A thousand notable things, on various subjects. Disclosed from the secrets of nature and art; practicable, profitable, and of great advantage; set down from long and curious study and experience, for the greater part; and the rest taken from the most judicious and celebrated authors of the ancients and moderns. Being a rich cabinet of selct curiosities and rarities, in one volume, digested into fourteen books, for the general use and good of mankind; with strict amendments, and large additions, to what formerly has been published in this kind; exceeding any other for the multitude of pleasing variety herein to be found / [Anon].

  • Lupton, Thomas
Date:
1793
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A thousand notable things, on various subjects. Disclosed from the secrets of nature and art; practicable, profitable, and of great advantage; set down from long and curious study and experience, for the greater part; and the rest taken from the most judicious and celebrated authors of the ancients and moderns. Being a rich cabinet of selct curiosities and rarities, in one volume, digested into fourteen books, for the general use and good of mankind; with strict amendments, and large additions, to what formerly has been published in this kind; exceeding any other for the multitude of pleasing variety herein to be found / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    28/288 (page 20)
    given with Pepper and Mvrrh,. £o them that are tor- mented with the Cholic, in good Wme,it will help- them mUrveiioufiy of the fame difcafe. — 'Scrihonius Largus. . —,... tJ „ . v 39. FelHtory of the Wall {lamped, and laid to the Coas ana under the Navel, and fo ufed four or five times, helps the Cholic and pains of the Bladder and Cods.—A thing often pruned, 40. Oalhanum made foft and fpread upon a Linen Cloth* and fo applied and laid upon a Plague Sore> if the difeafe be curable, it will fo lfick and cleave to the fame, that it cannot be plucked away, unlefs it bring away the root of the fore with it. But if the difeafe be incurable, it will not cleave.—Arnoldus dt •villa non a, ' ' ' 41. If any will make their hands white, let them mix the Dung of Sparrows in warm Water, and wadi them therewith; or let them feeth the Root of Met- tles in that water, and therewith wadi their hands. 42. 1 he Roots of Lillies fodden in Water doth take away the Rednefs in the Face if certain morn- ings andr evenings the fame be wadied and rubbed therewith.———This hath been often proned. 43* AW Stones will eafily be made foft if you lay them all night in the Blood of an Ox, the Fat of a Wether, and drong Vinegar mixed together.— As Mizaldus <vjrites, 44. Apples that are frozen, if they be put or cad into cold Water, and differed to lie therein awhile, will come to nature again ; for thereby all then- frozen conjealing will be diffolved.—Lemnius, 45. To feparate Gold from Silver do* thus: Anoint the Silver that is gilded with Oil of Linfeed, and fprinkle thereon the Powder of Roach Allum and Salt Armoniack mixed together; which being well heated in the fire, and quenched.in water, the fepa- rated Gold will remain therein.**~Mizaidus had this (fa cunning Goldfmith. 1 v. 46. If