which contains 
 the solution aside fora few days, and, when it is 
 perfectly settled, to pour off the clear varnish, and 
 leave the residuem ‘or a future opgration, 
 
 An easy method of breaking Glass to any re- 
 quired Figure.—Make a small notch, by means of 
 a file, on the edge of a piece of glass, then make 
 the end of a tobacco-pipe, or of a rod iron of the 
 ‘same size, red hot in the fire, apply the hot iron 
 to the notch, and draw it slowly along the surface 
 ‘of the glass, in any direction you please ; a crack 
 will be made in the glass, and will follow the 
 direction of the iron. Round glass bottles or 
 flasks may be cut in the middle by wrapping 
 round them a worsted thread, dipped in spirits of 
 turpentine, and setting it on fire when fastened on 
 
 _ the glass. 4 
 
 Artificial Musk.—The mode of making artifi- 
 cial musk, which is used in Germany for that ex- 
 
 | pensive drug, is as follows :—Add to one drachm 
 
 of oil of amber, by small portions at a time, four 
 
 
 
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 times the quantity of nitrous acid, carefully stirr- 
 ing them together with a glass rod.all the time, 
 and continuing to doso till the whole be converted 
 into a yellow resin, possessing the smeil of musk. 
 it must be kept closely stopped up like real 
 musk, and may supply the place of that high 
 priced article, not forgetting the nature of its chief 
 ingredients. 3 
 
 Method of making Alum Finings for all sorts 
 of Spirituous Compounds and Cordials—The 
 method of preparing alum-water for the purpose 
 of making finings, is by boiling a drachm of 
 alum in a pint of water, till half the water has 
 evaporated, and putting it in the cordial liquor 
 which requires fining, after the rate of only half 
 a tea-spoonful, made of the warmth of new milk, 
 for every gallon. This quantity will be found 
 not te affect the liquor, but care must be taken 
 never to exceed that proportion. 
 
 Tv change the Hair or Beard biack.—Take oil 
 of costus and myrtle, of each an ounce and a 
 half; mix them in a leaden mortar; add liquid 
 pitch, expressed juice of walnut leaves, and lau- 
 danum, of each half an ounce; gall-nut leaves 
 and laudanum, of each a drachm, and mucilage 
 of gum. arabic, made with a decoction of nut- 
 galls. Rub the head or chin with this mixture 
 after shaving. 
 
 , 
 A Remedy for Corns on the Feet,—Roast a 
 clove of gatlic on a live coal, and fasten it on 
 with a piece of cloth at the time of going to bed, 
 
 It softens the corns, and wholly removes the © 
 
 core in two ur three nights? using. When the 
 garlic is taken of, wash the foot with warm wa- 
 ter; ina little time the indurated skin that forms 
 the horny tunic of the cogn will disappear, and 
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 Illuminated P: ospects.—Provide yourself with 
 some of those prints that are used in optical ma- 
 chines, printed on very thin white paper, taking 
 care to make ehoice of such as have the greatest 
 effect from the manner in which the objects are 
 placed in perspective. Paste one of these on the 
 borders of a frame, and paint it with the most 
 lively colours, making use of none that are ter- 
 restrfal, Observe to retouch those parts several 
 times where the engraving is strongest, then cut 
 off the upper part, os sky, and fix that onanother 
 frame, 
 
 
 
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 The prints being thus prepared,” place them in 
 *a box, A,B,C,D, the opening to which, E,F,G,H, 
 should be less than the print. | Cover this open- 
 ing with a glass, and paint all the space between 
 that and the prints, which should be two or three 
 inches back. ‘The frame that contains the sky 
 should be an inch behind the other.(1) 
 
 In the back part of this box, which is behind 
 the prints, and which may be four inches deep, 
 place four or five candlesticks to hold wax lights, 
 and cover that part entirely with tin, that it may 
 be the more luminous. 
 
 When the print is placed between the wax- 
 lights and the opening in the front of the box, 
 and there is no light in the room, the effect will 
 be highly pleasing, especially if the lights are at 
 a sufficient distance from each other, that they 
 may not occasion any blots in the print. Those 
 prints that represent the rising or the setting of 
 the sun will have a very picturesque appearance, 
 Such as represent conflagrations have also a 
 striking effect. There should be two grooves for 
 the print next the glass, that you may insert a 
 second subject before you draw away the first, and 
 that the lights in the back of the box may not be 
 discovered; . You must not, thinking to make the 
 print more transparent, cover it with varnish ; 
 for that will prevent the gradation of the colours 
 from being visible. The frame should enter the, 
 side of the box bya groove, that a variety of. 
 subjects may be introduced. 
 
 To make Butter without churning.—Put the 
 milk in a plain earthen dish 5 let it stand twelve 
 
 
 
 (1) When you colour a print place ie Before . 
 you, against a piece of glass, in a position ‘nearly 
 erect, that it may be enlightened by the sun, | 
 You may also colour both sides of the print. © 
 
THE RECEIPT BOOK, 55 
 
 hours, take off the cream, put it in a round. 
 earthen dish, and stir it round with a clean 
 wooden spoon, and it will come to butter in five. 
 or ten minutes. The cream cannot be kept too” 
 cool during the time you are stirring it. It is, 
 therefore, the best way to put your dish in cold. 
 water. As soon as the butter is so forward that: 
 you can take off a little butter-milk, keep putting 
 in a little cold water, and wash the milk out. 
 You may keep your cream, after it is scalded, 
 three or four days before making your butter, it 
 will not hurt it. - 
 
 To prevent the smoking of a Lamp.—-Soak th 
 wick in strong vinegar, and dry it well before you 
 use it; it will then burn both sweet and pleasant, 
 and give much satisfaction for the trifling trouble 
 in preparing it. ; 
 
 _ To preserve Eggs.—Apply with a brush a solu- 
 tion of gum arabic to the shells, or immerse the 
 eggs therein, let them dry, and afterwards pack 
 them in dry charcoal dust. ‘This prevents their 
 being affected by any alterations of temperature. ~ 
 
 To preserve fresh Water at Sea.—Mix one and 
 a half part of manganese in powder, with two 
 hundred and fifty parts of water, and agitate it 
 every fifteen days. In this way water has been 
 preserved unchanged for seven years. Oxide of 
 manganese has not only the power of preserving 
 water, but of rendering that sweet which has 
 become putrid. 
 
 Liquid to clean Boot-tops.—Take an ounce of 
 oxalic acid, to which add a pint of milk, and a 
 pint of soft water; these should be boiled and 
 poured over the acid while hor. This is a deadly 
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 To make Fulminating Powder.—Triturate in a 
 warm mortar three parts, by weight, of nitre, 
 two of mild vegetable alkali (carbonate of potass), 
 and one of flowers of sulphur. A few grains of 
 this laid upon a knife, and held over the candle, 
 first fuses, and then explodes with a loud report. 
 A drachm of it put into a shovel, and held over 
 the fire, makes a noise as loud asa cannon, and 
 indents the shovel in the same way as it would 
 
 be if it had received a hard blow. 
 
 To make Brass and other alloys of Copper.— 
 Brass is made by fusing together lapis calami- 
 natis (which is an ore of zinc) and copper. 
 
 Tombac is formed by melting together twelve 
 parts of copper with three of zinc. . 
 
 Gun-metal consists of nine parts of copper and 
 one of tin, 
 
 Cock-metal is made with copper alloyed with 
 zine and lead, 
 
 Bell-metal is copper alloyed with one-sixth of 
 tin. A smaller proportion of tinis used in making 
 church-bells than clock-bells, and a little zinc is 
 added for the bells of repeating-watches and 
 other small bells. 
 
 The gold coins of this country are composed of 
 eleven parts of gold and one of copper. 
 
 Standard silver contains five pants of silver and 
 one of copper. 
 
 To make Parchment transparent.—Take a thin 
 skin of parchment and soak it in astrong ley of 
 wood-ashes, often wringing it out till you find it 
 become transparent, then strain it ona frame and 
 let it dry. 
 
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 ART OF CLEANING VEILS, SILKS, &c. 
 
 To clean white Lace Veils—Make a solution of 
 white scap ina clean saucepan; put in your veil 
 and let it boil gently for a quarter of an hour; 
 take it out into a clean bason with some warm 
 water and soap, and keep gently squeezing it till 
 ‘it is thoroughly clean, then rinse it from the soap 
 and have ready a pan of cold clean water, in 
 which put a drop of chemic or liquid blue ; rinse 
 the veil in this liquid, then take a tea-spoonfu! of 
 Starch, and pour boiling water upon it, run the 
 veil through this and clear it well by clapping it 
 between the hands; frame it or pinit out, taking 
 care to keep the edges straight and even. 
 
 To clean black Lace Veils,—These are cleansed 
 ‘by passing them through a warm liquor of bul- 
 Jock’s gall and water; after which they must be 
 tinsed in cold water, then cleansed for stiffening, 
 and finished as follows :—Take a small piece of 
 glue, about the size of a bean, pour boiling water 
 upon it, and, ‘when dissolved, pass the veil 
 ‘through it, then clap it between your hands and 
 frame it as described in the preceding receipt. 
 
 Method of cleaning white Satin, Silks, ©c— 
 French chalk must first be strewed over them, 
 and then well brushed off with a hard brush. 
 Should the satin not be sufficiently cleansed by 
 the first dusting, it may be done a second time, 
 and it will clean and beautify the satin. The 
 more it is brushed the better, 
 
 \ Of cleaning black Silk.—If thisis a slip unpick 
 the seams, take one piece at a time, and put it on 
 a table, then take a pennyworth of builock’s gall 
 and boiling water sufficient to make it pretty 
 warm ; after dipping it in the liquor rub the silk 
 
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58 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 well on both sides, squeeze it well out, and pro- 
 ceed as before; then hang up this piece of silk, 
 and clean the others in the like manner. When 
 the whole are done, immerse: them, altogether in 
 a pan of spring water, to wash off the dirt which 
 the gall has brought upon the surface of the silk; 
 change your. rinsing waters till they are perfectly 
 clean, and, after washing, dry your silks in the 
 air, and pin them out ona table, first dipping a 
 sponge in glue-water, and rubbing it on the 
 wrong side of the silk, Dry-it near "the fire and 
 it will be as new. 
 
 Of Silk stained:by sharp or corrosive liquors.— 
 We often find that lemon juice, vinegar, oil of 
 vitriol, and other sharp. corrosives, stain dyed 
 garments. Sometimes by adding a little pearl- 
 ash to a soap lather, and passing the silks through 
 these, the faded colour will be restored. Pearl- 
 ash and warm water willsometimes do alone, but 
 it is the most efficacious method to use the soap- 
 lather and pearl-ash together. 
 
 To clean Silk Stockings—Wash them in soap 
 and water, and then, either: into a tin or copper 
 boiler, cut an ounce of white soap into. thin 
 slices, and, putting the stockings in, boil them 
 gently ten minutes, then take them out and rinse 
 them in cold water. If they are to be of a. blue 
 cast, take one drop of liquid blue, put it intoa pan 
 of cold spring water, run the-stockings through 
 this a minute or two, and dry them in -theair,. If 
 they are of a pink cast, drop one or two drops. of 
 the saturated pink dye intu a pan of cold water, 
 and run them through this intead of the chemic 
 blue. If they are designed to haye a flesh colour, 
 a little rose pink is used-in.a thin soap liquor.— 
 All silk stockings, black excepted, are to’be rub- 
 bed wiih a clean fiannel, and sent to be calen- 
 dered or mangled. 
 
THE RECEIPT BOOK, 59 
 
 The mode of extracting Grease-spots from Silk, 
 _ coloured Muslin, &c.—Take French chalk, finelv 
 | scraped, and put it on the grease-spot, holding it 
 _ near the fire, or over a warm iron reversed, or on 
 a water-plate in which is boiling water, This will 
 Gause the grease to melt, and the French chalk 
 will absorb it, and it may then be brushed or 
 rubbed off. If any grease remains, proceed as 
 before until it is all extracted. The French chalk 
 is a fine soluble powder of a dry absorbent 
 quality, acting upon silks as Fuller’s earth does 
 upon woollens. 
 
 
 
 Method of taking owt the Spots of Paint, or 
 other solid sulstances, from Cloths, Silks, &c— 
 Supposing a small quantity of paint had dropped 
 on a coat, a pen should be dipped in spirits of tur 
 pentine, and its contents should be dropped on 
 the paint spot, ina quantity sufficient to discharge 
 the oil and gluten that is mixed with the paint. 
 Let it rest several hours, that it may penetrate and 
 suck up the oil, and, when it has done this, take 
 the cloth between your handsand rub it, and the 
 paint spot will crumble away like dried earth. 
 The turpentine will by no means injure either 
 the cloth or colour. If, however, the spots be 
 numerous, the best way is to apply the spirits of 
 turpentine over the silk, &c. with a sponge, as 
 soon as possible after the oil or paint, &c. has 
 been spilt upon it, and before it has become dry ; 
 Ly these means it may in general be completely 
 washed out. 
 
 For cleaning -thin Cottons, as Gowns, &c.— 
 Instead of rubbing the soap on the cotton, as is 
 the custom with laundresses, make a solution of 
 soap and put in your goods, and wash them as a 
 washerwoman would. The benefit resulting from 
 
 ‘the difference of procedure is, that the cottons are’ 
 
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 the case when the soap is rubbed on the body of 
 the cotton; for then we often find much soap in 
 the pores of the cotton, which prevents such parts 
 from receiving the dye or appearing. clear; 
 whereas the solution, if made as described for 
 guilts, &c. will extract all impurities, and do it 
 evenly. It often happens in coloured cottons, 
 where greens, reds, &c. are used, that the colour 
 willrun, in which case someacid, as lemon-juice, 
 vinegar, oil of vitriol, or any other, should. be in-. 
 fused into the rinsing | waters. to «preserve the. 
 colours, especially in Scotch plaids.: 
 
 To raise the Nap.on Cloth.—When woollens are 
 worn thread-bare, as is generally the case in the. 
 elbows, cuffs, sleeves, &c. of men’s coats, the: 
 coat, &c. must be soaked in cold water for half an; 
 hour, then take it out of the water and put it on. 
 a board, and the thread-bare parts of the cloth: 
 rubbed with a half-worn hatter’s card, filled with: 
 
 flocks, or with a prickly thistle, until a.sufficient’ 
 nap is raised. When this isdone hang your-coat, » 
 &c. up to. dry, and with a hard brush lay the nap» 
 the right way. This is the methed parsuicd o 
 the dealers in old clothes. 
 
 To revive the faded colours in black Cloth Ifa: 
 ‘coat, clean it well, then boil from two to four. 
 ounces of logwood in your copper or boiler for 
 half an hour, dip your coat in warm water and 
 squeeze it as dry as you can, then put it into.a 
 copper and boil for half an hour. Take it out and. 
 add a piece of green copperas about the size of a 
 horse bean; boil it another half hour, then draw 
 it and hang it in the air for an hour or two 3 take’ 
 it down, rinse it in two or three cold waters, dry: 
 it, and let it be well brushed with a so!t brush,- 
 over which a drop or two of the oil of olives has 
 been rubbed; stroke your coat regularly over.: 
 The whole expense of this process, the firing, 
 
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 excepted, will not exceed three- -halfpence. If 
 any part of the coat, &c. should be worn thread- 
 bare, the nap must be raised with a prickly 
 chistle, &c. and the coat will look as new. Some 
 dyers use old black liquor instead of logwood and. 
 copperas. 
 
 For sulphurating Wool, Silk, Straw Bonnets, 
 &c.—Put in a chaffing dish some lighted char- 
 
 coal; put this chaffing dish into a small close 
 room, without a chimney, or into a closet or large 
 box, then pound an ounce or two of brimstone, 
 and strew it on the hot coals. Hang up the arti- 
 cles you would have bleached, make your door 
 fast, and let them hang three hours, or all night 
 if you have time. This is what is called dry 
 bleaching woollens ; all fine coloured woollens 
 ‘ should be sulphured in this way previously to 
 their being dyed. Straw bonnets are likewise 
 bleached in the same manner, 
 
 Remarks on Scouring Woollens.—It often hap- 
 pens that woollens are dyed with a false dye, 
 which is generally more brilliant than a fast or 
 good dye. When this happens to be the case, 
 
 especially in very fine colours, as purples, greens, 
 
 maroons, &c. instead of spotting the cloths with 
 soap in the solid state, other means must be used. 
 A thin solution of soap should be made, and the 
 
 brush dipped in and then applied to the dirty. 
 ais ; and in case it is a false green, after it has, 
 
 een treated the same as all light colours, a pan 
 should be filled half full of spring water, and the - 
 
 coat, &c. having been previously well rinsed in 
 two waters at least, a tea-spoonful, or rather 
 
 more of the-best oil of vitriol should be poured 
 
 into this vessel of spring water, and the cuat put 
 
 in and handled a minute or two, which will re-— 
 
 vive the colours if a chemic green, and, if not, it 
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 ART OF DYING woop, &c. 
 
 _ It is a well known fact, that the art of dying 
 wood, &c. is but partially known to the cabinet 
 makers, and an entire secret to the public, being 
 principally confined to persons who are desirous 
 to keep the art to themselves, and monopolize the 
 entire profits arising from its practise, It is hoped, 
 therefore, that the following receipts will be found 
 serviceable to the public at large, and to the 
 respectable body of vabinet-makers in particular, 
 It being necessary to say something as to the 
 quality, nature, and texture of the wood most fit 
 for dying, I shall state my remarks according to 
 the following orders:—1st. The wood mostly used 
 for black dye is pear-tree, holly, and beech, all of 
 which take a beautiful black; it should at the 
 same time be observed not to take wood which has 
 been long cut or aged, but as fresh as possible. I 
 have likewise found, that, after the veneers have 
 had an hour’s boiling, and taken out to cool, the 
 colour has struck much stronger. It should 
 likewise be observed, that after the veneers are 
 dyed, they should be dried in the air, and not by 
 the fire, or in a kiln of any kind, as it tends to 
 destroy the colour. ¢nd. In order to dye blue, 
 green, red, or other colours, take clear holly, put ~ 
 the veneers first in a box or trough with clear: 
 water, and let them remain four or five days, 
 changing the water once or twice as you find oc- 
 casion ; the water acting as a purgative on the 
 wood, will bring forth abundance of slime, &c. 
 letting them dry about twelve hours before they 
 are put into the dye; by observing this you will 
 find the colour strike quicker, and be of a 
 brighter hue. 
 
 4 fine Black Dye.—Have a chair-maker’s cop- 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 68 
 
 wood, and as many veneers as it will conveniently 
 hold without pressing too tight; then fill with 
 water, and let it boil slowly for about three hours, 
 after which add half a pound of powdered verdi- 
 gris, half a pound of copperas, and four ounces of 
 bruised nut-galls, filling the copper up with vine- 
 gar as the water evaporates; letit gently boil two 
 hours each day till you find the wood to be dyed 
 through, which, according to the kind, will be i in 
 more or less time. 
 
 For a fine Blue Dye.—Take a clean glass bot 
 tle into which put one pound of oil of vitriol, 
 then pour four ounces of the best indigo pounded 
 in a mortar into small lumps; put them into the 
 vitriol (take care to set the bottle in a basin ora 
 glazed earthen pan, as it will ferment), after it is 
 quite dissolved provide an earthen or wooden ves- 
 sel, so constructed that it will conveniently hold 
 the veneers you mean to dye; fill it rather more 
 than one third with water, into which pour as 
 much of the vitriol and indigo (stirring it about) 
 till you find the whole to be a fine blue dye, by 
 trying it with a piece of white paper or wood; 
 put-in your veneers, and let them remain till the 
 dye has struck through. 
 
