The preparation of this Nitre vnto more subtilitie , sharpenes , drines and heat , is after three sortes ensuing .

SPread this Nitre thinne in a platter of glased earth or of pewter . So set it in the hoat Sunne , and attend it vntill it be parched white and not molten , and so it will come into fine white poulder or floure as Aphron Nitron . And hereby getteth it somewhat more subtilenes and lesse gummines , and may be named puryfied Alphron Nitron .

The second waie .

GEt a new earthen pot glased within , & fitted with a couer ( to close it , that no ashes come therein ) hauing such an handel as thereby with your tongues or pliers you may ( when it is in your firie furnaice ) take of the couer , to looke into your pot , and againe at your pleasure couer it . Fill that pot halfe full with this Nitre . And set that pot with the Nitre therein and the couer thereon in a wide fornace for this purpose , raised with two walles on either side a foote high from the ground , left open through betweene those two sides before and behind . Grate that ouerthwarte with barres of iron , ech barre a finger widenes from other , and thereon aboue those barres aswell before as behinde , as also one eche side , wall it vppe square halfe a yarde more of height . And let the widenes of the furneys within , be such , as your pot being set in the middest of your fornace may haue roome on euerie side of your fornace halfe a foote : not forgetting to trauers your fornace within , with two sufficient barres whereon to place your pot halfe a foote aboue your foresaide yron grate : and that you haue to couer the vpper mouth of your fornace with tiles , bricke , or yron plates , to be couched vppon yron roddes or barres , loose and remoueable for the purpose . These thinges thus reddie , fill your fornace with deade charcoales , first halfe a foote heigth from the grate . Then place your pot vpon the two barres in the middest of your fornace : hauing your pot ( as aforesaide ) halfe full of Nitre , and couering your pot with the couer fitted for it , poure in more dead charcoales to fill the voide roome on euerie side about your pot , vp as high about your pot , as your Nitre filleth your pot within , and somewhat more . Then kindle your charcoales leisurely beneath and aboue : closing the foreparte and hinder part of the vent vnder the grate , with loose brickes or tyles , so as the winde vnder , come not vp to vehement at the first . But that your pot take heat by litle and litle encreasing . And it were not amisse that your pot were emptie ( but yet couered ) vntill the coales be all fiered , and your pot nealled red hot . And then to put in your Nitre vnto the halfe fulnes of your pot ( as aforesaide ) and so couer your pot , and also the vpper mouth of your fornace , with the couers thereto prepared . So yet , as there is vent-hoales left , one at euerie corner , and one in the middest . And then pul away the closure of your neather vents vnder the grate of your fornace , that the fire may haue ful quickning by the grate : And as the experience of the worke wil teach you ) suffer your Nitre to melt & dry vp & tost , so farforth as the colour become black & not yet white againe . Then take vp your pot , first aboue your coales , with plying tongues or hooks fit for you purpose : Then higher vpon the vpper barres of your furneys : And lastlie vpon hoat ashes , and scrape out your Nitre with a faire yron ladle fit thereto , and braie it into fine poulder , and reserue it . It hath then , lesser moysture and gummines , & more subtilitie , and more heating and drying facultie , then the first way aforesaide .

The thirde way of more Calcination to make this Nitre , yet more sharpe and subtile , then the other two waies aforesaide .

USing the selfe same way last afore prescribed : when this Nitre hath taken such heat , as the melting and heauing thereof hath ceased , and that your Nitre is dried and burned beyond blacke collour , and become againe perfit collour : vse it as is aforesaide in withdrawing it from the fire . And after that it is taken out of your pot , bray it lightlie , and reserue it to vse : Equiualent vnto Nitre called Bawrak of Armenie : howbeit not astrictiue without mixture of astrictiue medicines as aforesaide .

By the which aforesaide complexion , qualitie and faculties : this Nitre hath ( aswell otherwise as in medicine ) the manifolde and sundrie operations and vertues , particularly ( for example ) declared hereafter , besids a great many moe then I set forth ,

Outward reamedies to fordoe foulenes and diseases of the skinne : as tawnie steynings , Sunneburning , freckles , dusknes , iaundises , yellow , greene , and blacke , wheales and white whelks , cholerick , melancholicke , & flegmatike euaporations , ill colour or complexion by sicknes called Atrophe , which commeth of ill conuertion and assimulation of the nourishment : and to restoore the skinne and complexion to the natiue bewtie . Also to remoue and fordoe , skurffe , dandruffe , skales , skalles , scabbes , pimples , pushes , maunge , ringe-wormes , tetters , byles , buttons , drie lepries , and such effectes .

