belong to her kitchin the Stomack If they happen through any mischance to be rusted over the best way to scour them will be every morning to rub the teeth with poudred Tartar after wash them with white Wine if it be in the spring or with cold water if it be in the summer Take rock Allum Salt Nitre of each four ounces pound and dissolve them in Vinegar then distil them to one ounce of this water adde juyce of limmons three ounces and rub the teeth therewith Take rock Allum burnt poudred coral Sanguis draconis Pumice stone pouder them all pretty fine and rub the teeth therewith Or Take white Coral Cuttle bone white Tartar dryed roots of Florentine iris of each a like quantity a little burnt Allum Make of them all a fine pouder and keep it dry to rub the teeth Take calein'd Salt three drams Galingale two drams Hartshorne burnt four drams flowers of Schoenanthum and Roses dryed one dram make them into a Pouder to rub the teeth with If the teeth be very black you may touch them slightly with oyle of Sulphure or Vitriol but not too often When the teeth are loose your best way to fasten them will be to Take Galls Pomegranate flowers Cyperus Roses Sumach a like quantity of each Take half the quantity of these in rock Allum pouder all and rub the teeth and gums therewith Or else Take Galls one ounce Myrrhe half an ounce Pomegranate bark one scruple boyle them in vinegar and make a Gargarisme to wash the mouth Some dissolve Allum in vinegar to wash the mouth withal To keep the teeth from rotting Take calcin'd Hartshorne cypress leaves of each one dram Cinkfoyle roots two drams Maiden hair burnt one dram Rose leaves a dram and a half bring all into a pouder and use it as a Dentifrice to rub the teeth with It makes them white and keeps them sound If the teeth are already rotten and corroded Take Opium Myrrhe Storax of each one dram white Pepper Galbanum Saffron of each half a dram beat them together and apply them to the corroded tooth Or Take Pepper Pellitory of Spain juyce of Spurge Galbanum of each a like mix altogether and put it into the rotten tooth Boyle Sage leaves in wine wash the teeth well therewith then Take black Hellebore mix it with Honey and put it into the hollow tooth Others only put burnt Allum into it and find much good by it CHAP. XXVIII To Sweeten the Breath WHen your breath Ladies by reason of exulcerated Lungs or rotten Teeth sends forth a stanch more noysome then old Saturns sweaty socks make your application to these following medicines and you shall embalm the air with so rare a sent that all the aromatick fumes of Flora's garden shall never enrich it with a more delicious sweetness Take Cloves Nutmegs Cinnamon of each one ounce Mace sweet Saunders of both half an ounce Wood of Aloes an ounce and a half Musk half a dram after you have poudred these make them up with Rosewater Sugar and gum Tragant into small bullets to hold in the mouth Take wood of Aloes Galingale Myrtle leaves three sorts of Myrabolans prepared Cinnamon Mace Pepper Ginger Nutmegs Cardamoms Laurel berries of each two drams Musk Amber Camfre of each half a dram Sugar two ounces make all into a pouder and take one dram thereof in a morning it is exceeding good to strengthen the Stomack and sweeten the breath Or else Take gum Tragant one ounce Sanguis Draconis two drams sleep them two dayes in Rosewater then put them into a mortar adding an ounce of Sugar Starch half an ounce Musk dissolved in Rosewater one scruple pound them well then mix them together with a Spatula and make them up into little pellets as big as barley corns dry them and after that they are thoroughly dryed put one now and then into your mouth and let it dissolve Take Cinnamon half an ounce cloves two drams nutmegs mace citron pill of each one dram Florentine iris the lesser galingale of each half a dram yellow Saunders wood of Aloes of each one scruple ambergreece musk of each half a scruple steep them when they are poudred in a quart of the best Malmsey Wine ten or twelve dayes then strein it through a woollen cloth afterward put it into a Bottle and keep it close stopt for your use Take a spoonful or two of it in the morning fasting it sweetens the breath exceedingly and strengthens the heart and stomack If the breath be infected by rotten teeth Take the best Styrax two drams sweet Asa one dram the best iris root half a dram gallia moschata yellow saunders of each one scruple Distil'd oyle of Roses half a scruple mix them and with a little gum tragant dissolved in cinnamon water make a mass out of which you may form little long pills to put into the hollow teeth When the breath smells of Garlick Onyons or any thing else that is eaten Take coriander seeds or zedoary chew them in the mouth and drink a good draught of Wine after it will take away the sent of any thing that was eaten before The same effect hath Mint if it be chewed in the mouth Fennel seeds or Galingale champt after the drinking of Wine takes away the smell of the Wine so do sour Apples and Quinces CHAP. XXIX How to beautifie the Neck NOthing more commends the Neck for comely than to be white and smooth for 't is a part usually exposed to sight and ought to represent a Pillar of pollisht ivory that supports the head with a lustre becoming that place where the understanding seats his throne It is usually impaird by Kernels Kings evil hard Tumours and Swellings For Kernels which usually breed in those places where the emunctuaries of the nobler parts are if they come in the neck after the body hath been purged and the Cephalicke veine opened in the arm apply mollifying and discussive Fomentations with spunges dipt in strong vinegar then apply a Plaister of Oxycroceum adding a little gum ammoniac bdellium sagapenum opoponax pouder of euphorbium For the Cure of the Kings evil the pouder of Sarsaparilla drunk to the quantity of half a dram for forty dayes morning and evening in white Wine availes marvellously The like operation have all your nitrous and vitriolick waters for an external Plaister you may use Emplastrum divinum In Autumne Take the root of Scrofulary beat it together with fresh butter put it into an earthen vessel well covered in a moist place leave it so fifteen dayes then melt the butter over a gentle fire strein it and use it to anoint the place Take a live Mole skin'd three or four Serpents skins the roots of Scrofulary Solomons seal Briony wild Cucumers of each three ounces boyl them together in an equal part of wine and water so long till the liquor be evaporated adde at last a little white VVine vinegar first anoint the place with two spunges dipt