 To Dye Yellow.—Take of the roots of barberry 
 four pounds, reduce it by sawing to dust, which 
 put in a copper or brass trough, and add four 
 Gunces. of turmeric, to which put four gallons of 
 water; then putin as many white holly veneers 
 as the liquor will cover, and boil them together 
 for three hours, often turning them; when cool 
 add two ounces of aqua-fortis, and you will find 
 the dye strike through much sooner, 
 
 To Dye a Bright Green.—Proceed as before to 
 produce a yellow, but, instead of aqua-fortis, add 
 as much of the vitriolated indigo as will produ e 
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 Fora Bright Red.—Take two pounds of gen uine 
 Brazil-dust, add four gallons of water, put in as 
 many veneers as the liquor will well cover, boil 
 them for three hours and let them cool; then 
 add two ounces of alum and two ounces of aqua- 
 fortis, and keep it luke warm until it has struck 
 through. : 
 
 '. To Dye a Purple-—Take two pounds of chip 
 logwood, half a pound of Brazil-dust, and add 
 four gallons of water, putin your veneers and boil 
 them well, then add six-ounces of pearl-ash and 
 two ounces of alum; let them boil two or three 
 hours every day till you find the colour struck 
 through. 
 
 To Dye the Silver Grey.—Take a cast iron pot 
 of six or eight gallons, and from time to time 
 collect old iron, nails, hoops, &c. &c. to expose 
 them to the weather in it until they are covered 
 with rust, add one gallon of vinegar and two of 
 water; boil all well for an hour, then have your 
 veneers ready, which must be air-wood not too 
 dry, put them in the copper you use to dye 
 black, and pour the iron liquor over them; 
 add one pound of chip logwood, two ounces: of 
 bruised nut-galls, then boil up another pot of the 
 iron liquor to supply the copper with, keeping 
 the veneers covered and boiling two. hours each 
 day. . , ae 
 
 A good Black Satin for immediate use-—Boil 
 nalf a pound of chip logwood in two quarts of 
 water, then add an ounce of pearl-ash, and apply 
 it hot to the work with a brush; then take halfa 
 pound of logwood and boil it as before in two 
 quarts of water, adding half an ounce of verdigris 
 and half an ounce of copperas ; strain it off and 
 put in about half a pound of rusty stcel filings, 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 65 
 To stain Beech of a Mahogany, colour.—Take 
 
 | two ounces of dragon’s blood, break it in pieces, 
 
 and put it into a quart of rectified spirits of wine, 
 let the bottle stand in a warm place, shake it fre 
 quently, and, when dissolved, it is fit for use. 
 
 Another.—Take one pound of logwood, boil it 
 in four quarts of water, add a double handful of 
 walnut peeling; boil it up again, take out the 
 chips, and add a pint of the best vinegar, and it 
 will be fit fer use. 
 
 To clean and restore the elasticity af cane Chair 
 Bottoms, Couches, &c,--Turn up the chair bottom, 
 &c. and with hot water and a sponge wash the 
 cane-work well, so that it may be well soaked; 
 should it be dirty you must add soap; let it dry 
 inthe air, and you will find it as tight and firm 
 as when new, provided the cane is not broken. 
 
 Varnishing.—It being the custom, in order to 
 heighten the beauty of fine wood, and give addi- 
 tional lustre to the furniture, &c. to varnish it, 
 the simplicity of the process requires but little to 
 be said on the subject, but for the satisfaction of 
 the reader I shall treat the subject minutely. In 
 London it is not worth while to make varnish un- 
 less in a large quantity, there being several shops 
 where it is sold very good at a fair price, for the 
 accommodation of those who do not require 
 more than a pint or quart at once. That in 
 general use is white varnish. 
 
 To varnish a piece of Furnilure.—First, observe 
 the work'to be clean, then see if any knots or 
 blemishes require filling up, which must be done 
 with cement of the same colour. Have your 
 varnish in an earthen pot, with a piece of wire 
 diametrically across the top, slackened down- 
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 your brush is clean and free from loose hairs, dip 
 your brush and give the work a thin coat and Jes 
 gular; soon after that another, and anothers 
 always taking care not to pass the brush twice in — 
 the same place ; let it then stand to dry, in a mo 
 derately warm place, that the varnish may not 
 chill, When you have given the work about'six 
 or seven coats, let it get quite hard, which you 
 will prove by pressing your knuckle on it; if it 
 leaves a mark it is not hard enough; then with 
 the three first fingers of your hand rub the vars 
 nish till it chafes, and proceed all over that pat 
 of the work you mean to polish, in order to take 
 out all the streaks or partial lumps made by the 
 brush ; give it then another coat and let a 
 to harden. Z 
 
 To polish Varnish—Has been considered - 
 many as a matter of difficulty, they having fur- 
 nished themselves with a quantity of materials, 
 and as often failed of success for want of patience, 
 the process being rather tedious. Take two ounces 
 of Tripoli powdered, put in an earthen pet or 
 basin, with water to cover it, then take a piece of 
 fine flannel, four double, lay it over a piece of 
 cork and rubber, and proceed to polish your var- 
 nish, always wetting it with the Tripoli and 
 water ; you will know when the process is done 
 by wiping a part of the work with a sponge, and 
 observing whether there is a fair even gloss, then 
 take a bit of mutton suet and fine ae) and clean. 
 off the work, 
 
 * General Observations.—1st. The varnish. for 
 cabinet work should be very clear and bright, 
 otherwise it will give a dingy shade to all light 
 coloured woods. 2nd. Some persons polish with 
 rotten stone, others with putty powder, and 1 have 
 seen varnish polished with common whiting and: 
 water, but I have found Tripoli to answer best... 
 
THE RECEIPT BOOK. 67 
 To make the lest White Hard Varnish :-— 
 ~ Rectified spirits of wine - 2 gallons 
 - Gum Sandarach + - 5 pounds 
 Gom mastich - - 1 pound 
 Gum anime - - 4 ounces 
 
 Put these in a clean can or bottle to dissolve ina 
 warm place, frequently shaking it; when the 
 gum is dissolved, strain it through a lawn sleeve, 
 and it will be fit for use. 
 
 To varnish Drawing's, painted in water colours, 
 
 or any kind of paper or card-Loard.—Take some 
 
 clear parchment cuttings, boil them in water in a 
 
 clean glazed pipkin till they produce a very clear 
 
 size, strain it and keep it for use, Give your work 
 two coats of the above size, passing quickly over 
 
 _ the work not to disturb the colours; when dry 
 
 
 
 proceed as before directed with your varnish. 
 
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 ~The French method of polishing Wood,—Take 
 
 & piece of fine pumice stone and water, and pass’ 
 
 regularly over the work with the grain, until the 
 risiag of the grain is cut down, then take powder- 
 
 ed Tripoli and boiled linseed oil, and polish the’ 
 work to a bright face, which will be far superior’ 
 
 to’any other polish, but it requires more time. 
 
 To polish Brass Ornaments inlaid in wood.— 
 First, carefully observe to have your brass filed: 
 very clean with a smooth file, then take some’ 
 Tripoli powdered very fine, and mix it with lin- 
 seed oil, and with a rubber of hat you may polish’ 
 
 the work as you would polish varnish, until you 
 find the desired effect produced. 
 
 ’N. B. If the work is ebony or black rose-wood, 
 take some elder coal powdered very fine, and ap-° 
 ply it dry after you have done with the Tripoli, 
 
 and it will produce a superior polish. About the 
 
 beginning of the last contury, an ingenious 
 inlayer of Leige, in Flanders, invented the art of 
 
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 inlaying cabinets, &c. with brass and tortoise- 
 shell, which were executed with much taste in 
 drawing, and skill in workmanship, and being 
 patronised by the nobility of France, they became 
 indispensable appendages to the boudoir and 
 library. The Parisians next attempted to copy 
 them, but never succeeded, proofs of which are 
 till to be seen in the mansions of the nobility of 
 this kingdom ; since which brass has gradually 
 been brought into general use in ornamenting the 
 best work. The French mode of ornamenting 
 with brass differs widely from ours, their’s being 
 chiefly water gilt(Or Moulu), excepting the flutes 
 of the columns, &c. which are polished very high 
 with rotten stone and finished with elder coal.— 
 Many elegant pieces of workmanship have been 
 executed here in the same manner, but from the 
 high prices of casting, chasings, and gilding, it 
 never came into general repute. Our ingenious 
 brass-founders, both in town and country, have 
 at length not only equalled but surpassed the 
 French in finishing, bronzing, and lacquering 
 their exquisite productions, so that at present the 
 use of Or Moulu ornaments is confined to a 
 small circle. Since the French visited Egypt, 
 the furniture in the first circles of Europe has 
 literally displayed a most grotesque assemblage of 
 monsters from the Nile or Cydnus, which (how- 
 ever calculated they may be to inspire fear in a 
 beholder), have caused much joy among the car- 
 vers, the race of whom would probably by this 
 time have been extinct. 
 
 To make the Gold Lacquer for brass.—Take of 
 rectified spirits of wine two quarts, three pounds 
 of seed lac picked particularly clean, and clear of 
 all black and brown specks and pieces, as upon 
 that depends the entire beauty of the lac; add 
 them together, keep them warm and shake them 
 often; when the lac is dissolved it is fit for use. 
 
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 Fo clean old Brass Work for Lacquering.—Fitst 
 boil a strong lye of wood ashes, which you may 
 strengthen by soap lees; put in your brass work, 
 and the lacquer will immediately come off ; then 
 have ready a pickle of aquafortis and water strong 
 enough to take off the dirt, wash it immediately 
 after in clean water, dry it well and lacquer it. 
 
 To clean Silver Furniture.—Lay the furniture, 
 piece by piece, upon a charcoal fire, and when 
 they are just red take them off, and boil them in 
 tartar and water, and your silver will have the 
 saine beauty as when first made. Boiling it in 
 alum-water has the same effect. 
 
 To polish Ivory,—Ivory is polished with putty — 
 
 and water, by means of a rubber made of hat, 
 which in a short time produces a fine gloss, 
 
 To clean Marble, Sienna, Jasper, Porphyry, 
 Scrola,.Fc.— Mix up a quantity of the strongest 
 soap-lees with quick-lime, to the consistence of 
 milk, and lay it on the stone, &c. for twenty-four 
 hours, clean it afterwards with soap and water, 
 and it will appear as new, 
 
 To make the Liquor Foil for Silvering Glass 
 Gloles, Bent Mirrors, c.—Take one ounce of 
 clean lead, and one ounce of fine tin, melt them 
 together in a cleaniron ladle, then immediately 
 add an ounce of bismuth, skim off the dross, re- 
 move’ the ladle frorti the fire, and, before it sets, 
 add ten ounces of quicksilver, stir the whole well 
 - together, carefully observing not to breathe over it, 
 as the evaporation of the silver is very pernicious, 
 
 Another.—Take four ounces of quicksilver, to 
 which put as: much tinfoil’as to become barely 
 fluid when mixed; have your globe clean and 
 warm, and inject the quicksilver by means of a 
 
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 ‘clean earthen pipe at the aperture, turning it 
 
 about till it is silvered all over, let the. remainder 
 run out and hang it up. 
 
 To bronze Figures, c.—For the ground, after 
 ‘it has been sized and rubbed down, take Prussian 
 blue, verditer, and spruce ochre, grind them sepa- 
 rately in water, turpentine, or oil, according to 
 the work ; mix them in such proportions as will 
 produce the colour you desire; then grind Dutch 
 metal, commonly called bronze, in the same ma- 
 terial, laying it with judgment on the most pro- 
 minent parts of the figure produces a‘grand effect. 
 
 A Green Puint for Garden-stands, Venetian 
 Blinds, Trelisses, 'c.—Take mineral green and 
 white lead ground in turpentine, mix up a quan- 
 tity to your mind, with a small quantity of tur- 
 pentine varnish for the first coat ; for the second . 
 you must put as much varnish in the colour as 
 will produce a good gloss, By adding a small 
 quantity of Prussian blue, you will have the 
 colour much brighter, 
 
 To make Turpentine Vucrishice Bale one gallon 
 of spirits of turpentine, and five pounds of resin 
 pounded, put it in a tin can on astove, and let it 
 boil half an hour; when cool it is fit for use. 
 
 To make a Cement of Mahogany colour.—Take 
 two ounces of bees’ wax, half an ounce of resin, 
 melt them together, then add half an ounce of 
 Indian red, and a small quantity of yellow ochre, 
 to bring it to the colour you desire; keep it ina 
 pipkin for use: 
 
 To take Ink spots out of Mahogany, c.—Ap- 
 ply spirits of salts with a bit of rag till the ink 
 disappears, 
 

 
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 4Another.—Put a few drops of spirits of nitre in 
 
 ‘a tea-spoonful of water, touch the spot with a fea- 
 
 | ther dipped in the mixture, and, on the ink dis- 
 
 “appearing, rub it over immediately with a rag 
 
 _swetted in cold water, or there will be a white 
 «mark which will not be easily effaced. 
 
 To make black Wax.—Take two ounces of bees’ 
 wax, half an ounce of Burgundy pitch, and melt 
 them together, then add one ounce and a half of 
 ivory black ground very fine and dried, 
 
 To make Green Wax.—Take two ounces of 
 _. bees’ wax, melt it, and add one ounce of verditer; 
 let the pipkin be large enough, as it will immedi- 
 ately boil up ;_ stir it well, and add one quarter of 
 an ounce of resin ; it will be sufficiently hard and 
 fit for use. 
 
 To make the Furniture Paste.—Scrape four 
 ounces of bees’ wax into a pot or basin, then 
 -add as‘much spirits of turpentine as will moisten 
 
 it through; at the same time powder one quarter 
 -of an ounce of resin, and add to it when it is dis- 
 solved to the consistence of paste; add as much 
 ‘Indian red as will bring it toa deep mahogany 
 colour ; stir it up and it is fit for use. 
 
 Another.—Scrape four ounces of bees’ wax as 
 before, then take a pint of spirits of turpentine in 
 a clean glazed pipkin, to which add an ounce of 
 alkanet root, cover it close and put it over a slow 
 fire, attending it carefully that it may not boil or 
 catch fire; and, when you perceive the colour to 
 be drawn from the root, by the liquid being ofa 
 deep red, add as much of it to the wax as will 
 moisten it through, at the same time add a quar- 
 ter of an ounce of powdered resin, cover it close 
 and let it standsix hours, andit will be fit for use. 
 
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72 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 ' To solder or weld Torioize-shell.—Provide your- 
 self with a pair of pincers or tongs, so constructed 
 that you reach four inches beyond the rivet ; then 
 have your tortoise-shell filed clean to a lap joint, 
 carefully observing that there is no grease about 
 It, wet the joint with water, and you will find the 
 shell to be joined as if it were one piece. 
 
 To veneer Tortoise-shell on Wood,—First observe 
 to have your shell of an equal. thickness, and 
 scrape and clean the under-side very smooth, 
 then take some vermillion finely ground, mix it 
 up with spirits of turpentine and varnish, then 
 lay two or three coats of colour on the underside 
 ofthe shell till it becomes opaque; when ary 
 you may lay it on with good glue. 
 
 To stain Horn to imitate Tortoise-shell:—Take 
 an equal quantity of quick lime and red lead, mix 
 it up with strong soap lees, lay it on the horn 
 with a small brush, like the mottle in tortoise- 
 shell ; when it is dry repeat it two or three times. 
 
 To soften Ivory.—Slice half a pound of man- 
 drake, and put it in a quart of the best vinegar, 
 into which put your ivory ; let it standin a warm 
 place for forty-eight hours, and you will be able 
 to bend the ivory to your mind, 
 
 To bleach Ivory.—Take a double handful of 
 lime and slake it by sprinkling it with water, then 
 add three pints of water, and stir it up together; 
 let it settle ten minutes, and pour the water into 
 a pan for your purpose ; then take your ivory and 
 steep it in the lime water for twenty-four hours, 
 after which boil it in strong glum water one hour, 
 and dry it in the air. bet 
 
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 JAPANNING 
 
 It frequently happens that japanned work re- 
 ceives damage, when it is very inconvenient, 
 from distance or. other circumstances, to send for 
 the japanner to repair it, therefore it may not be 
 improper to lay down the simplest methods used 
 
 in that branch. First, provide yourself with a 
 
 small muller and stone, to grind any colour you 
 may require. Secondly, provide yourself with 
 white hard varnish, brown varnish, turpentine 
 varnish, japan gold size, and spirits of turpentine, 
 which you may keep in separate bottles for the 
 purpose. Thirdly, provide yourself with a flake 
 white, red lead, vermillion, lake, Prussian blue, 
 King’s and patent yellow, orpiment, spruce and 
 brown ochre, mineral green, verditer, burnt um- 
 ber and lamp black. Observe that all wood-work 
 must be prepared with size, and some coarser 
 material mixed with it, to fill up and harden the 
 grain of the wood, (such as may best suit the 
 colour intended to be laid on) which must be 
 rubbed smooth with glass paper when dry ; but 
 in cases of accident it is seldom necessary to re- 
 size the damaged places, unless they are consider- 
 able. With the foregoing colours you may match 
 almost any colour now in use for japanning ; 
 always observing to grind your colour smooth in 
 spirits of turpentine, then add a small quantity of 
 turpentine and spirit varnish, lay it carefully on 
 with a camel’s-hair brush, then varnish it with 
 brown or white spirit varnish, according to the 
 colour. 
 
 For a Black.—Mix up a little good size with 
 lamp-black, and it will bear a good gloss without 
 varnishing over. 
 
 To imitate black Rose-wood—The work must 
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74 TUE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 be ground black, after which take some red lead 
 well ground and ‘mixed up as before directed, 
 which lay on with a flat stiff brush, in imitation 
 -of the streaks in the wood; after which take a 
 -small quantity of lake ground fine, and mix it 
 with brown spirit varnish, carefully observing not 
 to have more colour in it than will just tinge the 
 . varnish ; but should it happen on trial to be still 
 too red, you may easily assist it with a little um- 
 ber, ground very fine, with which pass over the 
 whole of the work intended to imitate black 
 ‘rose-wood, and it will have the desired effect. I 
 have seen work done by a good japanner accord- 
 ing to the foregoing rule, which, when varnished 
 and polished, was scarcely to be known from the 
 real wood. 4 tg 
 
 To make the Furniture Oil.—Taxe linseed oil, 
 put it in a glazed pipkin, with as much alkanet 
 root as it will cover; let it boil gently, and you 
 will find it become of a strong red colour ; 7 let d 
 cool and it is fit for use. 
 
 To damask Leather for Table-covers wank pees 
 purposes.—Provide yourself with a block glued up, 
 two feet six inches long, and two feet rides faced 
 with pear-tree, five-eighths of an inch thick, upon 
 which have some pretty patterns drawn, that has 
 a good effect in the light and dark shades only, 
 but it must be so divided that it must match end 
 for end and side for side, which pattern must be 
 sunk in the paper-stainer or printer’s block, and 
 ‘may be done by any one that knows.a ‘little of 
 chair-carving ; then strain your leather dry, on the 
 block with tack, and with a glass-ball rubber of 
 about four pounds weight pass to and fro over the 
 Jeather, rubbing hard till you produce the iri 
 perfectly glazed on the leather. .: 
 
 N. B. If your cover is larger than the block be 
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 injure the pattern. I have made a pattern in 
 wood, which was afterwards cast in brass, repair- 
 ed, and fixed upon a block, for a leather gilder, 
 which is much better than one of wood—the 
 pattern comes off much sharper and cleaner. 
 
 . To polish any wark of Pearl_—Take pumice 
 stone, finely powdered and washed, and water, 
 with which you may polish it smooth ; then take 
 putty powder and proceed as before, and you will 
 have a fine gloss and colour. 
 
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 TO STAIN HARPS, VIOLINS, UR ANY OTHER 
 yh « MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, 
 
 A Crimson siain.—Take one pound of ground 
 Brazil, and boil it in three quarts of water for an 
 hour ; strain it and add half. an ounce of. cochi- 
 neal, boil it again for half an hour gently, and it 
 will be fit for use. 
 
