comended by the elder Helmont in one of his Manscripts as a specifick Remedy against the venome of a mad dogg.

Take calx viva, Nitre & mars <ana> calcine them together in a wind oven for 4 or 5 houres [ 'together' deleted]. Then make a lixivium of the salt <&> coagulate['un' at beginning of word and 'ed' at end of word deleted] <it> into a grime Alcali['i' at the end of the word altered from 'a'], which use with [ 'Tartar' deleted] Ant: powder'd [ 'Scil' deleted] Silices &c.

Take of our Sp. of verdigrease & give to a child of a yeare old about 3 drops of it. to one of 3 o 4 yeare old 10 or 12 drops in any convenient['c' altered from 'L'] Liquor. When & as often as necessity shall require. <Given me by Mr Polm: as a certaine Cure (prob. by him) Epileps>[insertion in line in Boyle hand]

Take the liquid coagulum & in {ounce} iii of it, dessolve {ounce} i of pure Salt of Urine sublimd 4 or 5 times out of faire water then distill the salt and menstruum twice or thrice over together that they may be perfectly united. soe the great volatility of the menstruum will be taken away.

In the liquid coagulum dissolve as much salt of Tartar or Sal Gemme, Sea Salt &c as you can, & by cohobations bring it & the liquor over together.

Take [space of 5 characters] & with the liquid coagulum bring it over, then cast it thus volatile upon good præcipitate fix them together & make the red glass or what els you can.

Volatiliz any [space of 5-7 letters] with our newly nam'd menstruum & then by long digestion fix it with the same, & then your menstruum will spue out 3 quarters of itselfe in water, & <all> the rest will remaine a fusible & fix'd mixture

Take of Antim. Nitre & Sulph. ana. distill the pouderd mixture by degrees in a tubulated Retort into an acid plague water.

Upon Hungarian Dantiscan or any other good blew vitrioll put into a funnell, pour a good quantity of well rectifyd Sp. of Wine let it <be> straind[altered from 'straine'] through the Vitrioll, then draw all this wine & carfully collect & keep those few graines of red Sulphur that will remaine in the bottome.

Smuckius his proportion Virede æris on part comon salt 2 parts Hungarian Vitrioll 3 parts mercury ad placitum.

For Silver sodder. [ 'For hard sodder take Silver {ounce} i copper {drachm} ii' deleted] For soft sodder, silver {ounce} i brass {ounce} {half}. I meane sterling Silver & very good cleane new scruffe brass, melt them together with a quick heat. For hard sodder take to an {ounce} i of Silver, a quarter or not quite soe much of such brass as above. Use as much of Borax as of Sandiver exquisitly searchd & mixt to make the sodder run.

Sodder for Gold. Take a peny weight of crowne Gold, put to it of fine Silver & fine copper ana [ 'gr. i' deleted] gr. ii. For soveraigne gold {Recipe}/gr. iii to a penny weight. To make it run {Recipe} to {ounce} i of Borax, 4 peny weight of Sandiver