presents an inventory of of its best directions so often prov'd that I presume any course skin'd Ladie who will be so much her own friend to use them may soon be freed from doing pennance in natures sackcloth Take peeld Almonds six pound mastick prepard ceruse and gum dragant of each four ounces the whites of 4 eggs pound all together very carefully let it stand 5 or 6 days pounding it every day once then put them in a presse and keep the oile that comes forth to anoint the skin withall Take hempseed pound it small moisten it with a little aqua vitae then heat it in a frying pan made very clean so hot that you cant endure to touch afterward put it into a bag and presse it the oile that comes from it is exceeding good for the roughnesse of the skin Anoint any part that is too rough with oile of rape seed or bitter almonds or oile of wheat Or take sweet almonds cleansed and peeled foure pound moisten them with the spirit of wine rose water mixt together of each one ounce beat them together and fry them when they begin to smoke put them in a bag so presse them and there will come forth an oile very cleare which you must put into a pot of raine water and beat it together til it become exceeding white then keep it as a rare secret to smooth and pollish the skin CHAP. VI. How to cleans the sweatie and sluttish Complexion THE microcosme through the sordid sluttishnesse of some is often drownd in a nastie deluge of sweat out a designe perhaps to take Cupid captive and birdlime his wings with such clammie excrements but if they have no other tempting bait then the greasie pomatum which their own ill stuff'd bodies supply them with I am afraid though being blind he cannot see them he 'l smell them a mile off and so keep his distance They would doe much better to break off this petty plot upon Cupid and scour their bodies well with these abstersives Take bryony roots half a handfull serpentary the lesse or friars Coule pellitory of the wall elecampane of each three ounces whole beanes rice white vetches French barly of each two ounces and a half flowers of camomile melilot of each one handfull Boile all these together in raine water receive the fume up in the face If you would have it for your whole body double the quantities boile them powre them forth into a bath set a stoole in the bath cast a sheet over you and so receive the vapoure Vnguentum Citrinum is of great efficacy to help this distemper if you adde thereto a little sublimate carefully prepared or a little white hellebore finely powdred The fumes of the decoction of the shavings of Guajacum is exceeding good Take bean meale white vetches sweet almonds blanched gum dragant bryony roots of each half an ounce pound them a part then mix them and incorporate them with whites of egs make them up into little balls When you have occasion to use them dissolve them in barly water and bath the skin therewith going to bed next day wash with water wherein the finest flower hath been steept Take the roots of serpentary sliced dry them in the sun powder and sift them next incorporate them with rose water into a past dry them againe in the sun and powder them then adde a third part of ceruse prepared so as is directed in the 2. part c. 1. then worke all together with rose water dry them in the sun and at last bring it with beating it in a morter to a very fine powder When you would use it mix it with the juice of limmons and so make it into a liniment for a sweatie part Take barly half ripe two pound goats milke three pints the whites of a dozen eggs mix and distil them in balneo maris then use it Or take sifted bran the best leaven two pound as much vinegar as shall be requisite the whites of eight eggs mingle them and make it into a paste then distil it in B. M. Take thirty Snails prepared a quart of Goats milk hogs suet three ounces camfre poudred two drams beat them together and distil them in an Alembick The sluttishness and sweat of the skin may proceed either from an external cause as negligence to wipe and cleanse the face from that filth and ordure which may be ingendred by the aire or any other accident and then there needs no more to beautifie it than a constant washing and rubbing it Or from an internal as fuliginous vapours dâ—â—ain'd betwixt the Cutis and Epidermis by reason of its density This is the more frequent cause and for the more general cure of it the body must throughly be purged of those humors which produce such excrements and for topical applications you are to use such things as are set down in this Chapter Or you may scour and cleanse the body with water wherein fine wheat flower or the crum of white bread hath been infus'd adding to it a small quantity of the juyce of limmons Or with the decoction of mallow roots or lillies As also with the infusion of the roots of briony with the juyce of the roots of sowbread or wild cucumers incorporated with bean meal with the oyle of sulphur or tartar mixt either with clear fountain water or else with any of the former decoctions Thus far concerning the nasty sweat of the skin the next inconvenience that damages the beauty and which we intend to give remedies how to correct are itch and scabs CHAP. VII How to repair the beauty of an itchy or scabby skin I Am afraid Ladies that whilst I prescribe remedies for so loathsome a skin-defiling malady you will think I have forgot ye and am now addressing my self to your kitchin maids I must confesse these fretting exulcerations are more frequently incident to such as are forced to content themselves with courser commons as amongst the fleecy troops those are soonest scabby that feed in unwholsome pasture Yet the highest and best fed are not alwaies exempted from the infection nor are the most delicate Ladies especially if any thing irregular or intemperate wholly secured that they shall be no fuller of ill humors than their skins can hold If ever then your ill disposed humors grow so strong to break their way through the inclosing skin it will do you no harm to have something in readiness that may check their presumption Take Fumitory water an ounce and a half succory water three ounces syrup of fumitory and succory of each one ounce mix altogether and take it for your mornings draught use it for five dayes together then use this excellent medicine Take Sena two drams rhubarb one scruple annis seeds half a scruple white wine half a pint put all into an earthen bottle stopit close and set it over warm embers all night in the morning strain it out and drink it if the stomack be weak
grave where Loves dumb orator lyes inshrin'd and Chirurgeons usually the unskilful Plaisterers that make an ill-rais'd cicatrice the swelling monument to departed beauty The feature fretting Pox if it sets but a foot within that paradice of perfections the face it leaves more disfiguring impressions there than a Coridons clouted shoes on a Cedar floor Now to smooth Ladies and polish your skins after such disasters prise the medicines commended to you in this Chapter as rarities they 'le make the hills and dales of uneven faces meet without a miracle levelling them to such a smoothness that little Cupid though blind may sport himself there and never stumble Take mastick two ounces gum arabick one ounce saffron half an ounce turpentine three ounces old sallad oyle two ounces make the mastick and gum arabick into a grosse pouder then put them into the oyles and turpentine distil all together in a glasse Alembick and anoint the face with the water going to bed in the morning wash with warm water wherein the finest flower hath been infused It is exceeding good for any disfiguring scarr that appears after the consolidation of a wound Of the same nature is the next that follows Take oyle of Tartar and the mucilage of Psyllium seeds extracted with rose water of each one ounce ceruse dissolved in oyle of roses as much borace and sal gem of each one dram incorporate them well together and make an oyntment Or Take Tartar well burnt boile eggs hard take out the yolks after you have slit them and fill up the cavities with the burnt tartar put them in a moist place and keep the water that comes