 N. B. If you would have it of the scarlet tint, 
 _~ boil have an ounce of saffron in a quart of water, 
 and pass over the work previous to the red stain. 
 
 Observe the work must be very clean and of 
 air-wood, or good sycamore. without blemish ; 
 when varnished it will look very rich. 
 
 For a Purple stain.—Take a pound of chip log- 
 wood, to which put three quarts of water, boil it 
 well for an hour, then add four ounces of pearl-ash 
 and two ounces of indigo pounded, and you will 
 have a good purple. 
 
 For a fine Black.—When black is required in 
 niusical instruments, it is produced by japanning, 
 the work being well prepared with size and lamp- 
 black ; get some black japan from the varnish 
 maker’s, and give it two coats, after which vat~ 
 nish and polish it. 
 
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 A fine Blue stain.—Take a pound of oil of vitriol 
 ina glass bottle, into which put four ounces of 
 indigo, and proceed as before directed in dying. 
 
 A fine Green stain.—Take three pints of sfeang 
 vinegar, to which put four ounces of the best 
 verdigris ground ‘very fine, half an ounce of sap- 
 green; and half an ounce of indigo. 
 
 For a bright Yellow.—Thete is'‘no ‘need what: 
 ever to stain the wood, as a very small bit of 
 aloes put in the varnish will make it of a good 
 colour, and has the desired effect. 
 
 To make varnish for Violins, &c.—Take half 
 a gallon of rectified spirits of wine, to which put 
 six ounces of gum-sandrach, three ounces of gum- 
 niastich, and half a pint of turpentine varnish ; 
 put the above in atin can in a warm place, fre- 
 quéntly shaking it until it is dissolved; strain it 
 and keep it for use. If you find it harder tyne 
 you wish, add a little more turpentine varnish. 
 
 To stain Box-wood Brown.—Hold your work 
 to the fire that it may receive a gentle warmth) 
 then take aqua-fortis, and, with a feather, pass 
 over the work till you find it change toa fine 
 brown, (always keeping it near the fire) you may 
 then oil and polish it. 
 
 To varnish Harps, Dulcimers, & Ce in the Indian 
 manner. Prepare the wotk with size and red ochre, 
 then take ochre, burnt umber, and red lead, well 
 ground, and mix up a dark brown colour in tur- 
 pentine varnish, adding as much spirits of 
 turpentine that you may just be able to work it, 
 pass over your work even, and, while it is yet 
 wet, get a muslin sieve, and sift as much Dutch 
 metal (bronze) upon it as you may think requi- 
 site to produce the effectvarnish and polish it. ° 
 
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 RULES FOR MAKING WINES. 
 
 Mead.—To thirteen gallons of water put thirty 
 pounds of honey; boil, and scum it well; take 
 rosemary, thyme, bay-leaves and sweet briar, one 
 handful altogether; boil it an hour, put it into 
 a tub with a little ground malt; stir it till it is 
 Jukewarm ; strain it through a cloth and put it 
 into the tub again ; cut a toast and spread it over 
 with gcod yeast, and put it into the tub also; 
 when the liquor is covered over with yeast, put it 
 in a barrel; take of cloves, mace, and nutmegs, 
 an ounce and a half; of ginger sliced, an ounce; 
 bruise the spice, tie it up in a rag, and hang it in 
 the vessel, stopping it up close for use, 
 
 Balm Wine.—Get a peck of balm leaves, put 
 them ina tub ; heat four gallons of water scalding 
 hot and pour it upon the leaves, and let it stand 
 all night; in the morning strain it through a hair 
 sieve ; put to every gallon of water two pounds 
 of fine sugar, and stir it weil. Get the whites of 
 eggs, put them into a pan, and whisk it well before 
 it be over hot ; when the scum begins to rise, 
 take it off and keep it skimmed all the while it is 
 boiling ; let it boil three quarters of an hour that 
 it may head the better; so work it for two days, 
 put it into a sweet vessel, bung it close, and when 
 it is fine, bottle it, 
 
 Birch Wine.-—The season for procuring the 
 liquor from the birch tree, is the beginning of 
 March, while the sap is rising, and before the 
 leaves shoot eut; for, when the sap has become 
 forward, and the leaves begin to appear, the juice, 
 by being long digested in the bark, grows thick 
 and coloured. The method of procuring the juice 
 is by boring holes in the body of a tree, and put- 
 ting in faucets, which is commonly made of the 
 

 
 78 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 branches of elder, the pith being taken out; if 
 the tree is large, tap them in several places at a 
 time, and by that means save several gallons every 
 day. If you do not use it immediately, in order 
 to keep it in a good condition for brewing, and 
 that it may not turn sour till you have got the 
 quantity you want, the bottle in which it dropped 
 from the faucets must be immediately close- 
 stopped, and the cork waxed or resined, Clear 
 your birch with whites of eggs. To every gallon 
 of the liquid take two pounds and a half of fine 
 white sugar, boii it three quarters of an hour, and 
 when it is cold, put in it a little yeast; work it 
 two or three days, then put it into the barrel, and 
 to-every five gallons add a quart of French” 
 brandy and half a pound of stoned raisins. Before ' 
 you tun your wine burn a brimstone match in 
 the barrel. 
 
 Apricot Wine.—Take three pounds of sugar, ° 
 three quarts of water, boil them together and skim ~ 
 it well ; then put in six pounds of apricots, pared 
 and stoned, and let them boil till they are tender ; 
 after you have taken out the apricots, let the li+ 
 quor have one boil, with a sprig of flower clary 
 in it. The apricots make marmalade and are very 
 good for present using 
 
 Damson.Wine.—Gather your damsons dry, 
 weigh them and bruise them ; put them into an 
 earthen pan that has a faucet, and add to every 
 eight pounds of fruit a gallon of water ; boil the 
 Water, skim it and pour it on your fruit scalding 
 hot ; let it stand two days ; draw it off and put 
 it into a vessel fit for it, and to every gallon of 
 liquor put two pounds and a half of fine sugar ; 
 let the vessel be full and stop it close. The 
 longer it stands the better: it will keep a year in 
 the vessel. When you bottle it off put a small 
 lump of refined sugar in each bottle. 
 
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 = Quince Wine.—Take your quinces when they 
 
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 are thoroughly ripe, wipe off the fur very clean, 
 take out the cores and bruise and press them, 
 adding to every gallon of juice two pounds anda 
 half of fine sugar, then stir it till it is dissolved, 
 and put it in your cask, and, when it has done 
 working, stop it close; let it stand three months 
 before it is bottled. Keep it two or three years 
 and it will be the better. 
 
 Lemon Wine.—Take six large Jemons, pare off 
 the rind, cut them and squeeze out the juice, 
 steep the rind in the juice and put to it a quart of 
 brandy ; let it stand in an earthen pot close stop- 
 ped three days, then squeeze six more and mix 
 two quarts of spring water and as much sugar as 
 will sweeten the whole: boil the water, lemons, 
 and sugar together, letting it stand till it is cool, 
 then add a quart of white wine and the other le- 
 mon. and brandy: mix them together and run it 
 through a flannel bag into some vesse}: let it 
 stand three months then bottle it off : cork your 
 bottles well and keep it in a cool place, and it will 
 be fit to drink in a month or six weeks, 
 
 Barley Wine.—Take half a pound of French 
 barley, boil it in three waters, and save three 
 pints of the last water: mix it with a quart of 
 white wine, half a pint of borage-water, as much 
 clary-water, a little red rose-water, the juice of 
 five or six lemons, three-quarters of a pound of 
 fine sugar, and the thin yellow rind of a lemon; 
 brew all these quick together, run the liquor 
 through a strainer and boil it up: it is pleasant in 
 hot weather, and very good in fevers. 
 
 Plumb Wine-—Take twenty pounds of Malaga 
 raisins, pick, rub, shred them, and put them into 
 a tub; take four gallons of water, boil it an hours 
 let it stand till it is blood warm then put it to 
 
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 your raisins: let it stand nine or ten days more, 
 
 Stirring it twice aday. Strain out your liquor and 
 
 mix it with two quarts of damson juice, put it in 
 a vessel, and, when it has done working, stop it 
 
 close: at the end of four or five months bottle it. 
 
 Palermo Wine.—Take to every quart of water 
 a pound of Malaga raisins, rub and cut the raisins 
 small and put them to the water, and. let them 
 stand ten days, stirring once or twice a day ; boil 
 
 the water an hour before it is put -to the raisins 
 
 and let it stand to cool; at ten days’ end strain the 
 liquor, put a little yeast to it, and put it in the 
 vessel with a sprig of dried wormwood : let it be 
 close stopped, and at three months’ end bottle it, 
 
 Frontiniec Wine.—Take six gallons of water, 
 twelve pounds of white sugar, and six pounds of 
 raisins of the sun, cut small; boil these together 
 an hour, then take of the flowers of elder when 
 they are falling, and will shake off, the quantity 
 of half a peck, and put them in the liquor when 
 it is almost cold: the next day put in six spoons- 
 ful of syrup of lemons, and four spoonsful of ale 
 yeast: two days after put it ina vessel, and when 
 it has stood two months, bottle it. 
 
 British Madeira.—Put one bushel] of good pale 
 malt into. atub, and pour upon it eleven gallons of 
 boiling water, after stirring them together, cover 
 the vessel over, and let them stand to infuse for 
 three hours, then strain off the liquor through a 
 hair sieve, dissolve in it three pounds and a half 
 of sugar candy, and ferment it with yeast in the 
 usual manner. After fermenting three days (dur- 
 ing which time the veast is to be skimmed off 
 three or four times a day) pour the clear liquor 
 into a Clean cask, and add to it the following ar- 
 ticles mixed together:—French “brandy two 
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 bottles; stir them together and let the cask be 
 well bunged, and kept in a cool place for ten 
 months, when it will be fit to bottle. This wine 
 will be found to be equal to the Cape Madeira.— 
 Good table beer may be made with the malt after 
 it has been infused for making the wine. 
 
 British Port Wine.—'Take of British grape 
 wine, or good cider, four gallons; recent Juice of 
 elderberries, one gallon; brandy two quarts ; log~- 
 wood, four ounces; rhatany root (bruised) half a 
 pound. First, infuse the logwood and rhatany 
 root in the brandy, and a gallon of the grape 
 “wine, or cider, for one week ; then strain cff the 
 
 liquor and mix. it with the cther ingredients. 
 
 Keep it in a cask well bunged for a month, when 
 -it will be fit to bottle. 
 
 British Sherry.—Take of pale ale-wort, made 
 as directed for British Madeira, four gallons; of 
 pure water, seven gallons; of white sugar sixteen 
 
 »pounds ; boil them together gently for about three 
 
 quarters of an hour, constantly skimming it.; 
 
 -pour it into.a clean tub and dissolve in it four 
 - pounds of sugar-candy powdered, ferment with 
 
 yeast for three or four days in the same manner 
 -as directed for British Madeira. When. poured 
 off clear into a sweet cask, add five pounds of the 
 best raisins, bruised and stoned ; stir up the liquor 
 once or twice a day, and, after standing slightly 
 -bunged two days, add about a gallon ot French 
 brandy, then bung the cask closely and in three 
 months bottle it for use. 
 
 British Champaigne.—Take of white sugar, 
 
 _ eight pounds ; the whitest raw sugar, seven ditto ; 
 
 christalized lemon acid or tartaric acid, an ounce 
 
 and a quarter ; pure water, eight gallons; white 
 
 grape wine, two quarts ; of perry, four quarts ; of 
 
 French brandy, three pints, Boil the sugars in 
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 82 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 the water, skimming it occasionally for two hours, 
 then pour it into a tub, and dissolve in it the acid, 
 Before it be cold, add some yeast, and ferment in 
 the same manner as directed for British Madeira, 
 Put it into a clean cask and add the other ingre- 
 dients. . The cask is to be well bunged and kept 
 in a cool place for two or three months, then 
 bottle it and keep it cceol for a month longer, and 
 it wiil be fit for use. If it should not be perfectly 
 clear after standing in the cask for two or three 
 months, it should be rendered so by the use of 
 isinglass before it be bottled. By adding a pound 
 of tresh or preserved strawberries, and two ounces 
 of powdered cochineal to the above quantity, the 
 pink Champaigne may be made. 
 
 Clary Wine.—Take twenty-four pounds of Ma- 
 laga raisins, pick and chop them very small, put 
 them into a tub, and, to each pound, a quart of 
 
 water; let them steep ten or eleven days, stirring 
 
 it twice every day ; it must be kept covered close 
 all the while, then strain it off and put it into a 
 vessel, and about half a peck of the tops of clary 
 when in blossom ; stép it close for six weeks and 
 then bottle it off: in twoor three months it is fit 
 to drink. It is apt to havea great settlement at 
 bottom, therefore it is best to draw it off by 
 plugs, or tap it pretty high. 
 
 Saragossa Wine, or English Sack.—To every 
 quart of water put a sprig of rue, and to every 
 gallon a handful of fennel root; boil them half 
 an hour, strain it off, and to every gallon of liquor 
 put three pounds of honey, boil two hours and 
 
 skim it well : when it is cold pour it off into the 
 vesse! or cask, keep it a year in the vessel and 
 bottle it. 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BROOK.- 83 
 
 raisins, chop them small and put five pounds to 
 every gallon of cold spring water; let them steep 
 a fortnight or more, squeeze out the liquor and 
 barrel it in a vessel fit for it, fume the vessel 
 with brimstone. Do not stop it close till the 
 hissing isover, Put halfa pint of French brandy 
 to every gallon of wine. 
 
 Cherry Brandy.—Take six dozen pounds ot 
 cherries, half red and half black, mash or squeeze 
 them to pieces with your hands, and put to them 
 three gallons of brandy: Jet them steep twenty- 
 four hours, and, put the mashed cherries and li 
 guor, a little atatime, into a canvass bag, and 
 press it as long as any juice will run: sweeten it 
 to your taste, put it into a vessel, let it stand for 
 a month and bottle it off. Put a lump of loaf 
 sugar into every bottle. 
 
 Shrub.—Take two quarts of brandy, the juice 
 of five lemons, the peels of two, anda nutmeg : 
 stop it up, let it stand three days, and add to it 
 three pints of white wine and a pound and a half 
 of sugar: mix it, strain it twice through a flan- 
 nel, and bottle it up. 
 
 Fine Milk Punch.—Take two quarts of water, 
 one quart of milk, half a pint of lemon juice and 
 one quart of brandy, with sugar to your taste ; 
 put the milk and water together a little warm, 
 then the sugar and lemon juice: stir it well toge- 
 ther, then the brandy, stir it again and run it 
 through a flannel bag till it is very fine and bottle 
 it. Jt will keep a fortnight or more. 
 
 To recover Wine that has turned sharp.—Rack 
 off your wine into another vessel, and to ten gal- 
 lons put the following powder :—take oyster- 
 shells, scrape and wash off the brown dirty out- 
 
 
 
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 side of the shells and dry them in an oven till 
 they will powder. Put a pound of this powder 
 to every nine or ten gallons of wine, stir it well: 
 together and stop it up: let it stand to settle two 
 or three days, or till itis fine. As-soon as it is 
 fine, bottle it off and cork it well. 
 
 To fine Wine the Lisbon way.—To every twenty 
 gallons of white wine take*the whites of ten eggs 
 and a small handful of salt, beat them together: 
 to a froth, and mix them well with a quart or 
 more of the wine, then pour the wine and the 
 whites into the vessel 5 stir it well, and i in a few 
 days it will be fine. 
 
 Red or white Eider Wine. uatGather the elder- 
 berries ripe and dry, pick them and bruise them: 
 with your hands, and strain them : set the liquor 
 by in glazed earthen vessels for twelve hours to 
 settle : put to every pint of juice a pintand a haif 
 of water, and to every gallon of this liquor three 
 pounds of Lisbon sugar: set itin a kettle over the 
 fire, and, when it is ready to boil, clarify it with 
 the whites of four or five eggs ; let it boilan hour, 
 and, when it is almost cold, work it with streng 
 ale yeast and tun it, filling up the vessel from 
 time to time with the same liquor, saved on pur- 
 pose, as it sinks by working. Ina month's time, 
 if the vessel holds about eight gallons, it will be, 
 fine and fit to bottle, and, after bottling, will be 
 fit to drink in twelve months ; but, if the vessel 
 be larger, it must stand longer in proportion, 
 three or four months at least for a hogshead.— 
 Note.—All liquors must be fined before they are 
 bottled, or else they will grow sharp and ferment 
 in the bottles. Add to every gallon of this liquor 
 a pint of strong mountain wine, but not such as, 
 has the borachio, or hog’s skin flavour. This. 
 wine will be very strong and pleasant. : 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 85 
 
 ' Sage Wine.—Boil twenty-six quarts of spring 
 water a quarter of an heur, and, when it is blood 
 Warm, put twenty-six pounds of Malaga raisins, 
 picked, rubbed, and shred into it, with almost 
 half a bushel of shred sage, and a porringer of 
 ale yeast ; stir it well together, and let it stand in 
 a tub, covered warm, six or seven days, stirring 
 it every day, then strain it off and put it into a 
 runlet ; let it work three or four days, then stop 
 it up: when it has stood six or seven days, put in 
 a quart or two of Malaga sack, and, when it is 
 fine, bottle it. 
 
 Gooseberry Wine.—Gather your gooseberries in 
 a dry season, when they are halt ripe, pick them, 
 and bruise them in a tub with a wooden mallet, 
 for no metal is proper: take about the quantity 
 of a peck of the gooseberries, put them into a 
 cloth made of horse hair, and press them as much 
 as possible without breaking the seeds: repeat 
 this till your gooseberries are bruised, adding to 
 this pressed juice the other in the tub: add to 
 every gallon three pounds of powdered sugar, stir 
 it together till the sugar is dissolved, and then put 
 it ina vessel, which must be quite filled with it. 
 If the vessel holds about ten or twelve gallons, it 
 must stand a fortnight or three weeks, or if about 
 twenty gallons, four or five weeks, to settle in a 
 cold place: draw off the wine from the lees. 
 After you have discharged the lees from the ves- 
 sel, return the clear liquor into the vessel again, 
 and let it stand three months if the cask is about. 
 three gallons ; or, between four and five months, 
 if it be twenty gallons, and bottle it. This wine, 
 if truly prepared according to the above directions, 
 will improve every year, and keep good for many 
 years. 
 
 Currant Wne.-~Gather your currants full ripe 3 
 
 
 
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 86 . THE RECKIPT BOOK, 
 
 Strip them and bruise them in a mortar, and*to 
 severy gallon of the pulp put two quarts of water, 
 first boiled and cold: let it stand in a tub twenty= 
 four hours to ferment, then run it through a hair 
 sieve: let no hand touch it, but take its time to 
 run, and to every gallon of liquer put two pounds 
 and a half of white sugar: stir it well, put it in 
 your vessel, and to every six gallons put a quart 
 of the best rectified spirits of wine: let it stand 
 six weeks, and bottle it. If it is not very. fine, 
 empty it into other bottles, and, after it has stoud 
 a fortnight, rack it off into smaller bottles, 
 
 Raisin Wine.—To every gallon of clear river 
 water, put five pounds of Malaga or Belvidere 
 raisins, let them steep a fortnight, stirring them. 
 every day: pour the liquor off, squeeze the juice 
 off the raisins, and put both liquors together in a 
 vessel that is of a size to contain it exactly. Let 
 the vessel stand open till the wine has done hiss- 
 ing, or making the least noise. Add a pint of 
 French brandy to every two gallons, stop it close, 
 and, when it is fine, bottle it. If you would have 
 it red, put one gallon of Alicant wine to every 
 four of raisin wine. 
 
 Cherry Wine.—Pull off the stalks of the cher- 
 ries, and wash them without breaking the stones, 
 press them hard through a hair bag, and, to every 
 gallon of liquor put two pounds of coarse sugar. 
 The vessel must be full, and let it work as long 
 as it makes a noise in the vessel: stop it up close 
 for a month or more, and, when it is fine, draw 
 it into dry bottles. If it makes them fly, open 
 them for a moment, and stop them up again, It 
 will be fit to drink in a quarter of a year. 
 
