Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions ... / [John White].

  • White, John, -1671
Date:
1716?]
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Credit: Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions ... / [John White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fonable largenefs; then pour upon the fame empty places (which you have engraven upon the Wax) fome repeaters af ftrong Warer or Aqgva fort, and Jet them lié*a while, and when you find them deep cnovgh gra- ven, mingle Orpiment and Maftich melted together fora yellow Colour, and Vermilion and Maftich for red, and Bice and Maftich for a blue, and Cerufe for white, and Ivory burnt for a black. Now when your Maftich hath been melted with any of the forefaid Co- lours; let it cool, and beat the fame into powder, and- lay the fame powder within the graving, and after lay the Metal, upon a {mall Charcoal Fire till the Maftich- be melted, and it will remain faf{ and firm therein a Jong time. \ Lo mlay Boxes, Cabinets, or other things with hard Wax. Witha Pen draw upon your Box any thing that beft pieafeth your Fancy, as Birds, Beafts, Flies, Flowers, Fruits, Leaves, Trayls, Anticks, Letters, €¢. then take a little Knife ground fharp at the point, and cut or grave out the work pretty deep which you have drawn with your Pen upon the Wood 3 when you have fo done, lay upon the fame fome red or green hard Wax, and with a hot fron melt and rub hard the Wax all overinto the crevices, or works which you have cut out, and fo let it cool; then take alinife and ferape away the Wax to the Board, and then you fhall have. your Work which you drew to be inlaid very perfeétly - inthe colour of your Wax, as tho’ it were drawn with, a Pen, and will never wah nor @ear off; when you, have fcraped it clean,hold it a little to the Fire, and it: will fetch a glols on the Wax, and make it to fhew the: pleafanter. To harden white of Eggs.into Gum for many ufes. Separate the Whites of Eggs clean from the. Yolks, | and beat the Whites.very well into a clear Oil or Wa.! ter, and when it is fettled, skim: cif the froth; thent put the fame into Bladders, ‘and hang them ina Chime. y-corner where Fire is ufually kept, to dry,and in an “few days the faine will become asharda Gum Arabick 53 ini *