from thence as excellent for scars Take litharge of gold two ounces ceruse and salt of each half an ounce vinegar rose and plantane water of each three ounces camphire half a dram mingle and filtre it so keep it for use Or Take wild cucumer roots finely powdred one ounce allum two drams sulphur vive nitre of each one dram incorporate all together with lard well washt use it as an ointment These two are of the same vertue with the former Take oyle of Lillies capons grease oyle of roses of each one ounce and a half wash these well in rose and lilly water then add to them the whites of four or five eggs half boiled in their shells oyl of sweet and bitter almonds of each one ounce incorporate them together in a marble mortar and in the working put in the mucilage of melon seeds litharge of gold and chalk poudred of each two drams make them into an Unguent applied to the face it takes away all those scars the Small Pox too frequently makes there Hares blood if you bath the skin often with it warm fills the cavities with flesh and makes the skin even and plain It is likewise an approved experiment That the water which comes from Sheep or Goats hoofs burnt is very good for the same Or use this following Take Litharge of gold washt nine times in rose water and sifted as often two drams reed roots dried and pounded rice meal powder of burnt bones bean meal of each one dram beat all together very small then sift it through fine tiffiny incorporate it with the mucilage of flax seed fengreek and psyllium extracted in lilly water and so bring it into the form of an Unguent Apply it to the face going to bed on the morrow wash with barly water Bath the places with warm water then strew thereon the cinders of burnt Tartar either alone or with myrrhe Or bath the places with water wherein cinnamon hath a long time boiled then put thereon the powder of litharge it will in short time take away all marks of the Small Pox. Take wheaten starch blancht almonds of each two drams sweet costus gum tragacanth of each half a dram reed roots half an ounce barly meal whole melon seeds beans dryed and pounded three drams saffron one scruple powder and sift the whole mingle them with equal parts of rose water and juice of orange peel make a liniment and with a feather anoint the scars of the pox leaveing it so all night on the morrow wash with the decoction of camomile and mellilot CHAP. X. How to remove spots in what part of the body soever I Have seen faces from whose features beauty her self might have taken copies had not nature studying too much neatnesse plaid the curtezan and spoiled that which was handsome before by two much patching Yet most Ladies never think themselves Venus's for beauty except they have some artificiall mole though such stellae nebulosae ecclipse more then increase the native lustre and especially where nature is too free in her spots they are alway reputed blemishes not ornaments Those then that have beauties characters defac'd with such blots if they have recourse to these following directions shall find themselves quickly freed and their features so ravishing that were it the mode of this age to dedicate shrines to beauty there is noâ—e of them but would have their Altar where the most generous heart should glory to be a sacrifice To take away any spot whatever Bath them for three mornings together with allum dissolved in oile of Tartar wash after with lye and lupine meale Or take two parts of plantaine water and one of rosewater sulphur vive powdred two ounces rock allum beaten small one ounce boile them over the fire till a fifth part be consumed then take it off and stir it well till it be cool afterward strein it through a fine cloth and keep it for use It takes away all kind of spots Take sugar candie white frankincence of each two ounces dissolve them in juice of limmons halfe a pinte boile them gently in a little skillet then anoint the spots with it after they have been washed with barly water Take lye made of Vine ashes juice of coleworts ox-gall of each a pound and a halfe dissolve therein half an ounce of allum and three whole egs beaten wet a cloth in this composition and bath the spots therewith Take turpentine and masticke tutia prepared of each two ounces camphire halfe an ounce steep them three daies in strong vinegar distill them in an alembick and keep the water for use To cleer the skin of black spots Take the distilled waters of dock and melon roots of each one quart ten swallow eggs salt nitre half an ounce white Tartar two ounces pound the nitre and tartar then mix them altogether let them stand 24 hours then distill them in an alembick in B. M. wash the black spots with the water in the morning at night wash them with oile of tartar and sweet almonds mixt together Take mastick powdred sulphur vive of each one ounce bay berries as many steep them in warme water for the space of ten days stirring them carefully once or twice a day then wash the black places with that water Take roots of iris Florent wild cucumers briony of each two pound dittany
four ounces flowers of beanes pellitory of the wall of each one handfull flowers of water lillie two handfuls steep them in white wine then mix them with goats milke after distill them in an alembick and keep the water to wash the spots For white spots These proceed commonly from a pituitous humour abounding in the body and are thus remedied Take barly lupines red Vetches the roots of the greater and lesse dragon wort of each one ounce pound them and incorporate them with the whites of eggs make them up in little bals and dry them in the sun when you have occasion to use them dissolve one or two in rosewater and so anoint the spots going to bed in the morning wash with the infusion of the crum of white bread Take the ashes of asphodill roots mix them with vineger and apply them Or steep the rind of Caper roots in strong vineger Or verdegreece finely powdred macerated a day and a night in juice of limmons wet a linnen cloth therein and bath the spots For green spots Powder the dryed roots of dragon wort to two ounces of this powder adde ceruse half an ounce and as much cuttle bone powdred worke them together with rose water and make them into little bals dry them and keep them for your use when you have occasion dissolve a couple in a quantity of rose water and therewith anoint the skin Take the juice of chelandine strong vineger make it into an ointment and apply it Or take brimstone myrrhe frankincence camphre of each two drams steep them in rose water the space of 8 daies stirring it once a day then let it settle and use it to wash the face For red tawny spots Take Venetian ceruse one ounce lapis calaminaris litharge of each two drams prepared tutia spodium of each one dram powder them very small then adde the water of plantaine housleek red roses of each two drams mingle them and keep it for your use In the morning fasting chew in the mouth a bit of mastick as soon as you perceive it to dissolve anoint the spots therewith Or powder pigeons dung flax seed French barly soake them in strong vinegar and anoint the spots CHAP. XI To reduce the body that is too fat to a meane and handsome proportion IT can be no pleasing sight to see a soul prest under a mountaine of flesh and the body stretcht to such dimensions that make it represent a walking barrell Were there nothing more then