A precious treasury of twenty rare secrets most necessary, pleasant, and profitable for all sorts of people / published by Signier Francisco Dickinson ...

Title

A precious treasury of twenty rare secrets most necessary, pleasant, and profitable for all sorts of people / published by Signier Francisco Dickinson ...

Author

Dickinson, Francisco.

Publication

London :: Printed for the author ...,

1649.

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"A precious treasury of twenty rare secrets most necessary, pleasant, and profitable for all sorts of people / published by Signier Francisco Dickinson ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35936.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The Contents of this Book.
• recipes
  • I. How to make hair to grow.
  • II. How to write letters either Black, Blew, Red, or Green, without Pen or Inke.
  • III. How to write letters of secrets severall wayes that can be read by none without this instruction following.
  • IV. How any that in necessity are troubled with Lice or any o∣ther Vermin may destroy them suddenly.
  • V. How to make a Horse to have a good hoof.
  • VI. How to make Wine to be Odoriferous.
  • VII. How to make strong Vineger.
  • VIII. How to make haire of any colour to become black.
  • IX. How to make a Candle burn in water and endure a long time.
  • X. How to keep Wine from sowring.
  • XI. How to ripen muskmelons, and such other fruit before their season.
  • XII. How to clear your feet from sweat.
  • XIII. How to take out spots of Oyl or Greace.
  • XIV. How to keep Meat fresh and sweet a long time without salt.
  • XV. How to mae a Powder that will make good Ink in an instant.
  • XVI. How to cure the Ague quartan, tertian, or quotidian.
  • XVII. How to appease te pain of the Toothach.
  • XVIII. How to make haire grow where there is none.
  • XIX. How to make a most wholsome and pleasing messe of Broth for a sick body though his stomack be never so weak for other things.
  • XX. How to make ones hands and face smooth and faire.