Primitive physick: or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases. To which is added, the general receipt book, containing ... receipts [in every branch of science ... with directions for making British wines ... / By H. Gifford].

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Date:
1847
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Credit: Primitive physick: or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases. To which is added, the general receipt book, containing ... receipts [in every branch of science ... with directions for making British wines ... / By H. Gifford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an equal quantity of quick lime and red lead, mix it up with strong soap lees, lay it on the horn with a small brush, like the mottle in tortoise- shell ; when it is dry repeat it two or three times. To soften Ivory.—Slice half a pound of man- drake, and put it in a quart of the best vinegar, into which put your ivory ; let it stand in a warm place for forty-eight hours, and you will be able to bend the ivory to your mind. To bleach Ivory.—Take a double handful of lime and slake it by sprinkling it with water, then arid three pints of water, and stir it up together; let it settle ten minutes, and pour the water into a pan for your purpose ; then take your ivorv and steep it in the lime water for twenty-four hours, after which boil it in strong alum water one houT, and dry it in the air. JAPANNING. It frequently happens that japanned work re- ceives damage, when it is very inconvenient, from distance or other circumstances, to send for the japanner to repair it, therefore it may not be improper to lay down the simplest methods used in that branch. First, provide yourself with a small muller and stone, to grind any colour you may require. Secondly, provide yourself with white hard varnish, brown varnish, turpentine varnish, japan gold size, and spirits of turpentine, which you may keep in separate bottles for the purpose. Thirdly, provide yourself with a flake white, reil lead, vermillicn, lake, Prussian blue, King’s and patent yellow, orpiment, spruce and brown ochre, mineral green, verditcr, burnt um o