 Orange Wine.—Put twelve pounds of fine 
 sugar, and the whites of eight eggs well beaten, 
 

 
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 into six gallons of spring water, let it boilan hour, 
 scumming it all the time : when it is nearly cool, 
 put to it the juice of fifty Seville oranges, six 
 spoonsful of good ale yeast, and let it stand two 
 days : put it into another vessel, with two quarts 
 of Rhenish wine, and the juice of twelve lemons : 
 let the juice of the lemons and the wine, and two 
 pounds of double-refined sugar, stand close cover- 
 ed twelve hours before it is put into the orange 
 wine, and scum off the seeds, . The lemon-peels 
 miust be put in with the oranges—half the rinds 
 must be put in the vessel. It must stand ten or 
 twelve days before it is fit to bottle. 
 
 Ginger Wine.—Take four gallons of water and 
 seven pounds of sugar, boil them half an hour, 
 skimming it all the time: when the liquor is cold 
 squeeze in the juice of two lemons, then boil the 
 peels, with two ounces of white ginger, i three 
 pints of water, one hour: when cold, put it alto- 
 gether into a cask, with one gill of finings and 
 three pounds of Malaga raisins: close it up, let it 
 stand two months, and then bottle it off. 
 
 N B. A lumpof unslacked lime put into your 
 cask, will keep wine from turning sour. 
 
 
 
 Ginger Beer—The best method of making 
 this pleasant and wholesome beverage is as fol- 
 lows :—Take one ounce and a half of the best 
 ginger bruised, one ounce of cream Of tartar, and 
 one pound of white sugar : put these ingredients 
 into an earthen pan, and pour upon them a gallon 
 of boiling water. When cold, add a table- 
 spoonful of yeast, cover the pan over witha 
 blanket, and let it stand till the next morning: 
 
 
 
88 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 then run it through a filtering bag or close sieve, 
 
 . bottle it, and fasten down the corks with string: 
 
 let it stand ina cool place for three days, and it 
 will be fit for use. Be particular in having the 
 bottles well cleaned, and good sound corks, A 
 lemon sliced, and added; will greatly’ improve its 
 flavour. 
 
 Another, for six gallons.—Bruised ginger eight 
 ounces ; cream of tartar; six ounces’; lump sugar, 
 six pounds; and three lemons sliced with the 
 rind on. Should boiling the whole be preferred 
 instead of pouring the water on hot, we merely 
 caution the operator to be careful in using a 
 bright iron or tin vessel for the purpose, and not 
 keep it over the fire more than three minutes 
 et it boils : strain, &c. as before, 
 
 Soda Water. 5M cheap wie expeditious way ot 
 making :—First, be careful in having your bottles 
 (half pint bottles are best) washed and dry, and 
 put into each twenty-five grains of subcarbonate 
 of potash, and twenty-five grains of citric acid. 
 Fill the bottles nearly full with spring water, cork 
 it down instantly, and tie the cork down with 
 strong twine or wire, then proceed to the next 
 bottle, and so on until the whole is completed.— 
 Tartaric acid will answer the same purpose as the 
 Citric acid, and is not so dear, 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 89 
 
 MEDIcINAL Recirs. 
 
 The publisher Pensisets he need not offer any 
 apology for presenting to his readers the following 
 remedies for the most grievous diseases, many of 
 which, although composed of the simplest mate- 
 rials, have performed very astonishing cures. 
 
 Weak Eyes—May be relieved by washing them 
 in cold water; or dissolve four grains of sugar 
 of lead, and crude sal ammoniac, in eight ounces 
 of water, to which add a few drops of laudanum, 
 With this mixture bath the eyes night and morn- 
 ing. Rose water is-also good for the eyes. 
 
 Inflamed Eyes,—Leeches should be applied to 
 the temples, and, when the bleeding has ceased, 
 a blister may be applied, and a little opening me- 
 dicine taken. Shaking the head and bathing the 
 feet in warm water will be found very beneficial. 
 
 To kill Worms.—Take an ounce of tin, finely 
 powdered, and two drachms of Ethiop’s mineral, 
 mixed together; divide it into six powders, and 
 take one of them, ina little syrup, twice a day: 
 when they are used work them off with a little 
 rhubarb. 
 
 Freckles on the Fauce.—To disperse freckles 
 take two ounces of lemon juice, half a drachm of 
 powdered borax, and one drachm of sugar, mix 
 them, and let them stand a few day's in a glass 
 bottle till the liquor is fit for use, then rub it on 
 the hands and face occasionally. 
 
 Simple Remedy for a Pain in the Side.—At beds 
 time, take a fresh cabbage leaf, hold it to the fire 
 until it, is quite warm, and then apply it to the 
 part affected, binding it tight with a cloth round 
 
90 THE RECEIPT- BOOK. 
 
 the body ; let it remain for twelve hours or more, 
 when it will generally be found to have removed 
 the pain; it will be well, however, to repeat the © 
 application of a fresh leaf on taking off the first, 
 and let it remain as before. This will seldom fail 
 in its effect. 
 
 Remedy for the Lumlago.—Get some oil of 
 caLbage, commonly called green oil, and rub it 
 well in before the fire previously to going to bed, 
 on the loins and back, and in two or three appli- — 
 cations this troublesome cieevues is generally re- 
 moved. 
 
 Lip Salve—— Take four ounces of white whey, 
 one ounce of spermaceti, and half a pint of oil of 
 almonds, and melt it in a water bath: when 
 melted, put ina small quantity of alkanet root hid 
 in a linen bag, to prevent it mixing with the other 
 ingredients, the colour being the only part want- 
 ed, which the heat carries through the cloth or 
 bag. Stir it with a knife till it gets red; take out 
 the alkanet root, and add a little essence of lemon 
 or bergamot, run it into boxes for use. 
 
 Diarhea.—Take of eonfeetion of catechu, two 
 drachms ; simple cinnamon water, four ounces ; 
 syrup of white poppies, one ounce : mix them to- 
 gether. One or two table spoonsful to be taken 
 twice or thrice a-day as required: for children 
 under ten years of age, a dessert spoonful to bé 
 used; under two years, a tea spoonful, also two 
 or three times a-day, as above stated. 
 
 Opening Pills—Take four drachms of Castile 
 soap, and the same quancity of succotrine aloes, 
 make it into pills with a sufficient quantity of sy- 
 rup. Two or three may be ie when costive. 
 
 , Another.—Take four drichans of the extract of 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK. OL 
 
 | jalap, the same quantity of vitriolated tartar, and 
 form it into pills with syrup of ginger; five of 
 these pills is sufficient fora purge, but, tu keep 
 _ the body gently open, one may be taken night 
 and eee 
 
 Drinighe for a cough.—Beat two fresh eggs, 
 mix them with half a pint of new milk warmed, 
 two table spoonsful of capillaire, the same quan- 
 tity of rose-water, and a little nutmeg. It must 
 not be warmed after the egg is added. Take it 
 the first and last thing. 
 
 For a Fever.—Boil three ounces of currants, 
 two of raisins carefully stoned, and an ounce and 
 a half of tamarinds, in three pints of water till it 
 is reduced to a quart, strain it, throw in a bit of 
 lemon-peel, and let it stand an hour. 
 
 For Tape-worm in Children.—The following 
 prescription is by the late Dr. Lettsom :—Beat up 
 five drachms and a half of rectified oil of turpen- 
 tine, with the yolk of an egg, some sugar and wa- 
 ter, and common syrup. Give this to a child 
 having tape-worms : two doses are sure of expel- 
 ling them. 
 
 The following is a most excellent Remedy for a 
 Cold.—Take a large tea-cup full of linseed, twa 
 pennyworth of stick liquorice, and a quarter of a 
 pound of sun raisins: put these into two quarts 
 of soft water, and let it simmer over a slow fire 
 till it is reduced to one; then add to it a quarter 
 of a pound of brown sugar-candy pounded, a 
 table-spoonful of old rum, and a table-spoonful of 
 the best white wine vinegar, or lemon juice.— 
 {The rum and vinegar are best to be added only to 
 the quantity you are going immediately to take, 
 for if it is put into the whole it will grow flat. ]— 
 Drink half a pint at going to bed, and takea little 
 
 
 
92 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 when the cough’is troublesome. This recipe | 
 
 generally cures the worst of colds in two or three 
 
 days, and, if taken in time, may be said to be an. 
 
 almost infallible remedy. It is a most balsamic 
 cordial for the lungs, without the opening quali- 
 ties which endanger fresh colds in going out. It 
 has been known to cure colds that have been al- 
 most settled into consumptions in less than three 
 weeks, 
 
 Cure for the Gravel.—Dissolve three drachms 
 of prepared netron in a quart of cold soft water, 
 and take half this quantity in the course of the day. 
 Continue this medicine for a few days, and that 
 painful complaint will be dislodged. It may be 
 taken at any hour, but is best after a meal. Itis 
 said that the greatest martyrs to this disorder have 
 been perfectly relieved by this simple remedy, 
 which every person should remember, and note 
 it in a pocket book, as few families are without 
 some individual afflicted with gravel in a greater 
 ar less degree, 
 
 Instant Relief for a Pain and lag State of the 
 Bowels.—Take twelve drops of laudanum, half a 
 gill of spirituous cinnamon water, or, if that can- 
 not be immediately had, the best brandy. This 
 will seldom fail to give instant relief, but should 
 it so fail in the first instance, it may be 6 repeated 
 in about an hour, 
 
 Remedy for the Gout.— Greater benefit has been 
 derived trom a liniment of olive oil, and the sul- 
 phuric acid, in case of gouty inflammation of the 
 feet, than from any other application, and the 
 gouty subjects to whom it has been recommend- 
 ed speak in the highest terms of its efficacy. A 
 case of gout in the feet is related, wherein great 
 relief was obtained by a large plaister uf treacle 
 completely covering the inflamed part. 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 95 
 
 Chilblain Lotion—Get one drachm of sucar 
 of lead, two ditto of white vitriol, reduce them 
 to a fine powder, and add four ounces of water. 
 
 - Before using this lotion, it is to be well shaken, 
 
 then rubbed well on the parts affected, before a 
 good fire with the hand. The best time for ap- 
 plication is in the evening, It scarcely ever fails 
 curing the must inveterate chilblains by once or 
 twice using. It is vot to be used on broken chil- 
 blains. The above totion has been sold for a con- 
 siderable time at Exeter as a patent medicine with 
 great success. 
 
 For Coughs in aged Persons.—Pour gradually 
 two drachms of nitric acid, diluted in half a pint 
 of water, on two drachms of gum ammoniac, and 
 triturate them in a glass mortar, until the gum is 
 dissolved. A table-spoonful to be taken in sweet- 
 ened water every two or three hours, | 
 
 For recent Cold in the Head.—Get twenty- 
 five drops of laudanum, one drachm cf sweet 
 spirits of nitre, forty drops of antimonial wine, 
 and half an ounce of water. To be mixed and 
 taken at bed-time, the patient drinking freely 
 afterwards of warm water-gruel, barley-water, or 
 whey. 
 
 To remove Corns.—Get four ounces of white 
 diacolon piaister, four ounces of shoe-maker’s 
 wax, and fifty drops of muriatic acid, or spirits of 
 salt. Boil these ingredients for a few minutes in 
 an earthen pipkin, and, when cold, roll the mass 
 out between the hands, or upon a marble slab, 
 slightly moistened with olive oil. 
 
 A Cure for the Tooth Ache.—An. eminent apo* 
 thecary, in the vicinity of this metropolis, has 
 lately recommended, as an effectual cure for the 
 tooth-ache, the following remedy, which he has 
 
94 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 
 
 ‘been in the habit of using for many years, and out 
 of the number of cases eight-tenths have suc- 
 ceeded, vizi—to take three table-spoonsful of 
 ‘brandy, adding to it one drachm of camphor, 
 
 with thirty or forty drops of laudanum, and then 
 
 -dropping a little on some lint, and apply it to the 
 
 tooth affected, keeping the lint moistened for fal 
 
 minutes only to the tooth and gum: 
 
 Cure Sor the Ear-Ache,—Take a piece of the 
 
 Jean of mutton about the size of a large walnut, 
 
 put it into the fire, and burn it for some’ time, 
 till it becomes reduced almost to a cinder, then 
 put it into a piece of clean rag, and squceze it 
 until. some moisture is expressed, which must 
 be dropped into the ear as hot as the yu can 
 bear it. . ; 
 
 For Burns and Scalds.—First apply vinegar 
 until the pain abates; secondly, an emollient 
 poultice ; and thirdly, as soon as any secretion 
 of matter or watery fluid appears, by covering the 
 
 sore with® powdered chalk. Liniment’ for the 
 
 same :—Take of linseed, or olive-oil‘and lime- 
 water of each equal parts, or three ounces by 
 measure 3 mix by shaking them together: This 
 liniment is extremely useful in cases of scalds or 
 burns, being singularly efficacious in preventing, 
 if applied in time, the inflammation subsequent 
 to these, or even in pin sie 3 it it it has 
 come on. eb oaR 
 
 To make Eye-Water.—Take ten grains of opi- 
 um, six of camphor, and tweive ounces of boil- | 
 ing water ; rub the opium and camphor with the 
 boiling water, and strain. This collyrium abates 
 the pain and irritation attendant on severe cases 
 of inflammation of the eyes. bi ; 
 
 Cure for a Pimpled Face.—Take an ounce each 
 
 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 95 
 
 _ of liver of sulphur, rock alum and common salt, 
 and two drachms cach of sugar candy and sper- 
 maceti. Pound and sift these articles, then put 
 the whole into a quart bottle, and add half a 
 pint of brandy, three ounces of white lily-water, 
 and the same of spring-water ; shake it well toge- 
 ther, and keep it for use. With this liquid the 
 face is to be frequently bathed, remembering to 
 shake the bottle, and, on going to bed, lay all 
 over the face linen which has been dipped in it. 
 In ten or twelve days, it is said, a perfect cure 
 may be effected of this very unpleasant com- 
 plaint, as nothing in this composition can Bare 
 prejudicial. 
 
 Dr. Sioughton’s celebrated Stomachic Elixir.— 
 Pare off the thin yellow rinds of six large Seville 
 oranges, and put them ina quart bottle with an 
 ounce of gentian root scraped and sliced, and half 
 a drachm of cochineal. Pour over these ingredients 
 a pint of brandy, shake the bottle well several 
 times during that and the following day, let it 
 stand two days more to settle, and clear it off into 
 
 bottles for use. Take one or two tea-spoonsful 
 
 morning and afternoon, in a glass of wine or in a 
 
 | cup oftea. This is an elegant preparation, little 
 _ differing from the compound tincture of gentian 
 _ either of the London or Edinburgh dispensatories, 
 _ the former adding half an ounce of canella alba, 
 | (white cinnamon) and the latter only substituting 
 | for cochineal of Stoughton, half an ounce of 
 _ husked and bruised seeds of the lesser cardamom. 
 
 Tn deciding on their respective merits, it should 
 
 seem that Stoughton’s elixir has the advantage in 
 _ simplicity, and, perhaps, altogether as a general 
 
 stomachic. Indeed, forsome intentions, both the 
 London and Edinburgh compositions may have 
 their respective claims to preference; in a cold 
 
 _ stomach, the cardamom might be useful ; and, in 
 a laxative habit, the canella alba. Asa family 
 | medicine, to be at all times safely resorted to, 
 
96 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 there is no need to hesitate in recommending Dr. 
 OE Ge ee 
 
 Stoughton’s Elixir. ssa 
 
 Saeed 
 
 eaaey bis 
 
 General Turlington's Balsam.—This is a good 
 vulnerary balsam for common uses, and may be 
 safely taken internally where the genuine Friar’s 
 Balsam is not at hand. The receipt for making 
 the true ‘Curlington’s Balsam is as follows ;— 
 Take an ounce of the Peruvian balsam; two 
 ounces of the best liquid thorax ; three ounces of 
 the best gum benjamin impregnated with almonds; 
 and half an ounce each of the aloes, myrrh, frank- 
 incense, angelica roots, and the flowers of St, 
 John’s wort, Beat all these ingredients in a mor- 
 tar, and put them into a glass bottle, adding a 
 pint and a quarter of spirits of wine. Let the 
 bottle stand by the kitchen fire, or in the chimney 
 corner, two days and nights, then decant it off in 
 small bottles well corked and sealed, to be kept 
 ready for use. The same quantity of spirits of 
 wine poured on the ingredients, well shaken up 
 and placed near the fire about six or eight days 
 and nights, will serve for slight occasions on 
 being bottled in a similar manner.- 
 
 
 
 Useful Embrocation.—This recipe was never 
 before made known to the public in any shape 
 whatever. Inthe capital of the west of England 
 it was, and I believe is now, made by a chemist, 
 and sold as patent medicine. The success that 
 attends its application in all kinds of bruises, swelle 
 ings, green wounds, cuts and sores, has obtained 
 it an immense sale. Most families, who have wit- 
 nessed its effects, keep it in their houses asa re- 
 medy for all casual accidents; indeed I strongly 
 recommend it, having witnessed its powers in 
 several instances. The cheapness of the compo- 
 sition gives it a double claim to public patronage. 
 It is made in the following manner :—Take half 
 an ounce of camphor, cut it into small pieces, and 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOog. 97, 
 dissolve it in half a pint of spirits of wine, in a. 
 
 _closely corked bottle ; when completely dissolved, 
 
 add one pint of ox-gall, (which can be had at any 
 butcher’s) and about forty or fifty drops of lauda- 
 num ; shake it well and bottle it for use. The 
 application is simple, requiring nothing mcre than 
 being applied with some lint dipped into it. 
 
 Efficacious Ointment for the Itch—Mix two 
 ounces of lard, with one ounce of sulphur-vivum, 
 and a few drops of essenceof lemons. On going 
 to bed apply the whole of this by well rubbing it 
 on every part of the body, arms, &c. especially 
 the parts most affected. The next morning let 
 the ointment be washed off with soap and warm 
 water; change the Jinen and clothes; should the 
 disease not be entirely eradicated with one appli- 
 cation, try another inthe same manner. At the 
 same time take some flower of sulphur, mixed 
 with a little cream of tartar, in. milk, beer, or 
 treacle. ‘Should there be more than one in the 
 family, it is’ necessary that each apply the above 
 quantity, and half the quantity for a child. 
 
 = 
 TINCTURES, &c, 
 
 Aromatic Tincture.—Infuse two ounces of Ja- 
 maica pepper in two pints of brandy without heat, 
 for afew days, then strain offthe tincture. This 
 simple tincture will answer the intentions of the 
 
 _ more costly preparations of this kind. Itis rather 
 
 too hot to be taken by itself, but it is proper for 
 
 mixing with such medicines as might prove too 
 cold for the stomach, 
 
 Compound Tincture of Bark.—Take of Peruvian 
 bark two ounces ; Seville orange-peel and cinna- 
 mon, of each half an ounce. Let the bark be 
 powdered and the ingredients bruised, then infuse 
 
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 the whole in a pint and a half of brandy for five 
 
 or six days, in a close vessel ; afterwards strain off 
 the tincture. This tincture is not only beneficial 
 
 in intermitting fevers, but also in slow, nervous, 
 
 and putrid kinds, especially towards their decline. 
 
 The dose is from one drachm to three or four, 
 every fifth or sixth hour. It may be given in any 
 
 liquor, and sharpened with a 34 oo of is 
 
 spirits of vitriol. ie 
 
 Volatile Fetid Ti aeeeneaipn two ounces of 
 asafoetida in one pint of volatile aromatic spirit for 
 cight days in a close bottle, frequently shaking it, 
 then strain the tincture. This medicine is very 
 beneficial in hysteric disorders, especially when 
 attended with lowness of spirits and faintings. .A 
 tea-spoonful may be taken in a glass of wine ora 
 cup of pennyroyal tea. 
 