FIrst that ( that for those purposes ) of antiquitie , Nitre aswell as Aphron Nitre , and Bawrak , hath bene ( of ordinarie vse in Baines and hot houses ) dissolued in warmed water , or in warmed lie made of the ashes of vineshreddes or of rosyers , or of sweete bryers , or of brambles , or of willowes , or of rosemarie , or of sage , or of hysope , or of lauender , or of thyme , or of bayes , or of such like , or else in a yonge boy childes vrine vndistilled , or rather distilled : or else in vinegre , or rather in distilled vinegre , or in iuyces of verie sowre Orrenges , or rather in iuyces of lymmons , or else dissolued with clarified white honie , and ( after three dayes seasoning ) laide on by night , or else in like sorte dissolued with hennes greace , or capons greace , or swannes greace : or oyles of sweete almondes & of bittre almondes , ( three or foure dayes afore mixed and seasoned together ) I say with anie of those liquours or iuycees , laid on at night , and washed of in the morning with rosewater , or with water of beaneflowers , or with the cleare broth of barlie meale , of wheate branne and mallowe rootes : ( For to scoure and clense the heare , the face , the skinne , and the rest of the bodie , from rankenes of smell , and from fumosities , sweate , soyle , steyning and dusknes of the skinne , and to fordoe freckles , spottings , tawnynes , Sunneburning , morphewes , iaundizes , discolorings , scurffe , dandruffe , scales , scalles , scabbes , maunge , pushes , pymples , ringewormes , tetters , roughnes , and all such deformities and affectes of the skinne ) it is touched by manie auncient authours , insomuch as ( amongest others ) S. Ierome in an Epistle to a Gentlewoman , saith : Although thou wash thy skinne with Nitre , and rubbe it neuer somuch with the herbe called Bawrak or Bowrik , what auayleth it , if yet thou remaine filthie with sinne ?

And to those purposes also , some doe dissolue Nitre in distilled whaye , or in distilled Goates milke : or else doe temper it with the brooth and fatnes of figges : or else with the fine meale of the knottes of the rootes of Aaron called cuckow pyutle or the knottes of rootes of serpentine called dragon or snakegrasse : nine times sooked in rosewater and eche time dryed by the Sunne or ouer a sooking fire : or with meale of lupynes : or or with oyle of bitter almondes , and lay it on all night , and on the morning wash it of , as aforesaide .

But if those affectes be deepe rooted , and doe require stronger scouring out : Then put oken ashes , and vnquenched lyme , in a meisshing tubbe , the one cowched by course vpon the other by seuerall layes or couches , beginning at the nethermost with the ashes and leauing vppermost with the ashes . Then poure therein hoat water , or rather the warmed vrine of yong boy children , in quantitie sufficient ( to wit ) so much licour , as the ashes and lime will receiue , to be but filled with the licour to the vpper ashes . And if you take yong boy childes vrine , it may be had at the schooles , setting vesselles for that purpose . Then ( after sufficient steeping with the ashes and lime ) boyle that mixture together , and lastelie braine and let runne the lie into a receiuing vessell , and let it settle to become cleare , and then ( by a spyggot somewhat higher than the groundes settled ) draw the cleare lye from the troubled groundes , and boyle that cleare lye downe againe vnto such wasting and strength , that it can beare an egge . Then distill it into a limbeck ( if you wil ) and put by , the weaker licour which droppeth first , & reserue for your purpose the strongest licour that distilleth the first weaker water : And vnto so much of that strong distilled water , or else vnto the strong Lye it selfe vndistilled ( so much as will couer the bottom of an earthen boyling pipking , or skillet well glased within , and fitted with a couer of the same stuffe , and so set ouer a soft fire of wood coales ) melt therein , for euerie pinte of that strong distilled water , or strong Lye , two pound weight of chosen Sope not ranke nor stinking . And then cast thereto by little and little , twise so much weight of Nitre as your sope weyed ) and as the Nitre is all dissolued therein , boile them altogether to the wasting of the said distilled water or lycour of Lie . Foreseeing that your boyllyng vessell be but a third part full of them all , least they fome ouer .