this 't were sufficient to deterre any from such an unwildie magnitude that it always proves its own accuser exposing in too legible characters Sloth to every one that can but read For when ere the carcase swels it self into a bulk too voluminous idlenesse is there describ'd in folio Have a care Ladies then to keep your bodies in a mean proportion and if ever they enlarge themselves to extravagant limits use these directions to reduce them to their former bounds so you may regaine your credit and your beautie too Rise early in the mornings and use some violent exercise to sweat often fast much rise halfe satisfied from your meals let your first course be oily and fattie things that the appetite may be soon satiated and the body kept soluble the second course sharp salt and bitter things out all your meats with vineger pepper mustard juice of oranges and limmons sleep at night on a quilt It is good to bleed largely twice a year the right arme in the spring the left in the autumne purge the body in those seasons with strong physick once a week take some laxatives as pillulae â—â—uffi extractum Rudii every morning chiefely in winter use this powder Take the feeds of annis fennel agnus castus rue carroway cummin pepper ginger mace nutmegs galingale smallage dryed marjerom gentian round birthwort of each equall parts take one dram of this powder in a glasse of white wine half an hour before meals Cooling applications may be layd to the heart or liver as the juice or decoction of plantane shepheards purse horstaile lettuce white henbane adding the powder of camfre mirtle or the like If any one particular part be too corpulent for the rest of the body you may bring it to a correspondent proportion if you use this unguent Take Fullers earth ceruse and lead mix them with the juice of white henbane and the oile of mirtle anoint the part therewith having first bathed it with vinegar wherein brimstone salt nitre and rock allum have been dissolv'd Some use with ligaments to bind those passages whereby the member is supplyed with nourishment CHAP. XII To make the body or any part thereof plump and fat that was before too leane IN a contrary extreame to corpulency are those breathing Skeletons that carry Lent in their face at a Christmas feast and look so meagerly that their Confessours since they have nothing leaft but skin and bones dare not for feare of a Soloecisme injoine them pennance to mortifie the flesh No part about them thrive so well as their bones and these look as lustie as if they had eaten up the flesh and were readie to leap of the skin to fall upon others Truly Ladies such leannesse is a ravenous guest and will keep you bare to maintaine him if you have a mind to be rid of his company observe these prescriptions following and I dare ingage he shall not long disturb you Let your chamber in the summer time be kept something cool and moist with violets lillies or the like fresh flowers before you eat chafe the body till it look red then walke and stirre about some houswifes imployment When you eate take nothing that is salt or sharp bitter or too hot but let your meats be sweet and of good nourishment as fresh egs mutton veale capon and for three hours after meat take your recreation in dauncing singing discoursing c. use some baths twice a month and in the mornings this electuary Sweet almonds pistach nuts white poppy seed butter and sugar beat them up into the forme of an electuary take thereof morning and evening the quantity of a walnut it quickly fattens and gives a good complexion Take twelve or thirteen Lizards or outs cut off their heads and tailes boile them and let the water stand to cool take of the grease mix it with wheaten flower feed a Hen therewith till shee be fat then kil her and eat her this often used will make you exceeding sat keep it for a rare and true secret Take a young Capon the flesh of veal four calves feet white wine faire water of both 3 quarts boile all in an earthen vessell scumming of all the fat Then put this broth into a new vessell with a pound and a halfe of sugar cinnamon half an ounce a dozen cloves boile it gently againe then adde thereto the whites of two egs reboil it and passe it through a streiner before it cool mix a little musk and
it off with warme water Take what quantity you please of juice of limmons put it into a glasse bottle adde thereto fine sugar and borace pounded set it in the Sun eight days shake it well together once a day after use it Or fill a thick strong glass bottle with rosemary flowers bury it half a yeare in a dunghil having stopt it close in that time the flowers will be turned to water wash the face therewith it is exceeding good against the freckles Take calcin'd tartar one pound mastick one ounce camphre half an ounce incorporate them with the whites of eggs and apply it where it is needfull Beat radish seed and dragon roots together put them in aqua vitae and set them in the Sun eight days together then distil them in a Limbeck and you shall draw a water admirable against all spots in the face Boile litharge in white wine vinegar till half be consumed then streine the vinegar take a little thereof mix it with an equall quantity of oile of tartar it will be as white as milk bath the freckles therewith Wash the face with sope and warme water then moisten the freckles with oile of tartar or oile of allum continue this for some weeks Beate as much sandarack with hony as will make it pretty thick apply it to the freckles keep it on so long till it scorch the skin then dissolve galbanum with a little nitre in vinegar and bath therewith And when any of these medicines offend the skin wash it with warme water or anoint with oile of roses or oile of sweet almonds CHAP. III. To whiten a tan'd visage and to keep the face from Sunburn AMber haird Hyperion spying faces to dawn with a world of dazeling features that might rob him of his Persian votives or withdraw the Heliotrope from its wonted homage to secure his brightnesse from being eclips'd by such teeming beauties clouds them in the shadie covertures of night while he makes day to all the world beside but to make your beams of beauty break through such sable curtaines take these prescriptions following White bryony water two drams rose water one ounce the white of one egge oile of tartar two drams verjuice one ounce mix them and wash the face therewith then dip a linnen cloth in it and lay it to the face all night Mix ceruse with oile of mirtle and white wine bath the face therewith going to bed Or take rose water two ounces womans milke one ounce pounded myrthe two drams the white of an egge beate them together going to bed wash the tann'd places with it Make pomatum with oile of sweet almonds wax and camfre Else take the roots of Sowbread scrape them presse out the juice boile it to the consistence of hony then use it to anoint the face Or mix the powder of burnt cuttle bones with hony apply it in forme of an unguent to the face To keep the face from Sunburn you had best wash with water drawn from the whites of eggs or juice of soure grapes or annoint the visage with a liniment made of powdred Mastick and oile omphacine Or take goats suet well washed in cleare water beat it in a mortar with rose water strein it through a thick cloth then take oile of sweet almonds one ounce sugar candy two drams camfre half a dram boile them