 Volatile Tincture of Gum Guracum.—Take of 
 
 gum guiacum, four ounces; volatile aromatic 
 spirit, a pint. Infuse them, without heat, in a 
 vessel well stopped for a few days, then straim off 
 the tincture. In rheumatic complaints, a tea- 
 spoonful of this tincture may be taken in a cupof 
 the infusion of water trefoil twice or thrice a day. 
 
 Tincture of black Hellebore.—Infusetwo ounces 
 of the root of black hellebore bruised, in a pint 
 of proof spirit, for seven or eight days, then filter 
 the tincture through paper. A scruple of cochi- 
 neal may be infused along with the roots, to give 
 the tincture a colour, In obstructions of the 
 menses, a tea-spoonful of this tincture may be 
 ‘taken in a cup of “ese on or camomile tea 
 twice a day. 18 
 
 * aaa iirenk Tincture—Digest two ounces of 
 
 ‘gum kino in a pint and a half of brandy, for eight 
 ‘days, afterwards strain it for use. This tincture, 
 
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THE RECEIPT BOOK, 99 
 
 though not generally known, is a good astringent 
 medicine. With this view, an ounce or more of 
 it Se ‘be taken three or four times a day. 
 
 weRieture ef. Myrrh and: Aloes,—Take of gum 
 myrrh, an ounce and a half; hepatic aloes, one 
 ounce. Letthem be reduced to a powder, and in- 
 fused in two pints of rectified spirits for six days, 
 then strain the tincture. This is principally used 
 by surgeons for cleansing foul ulcers, and restrain- 
 ing the progress of gangrenes. By some recom- 
 pores as @ proper application to green. wounds. 
 a Bnetiere of Opium.—Take of crude opium, two 
 ounces; spirituous aromatic water and mountain 
 wine, of each ten vunces. Dissolve the opium, 
 sliced, in the wine, with a gentle heat, frequently 
 ‘stirring it, afterwards add the spirit and strain off 
 the tincture. As twenty-five drops Of this tinc- 
 ture contain a grain of opium, the common dose 
 may be from twenty to thirty drops. 
 
 > Tincture of Hiera Picra.—Take cf succotrine 
 aloes in powder, one ounce; Virginia snake root 
 ‘and ginger, of each two drachms, Infuse a pint 
 of mountain wine and half a pint of brandy, for a 
 ‘week, frequently shaking the bottle, then strain 
 off the tincture. 
 
 Compound Tincture of Senna.—Take of senna 
 one ounce; jalap, coriander seeds, and cream of 
 tartar, of each half an ounce. Infuse them in a 
 pint and a half of French brandy for a week, then 
 strain the tincture and add to it four ounces of fine 
 sugar. ‘This is an agreeable purge, and answers 
 
 ‘all the purposes of the Elixir Salutis and of Daffy’s 
 -Elixir. The dose is from one to two or three 
 
 OUNCES. 
 
 Tincture of Spanish Flies.—Take of Spanish 
 
pe-entnn,. 
 
 100 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 flies, reduced to a fine powder, two ounces ; "spirits 
 of wine, one pint. Infuse tor two or three days; 
 then strain oft the tincture. This is intended as 
 an acid stimulated for external use. Parts affected 
 with the palsy, or chronic rheumatism rosy. Se 
 sequently rubbed with it. bete 
 Tincture of the Balsam of Tolu i Tike of ie 
 balsam of Tolu, an ounce and a half; rectified 
 spirits of wine, a pint. Infuse in a gentle heat 
 until. the balsam is dissolyed, then strain the 
 tincture. ‘This: tincture possesses all the virtues 
 of the balsam, in coughs and other complaints 
 of the breast, a tea-spoonful or two of it may be 
 taken on a bit of loaf sugar; but the best way of 
 using it is in the syrup. . An ounce of the tinc-~ 
 ture properly mixed with two pounds of simple 
 syrup will make what is raced called nd 
 Balsamic syrup, ie) 
 
 Tincture of Rhubarb. —Take of rhubarb, two 
 ounces anda half; lesser cardamom seeds, half 
 an ounce; brandy, two pints; digest fora week 
 and strain the tincture, Those who choose to 
 have a vinous tincture of: rhubarb may infuse the 
 above ingredients in a pintof Lisbon wine, adding 
 to it about two.ounces of proof spirits. If an ounce 
 of gentian root and a drachm of Virginia snake- 
 root be added to the above ingredients, it will 
 make the bitter tincture of rhubarb. All these 
 tinctures are designed as stomachics and corrobo- 
 rants, as well as purgatives.: In weakness of the 
 stomach, ‘indigestion, laxity of the «intestines, 
 fluxes, cholicky and other complaints, they are 
 frequently of great service. ‘The dose is from 
 half a spoonful to three or four spoonsful, or 
 more, according: to: the circumstances of the pati- 
 ent, and the purpose it is intended to answer. = 
 
 Paregoric Elixir.—Take of flowers of benxion, 
 

 
 ‘HE RICEIPT BOOK. 401 
 
 half an ounce ; ; opium, two drachms, Infuse in 
 one pound of the volatile aromatic spirit, four or 
 five days, frequently shaking the bottle; after- 
 wards strain the elixir. This is an agreeable and 
 safe way of administering opium. It eases pain, 
 allays tickling coughs, relieves difficult breathing, 
 and is useful in many disorders of children, partie 
 cularly the hooping cough. The dose to an 
 adult is from fifty to sixty drops, 
 
 _ Acid Elixir of Vitriol.—Take of the aromatic 
 tincture, one pint; oil of vitriol, three ounces, 
 Mix them gradually and afterthe foeces have sub- 
 sided, filter the elixir through paper in a glass 
 funnel. This is one of the best medicines that I 
 know for hysteric and hypochondriac patients, 
 afflicted with flatulencies, arising from relaxation 
 of the stomach and intestines. It will succeed 
 where the most celebrated stomachic bitters have 
 no efiect.. The dose is from ten to forty dropsin 
 a glass of wine or water, or a cup of bitter infu- 
 sion twice or thrice a day. It should be taken 
 when the stomach is most empty. 
 
 _ Camphorated Spirits of Wine.—Dissolve an 
 ounce of camphor in a pint of rectified spirits. 
 This solution is employed as an embrocation in 
 bruises, palsies, the chronic rheumatism, and for 
 preventing gangrenes. ‘The above quantity of 
 camphor dissolved in half a pound of the aroma- 
 tic spirit, makes Ward’s Essence, 
 
 | Spirits of Mindererus,—Take of volatile sal am- 
 moniac, any quantity. Pour on it, gradually, 
 distilled vinegar till the effervescence ceases. This 
 medicine is useful in promoting a discharge by the 
 skin and urinary passages. It is also a good exter- 
 nal application in strains and bruises. When in- 
 tended to raise a sweat, half an ounce of it ina 
 cup of warm gruel, may be given to the patient 
 in bed every hour till it has the desired effect. 
 
102 bis RECEIPY BOCES 
 ER 1p plats FEN nce te apes 
 MIXTURES. Peary 
 
 “ipl Mizture—Take of mint-water, five 
 ounces ; = vinegar of squills, two drachms 3 ‘sweet . 
 spirit of nitre, half an ounce ; syrup of ginger, an’ 
 ounce andahalf; mix them. In the obstructions. 
 of the urinary passages, two spoonsful of this, 
 mixture may be taken twice or thtice a day. ios 4 
 
 ah 
 
 Laxative Absorbent Mirture.—Rub one drachm 
 of magnesia alba in a mortar with ten or twelve 
 grains of the best ‘Turkey rhubarb, and add to: 
 them three ounces of common water, simple cin- 
 namon water and syrup of sugar, of each one 
 ounce. As most diseases of infants are accom- 
 panied with acidities, this mixture may either be 
 given with a view to correct these, or to open the: 
 body. A table-spoonful may be taken for a dose, 
 and repeated three times aday, Toa very young 
 child, half a spoonful will be sufficient. When 
 the mixture is intended to purge, the dose may 
 either be increased, or the quantity of rhubarb 
 doubled. This is one of the most generally use+ 
 ful. medicines with which I am acquainted. eg 
 
 Saline Micture.—Dissolve a drachm of the salt 
 of tartar in four ounces of boiling water, and, 
 when cold, drop into it spirit of vitriol till the ef- 
 fervescence ceases; then add, of peppermint- 
 water, two.ounces ; simple syrup, one ounce. 
 
 Squill Mixture—Take of simple cinnamon- 
 water, five ounces ; vinegar of squills, one ounce; 
 syrup of marsh-mallows, an ounce and a half. 
 Mix them. This mixture, by promoting expec- 
 toration and the secretion of urine, proves ser- 
 viceable in asthmatic and dropsical habits, A 
 table-spoonful may be taken frequently, 
 
 pee uncenenenis 
 OINTMENTS, LINIMENTS, AND cerares.” . 
 Notwithstanding the extravagant encomiums. 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 103 
 
 which have been bestowed on different prepara- 
 tions of this kind, with regard to their efficacy in 
 the cure of wounds, sores; &c. it is beyond a 
 doubt that the most proper application to a green 
 wound is dry lint. But though ointments do not 
 heal wounds and sores, yet they serve to defend 
 them from the external air, and retain such sub- 
 stances as may be necessary for drying, deterging, 
 destroying proud flesh, and such like. For these 
 purposes, however, it will be sufficient to insert 
 only a few of the most simple forms, as ingre- 
 dients of a more active nature can occasionally be 
 added to them, 
 
 Yellow Basilicon.—Take of yellow wax, white 
 resin and frankincense, each a quarter of a pound; 
 melt them together over a gentle fire; then add, 
 of hog’s lard prepared, one pound. Strain the 
 ointment while warm. ‘This ointment is employ- 
 ed for cleansing and healing wounds and ulcers. 
 
 Emollient Ointment.—Take of palm oil, two 
 pounds; olive oil, a pint and a half; yellow wax, 
 half a pound; Venetian turpentine, a quarter of 
 a pound. Melt the wax in the oils over a gentle 
 fire, then mix in the turpentine and strain . the 
 ointment, This supplies the place of Althcee 
 Ointment. It may be used for anointing inflamed 
 parts, &c. 
 
 Eye Ointment.—Take of hog’s lard prepared, 
 four ounces; white wax, two drachms; tutty 
 prepared, one ounce; melt the wax with the lard 
 over a gentle fire, and then sprinkle in the tutty, 
 continually stirring them till the ointment is cold. 
 This ointment will be more efficacious, and of a 
 better consistence, if two or three drachms of 
 camphor be rubbed up with a little oil and inti- 
 
 miately mixed sep it. 
 
104 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 Another.—Take of camphor and calamine-stone 
 levigated, each six drachms; verdigrisé, well pre- 
 pared, two drachms ; hog’s lard and mutton-suet, 
 prepared, of each two ounces... Rub thecamphor 
 well with the powder ; ; afterwards mix in the lard 
 and suet, continuing the triture till they are per- 
 fectly united. This ointment has been long“in 
 esteem for diseases of the eyes. It ought, hows 
 ever, to be used with caution when the — are 
 much inflamed or nets renerer i 
 
 dry 
 
 Issue Ointment. Mis half an ounce of sabe 
 ish flies, finely powdered, in six ounces of yellow 
 Dasilicon ointment. This ointment is chiefly 
 intended for pressing blisters, in pessii ‘to in 
 them open suse patents 
 
 Ointment of Legiiaarle! of. cave oil: halfia 
 pint; white wax, two ounces: sugar : af lead, 
 three drachms. Let the sugar of lead, reduced 
 into a fine powder, be rubbed with some part of 
 the oil, and afterwards added to the other ingre- 
 dients, previously melted together, continually 
 stirring them till quite cold. This cooling and 
 gentle astringent ointment» may ‘bé used in all 
 cases where the intention is to aty. and alia over 
 the part,in scalding, &e. 
 
 Mercurial Ointment.—Take of quicksilver, two 
 ounces : hog’s lard, three ounces : mutton suet, 
 one ounce, - Rub the quicksilver with an ounce 
 of the hog’s lard, ina warm mortar, till the glo- 
 bules be perfectly extinguished, then rub it up 
 with the rest of the lard and suet, previously 
 melted together. The principal intention of this 
 ointment is, to convey mercury into the hady by 
 being rubbed upon the skin, 
 
 Sulphur Ointment.—Take of hog’s lard prepar= 
 ed, four ounces: flour of sulphur, an ounce and 
 

 
 
 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 105 
 
 ahalf: erude sal ammoniac, two drachms: essence 
 
 of lemon, ten or twelve drops. Make them into 
 an.ointment. This ointment, rubbed upon the 
 -parts affected, will generally cure the itch. Itis 
 both the safest and best application for that pur- 
 pose, and, when made in this way, has no disa- 
 seus smell. 
 
 Write or Spermaceti Ointment.—Take of olive 
 np one pint: white wax and spermaceti, of each 
 hres ounces. Melt them with a gentle heat, and 
 keep them constantly and briskly stirring toge- 
 ther till quite cold. If two drachms of camphor 
 previously rubbed with a small quantity of oil, be 
 
 .added. to the above, it will make the White Cam- 
 phorated Ointment. | : ‘a 
 
 _Liniment for Burns.—Take equal parts of Flo- 
 rence oil, or fresh drawn linseed oil and lime- 
 water; shake them well together in a wide bot- 
 tle, so as to form aliniment. This is found to 
 be an exceedingly proper application for recent 
 scalds or burns. It may either be spread upona 
 
 cloth, or the parts affected may be anointed with 
 
 it twice or thrice a day. 
 
 White Liniment.—This is made in the same 
 manner as the white ointment, two-thirds of the 
 wax being left out. This liniment may be ape 
 plied in cases of excoriation, where, on account 
 of the largeness of the surface, the ointments 
 with lead or calomel might be improper. 
 
 Ointment. for the Piles—Take of emollient 
 
 ointment, two ounces; liquid Jaudanum, half an 
 
 ounce. Mix these ingredients with the yolk of 
 an egg, and work them well together. 
 
 Volatile Lintment.—Take of Florence oil, one 
 ounce ; spirits of hartshorn, half an ounce, Shake 
 E2 
 
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106 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 them well together. This liniment, made with 
 equal parts of the spirit'and oil, will be more effi- 
 eacious where the patients skin is able to bear it. 
 Sir John Prirgle observes, that in the inflamma- 
 tory quinsey, a piece of flannel, moistened with 
 
 this liniment and applied to the throat,*to be ree. 
 
 newed every four or five hours, is one of the most 
 efficacious remedies, and that it seldom fails, 
 after bleeding, either to lessen or carry off the 
 complaint. The truth of this pyetaeren * been 
 often spe va 
 
 Camphorated Oil.—Rub an ounce of camphor 
 with two ounces of Florence oil in a mortar, till 
 
 the camphor be entirely dissolved. This anti-. 
 
 spasmodic liniment may be-used in obstinate 
 rheumatisins, and in some other cases accompa- 
 nied with extreme pain and tension of the parts. 
 Par ean 
 ‘ 
 
 PILLS. 
 
 Medicines which operate in a small dose, and 
 whose disagreeable taste or smell makes it neces- 
 sary that they should be concealed from the palate, 
 are most commodiously exhibited in this form. 
 No medicine, however, that is intended to operate 
 immediately, ought to be made into pills, as they 
 often lie.a considerable time in the stomach be- 
 fore they are dissolved, so as to produce any con- 
 siderable effect, As the ingredients which enter 
 the composition of pills are generally so contrived, 
 that one pill ofan ordinary size may contain about 
 
 five grains of the compound, ‘in mentioning the 
 
 dose we shall only specify the number of. nei ae 
 be taken, as one, two, three, &c. 
 
 Composing Pill_—Take of purified opium, ten 
 grains’; Castile soap, half adrachm, *Beat them 
 together, and-form the whole -into twenty pills. 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 107 
 
 When a quieting draught will not sit on the sto- 
 mach, one, two, or three of ‘these pills may be 
 taken as occasion requires. 
 
 Fetid Pill—Take of asafcetida, half an ounce; 
 simple syrup as much as is necessary to form it 
 into pills. In hysteric complaints, four or five 
 pills of an ordinary size may be taken twice or 
 thrice a day ; they may likewise be of service to 
 persons to keep the body open; a proper auan- 
 tity of rhubarb, aloes, or jalap, may occasionally 
 be added to the above mass. 
 
 Hemlock Pull.—Take any quantity of the ex- 
 tract of hemlock, and add to it about a fifth part 
 of its weight of the powder of the dried leaves : 
 form it into pills of the ordinary size. The ex- 
 tract of hemlock may be taken from one grain to 
 several drachms in the day. The best method, 
 however, of using these pills is, to begin with 
 one Or two, and to increase the dose gradually, as 
 far as the patient can bear them, without any 
 reorarkahic degree of stupor or giddiness. 
 
 Mercurial Pills —Take of purified Waicheilver 
 and honey, each half an ounce. Rub them 
 together in a mortar till the globules of mercury 
 are perfectly extinguished ; then add, of Castile 
 soap, two drachms ; powdered liquorice or crumb 
 of bread, a sufficient quantity to give the mass a 
 proper consistence for pills, Wher. stronger pills 
 are wanted, the quantity of quicksilver may be 
 doubled. The dose of these is different according 
 to the intention with which they are given. As 
 an alterative, two or three may be daily taken.— 
 To raise a salivation, four or five will be neces- 
 sary. Equal parts. of the above pill and powder- 
 ed rhubarb, made into a mass with a sufficient 
 quantity of simple syrup, will make a anicreteee 
 
 purging pill. 
 
108 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 
 
 Mercurial Sublimate  Pill.—Dissolve fifteen 
 grains of the corrosive sublimate of mercury in 
 two drachms of the saturated solution of erv.de 4] 
 ammoniac, and make it into a paste In a g.ass 
 mortar, with a sufficient quantity of the crumb of 
 bread. This mass must be formed into one hen- 
 dred and twenty pills. 
 
 This pill, which is the most agreeable form of 
 exhibiting sublimate, has been found efficacious 
 not only in curing the venereal disease, but also 
 in killing and expelling worms, after other power- 
 ful medicines have failed. For the venereal dis- 
 ease, four of these pills may be taken twice a day ; 
 as an alterative, three ; and for worms, two. 
 
 - Purging Pill.—Take of succotrine aloes and’ 
 Castile soap, each two drachms; of simple sy- 
 rup, a sufficient quantity to make them into pills. 
 
 Four or five of these pills will generally prove’ 
 a sufficient purge. For keeping the body gently 
 open, one may be taken night and morning. They 
 are reckoned both deobstruent and stomachic, 
 and will be found to answer all the purposes of 
 Dr. Anderson’s Pills, the principal ingredient of 
 which is aloes. 
 
 Where aloetic purges are improper, the follow- 
 ing pills may be used :— 
 
 Take extract of jalap and vitriolated tartar, of 
 each two drachms ; syrup of ginger, as much as° 
 will make them of a proper consistence for pills, : 
 These pills may be taken in the same Koon as 
 the above. 5 
 
 Pills for the Jaundice.—Take of Castile soap, 
 succotrine aloes, and rhubarb, of each one: 
 drachm. Make them into pills with a sufficient 
 quae of svrup and mucilage. 
 
 These pills, as their title expresses, are chiefty 
 ihrended for the jaundice, which, with the assise - 
 tance of proper diet, they will often cure, Five or 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 109 
 
 six of them may be taken twice a day, more or 
 less, as may be necessary to keep the body oven. 
 It will be proper, however, during tneir use. to 
 interpose now and then a vomit of ipecacuanha or 
 tartaric emetic. 
 
 _ Stomachic Pills.—Take extract of gentian, two 
 drachms ; powdered rhubarb and vitriolated tar- 
 tar, of each one drachm; oil of mint, thirty 
 drops ; simple syrup a sufficient quantity. 
 
