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Menstruum Cereale, & the whole after a short digestion will be reduced into a little Residence & a red liquor, a few Drops whereof will tinge a good quantity of {spirit of wine} into a deepe Red & makes it an excellent Medecine.

Take limatura [martis] deleted part. i. Nitre part. ii misce, accende, & detonare sine. then powre on     space of 7-9 chars Menstruum, & extrahe tincturam, which you may againe draw off by & into Sp. of Wine.

{Recipe} Common Turpent. digest it with [Menstruum] Cereale, & draw of Your Menstruum in a head & Body, with it will come over Oleum clarum supernatans, & a translucid Colophony will remaine in the bottome.

Ash workes strongly on Galmey, as also on {antimony}, to 4 parts of which 3 of Ash must be mixed, & the Mixture kept in a cold cellar in a wide open Vessell will in 3 or 4 Months sever the {sulphur} from the running {mercury}.

Our Acetum Quercinum (aliorumque forsan lignorum) doth all that Sp. Salis Armeniaci will do, as well as it (if not better (says Mr Sm.)

Take Sand part i. powder'd Charcole parts ii. Niter parts v or vi. Misce; then heat a crucible red hot, & whilst it is heating, set the Mixture on fire at the top with a quicke cole; & let as much as can, burne away, then take the remaining masse, & put it offulatim into the crucible, & give it a strong fluxe & melt it into a greenish vitrum which in a cellar will run per deliquium into a Liquor of the same Nature with Glauber's liquor silicum.

Our Terrene Menstruum mixt with Water, will extract the Virtue out of Wheate & all Vegetables, & will by digestion, in time fixe Metals (& Minerals) says Glauber.

Take a peece of steele, rub it well upon a load-stone, & then stroke the aking tooth & contiguous gummes divers times therewith.

Fill a hollow tooth with turpentine, & with a red hot Iron kindle it & let it burne in the tooth & seare it, which <is an> infallible cure as Dr Charlton assures me.

Pot-ash & {antimony} must be a while digested in a gentle heat to change Colors.

Take to a Pipe of Wine about a Gallon of strong ale wort that hath not wrought, & in each Gallon dissolve {pound} i of honey, & adde to them as much flower of ground malt as will make them like a deleted batter, which must be put in warme into the Wine & mightily stirred in it, &