all together stirring them continually that they may be white when it hath boiled a pretty while put it into a glass for your use If you goe abroad in the Sun or Wind anoint the face with it and 't will preserve your complexion Take pepper wort roots of basill serpentary the less of each three ounces boile them in a quart of water make a liniment to apply to the face for an houre then take it off and wash with warme water it is exceeding good to cleare the face from Sunburn Briony roots boiled in oile or cuttle bones burnt and mixt with hony if they are applyed have the same effects CHAP. IV. To remove running Tettars or spreading Pustules TEttars which some call Ringworms are the noxious vermine that greatly damage beauties paradise and crap its fairest flowers defacing quite the lillies and roses that use to flourish with a lovely grace in the fruitful soile of a comely cheek To secure your faces flowry Elysium from such wasteful insects Take vinegar of Squills two ounces aloes powdred two drams juyce of dock roots oyle of tartar of each half an ounce incorporate them together in form of an oyntment then apply it Make a Decoction of dock roots mallows fengreek in strong vinegar and use it then apply leeches or make small scarifications that some quantity of blood may issue forth then anoint the place with the oyle of tartar or apply dock roots steept in vinegar Take sublimate prepared three grains put it to half a pint of water put it in a glasse into a boyling pot till the sublimate dissolve Keep the water as a choice experiment for any spreading tettar or pustule Take Tartar two drams burnt allum three drams powder and incorporate them with the whites of eggs for an ointment Or Take sulphur vive two drams and a half nettle seed one dram camfre half a dram fresh butter two ounces make an ointment wash it in rose water then use it Take plantane water two ounces white vitriol two drams and a half burnt allum one dram mix them to bath your tetters or pimples withal Or else Take grains of paradice half a dram cloves gum tragaganth ginger of each half an ounce brimstone six drams reduce all to a fine powder to be workt well together with lard to make an ointment CHAP. V. How to help the Complexion when it is marr'd with blue and congealed blood or black and blue proceeding from a stroak or bruise THere often happens an effusion of the blood betwixt the flesh and the skin where it stayes and is congeal'd to the great disadvantage of the face The cause of this distemper may be either internal as corrupted blood in the body or external as a cold chilling air stroak or fall If the cause be internal powder rubarb steep it some dayes in strong vinegar and bath the face therewith Or chew in the morning fasting cummin or mustard seed or calamus aromaticus and anoint the face with it Turneps boyld in honey aloes mixt with honey or honey incorporated with the ashes of burnt garlick are exceeding good in this case When this blewness of the visage proceeds from cold there is nothing better than to chafe the face often with the hand or a course cloth or else which is more effectual you may use for a Fomentation aqua vitae warm'd If after a fall or bruise the face or any other part remain blewish it will be convenient to discusse the congeal'd blood which may conveniently be done thus Take the roots of marsh mallows of the great and lesser serpentary of white lillies wash them
cleane pound and boile them to a mash in rain water mix it with the oile of tartar and dears suet adding a little camphre and make it into the forme of an unguent Take the kernels of peaches pounded foure ounces goard seed two drams mix and pound them together then presse out the juice or rather oile you shall find it exceeding good for any black and blew bruise Take yellow arsnick sal ammoniacum one scruple and a half mix them with the juice of coriander seed in quantity about three ounces bathe the bruised places with it Aqua vitae heated and applyed to the bruise presently after the stroake with two spunges changing them as fast as they cool will take away all signes of the bruise CHAP. VI. To smooth the face disfigured with wrinckles THE smiling glories of beauties spring are often nipt with an early autumne when sharp sith'd time cuts those flowry graces down and shrouds them in the furrows of a wrinkled face Now to make your verdant features flowrish in spight of envious time or after their decay to smooth the face for a new plantation Take oile of bitter almonds two ounces lilly roots finely powdred one ounce make it into an ointment with the oile of roses and a little wax and so apply it to the faces Take oile of S. Johns wort one ounce oile of mirtle quinces water lillies jesmine mastick of each half an ounce melt all together in an earthen vessel then take it from the fire adding a convenient quantity of rose water then let it cool and use it Take thin shavings of ivory make a decoction thereof in water streine it and keep the thickest to mix with an equall part of incense and mouth glew make it into an unguent annoint the face therewith going to bed in the morning wash with faire warme water Wash the wrinkled places with a decoction made with an equall quantity of bryony roots and figgs Or take incense the scum of silver of each half an ounce white pepper an ounce powder all apart incorporate them with mouth glew make them up into small balâ— dissolve these in rose water make a liniment for the face Take the juice of sweet almonds drawn without fire hony the roots of lillies roasted under the embers and pounded white wax washt with rose water make it into the forme of a salve soake a piece of linnen therein for a cerecloth make a mask of it to lay over the face going to bed Boile pomegranate pils in white wine and whey till the wine be consumed and the whole remain like a liniment Or dry in the Sun wild cucumer bryony roots powder them and often wash the face with the powder steept in wine afterward wash with cold water CHAP. VII How to cure chaps in the Face WHen the injurious violence of wind or weather hath rent your silken Skins if you intend to unite the separating parts you will find these your serviceable cements Take Staggs suet and Goats suet of of each half an ounce burnt borace two drams new wax half an ounce oile of roses two drams make it into an ointment and use it Or else take Capons grease and camfre mix them and anoint the chaps therewith every night in the morning wash with bran and water Some dissolve mouth glew in warme rose water and anoint the face therewith Distil'd oile of turpentine is very good so is fresh butter if you take three ounces of it and mix it with the mucilage of gum tragaganth of fleawort seeds and of quince seeds of each an ounce and a half and so make it into the fashion of an ointment for your use Take kids suet one ounce oile of the whites of eggs of sweet almonds and of prest henbane seeds of each half an ounce goose and hens fat of each as much litharge of silver prepared washt ceruse prepared tuttie red lead of each one dram saffron one scruple camfre halfe a scruple mix them and with a sufficient quantity of white wax make it into an ointment CHAP. VIII Remedies for the Face when it is Burnt or Scalded IF the face that Magazin of Beauty be supprized by catching flames and blown up into blisters your securest way will be to