 Three or four of these pills may be taken twice 
 a day for invigorating the stomach, and keeping 
 the body gently open. 
 
 Sgquill Pills—Take powder of dried squills, a 
 drachm and a half; gum ammoniac and carda- 
 mom seeds in powder, of each three drachms ; 
 mae syrup a sufficient quantity. 
 
 In dropsical and asthmatic complaints, two or 
 three of these pills may be taken twice a day, or 
 oftener, if the stomach will bear it. 
 
 Strengthening Pills.—Take soft extract of bark 
 and salt of steel, each adrachm. Make into pills. 
 
 In disorders arising from excessive debility or 
 relaxation of the solids, as the chlorosis, or green 
 sickness, two of these pills may be taken three 
 times a day. 
 
 sdntibitions Pills.—Take of compound extract 
 of colocynth, two scruples ; extract of jalap, one 
 scruple; calomel, one scruple; extract of scam- 
 mony, one scruple ; oilof cloves, ten drops. Mix 
 and make into twenty pills. -One or two is suffie 
 cient for a dese. F 
 
 ‘Female Pills.—Take of aloes, one drachm: cae . 
 lomel, one scruple. Make in’o twenty Dilig- 
 Gre or two is sufficient for a dose, 
 
110 THE RECEIPT® BOOKs 
 
 . Vegetable Laxative Pills.— Take of extract of 
 jalap, thirty grains; extract of colocynth, twenty 
 grains ; scammony, ten grains; oil of cloves, ten 
 drops; powdered ginger, twenty grains. - Make 
 into twenty-four pills. Two or three is sufficient 
 for a dose. 
 
 ~ This excellent recipe is far mote efficacious, 
 and safer, than all the quack doctors’ nostrums in 
 the world, and will not cost one quarter as ‘much 
 money. te sar 
 
 ' PLAISTERS. 
 
 . Plaisters ought to be of a different consistence, 
 according to the purpose for which they: are: in: 
 tended, Such as are to be applied to the breasts: 
 or stomach, ought to be soft and yielding; while 
 those. designed for the limbs ‘should. be firm: me 
 adhesive. , sebilt 
 
 Ic has been euapaeen that ptalsters taicat he 
 impregnated with the virtues of different vegeta- 
 bles, by boiling the recent vegetables with the oil: 
 employed for. the compositions of -the plaister ; 
 but this treatment does not siren tas to the 
 oils any valuable quality. | 
 
 The calces of lead boiled with ite) unite win 
 them into a plaister of a proper consistence, which 
 makes the basis of several other plaisters. In 
 boiling these compositions, a quantity of hot wa-: 
 ter must be added from time to time, to prevent 
 the plaister from burning or growing black. This, — 
 however, should be done with cares lest it cause : 
 the matter to explode. 18 (Me Pei 
 
 Common Plaister.—Take of, common olive oil, 
 six pints; litharge, reduced to a fine powder, two’ 
 pounds and a half. Boil the litharge and <oil» 
 together over a gentlefire, continually stirring: 
 them, and keeping always about half a gallon of 
 
 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 111 
 
 water in the vessel ; after they have boiled about 
 three hours, a little of the plaister may be taken 
 out and put into cold water, to try if it be ofa 
 proper consistence ; when that is the case, the 
 whole may be suffered to cool, and the water well 
 pressed out of it with the hands. 
 
 This ‘plaister is generaly applied in slight 
 wounds and excoriations of theskin ; it keeps the 
 part soft and warm, and defends it from the air, 
 which is all that is necessary in such cases. Its 
 principal use, eciitatl is to serve as a basis for 
 other plaisters. 
 
 ’ Adhesive Plaister—Take of common plaister, 
 balfa pound; of Burgundy pitch, a quarter of a 
 pound. Melt them together. 
 
 This plaister is generally used for keeping on 
 other dressings, 
 
 Anodyne Plaister.—Melt an ounce of adhesive 
 plaister, and, when it is cooling, mix it with a 
 drachm of powdered opium and the same quan- 
 tity of camphor, previously rubbed up with a 
 little oil. 
 
 This plaister generally gives ease in acute 
 pains, especially of the nervous kind. 
 
 Blistering Plaister —Take of Venice turpentine, 
 six ounces; yellow wax, two ounces; Spanish 
 flies, in fine powder, three ounces ; powdered 
 mustard, one ounce, Melt the wax, and while it 
 is warm, add to it the turpentine, taking care not 
 to evaporate it by too much heat. After the ture 
 pentine and wax are sufficiently incorporated, 
 sprinkle in the powders, continually stirring the 
 mass till it be cold. 
 
 Though this plaister is made in a variety of 
 ways, one seldom meets with it of a proper con- 
 sistence. When compounded with oils and other 
 greasy substances, its effects are blunted, and it 
 is apt to run; while pitch and resin render it too 
 hard and very inconvenient 
 
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 112 THE RECEIFT BOOK. 
 
 _ When the blistering plaister is not at handy i 4 
 place may be supplied by mixing with any soft 
 ointment a sufficient quantity of powdered flies ; 
 or by formas them into a paste sd aious and 
 vinegar, > : 
 
 Gum Plaister-—Take of the common some 
 four pounds; gum ammoniac and galbanum 
 strained, of each halfa pound. Melt them toge- 
 ther, and add, of Venice turpentine, six ounces, 
 This plaister is used as a digestive, and likewise 
 for discussing indolent tumours. 
 
 Mercuriul Plaister—Take of common plaister, 
 one pound; of gum ammoniac strained, half.a 
 pound, Melt them together, and, when cooling, 
 add eight ounces of quicksilver, previously extin- 
 guished by triture, with three ounces of hog’s lard, 
 
 This plaister is recommended in pains of the 
 limbs arising from avenereal cause. Indurations 
 ot the glands, and other violent tumours, are 
 likewise found to yield to it. 
 
 lel , oi eag 
 
 Stomach Platster.—Take of gum plaister, half 
 a pound’; camphorated oil an ounce and a half ; 
 black pepper, or capsicum where it can be had, 
 one ounce. Melt the plaister, and mix with it 
 the oil ; then sprinkle in the pepper, previously 
 reduced to-a fine powder. 
 
 An ounce or two of this plaister, spread upon 
 soft leather, and applied to the region of the sto- 
 mach, will be of service in flatulencies arising 
 from hysteric and hypochondriac affections. A 
 little of the expressed oil of mace, or a few drops 
 of the essential oi] of mint, may be rubbed upon 
 it before it is applied. 
 
 This may supply the place of the Anticliyascn 
 ric Plaister. 
 
 
 
 Warm Plarster.—Take of gum plaister, cae 
 

 
 
 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 13 
 
 ounce; blistering plaister, two drachms ; ; melt 
 them over a gentle fire, , 
 
 This plaister is usefui in the sciatica ahd other 
 fixed pains of the rheumatic kind : it ought, how- 
 ever, to be worn for some time, and to be renewed 
 at least once a week. If this is found to blister 
 the part, which is sometimes the case, it must be 
 made with a smaller proportion of the blistering 
 plaister. 
 
 Was Plaister.—Take of yellow wax, one pound; 
 white resin, half a pound; mutton suet, three 
 quarters ofa pound, Melt them together. 
 
 This is generally used instead of the Melitot 
 Plaister. It is a proper application after blisters, 
 and in other cases where a gentle pe eis is 
 necessary. 
 
 POWDERS. 
 ' This is one of the most simple forms in which 
 medicine can be administered. Many medicinal 
 substances, however, cannot be reduced into 
 powder, and others are too disagreeable to be 
 taken in this form. 
 
 The lighter powders may be mixed in any 
 agteeable thin liquor, as tea, or water-gruel; the 
 more ponderous will require a more consistent 
 vehicle, as syrup, conserve, jelly, or honey. 
 
 Gums and other substances, which are diffi- 
 cult to powder, should be pounded along with 
 the drier ones ; but those which are too dry, es- 
 pecially aromatics, ought to be sprinkled, during 
 their pulverization, with a few drops of any water. 
 Aromatic powders are to be prepared only in 
 small quantities at a time, and kept in glass ves- 
 sels closely stopped. Indeed no powders ought 
 to be exposed to the air, or kept too long, other- 
 wise their virtues will be, in a great measure, 
 destroyed, . 
 
114 THE RECEIPT. BOOK. 
 
 Astringent Powder.—Take of alum and Japan, 
 earth, each two drachms. Pound:them together; 
 and divide the whole into ten or twelve doses.—. 
 Ln an immoderate flow of the menses, and other 
 
 hemorrhages, one of these powders may be taken 
 every hour, or every half hour, if the discharge 
 be violent. 
 
 3 
 > 
 
 * 2% 
 
 Powder of Bole.—Take of bole armenic; or 
 
 French bule, two ounces 3. cinnamon, one ounce ; ; 
 tormentil root and gum arabic, of each. six 
 drachms; long pepper, one drachm. Let all 
 these ingredients be reduced to a powder. 
 ’ This warm, glutinous, astringent powder is 
 given in fluxes, and in other disorders where 
 medicines of that class are necessary, in the dose 
 of a scruple, or half a drachm. 
 
 If adrachm of opium be added, it will make 
 the powder of bole with opium, which is a medi: 
 cine of considerable efficacy., It may likewise be 
 taken in the same quantity for a dose, but not 
 above twice or thrice a day, 
 
 Carminative Powder.—Take of coriander seeds 
 half an ounce: ginger, one drachm; nutmegs, 
 halfa drachm ; fine sugar, a drachm and a half; 
 reduce them into powder for twelve doses, 
 
 This powder is employed for expelling flatu- 
 lencies arising from indigestion, particularly 
 those to which hysteric and hypochondriac per- 
 sons are so liable. It may likewise be given in 
 small quantities to children in their food, when 
 troubled with gripes, . 
 
 » Diuretic Powder.—Take of gum arabic, four 
 ounces ; purified nitre, one opnce: pound them 
 together, and divide them into twenty-four doses, 
 During the first stages of the venereal disease, 
 one of these cooling powders may be taken three 
 times a day with consideraile advantage, ..... 
 
 
 
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THE RECEIPT BOOK. 115 
 
 - Aromatic Opening Powder.—Take of the best. 
 Turkey rhubarb, cinnamon, and fine sugar, of 
 each two drachms. Let the ingredients be pounde 
 ed, and afterwards mixed well. together, ; 
 
 When flatulence is accompanied with costive- 
 ness, a tea-spoonful of this powder may be taken: 
 once or twice a day, according to circumstances, 
 
 (ogiitie Larative Powder.—Take of soluble 
 tartar, and cream of tartar, of each one drachm ;' 
 purified nitre, half a drachm. Make them into’ 
 @ powder. : 
 
 -In fevers and other inflammatory disorders, 
 where it is necessary to keep the body gently 
 
 ' Open, ane of these cooling laxative powders may 
 
 be taken ina little gruel, and Iereaire occasion: 
 ally. ‘ 
 
 Steel Powder.—Take filings of steel, and loaf 
 sugar, of each two ounces ; inger, two drachms. 
 Pound them together. 
 
 In obstructions of the menses, and other cases 
 where steel is proper, a tea-spoonful of this pow- 
 der may be taken twice a day, and washed down 
 with Wine or water 
 
 Sudorific Powder.—Take purified nitre and vi- 
 triolated tartar, of each half an ounce; opium 
 and ipecacuanha, of each one drachm, Mix the 
 ingredients, and reduce them to a fine powder. 
 
 This is generally known by the name of Do- 
 ver’s Powder. It is a powerful sudorific. In ob- 
 stinate rheumatisms and other cases where it is 
 necessary to excite a copious sweat, this powder 
 may be administered in the dose of a scruple or 
 half adrachm. Some patients will require two 
 scruples. It ought to be accompanied ‘with the 
 pientiful use of some warm diluting liquor. 
 
 » Porm Powder,—Take of tin, reduced into a 
 
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 n 
 
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 116 “ THE (RECEIPT a 2 ie, 
 
 fine powder, an ounce ; _Ethiop's mineral, two. 
 drachms. . Mix them, well Rite me divide 
 the whole into six-doses, % 
 
 One of these powders. may be ‘alin in alittle; 
 syrup, honey, or treacle, twice a day. After they 
 
 
 
 have been all.used, the yahionc ee: 
 
 purge may be proper. es 
 
 Purging Worm Powders—Take of: powdered — 
 rhubarb, a scruple ; scammony and caloniel, of: 
 each five grains, Rub: them, in a mortar for one. 
 dose. % 
 
 For children, the ahexc doses must be Jesserted 
 according to their age. 
 
 If the powder of tin be given alone, its dose 
 may be considerably increased. The. late’ Dr. 
 Alston gave it to the amount of two ounces in ten. 
 days, and says, when thus administered, that it 
 proves an egregious anthelmintic. He purged 
 his patients both oy they took the powder 
 and afterwards, . 
 
 
 
 VINEGARS, 
 
 Vinegar is an acid produced from vinous Ji- 
 quors by a second fermentation. _It is an us- ful 
 medicine, both in inflammatory and putrid dis-. 
 orders. Its effects are.to cool the blood, quench. 
 thirst, counteract a tendency to putrefaction, and 
 allay inordinate motions of the system. — It like- 
 wise promotes the natural secretions, andin some 
 cases excites a copious sweat, while the warm 
 medicines, called alexipharmic, tend rather to 
 prevent that salutary evacuation, 
 
 Weakness, faintings, vomitings, and other hys- 
 teric affections, are often relieved by vinegar ap~- 
 plied to the mouth and nose, or received into the 
 stomach. It is of excellent use also in correcting 
 many poisonous substances, when taken into the 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK. W17 
 
 stomach ; and in promoting their expulsion, by 
 the ‘different emunctories, when reccived: into 
 the blood. | 
 
 - Vinegar is not only an useful miedicine, but 
 serves likewise to extract, in tolerable perfectien, 
 the virtues of several other medicinal substances, 
 Most of the odoriferous flowers impart to it their 
 fragrance, together with a beautiful purplish or 
 red colour. It also assists or coincides with the 
 intentions of squills, garlic, gum ammoniac, and 
 several other valuable medicines. 
 
 These effects, however, are not to be expected 
 from every thing that is sold under the name of 
 vinegar, but from such as is sound and well pre- 
 pared. 
 
 The best vinegars are those prepared from 
 French wines, It is necessary, for some pur- 
 
 ‘poses, that the vinegar be distilled; but as this 
 
 Operation requires a particular chemical appara- 
 tus, we shall not insert it. 
 
 Vinegar of Litharge.—Take of litharge, half 
 a pound; strong vinegar, two pints. Infuse them 
 together, in a moderate heat, for three days, fre- 
 quently shaking the vessel ; then filter the liquor 
 for use. 
 
 This medicine is little used from a general 
 notion of its being dangerous.. There is reason, 
 however, to believe that the preparations of lead 
 with vinegar are possessed of some valuable pro- 
 perties, and that they may be used in many Cases 
 with safety and success. 
 
 A preparation of a similar nature with the 
 above has of late been extolled by Goulard, a 
 French surgeon, as a safe and extensively useful 
 medicine, which he calls the extract of Saturn, 
 and orders it to be made.in the following manner : 
 —Take of litharge, one pound; vinegar, made 
 of French wine, two pints. Put them together 
 into a glazed earthen pipkin, and let them boil, 
 

 
 118 THE RECE! PT BOOK. wy: 
 
 or rather simmer, for an hour and. _& quarter, — 
 taking care to stir them all the while with a 
 wooden spatula. After the whole has. stood to 
 settle, pour off the liquor which is Spee the er 
 into pei ct for use. yee 
 
 Vinegar sp Roses.—Take of red roses, half. a 
 ‘pound ; strong vinegar, half a gallon. _ Infuse in 
 a close vessel for several weeks, in a gentle heat, 
 afterwards strain off the liquor. This is princi- | 
 pally used as an embrocation for a head-ache, &e. 
 
 Vinegar of Baril tnsnidibie of dried squills, two 
 
 ounces; distilled vinegar, two.pints. Infuse for 
 ten days or a fortnight, in a gentle degree of heat, 
 afterwards strain off the liquor, and add to ita 
 twelfth part of its quantity of proof spirits, 
 * This medicine has a good efiect in disorders of 
 the breast, occasioned by a load of viscid phlegm. 
 It is also of use in hydropic cases, for promoting 
 a discharge of urine. 
 
 ‘The dose is from two drachms to two. ounces, 
 according to the intention for which it is given. 
 When intended to act as a vomit, the dose ought 
 to be large. In other cases, it must not only be 
 administered in small doses, but also mixed with 
 cinnamon water, or some other agreeable aromae 
 tic liquor, to prevent the nausea it might other- 
 wise occasion. ’ 
 
 
 
 SPIRITUOUS DISTILLED WATERS. 
 
 Spirituous Cinnamon Vater.—Take of cinna- 
 mon bark, one pound ; proof spirit and common 
 water, of each one gallon. Steep the cinnamon 
 in the liquor for two days, then distil of one 
 
 een. 
 Sptrituous Jamaica Pepper eased of 
 
 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 119 
 
 Jamaica pepper water, half a pound; proof 
 spirit, three gallons; water, two gallons. _ Distil — 
 _ off three gallons. 
 
 _ + This isan agreeable cordial, pe may supply 
 the use of the Aromatic Water. - 
 
 
 
 ~ 
 
 WHEYS. ¥ 
 
 Alum Whey.—Boil two drachms of powdered 
 alum, ina pint of milk, till curdled: strain out 
 the whey. 
 
 This whey is beneficial in an immoderate flow 
 of the menses, and in a diabetes, or. cxogsaite 
 discharge of urine. 
 
 The foes is two, three, or four ounces, sccants 
 ing as the stomach will bear it, three times a day. 
 If i it Should occasion vomiting, it may be diluted. 
 
 Mustard Whey.—Take milk and water, of each 
 a pint; bruised mustard seed, an ounce and a 
 half. Boil them together till the curd is perfectly 
 separated: afterwards strain the whey through a 
 cloth, 
 _ This is the most elegant method of exhibiting 
 mustard, It warms and invigorates the habit, 
 and promotes the different secretions. | Hence, 
 in the low state of nervous fevers, it will often 
 supply the place of wine. It is also of use in the 
 chronic rheumatism, palsy, dropsy, &c. The 
 addition of a little sugar will render it more 
 agreeable. The dose is a tea cup full four or five 
 times a day. 
 
 Scorbutic Whey.—This whey is made by boil- 
 ing halt a pint of the scorbutic juices in a quart 
 of cow’s milk. More benefit, however, is to be 
 expected from eating the plants than from their 
 ‘expressed juices, 
 
120 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 The scorbutic plants are, bitter oranges, brook 
 lime, garden scurvy grass, and water cresses, —* 
 
 A number of other wheys may be prepared in 
 the same manner, as orange whey, cream of tar- 
 tar whey, &c. These are cooling pleasant 
 drinks in fevers, and may be rendered cordial by 
 the addition of wine. 
 
 WINES. _ 
 
 The effect of wines are, tor raise the pulse, pros 
 mote perspiration, warm the habit, and exhilirate 
 the spirits. The red wines, besides these effects, 
 have an astringent quality, by which they streng- 
 then the tone of the stumach and intestines, and 
 by this means prove serviceable in restraining 
 immoderate secretions. 
 
 The thin sharp wines have a different tendency. 
 They pass off freely by the different emunctories, — 
 and gently open the body. ‘The effect of the 
 full bodied wines are much more durable than 
 those of the thinner. 
 
 All sweet wines contain a glutinous substance, 
 and do not pass off freely. Hence they will heat 
 the body more than an equal quantity of any 
 other -wine, though it should contain fully as 
 much spirit. . From the obvious qualities of wine, 
 it must appear to be an excellent medicine. In- 
 deed, to say the truth, it is worth all the rest put | 
 together. But to answer this character, it must 
 be sound and good. No benefit is to be expected | 
 from the common trash that is often sold by the 
 name of wine, without possessing one drop of the | 
 juice of the grape. No medicine is more rarely | | 
 obtained genuine than wine. 
 