This done , take it from the fire , and slurre it still with a sticke or splatter vntill it be come colde and stiffe . Then forme your stuffe into flat pellets or small round balles : and put them on a fayre borde to drie and to harden in the winde and shadowe , and reserue them to wet ( at sundrie times as you shall neede ) with iuyce of lymondes or of soure Orenges , or with distilled vynegre , or with distilled vrine of yong boy children , or with the flewgme water of distilled wine . And with the slyme of one of those pellets or balles so moisted , rubbe the stayninges or spottes of the skinne , suffering it to lie on a reasonable space : And then wash it of with broath of barlie floure , or of wheate braune boylled with stamped rootes of mallowes , or with distilled water of the coddes and flowers of beanes , or of roses , or of whaye distilled .

And to the selfe same purpose is succinctlie taught by Galene . To take ( as aforesaide ) to partes of Nitre and one parte of Sope , tempred with sufficient quantity of strong Sope Lye cal - Capitellum , and to make them into tro●●skes or pelletes to be dryed and reserued to be vsed as aforesaide . And this outward medicine is for effectes of the skinne , of harde remouing .

An other waie more delicate , and for tender skin , which leysurely remoueth such affectes , and also doth smooth and bewtifie the skinne .

STeepe chosen Gumme Tragacanthe of the purest and whittest a night and a daie in rosewater , then put thereto of this Nitre , and a curtesie of Camphere . And season and incorporate them together , and by night laye it on , and wash it of in the morning as aforesaide .

An other for the same , of stronger effect .

TAke chosen Gumme Tragacanth , of the whytest and purest , one portion , distilled rosewater , or rather strong vinegre distilled with red roses either freshe or drie , thrise or foure times so much as the weight of the Gumme , & therein steepe your gumme vntill it soften and dissolue therein : Adde fine poulder of the knottes of Aaron rootes , or of Dragon rootes , seauen times sooked in rosewater , and euery time dryed againe by the Sunne : Also fine poulder of sweete preos roote : And fine flowre of Rice : of euerie of those three , asmuch as the weight of your Gumme . Then put so much Nitre as your gumme and rootes and riseflowre ( altogether ) weyed , and ouer a soft fire , mixe and temper them together : alwayes stirring them vntill the Nitre melte , and that the compound lastlie ( after washing of the ouerplus of the rose-water ) be apte to become stiffe ( which shall be knowne by proofe of a droppe let fall on a marble stone to coole : if being colde it become stiffe ) them sprinckling into your mixture a curtesie of Camphere , and so mixing that with stirring , take it from the fire , and still stirre your mixture vntill it become colde and stiffe .

So forme it into washing balles , and dry them in the winde and shadow , not forgetting ( at the first ) to dissolue a curtesie of muske , ciuet , and Ambergreyce , in your aforesaid rose-water , or distilled roseuinegre for the more pleasauntnes of the smell . Howbeit that the rosewater , and the yreos roote , of themselues , are sufficient of pleasaunt odour . And whereas Gumme Tragacanth ( either for deerenes or for scarcitie shal be forborne ) there , the slime of the harebell roote , otherwise called Ierubell or Hiacynthus , may serue in steede of that gumme .

The vse of those balles , is to moist one of them at night in warmed rosewater , or in warmed water of the floures and coddes of beanes , or ( for more effect ) in distilled stronge vinegre rosate , or in iuyces of distilled lymondes , or of sowre orenges distilled and purified by the feltre : And at going to bedde , smeere the affected places of the skinne , yea , and ouer all the face , with the slime of your moysted ball , suffring it to lye one all night , or lesse space , as the medicine to the tendernesse of the skinne is tolerable . And then alwayes washe and skoure it of with some of the waters aforesaide . These balles in hotter water , may serue to wash & scoure the bearde , the face and the heares of the heade , in steede of sope-balles adorate .

A lotion of washing to fordoe ringe-wormes , and tetters .