allay the fury of that offensive element thus Take lead burnt and washt two ounces Goats suet white wax of each one ounce and a half turpentine six drams prepared lapis calaminaris washt ceruse of each two drams mirrhe mastick olibanum of each one dram aloes epat camphre nitre of each half a dram mix them and make a plaister To draw out the fire and take away the inflammation take the whites of two eggs oile of roses and rose water of each two ounces work them together and then apply them Or take two raw onions salt Venice sope bole armenick of each an ounce beat them together in a mortar adding by degrees as much oile of roses as as will suffice to make it into an ointment To hinder the rising of blisters and take away paine you may use this Hens dung the whitest and freshest you can get three ounces fresh butter six ounces sage leaves one handfull plantaine leaves two handfuls fry them a while over the fire and annoint the affected part therewith several times a day Or else you may take old lard melt it with rose water then streine it through a clean cloth when it is cold wash it 6 or 7 times in plantane water and to half a pound of this lard add the yelks of 4 eggs if the paine be vehement you may mix a dram of opium with it In case the ulcer be sordid and purulent make application of this Take the inner rind of green elder oile of roses of each half a pound boile them with a gentle fire strein them and adde oile of the yelks of eggs two ounces frankincense two drams tuttie one dram wax enough to make it into an ointment To make the cicatrice smooth and faire wash the ulcer after it is sufficiently cleans'd with plantaine water having first dissolv'd therein a little allum being washt strew thereon some metallique powder either of tuttie ceruse litharge burnt and washt CHAP. IX To beautifie the Face howsoever disfigured THis chapter Ladies makes you a present of universall remedies that will fortifie your faces against any distemper and in spite of al the maladies that beauty is subject too make them matchlesse the only inconvenience that I feare from them is that some of ye when ye look in your glasses may fall in love with your own shadows and so linger away Martyrs to your selves The oile or water of Talque applyed to the face makes it as white as alablafter The manner of preparing it is this Take talque the most tender transparent you can get what quantity you please slit it into thin slices put them into a glass viol for the space of ten or twelve days with the juice of limmons during the frost
dissolve them in rosewater to wash your face withal at night the next morning wash with water of Lillies This Ceruse is exceeding good to take away all stains spots and freckles from the face After the same manner is made the Ceruse of the roots of Briony wild Cucumers Water lillies Thus much concerning the preparation of Ceruses Take litharge of silver and gold of each one dram put them into strong white Wine vinegar adding camfre and allum of each half a scruple musk and cloves to sent the Composition boyle all in a little vinegar then filtre and keep it then boyle a little rock allum in water keep it a part for your use mingle these two waters together and bath the face neck or breasts Take Camfre one dram allum borace two drams oyle of tartar one ounce all being finely poudred boyle them in two quarts of rosewater strein and keep it 'T is excellent to whiten the face neck or breasts Take bitter Almonds peeled one pound and a half the whites of thirty eggs with their shells the tender branch of a fig-tree cut into small bits incorporate them together and distil them in a glass alembick over a gentle fire adde to the water which you draw sugar candy borace and camphre of each one ounce olibanum two ounces pounded all small then still them again and preserve the water that you draw as a secret to beautifie either the face or breasts CHAP. X. How to fasten the Hair and keep it from falling off HAir Ladies is the silken fringe to Beauties bed or if you will the slender sleaves that nature spins for Cupid thereof to weave his heart-surprising nets if once it fails that amorous god looses a considerable part of his artillery and after never acts but weakly for ye So that it concerns ye who triumph over intangled Captiveâ— to tender its preservation You may keep that you already have a fast Friend to you thus Take myrtle berries gals emblick myrobalans of each a like quantity boil them in oyle of roses It is a Receipt as old as Galen but as good as most if it doth not succeed use the next Take myrrhe pine bark myrtle leaves maiden hair pound them together very well then adde a double quantity of labdanum pounded put all into white Wine and oyle of Radish seed anoint the head very well with it going to bed next morning wash it with this bath Sorrel leaves maiden hair emblick myrobalans boyle them in water and adde a little pounded myrrhe it very much fastens the hair Or else Take the leaves of Willow Plantane rock Allum boyle them in water adding a little poudred Tutty and Myrrhe make a bath and wash therewith Take the juyce of the youngest Myrtle leaves two ounces juyce of wild Olives four ounces red Roses dryed two ounces Roman Wormwood two drams boyle all these in a quart of white Wine till half be consumed then strein it and adde a little poudred labdanum and use it to wash the head The golden water drawn from hony in a glasse still is much commended Or take the leaves and roots of vervaine put them into oile of green grapes set them in the sun many daies then streine it and keep it for your use Take an equall quantity of labdanum wormwood juniper berries nigella seeds vervaine bind them up in a linnen cloth and macerate them five daies in oile there is nothing better to fasten the haire or to make haire grow CHAP. XI Remedies for the want of haire how to make it grow on any bald place or there where it never came before IF some disaster Ladies have trod too hard on your heads kild those pleasant plants that use to flourish there you may againe attire them with their native beauty and repaire all former ruines thus Take marsh mallow seed boile it in sallet oile ' til it become thick with this oile anoint the head 6 or 7 times in an houre going to bed when that is done take what quantitie you please of the same seed boile it wel with water and wash the head therewith it makes the haire come exceeding thick the same effects hath this which follows Boile in white wine oile of mastick tree mirtle and labdanum of each two ounces maiden haire macerated two days in the same wine four ounces set them over the fire til the wine be evaporated after apply it as an ointment to the head Nigella romana burnt incorporated with hony Bees and Wasps burnt and incorporated with oile gals and the ashes of hasel nuts mixt with hony the kernels of peaches pounded and boiled in vinegar the cinders of cantharides southernwhod maidenhaire lilly roots mixt with bears greace are exceeding good for those that have but thin haire Take Euphorbium laurell berries rocket seed of each two drams sulphur vive white hellebore burnt of each halfe a scruple make a linement with wax dissolv'd in oile of laurel if applyed it will soon supply you with haire If you would cause haire to grow on any bald place do thus Pound elme roots boile them in water til there remaine a slimy scum on