 Wine is not only used as- medicine, but is em- 
 ployed-as a menstruum for extracting the virtues 
 of other medicinal substances, for which it is 
 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 121° 
 
 not il adapted, being a compound of water, in- 
 flammable spirit, and acid ; by which means it is 
 enabled to act upon vegetable and animal sub- 
 stances, and to dissolve bodies of the metallic 
 kind, so as to pregnate itself with their virtues, 
 as steel, antimony, é&c. 
 
  Anthelmintic Wine.—Take of rhubarb, half an 
 ounce ; worm-seed, an ounce, Bruise them and 
 infuse without heat, in two pints of red port 
 wine for a few days, then strain off the wine. 
 
 As the’stomachs of persons afflicted with worms 
 are always debilitated, red wine alone often proves 
 serviceable ; it must have still better effects when 
 joined with bitter and purgative ingredients, as in 
 the above form. A glass of this wine may be 
 taken twice a day. | 
 
 BALSAMS. 
 
 “The subject of this section is not the natural’ 
 
 balsams, but certain compositions, which, from 
 their being supposed to possess balsamic quali- 
 ties, generally go by that name, This class of 
 medicines was formerly very numerous, and held 
 in great esteem. Modern practice, however, has 
 justly reduced it to a very narrow compass. 
 
 Anodyne Balsam.—Take of white Spanish 
 soap, one ounce; opium unprepared, two drachms; 
 rectified spirits of wine, nine ounces, Digest 
 them together in a gentle heat for three days, 
 then strain off the liquor and add to it three 
 drachms of camphor. 
 
 ‘This balsam, as its title expresses, is intended 
 
 to heal pain. Itis of service in violent strains, 
 
 and rheumatic complaints, when not attended 
 
 With inflammation, It must be rubbed with a 
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122 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 warm hand on the part affected, or a linen rag 
 moistened with it may be applied to the part, 
 and renewed every third or fourth hour till the 
 pain abates. If the opium is left out, it will be 
 the Saponaceous Balsam. uk 
 
 Locatelli’s Balsam.—Take of olive-oil, one 
 pint; oil of turpentine and yellow wax, of each 
 haJf a pound ; red saunders, six drachms. Melt 
 the wax with some part of the oil over a gentle 
 fire, then add the remainder of the oil of turpen- 
 tine ; afterwards mix in the saunders, previously 
 reduced to a powder, and keep stirring them to- 
 gether till the balsam is cold. 
 
 This balsam is recommended ia erosions of the 
 intestines, the dysentery, hemorrhages, internal. 
 bruises, and in some complaints of the breast. 
 Outwardly, it is used for healing and cleansing 
 wounds and ulcers. The dose, when taken in- 
 ternally, is from two scruples to two drachms. 
 
 The Vulnerary Balsam.—Take of benzoin, 
 powdered, three ounces; balsam of Peru, two 
 ounces; hepatic aloes, in powder, half an ounce ; 
 rectified spirits of wine, two pints, Digest thein 
 in a gentle heat for two days, and then strain the 
 balsam. 
 
 This balsam, or rather tincture, is Gnaiaat eXx- 
 ternally to heal recent wounds and bruises, It 
 is likewise employed internally to remove coughs, 
 asthmas, and other complaints of the breast; it 
 is used to ease the cholic, cleanse the kidneys, 
 internal ulcers, &c. The dose is BOR twenty to 
 sixty drops. 
 
 This, though a medicine of some value, does 
 not deserve the extravagant encomiums which 
 have been bestowed upon it. It has been cele- 
 pec under the different names of the Comman- 
 
 ’s Balsam, Persian Balsam, Balsam of Berne, 
 Wee Balsara, Friar’s Balsam, Jesuit’s Drops, 
 and Turlington’s Drops. 
 
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 DECOCTIONS. 
 
 Water readily extracts the gummy and saline 
 parts of vegetables ; and, though its action is 
 
 ‘chiefly confined to these, yet the resinous and 
 oily being intimately blended with the gummy 
 
 and saline, are in part taken up along with them. 
 Hence watery decoctions and infusions of vege- 
 tables constitute a large, and not unuseful class of 
 medicines, Although most vegetables yield their 
 virtues to water, as well by infusion as decoction, 
 yet the latter is often necessary, as it saves time, 
 and does, in a few minutes, what the other would 
 require hours, and sometimes days, to effect. 
 
 The medicines of this class are all intended for 
 immediate use. 
 
 Decoction of Althea.—Take of the roots of 
 marshmallows, moderately dried, three ounces ; 
 raisins of the sun, one ounce ; water, three pints. 
 Boil the ingredients in the water till one-third of 
 it is consumed: afterwards strain the decoction, 
 and let it stand for some time to settle. If the 
 roots be thoroughly dried, they must be boiled till 
 one half of the water is consumed, In coughs, 
 and sharp defluctions from the lungs, this decoc- 
 tion may be used for ordinary drink. 
 
 Common Decociion.—Take of camomile flow- 
 ers, an ounce; elder flowers and.sweet fennel 
 seeds, of each half an ounce ; water, two quarts. 
 Boil them for a little time, and then strain the 
 decoction. 
 
 A medicine equally-good may be prepared by 
 infusing the ingredients for some hours in boiling 
 water. 
 
 This decoction is chiefly intended as the basis 
 of clysters, to which other ingredients may be 
 occasionally added. It will likewise serve as a 
 cominon fomentation, spirits of wine, or other 
 
124 THE RECBIPT BOOK. 
 
 things, being added in such quantity as the case 
 may require. 
 
 Decoctian of Logwuod.—Boil three ounces’ of 
 the shavings, or chips of logwood, in four pints 
 of water, till one half the liquor is wasted. Two 
 
 or three ounces of simple cinnamon water re ti | 
 
 added to this decoction. 
 
 In fluxes of the belly, where the stronger as- 
 tringents are improper, a tea-cupful of this ‘decoc- 
 tion may be taken with advantage three or four 
 times a day. 
 
 Decoction of Bark,—Boil an ounce of the 
 Peruvian bark, grossly powdered, in a pint and a 
 half of water, to one pint, then strain the decoc- 
 tion. If a tea-spoonful of the weak spirits of vitriol 
 be added to this medicine, it will render it both 
 more agreeable and efficacious. 
 
 Compound Decoction of Bark.—-Take of Peru- 
 vian bark, and Virginia snake-root, grossly pew- 
 dered, each three drachms. Boil them in a pint 
 of water to one half. To the strained liquor add 
 one ounce and a half of aromatic water. 
 
 Sir John Pringle recommended this as a proper 
 medicine towards the decline of malignant fevers, 
 when the pulse is low, the voice weak, and the 
 head affected with a stupor, but with little deli- 
 rium. The dose is four spoonsful cnt tity Se 
 or sixth hour. 
 
 Decoction of Sarsaparilla.—Take of fresh sar- 
 saparilla root, sliced and bruised, two ounces ; 
 shavings of guaiacum wood, one ounce. Boil 
 over a slow fire in three quarts of water, to one, 
 adding, towards the end, half an ounce of sassa- 
 fras wood, and three drachms of Tiquorice. Strain 
 the decoctins 
 
 
 
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 This may either be employed as an assistant to 
 a course of mercurial alteratives, or taken after 
 the mercury has been used for some time. It 
 strengthens the stomach, and restores fresh vigour 
 to habits emaciated by the venereal disease, It 
 may also be taken in the rheumatism, and cuta- 
 neous disorders proceeding from foulness of the 
 blood and juices. For all these intentions it is 
 greatly preferable to the decoction of woods, 
 This decoction may be taken from a pint and-a 
 half to two quarts.in a day. 
 
 The following decoction is said to be similar to 
 that used by Kennedy, in the cure of the venereal 
 disease, and may supply the place of the Lisbon 
 diet-drink, - 
 
 Take of sarsaparilla, three ounces; liquorice 
 and mezerion root, of each half an ounce ; shav- 
 ings of guaicum and sassafras wood, of each one 
 ounce ; Crude antimony, powdered, an ounce and 
 ‘a half, Infuse these ingredients in eight pints 
 of boiling water for twenty-four hours, then boil 
 them till one half the water is consumed; after- 
 wards strain the decoction. ‘This decoction may 
 be used in the same manner as the preceding. 
 
 Decoction of Seneka.—Take of seneka rattle- 
 snake root, one’ ounce ; water, a pint and a half. 
 Boil to one pint and strain. This decoction is 
 recommended in the pleurisy, dropsy, rheuma- 
 tism, and some obstinate disorders of the skin.x— 
 The dose is two ounces three or four times a day, 
 or oftener, if the stomach will bear it. 
 
 White Decoction.—Take of the purest chalk, 
 in powder, two ounces; gum arabic, half an 
 ounce ; water, three pints. Boil to one quart, 
 and strain the decoction, This is a proper drink 
 in acute diseases, attending with or inclining toa 
 looseness, and where acidities abound in the sto- 
 
136 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 mach or bowels, It is peculiarly proper for chil- 
 dren when afflicted with sourness in. the stomach, 
 and for persons who are subject to the heartburn. 
 It may be sweetened with sugar as it is used, and 
 two or three ounces oF simple cinnamon-water 
 added toit. 
 
 An ounce of ncualtieed chalk nave with two 
 pints of water, will occasionally supply the place 
 of this decoction, and also of the chalk julep, 
 
 
 
 DRAUGHTS. . 
 
 This is a proper form for exhibiting such me- 
 dicines as are intended to operate immediately, 
 and which do not need.to be frequently repeated, 
 as purges, vomits, and a few others, which are to 
 be taken at one dose. Where a medicine requires 
 to be used for any length of time, it.is better to — 
 make up a large quantity of it at once, which 
 saves both trouble and expense. 
 
 Anodyne Draught.—Take of liquid laudanum, 
 twenty-five drops; simple cinnamon water, an 
 ounce; Common syrup, two drachms, Mix ~ 
 them. 
 
 In excessive pain, where bleeding is not neces- 
 sary, and in great restlessness, this composing 
 draught may be taken and repeated occasionally. 
 
 Diuretic Draught.—Take of the diuretic salt, . 
 two scruples ; syrup of poppies, two drachms; 
 simple cinnamon water, and common water, of 
 each an ounce, 
 
 This draught is of service in an obstruction or 
 deficiency of urine. 
 
 Purging Draught.—Take of manna, an ounce ; 
 soluble tartar, or Rochel salt, from three to four 
 
 
 
THE RECEIPT BOOK. 197 
 
 drachms. Dissolve in three ounces of boiling 
 water, to which add Jamaica pepper-water half 
 an ounce. 
 
 As manna will not sit upon the stomach, an 
 ounce or ten drachms of the bitter purging salts, 
 dissolved in four ounces of water, may be taken 
 instead of the above. Those who cannot take 
 salts, may use the following draught :— 
 
 Take of jalap, in powder, a’scruple; common 
 water, an ounce ; aromatic tincture, six drachms. 
 Rub the jalap with twice its weight of sugar, and 
 add to it the other ingredients. 
 
 Sweating Draught.—Take spirits of mindererus, 
 two ounces ; salt of hartshorn, five grains; simple 
 cinnamon water and syrup of poppies, of each 
 halfan ounce. Mix them into a draught, In 
 recent colds and rheumatic Complaints, this 
 draught is of service. To promote its effects, 
 ’ however, the patient ought to drink freely of 
 warm water-gruel, or of some other weak dilut- 
 ing liquor. 
 
 Vomiting Draughts—Take of ipecacuanha, in 
 powder, a scruple; water, an ounce; ey 
 syrup, a drachm. Mix them. 
 
 Persons who require a stronger vomit may add 
 to the above half c grain, or a grain, of emetic 
 tartar. 
 
 Those who do not choose the powder, may take 
 ten drachms of the ipecacuanha wine, or half an 
 ounce of the wine and an equal quantity of the 
 syrup of squills. 
 
 
 
 ELECTUARIES. 
 
 Electuaries are generally composed of the 
 lighter powders mixed with syrup, honey, con- 
 serve or mucilage, into such a consistence that 
 
128 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 the powders may neither separate by ‘keeping nor 
 the mass prove too stiff for swallowing. They 
 receive Chiefly the milder alterative medicines, 
 and such as are not ungrateful to the palate. | 
 
 Astringent electuaries, and such as have pulps 
 of fruit in them, should be prepared only in small 
 quantities, as astringent medicines lose their vir- 
 tue by being kept in this form, and ei eu of 
 fruit are apt to ferment. 
 
 For the extraction of pulps, it will te necessary 
 to boil unripe fruits, and ripe ones if they are 
 dried, in a small quantity of water till they be- 
 come soft. The pulp is then to be pressed out 
 through a hair sieve or thin cloth, and afterwards 
 boiled to. a due:consistence in an earthen vessel, 
 over a gentle fire, taking care to prevent the 
 matter from burning by continually stirring it. 
 The pulps of fruit that are both ripe and fresh 
 may be pressed out without any peg boiling. 
 
 Lenitive Electuary. —Take of senna, in fine 
 powder, eight ounces; coriander seed, also in 
 powder, four ounces ; pulp of tamarinds and of 
 French prunes, each a pound; mix the pulps 
 and powders, and, with a sufficient quantity of 
 simple syrup, reduce the whole into an electuary. 
 
 A tea spoonful of this electuary, taken two or 
 three times a day, generally proves an agreeable 
 laxative. It likewise serves as a convenient ve- 
 hicle. for exhibiting more active medicines 5 as 
 jalap, scammony, and such like. 
 
 This may supply the placeiof the electuary of 
 Cassina, 
 
 Electuary for the Dysentery.—Take of the Ja- 
 panic confection, two ounces ; Locatelli’s balsam, 
 one ounce; rhubarb, in pow’er, half an ounce; 
 syrup of marshmallows, enough to make an 
 electuary. 
 
 It is often dangerous in dysenteries, to give 
 
 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 129 
 
 opiates and astringents without interposing pur- 
 gatives. The purgative is here joined with these 
 ingredients, which renders this a very safe and 
 useful medicine for the purposes expressed in the 
 title. About the bulk of a nutmeg should be 
 taken twice or thrice a day, as the symptoms and 
 constitution may require. 
 
 Electuary for the Epilepsy.—Take of Peruvian 
 bark, in powder, an ounce; of powdered tin and 
 wild valerian root, of each half anounce ; simple 
 syrup, enough to make an electuary. 
 
 Dr. Mead directs a drachm of an electuary 
 similar to this to be taken evening and morning 
 in the epilepsy, for the space of three months.— 
 It will be proper, however, to discontinue the 
 use of it for a few days every now and then. I 
 have added the powdered tin because the epilepsy 
 often preceeds from worms. 
 
 Electuary for the Gonorrhea,—'Take of lenitive 
 electuary, three ounces; jalap and rhubarb, in 
 powder, of each two drachms; nitre, half an 
 ounce; simple syrup, enough to make an elec- 
 tuary. 
 
 During the inflammation and tension of the 
 urinary passages, which accompany a virulent 
 gonorrhea, this cooling laxative may be used with 
 advantage. 
 
 The dose is a drachm, or about the bulk of a 
 nutmeg, two or three times a day : more or less, 
 as may be necessary to keep the body gently 
 open. An electuary made of cream of tartar and 
 simple syrup will occasionally supply the place 
 - of this. 
 
 After the inflammation is gone off, the follow- 
 ing electuary may be used :— 
 
 Take of lenitive electuary, twoounces; balsam 
 of capivi, one ounce; gum guaiacum and.rhu- 
 barb, in powder, of each two drachms ; simple 
 
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130 THE RECEIPT BOOK, 
 
 syrup, enough to make an electuary. The dose 
 is the same as the preceding. ; . 
 
 Electuary of the Bark.—Take of Peruvian bark, 
 in powder, three ounces ; cascarilla, halfan ounce: 
 syrup of ginger, enough to make an electuary. | 
 
 In the cure of obstinate intermitting fevers, the 
 bark is assisted by the cascarilla. In hectic 
 habits, however, it will be better to leave out 
 the cascarilla, and put three drachms of crude sal’ 
 “ammoniac in its stead. 
 
 Electuary fon the Piles.—Take Ramet of sul 
 phur, one ounce 3 cream of tartar, half an ounce ; 
 treacle, a sufficient quantity to form an electuary 
 A tea-spoonful of this may be taken three or four 
 times a day. 
 
 Electuary for the Palsy.—Take of powdered 
 mustard seed and conserve of roses, each an 
 ounce ;' syrup of ginger, enough to make an elec- 
 tuary. A tea-spoonful of this may be taken, 
 three or four times a day. 
 
 Electuary for the Rheumatism.—Take of con, 
 -serve of roses, two ounces; cinnabar of antimony, 
 ‘levigated, an ounce and a half; gum guaiacum, 
 in powder, an ounce; syrup of ginger, a suffi- 
 cient quantity to make an electuary. 
 In obstinate rheumatisms which are not 
 accompanied with a fever, a tea-spoonful of this 
 electuary may be taken twice a day with, consi 
 derable advantage, 
 
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 EMULSIONS. 
 
 Emulsions, beside their use as medicines, are 
 also proper vehicles for certain substances, which 
 
THE RECEIPT BOOK. 151 
 
 could not otherwise be conveniently taken in a 
 liquid form. Thus, camphor triturated with 
 almonds, readily unites with water into an emul- 
 sion. Pure oils, balsams, resins, and other 
 similar substances, are likewise rendered miscible 
 with water by the intervention of mucilages, 
 
 Common Emulsion.—Take of sweet almonds, 
 an ounce ; bitter almonds, a drachm ; water, two 
 ‘pints. 
 
 Let the almonds be blanched, and beat up ina 
 marble mortar, adding the water by little and 
 little, so as to make an emulsion; afterwards let 
 it be strained, 
 
 Arabic Emulsion—This \is made in the same 
 manner as the above; adding to the almonds, 
 while beating, two ounces and a half of the mu- 
 cilage of gum arabic. 
 
 Where cooling liquors are necessarys these 
 emulsions may be used as ordinary drink. 
 
 Camphorated Emulsion—Take of camphor, 
 half a drachm ; sweet almonds, half a dozen; 
 white sugar, half an ounce; mint water, eight 
 ounces. Grind the camphor and almonds well 
 together in a stone mortar, and add, by degrees, 
 the mint water; then strain the liquor and dis-« 
 solve in it the sugar. 
 
 In fevers and other disorders which require the 
 use of camphor, a table spoonful of this emulsion 
 may be taken every two or three hours. 
 
 Emulsion of Gum Ammoniac.—Take of gum 
 ammoniac, two drachms; water, eight ounces. 
 Grind the gum with the water poured upon it by 
 little and little, till it is dissolved. 
 
 This emulsion is used for attenuating tough 
 viscid phlegm, and promoting expectoration. In 
 obstinate coughs, two ounces of the syrup of 
 
132 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 poppies may be added to it. The dose is two 
 table-spoonsful three or four times a day. 
 
 ’ 
 
 Oily Emulsion.—Take of salt water, sixounces; 
 volatile aromatic spirit, two drachms; Florence 
 oil, an ounce; shake them well together, and add 
 of simple syrup, half an ounce. 
 
 In recent cvlds and coughs this emulsion is ge- 
 nerally of service ; but, if the cough proves obsti- 
 nate, it will succeed better when made with the 
 paregoric elixir of the Edinburgh dispensatory, 
 instead of the volatile aromatic spirit. A table- 
 spoonful of it may be taken every two or three 
 hours, 
 
 EXTRACTS. 
 
 Extracts are prepared by boiling the subject in 
 water, and evaporating the strained decoction to a 
 due consistence. By this process, some of the 
 more active parts of plants are freed from the 
 useless indissoluble earthy matter, which makes 
 the larger share of their bulk. Water, however, 
 is not the only menstruum used in the preparation 
 of extracts: sometimes rectified spirits alone is 
 employed for that purpose. 
 