TAke of Nitre 3. dragmes , of common salt one dragme , of distilled water of the rootes of soure-dockes foure ounces , of vinegre of squilla one ounce , dissolue and and mixt them togeather : And ech time of the vse of them ( being warmed and well mixed ) moisten a cloth or sponge therein and rub therewith the places affected .

An oyntment or plaister to foredoe harde knobbes , buttons , or cornes wheresoeuer they be in the face , or other partes of the skinne .

TAke Nitre , Salgemme , or digged salte , leaues and tender croppes of hysope , and penyrioll , of eche a like portion : Braie them fine and soft , and ouer a moderate fire encorporate them in Gerate rosate . The receipte thereof I neede not to receiue vnto you ( cosen ) that are an Apothecarie , and apply it to the place affected .

An other oyntment for the same .

TAke Nitre , Alume du plume , seedes of Basill or Deyinum , leaues and tender toppes of greene penyroiall , and Costus Indiane , of eche a like portion : Bray them soft and fine , & ouer a soft fire mixe them with hennes greace , or capons greace , or swannes greace , or ducks greace , and anoynt the places affected .

An other oyntment to fordoe the buttons of lepree faces .

TAke burned Nitre , burned alume , & calcined Tartar , of ech one ounce & a halfe , browne yellow Litarge , and the ingredience of the vnguent citrine ( which I neede not receite to you chosen being an Apothecarie ) of ech foure ounces , of Ceruce washed , two ounces of iuyces of Lymonds , of rootes of Enula campana , of the rootes of Soure-docke , of rootes of Cyclamine , and rootes of Dragon or serpentine . And rootes of Aaron or cuccow pyntell , of euerie of them ( as often infuzed in rosewater and dryed againe in the Sunne as afore described ) fiue ounces , vinegre of squilla , water of plantine , water of purcelane , of eche three ounces , and of oyle of complete roses , a pinte , vse them according to your art , and encorporate them togeather , and therewith annoint the place affected .

To mundifie and heale vlcers in the face .

TAke Nitre , and ouer a soft fire ( and in an emptie vessell set within an other vessell full of boyling water ) dissolue it with honie and cowes mylke , and annointe the vlcers of three with .

An experte oyntment for cure of maunge , ringe-wormes , scabbes , and eating soores .

TAke Nitre , brymestone , and Maiorane , otherwise called Margerome , of eche a dragme , beate and sifte the Nitre and brimestone into fine poulder , and braye the Maiorane fine and soft , mixe them , and temper them with oyle rosate , and therewith annoint the places affected .

A linement or enoynting , effectuallie good against Itche , and breaking out of all the bodie .

MElte Nitre and brimestone together which ( being colde ) commeth to be harde as a stone , braie that againe into fine poulder , and with greace make a salue , or smeering for the purpose aforesaide , or else bathe it on with yong boy childes vrine , or with the broath of meale of lypynes and wheate branne .

A lotion or washing for the same .

TAke the fine poulders of Nitre and of sulphure vine , or else of sulphur commune , bayled together , with brused sorell rootes in vinegre , and with a cloath or spunge , dipped in that licoure , rub the places affected , or else cut a Lymond or sowre Orenge by halfe ouerthwarte , and thereon bestowe of that lycoure with those poulders , and with the innerside of oke of those halfe Lymonds or Orenges , rubbe the places affected . Or ese take the foresaide poulders of Nitre and brymestone molten togeather , and with a yonge boy childes vrine , or with broath of meale of lupines and of wheaten branne , or with wine ( mixed warme ) dippe therein a sponge , and bathe and soke the places affected .

In like manner , mixe Nitre with vinegre distilled or vndistilled , or with iuyce of lymondes or of sowre Orenges , or put the poulder of Nitre on the moyst inward part of lymons , or cyterone or sowre Oranges cut ouerthwart , and rubbe the places affected with the iuyce . In like manner , bruse and steepe Nitre and salt , in vertioyce of vynes or of crabbes , and laie one the places affected with Itche , or with Tetters or ringe-wormes or pushes or pimples new come out .

An effectuall plaister and lotion or washing for the Affectes aforesaide .

