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Rtubeus distilleth it otherwise, and adds other cautions thefaith, the water is with difficulty drawnc out of the hony, be-cause it readily as the fire grows hot, ascends to the top ;wherefore some mingle glass with it, others sand, the most doeannoynt the Still within with oyle; but it is best distilled espe-cially where they purpose to use the dregg», by wetting linnet,doathesin water continually, and spreading them on the head«nd sides of the Still, and a soft fire below, by which the swel-ling thereof is resisted, and leaving n.uch vacucy and empti-ness in the Still, so that it be filled a fifth, or at the most »fourth part; but because sometimes a larger fire is necessary,the cucurbite must be well crusted with day. It 11 excellent for aCatarrh,Cough,Spleen, &c.

Oyle also is distilled out of bony, let hony in the combes beeput into an earthen vessel, and well macerated in warme Hodc-dung, until the waxe being separated from the hony, swims a-loft, which being taken oss, let some Flinrstones be mirglcdwith the hony, and little pecces of glass; the first water whenit is distilled is very (harp, and then comes the oyle. It is singu-lar for the Gout, and sor the cute of all Wounds.

AUr l‘b i de Oyle of Waxe is thus made, let two pound of new odorise-fnfect. * ’' * rous waxe be melted in a Frying-pan, and then poured out intoa vessel filled with Muskadine, or other generous Wine, and Jetit continue there until it be cold, after taken out and squeezedwell with your hands, and againe melted and pouted into theWine as before, and let it be seven times reiterated; and thenlet it be melted againe, and three handfuls of beaten Bricks putinto it, let them be well mixed together, and being all cold, letthem be put into a Glass Limbeck well stopt with clay, and thej’oynts well lined therewith, that there be no expiration; thenI:t a little fire be made underneath until the Cytron phlegmcceaseth to run, and then let another vessel be set under, and tbesire a little increased, 'until the drops be first thick, and thenof a Cytron colour; and lastly, drop true oyle of waxe, andlet this be received in a proper vessel, mixed with tbe thickdroppings, and let it be made thick, and like butter congealed.And now the fire must be enlarged until thick drops doe againedistill, which as soon as you fee kt the vessel chat tccejjctb the

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