top gather that for your use then rub the bald place with a cloth til it look red and after anoint it with that scum Or take pumice stone beaten exceeding fine rub the skin therewith so long as you can endure it then bath it with vinegar mixt with an equall quantity of nitre sal armoniack sulphur vive your own experience will approve it Take barly bread and salt role them up in parchment burne them in a crucible and reduce them to a pouder which make into an ointment with bears grease It is a secret of nature Or take cantharides fling away the head and feet rub them on the bald place and so leave them blisters will rise first and then haire CHAP. XII How to take away haire and keep it from growing againe WHen the Lillies and Roses of your Faces Elysium are oretopt by the hastie growth of superfluous excrescencies you may secure the glorious hue of your beauties pride and eradicate those aspiring weeds that disturb you by taking Quicke lime four ounces auripigmentum one ounce and a half Florentine iris root one ounce sulphur nitre of each half an ounce lye made with the ashes of bean stalks one quart mix all together and boile it so long in a glaz'd earthen pot till putting a pen therein all the feathers peel off then add half an ounce of the oile of spike or any other perfume and from what part of the body soever you are minded to take away the haire anoint it with this unguent and in a quarter of an hour you shall find the effects but remember when the haire fals away to anoint with oile of roses Take Orpiment and quick lime of each an ounce and a half the seeds of fleawort and henbane of each half an ounce sublimate two drams ivie gum one dram and a half opium one
the hair of a faire length soft Take willow peel wormwood and southernwood dryed roses of each two ounces steep them in a quart of faire water for a night or two then set it over the fire till a third part of the water be evaporated keep it and often wash the haire with it Take the ashes of maidenhaire politrik reed roots flax seed make a lye of all these ashes wherein dissolve a little myrrhe adding thereto a third part of whitewine and then use it CHAP. XVI To soften the Haire when too harsh and stiffe THE Haire on some hangs like thatch on a country Cottage and serves more for use then ornament to secure them from the impetuous injuries of wind and weather rather then with its soft and tender sleaves to delight admiring eyes Such stiff bristles are usual attendants to churlish Corydons who are represented by nothing better then the parallel emblem of surly swine Those then who desire a more graceful covering and and would alter the harsh conceit that others are apt to entertaine of their hoggish natures may to their great advantage use these directions Take the roots of galingale fig leaves camomile melilot mirtle berries what quantity you please make thereof a decoction wherein dissolve salt nitre and rock allum of each two drams adding the like quantity of pumice stones and cuttle bones set all over a gentle fire and while it is warme bath the head therewith before the fire or else in the Sun Take the roots of white and black hellebore briony birthwort round and long wake Robin dry and then powder them afterward rub the haire well therewith Or else make a lye of vine twig ashes wherein boile the meale of beans vetches barly and lupines streine the lye and adde thereto a little white wine then use it Take Emets eggs henbane seed rock allum psyllium and opium of each a like quantity boile them in distilled water of vinegar bathe the haire wel therewith when you have done this make this pouder Take salt Nitre four ounces Pumice stone poudred two ounces Lilly roots and Cuttle bone of each two drams beat them all very fine and rub the hair with it After you have done this use again the former Decoction Take white Saunders and Rhodium of each two ounces Myrrhe and white Amber of each two drams Gentian roots one dram pouder these and use it If it be for any person of quality you may adde two or three grains of Musk. This Pouder is excellent good for the hair CHAP. XVII Remedies for the Hair when it splits VVHen Nature hath spun the slender hair to its utmost length if it be not carefully kept 't will be fray'd and ravel'd at ends by sundry accidents which seem to envy that work they cannot better Your best provision against such injuries are these When you go to bed Take Oyle and Water a like quantity put them into a bottle and incorporate them well together anoint the hair well with it going to bed next morning wash it with this following Take marsh mallows fleabane willow bark boyle them in spring water and use it to wash the head This will keep the hair from splitting but if it be split already you must use this Take Myrtle and Willow leaves of each two ounces poudred labdanum six scruples emblick myrobalans poudred half a dram oyle of Myrtle four ounces white wine two ounces boyle all these over a gentle fire to a consumption of the third part then use it to anoint the extremities of the hair therewith Take the juyce of Willow leaves and Myrtle leaves of each one ounce boyle and evaporate half a way after adde poudred labdanum one ounce then mix all with oyle of myrtle keep it for your hair CHAP. XVIII To make the Hair of what colour you please YEllow Hair was much in request among the antients whence the Poet Forma placet nivensque color flavique capilli Yet now this colour is loaded with obloquies for 't is a fancy generally received that the locks can never sparkle with golden flames without except there be some cherishing heat of lust within so that of late Black is more the fashion being lookt upon as a quality congregating not the sight only but hearts and affections too To make the Hair yellow If any Lady be in love with this colour she may order her hair thus Take shavings of Box stechas cedar liquorice roots scraped and bruised coltsfoot roots maiden hair of each two ounces and a little saffron set all these over the fire till two parts of the water be consumed then strein it and wash the hair therewith Or Take rock Allum Sandarach of each three ounces Saffron one ounce Madder four ounces Vine twigge ashes two drams beat the ashes very small with the Madder boyle the mixture in water till half be consumed then take it from the fire and strein it afterward adde the Saffron Sandarack and Allum keep it close in a bottle when you would use it first comb the hair very well then take a spunge and bath it with this Composition When it is dry wash it with water wherein Fengreek Barly Cumin and Soap have been boyled Make Lye with the ashes of Ivy bark wherein boyle over a gentle fire Madder roots Gentian Celendine shaving of Box yellow Saunders Liquorice cleansed from its outward bark of each one ounce Orange peele and the inner rinde of Barberry tree of each half an ounce green Lupines pounded two ounces Broom flowers yellow Stoechas moth Mullein a sufficient quantity of each bath the hair with a spunge dipt in this Decoction then dry it gently in with warm cloaths evening and morning use likewise a Combe steeped in this Decoction it gives a graceful colour to young peoples hair Take the first buds of the black Poplar pound them with fresh butter set them in the Sun for five days then strein them and presse out the butter wash it with lye made of the ashes of Box tree then use it to anoint the hair To make the Hair or Beard black though before grey The hair either of head or beard will be as black as Jet if you Take the shells of green Walnuts bark of Oak roots of each three ounces the oldest and deepest coloured red Wine eight ounces boyle them to the consumption of half then strein the juyce and press it hard whereunto adde one pound and a half of oyle of Myrtle set in six dayes in the Sun in a leaden Mortar and stir it with a leaden Pestle then use it Take burnt Lead three ounces Nutgals Walnut shells of each four ounces terra sigillata the like quantity Roman vitriol six ounces sal gem one ounce and a half Nutmegs Cloves of each one ounce sal amoniac aloes of each half an ounces pouder and steep them three dayes in sharp vinegar then distil it in an Alembick and afterward keep it for use Take quick Lime one ounce of both the litharges