MIxe Nitre with a yonge boy childes vrine , and with a pestell of fine red copper bray and fret them long together in a morter of fine red copper , set & contynued ouer hoat ashes made hoat by fire or ouer hoat sande , or the hoat Sunne , vntill the mixture doe become thicke , and then so taken out , and put in an earthen glased platter and dryed in the Sunne or ouer hoat sande ( still turning it ouer and ouer with a splatter ) vntill it corne like to small wormes or at least vntill it be made into fine poulder , and when you will vse it , mixe it with Therebyntine , and applie it in plaister to the affectes aforesaide .

It cureth pushes called surferters , skuruie & scalie drie leprees , and filthie maungines , and all such breaking out : Applying it on by night , and one the morning wyping it of with a sponge dipped in warme barelie broath , or warmed broath of wheaten branne boyled with brused rootes of mallowes , and the place washed after with rosewater , or with water of flowres and coddes of beanes , or such like .

The same emplaister or washing . Applyed to the foreheade and swolne browes , doth remeadie the swolne browes . Take heede to winke while it is in laying on , and also while it is in washing of , least the sharpenes of the medicine it selfe ( or mixed with the broath ) doe smarte and fret the eyes .

A lotion or lynement for bringing out , and for outwarde healing of the small pockes , measelles , whealkes , and pushes .

MIxe Nitre with iuyces of Hysope , Marigoldes , & Camomell , and therewith temper oyle of bitter almondes , and with the lyniment enoint the skinne , or else burne Nitre white ( as aforesaide ) and quence it hoate in rough tasted wine , then temper it with oyle of bitter almondes , and anoint the bodie , after bayne .

For healiing and sealing vp of rank lepree breaking out .

TEmpre Nitre with vittrioll , and with viridae Aeris called verdegres or greene canker of copper or brasse , and laye it one the places affected , This ( if it were with licour or greace , or oyle or gumme ) aggreeth verie neere with that working of Nitre in a copper morter , as aforesaide . But either of them are to be washed of with decoction of wheate branne broilled with brused mallowe rootes and afterwardes with rosewater , or other waters of delaying and claryfying facultie .

For opening , riping , drawing and mundifying of carbuncles sores , and for cure of suspecte fellon sores with hollow brimmes , deepe sores , and all vlcers in generall .

TEmper Nitre with Therebyntine and apply it thereto for salue , &c.

A lotion vnto the cankring , creeping and spredding of malitiouse vlcers and sores .

TAke vinegre drawne through quicke lime afore vnquenched and therewith mixe Nitre , and so wash the sores .

An other lotion , and emplaister to fordoe deformities of scuruie & dry scalie eating lepres , maung , tetters , ringewormes , itches , and deformed neiles .

DIssolue Nitre in stronge distilled vynegre , and therewith first rubbe the saide deformities , and then laie to them brused rootes of sorell , or of Sorell du boys , or of Sowre-dockes , boyled in vinegre , or steeped and tempered rawe in vinegre .

An oyntment to heale the skinne broken out of putrified salt fleugme , be it one the face , or elsewhere on the rest of the bodie .

TEmper Nitre with old barowes greace , or else rather with oyle of roses , and waxe in forme of a lynement or smering & therewith anoint the places affected .

An other lotion for the Itche .

DIssolue Nitre and alume with distilled vinegre , or with water of Scabious , and therewith rubbe and washe the places affected .

A lotion or rubbing for Itche , Maunge and Scuruie leprees .

RUbbe the places with poulder of Nitre , mixed with dogges vrine when it may be come by , and it helpeth those effectes ,

A liniment to fordoe freckells in the face , & other places of the skinne .

DIssolue Nitre with Galbanum , in strong distilled vinegre or in iuyce of lymondes or sowre Orenges , and rubbe & smeere the places affected , and after it hath lyen on by night , washe it off euerie morning as is aforesaide .

A drinke for the Iaundyze

MIxe a sponefull of Nitre ech morning with a draught of wine , and drinke it fasting .

A lyniment or lotion for the st●yning of the Iaundize ( after right cure ) vsed inwardes

DIssolue Nitre in distilled vinegre , & with a sponge rub & scoure the skinne at night going to bedde , & eche morning wash it off ▪ as aforesaide .

A liniment or lotion delicate to fordoe Morphews , darke and white .