 Extracts are prepared from a variety of different 
 drugs, as the bark, gehtian, jalap, &c.; but, as 
 they require a troublesome and tedious operation, 
 it will be more convenient for a private practi- 
 tioner to purchase what he needs of them from a 
 professed druggist, than to prepare them himself. 
 
 
 
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 FOMENTATIONS. 
 
 Fomentations are generally intended either to 
 ease pain, by taking off tension and spasm, or to 
 brace and restore the tone and vigour of those 
 parts to which they are applied. The first of 
 these intentions may generally be answered by 
 warm water, and the second by cold. Certain 
 substances, however, are usually added to the 
 water, with a view to heighten its effect, as ano- 
 dynes, aromatics, astringents, &c. We shall, 
 therefore, subjoin a few of the most useful fomen- 
 tations, that people may have it in their power to 
 make use of them if they choose. 
 
 Anodyne Fomentation,—Take of white poppy- 
 heads two ounces ; elder flowers, half an ounce ; 
 water, three pints., Boil till one pint is evaporated, 
 and strain out the liquor. This fomentation, as 
 its title expresses, is used for relieving acute pain. 
 
 Aromatic Fomentation.—Take of Jamaica pep- 
 per, half an ounce; red wine, a pint. Boil them 
 a little, and then strain the liquor. This is in- 
 tended not only as a topical application for ex- 
 ternal complaints, but also for relieving internal 
 parts. Pains of the bowels which accompany 
 Cysenteries, and diorhceas, flatulent cholics, un- 
 easiness of the stomach, and reaching to vomit, 
 are frequently abated by fomenting the abdomen 
 
 and region of the stomach with a warm liquor. 
 
 Decoction for Fomentation.--Take tops of worm- 
 wood and camomile flowers dried, of each two 
 ounces : water, twoquarts. After aslight boiling, 
 pour off the liquor.—Brandy, or spirits of wine, 
 may be added to this fomentation, in such quan- 
 
 ity as the particular circumstances of the case 
 shall require, but these.are not always necessary. 
 
134 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 Emollient Fomentation,—This is the same as the 
 common decoction. 
 
 Strengthening Fomentation.—Take of oak bark, 
 one ounce: granate peel, half an ounce: alum, 
 two drachms: smiths’ forge water, three pints. 
 Boil the water with the bark and peel to the con- 
 sumption of one-third, then strain the remaining 
 decoction, and dissolve i in it the alum. This as- 
 tringent liquor is employed as an external fomen- 
 tation to weak parts: it may also be used 
 internally, 
 
 GARGLES, 
 
 However trifling this class of medicines may 
 appear, they are by no means without their use. 
 They seldom, indeed, cure diseases, but they often 
 alleviate very disagreeable symptoms ; as parched- 
 ness of the mouth, foulness of the tongue and 
 fauces, &c., ‘They are peculiarly useful in fevers 
 and sore throats. In the latter, a gargle will some- 
 times remove the disorder: and, in the former, 
 few things are more refreshing or agreeable to the 
 patient than to have his mouth frequently washed 
 with some soft detergent gargle. One advantage 
 of this medicine is, that they are easily prepared. 
 A little barley water and honey may be had any 
 where; if to these be added as much vinegar as 
 will give them an agreeable sharpness, they will 
 make a very useful gargle for softening and 
 Cleansing the mouth. Gargles have the best ef- 
 tert, when injected with a syringe. 
 
 Attenivati ing Gargle.—Take of water, six ounces; 
 ‘honey, one ounce; nitré, a drachm and a half. 
 Mix them. This cooling gargle may be ‘used 
 either in the inflammatory quincy, or in fevers, 
 for cleansing the tongue and fauces, 
 

 
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 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 135 
 
 Common Gargle.—Take of rose water, six 
 ounces; syrup of cloves and July flower, half an 
 ounce ; spirits of vitriol, a sufficient quantity to 
 give an agreeable sharpness, Mix them, This 
 gargle, besides cleaning the tongue and fauces, 
 acts as a gentle repellant, and will sometimes: ree 
 move a slight quinzy. 
 
 Detergent Gargle-—Take of the emollient gar- 
 gle, a pint; tincture of myrrh, an ounce ; honey, 
 two ounces. Mix them. When exulcerations 
 require to be cleansed, or the excretion of tough 
 
 viscid saliva promoted, this gargle will be of 
 service. 
 
 Emollient Gargle.—Take an ounce of marsh- 
 mallow roots, and two or three figs; boil them 
 in a quart of water till near one half of it be con- 
 sumed, then strain off the liquor. If an ounce of 
 honey, and half an ounce of water of ammonia, 
 be added to the above, it will then be an exceed- 
 ingly good attenuating gargle. This gargle is bee 
 neficial in fevers, where the tongue and fauces are 
 rough and parched, to soften these parts and 
 promote the discharge of saliva. The learned 
 and accurate Sir John Pringle observes, that in 
 the inflammatory quinzy, or strangulation of the 
 fauces, little benefit arises from the common gar- 
 gles ; that such as are of an acid nature do more 
 harm than good, by contracting the emunctories 
 of the saliva and mucus, and thickening those 
 humours; that a decoction of figs in milk and 
 water has a contrary effect, especially if some sal 
 ammoniac be added, by which the saliva is made 
 thinner, and the glands brought to secrete more 
 
 freely ; a circumstance always conducive to the 
 cure, 
 
4 
 
 136 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 INFUSIONS. 
 
 Vegetables yield nearly the same properties to 
 water by infusion as by decoction, and, though 
 they may require a longer time to give out their 
 virtues in this way, yet it has several advantages 
 over the other, since boiling is said to dissipate 
 the finer parts of many bitter and aromatic sub- 
 stances, without more fully sine their me- 
 dicinal principles. 
 
 The author of the new Dispensatory observes, 
 that even from those vegetables which are weak 
 in virtue, rich infusions may be obtained by re- 
 turning the liquor upon fresh quantities of the 
 subject, the water loading itself more and more 
 with the active parts ; and that these loaded infu- 
 sions are applicable to valuable purposes in medi- 
 cine, as they contain, in a small compass, the 
 finer, more subtle and active principles of vege- 
 tables, in a form already miscible with the fluids 
 of the human body. 
 
 Bitter Infusion.—Take tops of the lesser cen- 
 taury and camomile flowers, of each haif an 
 ounce: yellow rind of lemon and orange-peel, 
 carefully treed from the inner white part, of each 
 
 two drachms. Cut them in small pieces and in- . 
 
 fuse in a quart of boiling water, 
 
 For indigestion, weakness of the stomach, or 
 want of appetite, a tea-spoonful of this infusion 
 may be taken twice or thrice a day. 
 
 Infusion of the Bark.—To an ounce of the 
 bark, in powder, add four or five table spoonsful 
 of brandy, and a pint of boiling water, Let them 
 infuse for two or three days. a 
 
 This is one of the best preparations of bark for 
 weak stomachs. In disorders where the corrobo- 
 rating virtues of that medicine are required, a tea- 
 cupful of it may be taken two or three times a day. 
 
 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 137 
 
 Infusion of Carduus —Infuse an ounce of the 
 dried leaves of carduus benedictus, or blessed 
 thistle, in a pint of common water, for six hours 
 without heat: filter the liquor'through paper. 
 
 This light infusion may be given with great 
 benefit in weakness of the stomach, where the 
 common bitters do not agree. It may be flavoured 
 at “pleasure with cinnamon, or other aromatic 
 materials. 
 
 Infusion of Linseed—Take of linseed, two 
 spoonsful : liquorice-root sliced, half an ounce : 
 boiling water, three pints. Let them stand to in- 
 fuse by the fire for some hours,, and then strain 
 oft the liquor. 
 
 Ifan ounce of the leaves of coltsfout be added 
 to the ingredients, it will then be the Pectoral 
 Infusion. Both of these are emollient mucilagi- 
 nous liquors, and may be taken with advantage 
 as ordinary drink, in difficulty of making water, 
 and in coughs and other complaints of the breast, 
 
 Infusion of Roses.—Take of red roses dried, half 
 an ounce: boiling water, a quart: vitriolic acid, 
 commonly called oil of vitriol, half a drachm: 
 loaf sugar, an ounce, 
 
 Infuse the roses in the water for four hours, in 
 an unglazed earthen vessel; afterwards pour in 
 the acid, and, having strained the quer, | add to 
 it the sugar. 
 
 In an excessive flow of the menses, voritine 
 of blood, and other hemorrhages, a tea-cupful of 
 this gently astringent infusion may be taken every 
 three or four hours. It likewise makes an exceed- 
 ingly good gargle. 
 
 As the quantity of roses used here can have little 
 or no effect, an equally valuable medicine may be 
 prepared by mixing the acid and water without 
 infusion. 
 
 Infusion of Tamarinds and Senna —Take of 
 
138 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 tamarinds, one ounce : senna and crystals of tar- 
 tar, each twodrachms. Let these ingredients be 
 infused four or five hours in a pint of boiling wa-. 
 ter, afterwards strain the liquor, and add an ounce 
 or two of the aromatic tincture. Persons who 
 are easily purged, may leave out either the tama- 
 rinds or the crystals of tartar. This is an agree- 
 able cooling purge. A tea-cupful may be given 
 every half hour till it operates. 
 
 This supplies the place of the Decoction of 
 Tamarinds and Senna. 
 
 Spanish Infusion.—Take of Spanish juice, cut 
 into small pieces, an ounce: salt of tartar, three 
 drachms. Infuse in a quart of boiling water for 
 anight. To the strained liquor add an ounce 
 and a half of the syrup of poppies. 
 
 In recent colds, coughs, and obstructions of the 
 breast, a tea-cupful of this infusion may be taken 
 with advantage three or four times a day. 
 
 Infusion for the Palsy.—Take of horse-radish 
 root, shaved, and mustard-seed, bruised, each four 
 ounces: outer rind of orange peel, one ounce.— 
 Infuse them in two quarts of boiling water, in a 
 close vessel, for twenty-four hours, 
 
 In paralytic complaints, a tea-cupful of this 
 warm stimulating medicine may be taken three 
 or four times a day. It excites the action of the 
 solids, proves diuretic, and, if the patient be kept 
 Warm, promotes perspiration. 
 
 If two or three ounces of the dried leaves of 
 marsh-trefoil be used instead of the mustard, it 
 will: make the Antiscorbutic Infusion. 
 
 JULEPS. 
 
 The basis of juleps is generally common water, 
 or some simple distilled water, with one third or 
 
 
 

 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 139: 
 
 one-fourth its quantity of distilled spirituous 
 water, and as much sugar or syrup as is sufficient 
 to render the mixture agreeable. This is sharp- 
 ened with vegetable or mineral acids, or impreg- 
 nated with other medicines. 
 
 Camphorated Julep.—Take of camphor, one 
 drachm ; gum arabic, half an ounce ; double-re- 
 fined sugar, an ounce; vinegar a pint. Grind the 
 camphor witha few drops of rectified spirits of 
 wine, till it grows soft; then add the gum, pre- 
 viously reduced to a mucillage, with equal its 
 quantity of water, and rub them till they are per- 
 fectly united. To this mixture add, by little and 
 little, the vinegar with the sugar dissolved in it, 
 still continuing the trituration. 
 
 In hysterical and other complaints, where 
 camphor is proper, this julep may be taken in the 
 dose of a spoonful or two, as oftenjas the stomach 
 will bear it. 
 
 Cordial Julep.—Take of simple cinnamon- 
 water, four ounces: Jamaica pepper-water, two 
 ounces: volatile aromatic spirit, and compound 
 spirit of lavender, of each two drachms: syrup 
 of orange-peel, an ounce. Mix them. 
 
 This is given in the dose of two spoonsful three 
 or four times a day, in disorders accompanied 
 with great weakness and depression of spirits. 
 
 Expectorating Julep.—Take of the emulsion 
 of gun) ammoniac six ounces: syrup of squills, 
 two ounces. Mix them. 
 
 In coughs, asthmas, and obstructions of the 
 breast, two table-spoonsful of this julep may be 
 taken every three or four hours. 
 
 Musk Julep.—Rub half a drachm of musk well 
 together with half an ounce of sugar, and add to 
 
 it, gradually, of simple cinnamon and pepper- 
 
 
 
‘140 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 ‘mint water, each two ounces; of the volatile 
 aromatic spirit, two drachms, part ‘ 
 
 In the low state of nervous fevers, higeuping 
 convulsions, and other spasmodic affections, two 
 table-spoonsful of this julep may be taken every 
 two or three hours. 
 
 Saline Julep. —Dissolve. two denabene of salt of 
 tartar in three ounces of fresh lemon-juice strain- 
 ed :- when the effervescence is over, add of minte 
 water and common water, each two ounces ; of 
 simple syrup, one ounce, : 
 
 . This removes sickness at the paws itienas 
 vomiting, promotes perspiration, and may be’of 
 some service in fevers. meperially of: the into 
 ee kind. ait 
 
 Vomiting Julep—Dissolve four grains of eme 
 tic tartar in eight ounces of water, and add to it 
 half an ounce of the syrup of clove July-flowers. : 
 
 In the beginning of fevers, where there is no 
 topical inflammation, this julep may be given in 
 the dose of one table spoonful-every quarter. of an 
 hour till it operates. Antimonial vomits serve 
 not only to evacuate the contents of the’stomach, 
 but likewise to promote the different excretions. 
 Hence they are found in fevers: to have nearly 
 the same effeet as Dr, James’s Powders. 
 
 4 
 
 WATERS. : 
 
 A great number of distilled waters were former- 
 ly kept in the shops, and are still retained in some 
 Dispensatories. . But we consider them chieflyin' 
 the light of grateful dilutents, suitable vehicles for 
 medicines of greater efficacy, or for rendering dis- 
 gustful one more agreeable to the palate and sto- 
 mach. We shall, therefore, insert only a few of 
 those which are. best adapted to these intentions. 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 THE RECEIPT BOOK. 141, 
 The management of a still being now generally 
 
 understood, it is needless to spend time in giving 
 directions for that purpose. 
 
 Cinnamon Water.—Steep one pound of cinnae 
 mon bark, bruised, in a gallon and a half of wa- 
 ter, and one pint of brandy, for two days, and then 
 distil off one gallon. 
 
 This is an agreeable aromatic water, possessing 
 in a high degree the fragrance and cordial virtue 
 of the spice. aig 
 
 - Pennyroyal Water.—Take of pennyroyal leaves 
 
 dried, a pound and a half: water, from a gallon 
 and a half to two gallons. Draw off, by distilla- 
 tion, one gallon. 
 
 This water possesses, in a considerable degree, 
 the smell, taste, and virtues of the plant. It is 
 given in mixtures and juleps to hysteric patients. 
 An infusion of the herb in boiling water answers 
 nearly the same purpose. 
 
 Peppermint Water.—This is made in the same 
 manner as the preceding. 
 
 Spearmint Water.—This may also be prepared 
 in the same way as the pennyroyal water. 
 
 Both these are useful stomachic waters, and 
 will sometimes relieve vomiting, especially when 
 it proceeds from indigestion or cold viscid phlegm. 
 They are likewise useful in some colicky com- 
 plaints, the gout in the stomach, &c.. particularly 
 the peppermint water. 
 
 An infusion of the fresh plant has frequently 
 the same effect as the distilled water. 
 
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 142 THZ RECEIPT BOOK. 
 
 VARIOUS RECEIPTS, 
 
 To clean Calico Furniture when taken down 
 for the summer.—Shake off the loose dust, then 
 lightly brush with a small long-haired furniture 
 brush ; after which wipe it closely with clean 
 flannels, and rub it with dry bread. 
 
 If properly done, the curtains will look nearly 
 as well as at first, and, if the colour be not light, 
 they will not require washing for years. Fold.in 
 large parcels, and put carefully by. 
 
 While the furniture remains up, it should be 
 preserved from the sun and air as much as possi- 
 ble, which injure delicate colours; and the dust 
 may be blown off with bellows. 
 
 . By the above mode curtains may be kept 
 clean, even to use with the linings newly dipped. 
 
 To make Flannels keep their colour and not 
 shrink.—Put them into a pail, and pour boiling 
 water on, letting them lie till coid the first time 
 of washing. ~— 
 
 To preserve Gilding and clean it,—It is not 
 
 possible to prevent flies {rom staining the gilding 
 without covering it; before which blow off the 
 light dust, and pass a feather or clean brush over 
 it; then with stripes of paper cover the frames 
 of your glasses, and do not remove it till the flies 
 are gone, Linen takes off the gilding, and dead- 
 ens its brightness; ‘it should, therefore, never be 
 used for wiping it. 
 ’ Some means should be used to destroy the 
 flies, as they injure furniture of every kind, and 
 the paper likewise. Bottles hung about with 
 sugar and vinegar, or beer, will attract them ; or 
 fly-water put into little shells placed about the 
 room, but out of the reach of children, 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 THE RECEIFT BOOK, 145 
 
 To clean Looking Glasses.—Remove the flv 
 _ stains, and other soil, by adamp rag, then polish 
 - with woollen cloth and powder blue. 
 
 _ Totake the black off the bright Bars of polished 
 Stoves in a few minutes—Rub them’ well with 
 some of the following mixture on a bit of broad- 
 cloth; when the dirt is removed, wipe them 
 clean, and polish with glass, not sand paper :-— 
 
 - Boil slowly one pound of soft soap in two 
 _ quarts of water, to one. Of this jelly take three 
 _ or four spoonsful, and mix toa consistence with 
 
 pnery. 
 
 _ To clean Tin Covers and patent Pewter Pots.— 
 Get the finest whiting, which is only sold in 
 _ large cakes, the small being mixed with sand; 
 mix a little of it powdered with the least drop of 
 - sweet oil, and rub well and wipe clean, then dust 
 _ some dry whiting in a muslin bag over, and rub 
 _ bright with dry leather. The last is to prevent 
 _ rust, which you must be careful to guard against 
 by wiping dry, and putting by the fire when they 
 _ come from the parlour, for if but once hung up 
 _ without, the steam will rust the inside. 
 
 To prevent Green Hay from firing. —Stuff a 
 stack as full of straw or hay as possible; tie the 
 ~ mouth with a cord, and make the rick round the 
 _ Sack, drawing it up as the rick advances in height, 
 _ and quite out when finished. The funnel thus 
 | left in the centre preserves it, 2 
 
 THE END, 
 
‘CONTENTS 
 
 
 
 Page 
 Address. . = e aa 
 Miscellaneous Receipts " . 
 Art of Cleaning Veils, Silks, &ec. ‘ 5ha. 
 Do, Dyeing Wood were 63) 
 Japanning a ‘ me ie: 
 To Stain, Harps, Violins &e, de) aie 75. 
 Rules for Making Wines is Nae 7%. 
 General Medicinal Recipes eee 89° 
 Tinctures ° “ ° ° 97 
 Mixtures ‘ 103° 
 Ointments, Lintmenis, and Cerates, iba =: 
 Bills. isis Bygsah Seka ees ae 106 
 Plaisters: r mle ‘ a 110). 
 Powders ‘ * < e - 118) 3. 
 Vinegars X ‘ eo Me Lee 
 Spirituous Distilled Waters ‘ 5 118. 
 Wheys o ° e e e.. 119. 
 Wines wich ee Ha ie , 120° 
 Balsams “ ° ° iat oe 121 
 Decoctions. . > . ‘ < 123 
 Draughte. sae a. ee 126. 
 Electuaries . " ° ‘: e 127; 
 Emulsions . ° . ° 130. 
 Extracts ° ° ° . 132 
 Fomentations Bee ae as a , 133. 
 Gargles > . ° . . 134 
 Infusions . . : ea 136 
 Juleps . ° “ ° e 168 
 Waters e ° ° e e 140° 
 Various Receipts . . ¢ ‘ 142 
 
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