you have first bathed them with water wherein Myrtle berries have been boyled The hair that is fallen from the brows may be made to come again if you burn Bees or Wasps and mix them with Honey but have a care you touch no other place for wheresoever it lights it makes the hair grow If the Eyebrows are of a reddish or white colour you may make them of a lovely black by these means Take red Filberds what quantity you please calcine them thoroughly in an earthen vessel or crucible work them together with Goats grease anoint the hair therewith and if it foul the skin wash it off with warm water This will make the brows very black The same effect hath this which follows Take Maiden hair poudred one ounce Labdanum two ounces beat them well together with Bears grease and rub the brows therewith Many use black Lead only to rub the brows withal and if ye do it without soyling the skin 't will give them a very pleasing dark colour CHAP. XXII Remedies for Inflammation Bloodshot or Spots in the Eyes and yellowness of the Eye-lids SParkling eyes are the starry jewels of a Heavenly face which with their active influence and amorous motions rule the restless fate of every Lover When once those twinkling twins make break of day through their inclosing lids their piercing beams of glory amuze spectators and make them pay a tributary devotion to those Chrystal Orbs from whence they flow The beauty of the eyes is much impaird by inflammations bloodshot duskie spots which much ecclipse and cloud their splendour Such vices may thus be remedied If the eyes be inflamed you are first to begin with a good dyet and never eat or drink any thing that may send fumet to the head then you must be careful either to evacuate or divert that humour which causeth the malady by purging blood-letting drawing blisters in the neck In the next place apply them that may alter and digest the humour if it be hot it is to be done with cold things as Fndive Purslaine Nightshade Rosewater Womans milk If it be a cold rhume that falls into the eye boyle Laurel leaves in white Wine bind them in form of a Plaister to the eye or make a Pultice of Celondine with white Wine apply it to the eye it both easeth the pain and takes away inflammation Or Take Rue and Fennel roots beat them well in a mortar then boyle them in white Wine and bath the eyes with the Decoction If the pain and pricking be extream Take the white of an egge beat it together with some Poppy water You may make a very good Plaister for all inflammations thus Take an equal quantity of Saffron Myrrhe Opium gum Arabick pouder and dissolve them in Rosewater make a Plaister and dry it and when you have occasion soften it with Rosewater or the white of an Egge When the pupil or sight of the eye is covered with any spot after you have purged the body bath the eyes with Liquor pressed from Sowes or Wood lice being bruised in a mortar and in lesse then thirty dayes it will be taken away Or apply to the eye a bag full of cummin seed steep in warme white wine Take prepared tuttie sugar candie ginger of each one dram sarcocol white tartar of each two drams muske half a scruple powder sift and mix them altogether and put now and then a little of it in the eye Take the seeds of fennel parsly wild parsnip anise carroway roots of celendine sorrell betony leaves of agrimony tormentil rue vervaine of each a like quantity pound them all and the first day steep them in white wine the second in womans milk on the third distil them keep the liquor close stopt in a vessel and put two drops of it into the eye every day it will take away all spots whatever To help the eyes when they are blood-shot take green wormwood pound and mix it with the white of an egge bind it warm to the eye the second time that it is applyed it will core you Mix the crum of warm white bread with the yolke of an egge shut the eye and lay it upon it Or soake unwasht wool in an equal quantitie of oile of violets whites of egs juice of rue and apply it to the eye If the lower lid of the eye in the cavitie of it be of a tawny swarthy colour you may by these meanes remedie it First let the Physitian remove the principall cause then take oile of fenugreek and anoint the discoloured places with all Or else anoint them with the oile of Cedar which is exceeding good to take away such ill colours Take some Pomegranate peels and presse them anoint the lids with the juice and t will make them returne to their former colour CHAP. XXIII To alter the ill colour of the eyes and how to make them bigger or lesse ALL colours do not equally grace the eyes they are Cupids torches that should shine with a splendent flame and never burne too blew which is a colour lookt upon as fatal and never more aptly plac'd then in Bellonas Mars's grim-lookt sisters eye Neither againe do all dimensions suit with their office they are Cupids chrystall quivers and must not be too big for that litle archer nor yet so small as not to containe his magazeen of shafts Those that have eyes of an ill colour if they would have them black let them take Antimony wash'd and dryed five ounces lapis lazuli one ounce musk camfre of each three graines wood of aloes two ounces frankincense three ounces saffron halfe an ounce make a very fine powder of all these at night when you goe to bed put a little of it into the eyes in the morning they wil be black as if they had been so naturally Gioranni Marienallo an Italian saith he hath often made proof of this which was communicated to him by an Armenian Take acacia gals of each an equal quantity powder them exceeding small then mix them with the juice of anemonie or wind flower making it up in the thickness of hony then passe it through a streiner and keep it for your use in a glass The same Author exceedingly commends this following Take henbane flowers dry them in the shade and keep them when you have occasion to use them put them into white wine and bath the eyes therewith it will make them black If the eyes be too little through the wasting of the whole body or any other distemper have respect to the humour which causeth it and purge that afterward bath them frequently with a spunge dipt in warme water or in womans milk newly come from the brest If they are too big and beare too large a proportion to other parts make an issue behind in the neck purge the head and body drink water and abstaine as much as can be from meats that are strongly nourishing After this take cotton anoint it with hony mixt together with saffron