DIssolue Nitre with white wine ( if not with distilled vinegre , or with iuyces of Lymondes , or of sowre Orenges ) and therewith rubbe the places deformed , at going to bedde , and one the morning wash it of as aforesaide .

Likewise for the white morphewes .

MIxe Nitre with the iuyce of the herbe and rootes of that wilde kinde of Ciquorie , called Condrilla or Caudarilla , or Seralia , but with vs called Dent de Lion , or else take honie with Trociske or paste of the same hearbe and rootes , and temper therewith distilled vinegree , or iuyce of Lymonds , or of sowre orenges , and rubbe the places so steyned , at going to bedde , and in the morning washe and skowre it of , as afore mentioned .

An other lotion or washing for the white Morphew .

TAke Nitre with creta cimolea ( a chalke so named which you knowe ) dissolue them in distilled vinegre , and rubbe them in the Sunne vpon the places affected .

For such as are discolered by the sicknes called Atrophia , in that their nourishment is not natuturally conuerted .

DIssolue Nitre in warme water , and vse it to baine them therewith , it is good for them .

To fordoe the rancke smell of the armeholes , and other the clensing partes of the body , and foldes of the skinne .

DIssolue Nitre in warme water , and with a sponge or lynnen cloath dipped therein , bath and skowre awaie the swet and rank humours and fumosities expulsed by nature through those loose clensing partes .

In generall .

TO bayne with warme water , with onely Nitre therein dissolued , or adding what other sortes of medicines simple or compounde , acording the diuersitie of the cause : dath clense , and supple , and smoth , and bewtifie the skinne . And healeth , the Itche , and Maunge , and skuruie or drie skalie Lepree : Reformeth colde and moyst distemperances , Hydropisyes , benommings and other diseases of the synewes motiue and sensitiue , caused through coldenes , slymines , clammines , congelation , clynging , cluddering , stopping , stuffing , compression , distention , contraction , crampes or stitches , and slacknes or paralisie . Moreouer cureth streightnes of breath and weising in the wine pipes , catarres and distillations from the heade . Remedieth rawnes of the stomak pasted or sobbed with fleugme . Redresseth the cold and ouermoist distemperance of the Liuer , Spleene , Kydneyes , Matrice , and Genitories , deuideth , vnstoppeth , and skowreth away , the slymie clinging and pasted chokeings and stuffinges in them moderatlie heateth & comforteth them , & apteth the Matrice vnto conception .

An oyntment for the face , to make the skinne smooth , egall , sticke , and suppell , fordoing the duskenes of the skinne , and yelding the complexion cleare transparent .

TAke of seedes of psillium otherwise called Fleworte , a dragme , oyle of Tartar three ounces , steepe them together three dayes in a glased vessell , then put the seedes with the oyle in a little long lynnen bagge bounde strong at the necke , and wring it downwardes betweene two stickes , and gather so the slime or muscilage that commeth through the lynnen , and mixe that slime with an ounce of oyle rosate , and therein dissolue Nitre and Salgemme , of eche a dragme , so enoynt the face therewith at night going to bed , and washe it of in the morning with rosewater or beane flowres water or broath of wheate branne and barlye meale decoct with Mallow rootes , setled and drawne cleere from the groundes by an hole perced aboue the groundes , or with such like .

An other oyntment to the same purpose & effecte .

TAke oyle of the marrowe of Hartes bones two ounces , oyle of the marrow of a gelded calfe two ounces , oyle of Gourde seedes one ounce , Uenice Therbyntine washed well and often in rosewater halfe an ounce , Goattes suet halfe an ounce , new waxe three dragmes , melte first the waxe in a double vessell as afore specified , then adde and melte therewith the Goates suet then adde and melte therewith the Therbyntine , then adde the saide oyles , and mixe and temper them well , then adde and temper therewith the poulders of Masticke and of burned Nitre , of eche two dragmes , and stirre and incorporate them well altogethrr , taking it from the fire , and still stirring them vntill they be colde , and with that oyntemente enoynte the face at night going to bedde , and in the morninge washe it of with water of wheate branne and Mallowes , as aforesaide .

To cherish the growing of the heares , and to cause them to become fayre and yellow naturally

TEmper Nitre and rawe stamped Lupynes with warme water , and therewith ordinarilie washe the heares and rootes of them .

