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Memorialls
PHILOSOPHICALL
Beginning this Newyearsday 1649/50 & to End with the Year
And so, by God's Permission, to be
annually continu'd during my Life
JANUARY

Mr. B. Worsley gave me the ensuing Receit as one[e]tear in page, 'e' supplied most excellent for the Tooth-ach, {Recipe} Mithridatis, & Philonii[i]'i' supplied Romani, ana [quantum satis] [Fiat Electuarium{?}] magnitudine Palmæ, & applicet[et]'et' supplied lateri dolenti. The Plaster must be thinne spread up[on] Leather or Paper; & used only when the Paine is felt & [to] be taken of when it ceases.

He likewise commended to me as an Admirable specificke[spe] Remedy, for the Breeding of Teeth (or rather ....approximately 5-6 letters Dentitionis,) in Children, to Take a Cocke, & cutting ....approximately 5-6 letters rubbe twice (or thrice at most) the Child's Gums, with t[he] that drops warme from the Combe.

He likewise gave me as the best Plaster that he ....approximately 4-5 letters yet us'd or heard of, a Mixture made of, One part ....approximately 4-5 letters Powder of the Tarras-stone, Ground & searc't; as mi....approximately 4-5 letters the Sheards of Stone-bottles come out of Germany, o....approximately 4-5 letters Ground & Searc't also; as much of Quicke-Stone Lime, ....approximately 4-5 letters a part of Wood-ashes searc't. These Powders well mix with Small beere, or (which is better, ) Butter milk to be made up into a Mortar.

A most excellent Lute against the Fire, is to be made of equall Parts of Scrap't (white-) Chalke & Ry[e] flower, made into a stiffer Lute with Whites of Egges.

The Lute I line those Furnaces with, which are to endure the highest violence of the Fire, is made of equall Parts of Common-mortar; Tobacco-pipe-Clay; (or, in lieu thereof scrap't Chalke) Rye-Flower, Horsedung made up into a very stiffe Mortar by beating extreame[ly] well beaten together, with a little Flockes or Haire ....approximately 2-3 letters as little Water, Beare, or Butter-milke, as possibly will suffise[suf].

A Generall Ferment to set Spirituous, or rathe[r] ....approximately 2-4 lettersnous Liquors, a fermenting Againe, is made of 3 qua[rts] of Water in which a pound of sugar (white but not ....approximately 2-3 letters is dissolv'd boyl'd away till it come to a Pottle. To t[he] Liquor that is to be fermented, a sixth (sometimes an eighth part will suffice) of this Generall Ferment is to be [added]