Likewise for the same .

TAke the fleugme water of Aqua-vitae drawne of wine , and of it , with ashes of the woode and leaues of Iuie burned , make Lye , and with that Lye warmed , dissolue Nitre , and Labdanum , adding oyle of sweete Almondes , of the which mixture ( daylie and often during lx. dayes , at eche time warmed ) sponge and moysten the heares and the rootes of the heares , and it will yelde them faire and yellow naturally from the rootes .

Likewise for the same .

TAke the barke or outwarde parte of cane rootes halfe an ounce , and Aphron Nitre , halfe an ounce , mixe them with pix Liquida ( it is not Tarre : you cosen , doe know the right pix Llquida ) and rubbe that lyniment on the place being often shauen .

An other for the same .

TAke Aphron Nitre , white pepper , Ginger , Muscaerda , or Mousduong , Alcionium ( of which I can well furnishe you ) ashes of Goates houes , iuyce of Thapsia , and Mirra of eche a like deale , braye them well , and mixe and incorporate them with Goates gall , and vse it as aforesaide , washing it off with Lye of dulce and tender woode or with Nitre sope , which is made of egall patres of sweete sope and of Nitre dissolued and encorporated together .

For falling off , or pilling of the heares .

DIssolue Nitre with wine Maluesie , or Bastarde , or Muskadell , or like sweete wine , and therewith rubbe the places pilde of haire , or which by the heate or itching are like to pill , cisting first those places lightly ouer with the point of a penne-knife , or skratching Skalpell , and after , rubbe and applye thereon , the rawe leaues of beetes , and the vse hereof will bring againe the heare to growe .

To fordoe vermine , Nittes , Skurffe , Dandruffe , Scales , mattring Skalles , and drie Skalles in the heade .

DIssolue Nitre , and terra Samia in oyle of Raddish seedes , and therewith rubbe the places a affected .

An other for the same

TAke Nitre with meale of Lupynes , or with hennes galle , or Partriche gall , or with stronger galle , also poulder of Staphisagre , and distilled vrine of a boye childe , mixe them and let them all season together : And therewith rubbe the rootes of the heares and places affected , and after , washe it off as aforesaide , it doth fordoe those affectes , and clenseth the heares and the rootes of them , and yeldes them a cleere colour .

A medicine to skoure and heale the moysture and mattering skalles of the head .

DIssolue Nitre in white vinegre , or in a boy childes vrine distilled or vndistilled , or with iuyce of a Lymonde , & mixe therewith poulder of Olibanum ( which is the masculine Frankencence ( and rubbe it one the places affected .

Another for the same .

TAke tosted Nitre ( which is the seconde way of preparinge afore spoken of ) sprinckle it one the places affected , and and rubbe it with a red Onyon , or with Bulbus esculentus , cut ouerchwarte , &c.

An oyntment for the same .

TAke Aphoron Nitre , Frankencens , fine poulder of Leaddessage , vine buddinges , and Mirrhe , braie them well eche by themselues , and mixe them with vinegre and oyle of Mirtilles asmuch as sufficeth , so make an oyntment , and vse it to the places affected .

Likewise for the same .

TAke Nitre and Uitrioll of eche a dragme , dissolue them in oyle , and make an oyntment to be vsed for the like effect vppon the rootes of darke colored heares , but not vnto such as haue bright coloured heares .

Likewise .

TAke Aphron Nitre , Alume du plume , Staphisagre , Olibanum , Rocket seedes , Uittrioll , of eche a dragme , Sulphur viue vi . dragmes , Rue three croppes , braie them fine eche by themselues , and mixe them with vinegree and oyle of Bayeberies , or of Mirtilles , asmuch as sufficeth , and so make an oyntment , to vse vnto the rootes of darke coloured heares , but vnto bright coloured heares , leaue out the Uittrioll .

An oyntment for skalles on the heade and for dandruffe .

TAke Nitre meale of cicers , meale of Fenegreke , wheate branne , poulder of Mirtilles , and brused mustard seedes , of eche two ounces , oyle Oliue asmuch as sufficeth , vinegre and water , of eche a little , make an oyntement and enoynt the the heade , first shaued and washed and then rubbed drie with a roughe cloath .