ll.

THE VERTUES OF THE PRECEDENT WATER

This water preserveth the Lungs without grievances, & helpeth them; being
wounded, it suffereth the Blood not to putrifie, but multiplieth the same.
This water suffereth not the heart to burn, nor melancholly, nor the Spleen
to be lifted up above nature: it expelleth the Rheum, preserveth the
Stomach, conserveth Youth, & procureth a good Colour: it preserveth Memory,
it destroyeth the Palsie: If this be given to one a dying, a spoonful of it
reviveth him; in the Summer use one spoonful a week fasting; in the Winter
two spoonfuls.

The above receipt is given in the 3rd edition of _The Closet Opened_, 1677,
also in _The Queen's Closet Opened_.

2. _Another more precious Cosmetick, or beautifying Water, by Sir_ Kenelm
Digby.

Take White Lillies six drams, Florence Orrice Roots, Beans, Cicers, Lupins,
of each half an ounce, fresh Bean-flowers a handful, Gum Tragant, White
Lead, fine Sugar, of each half an ounce, Crums of white Bread, (steeped in
Milk) an ounce, Frankincense, and Gum Arabick of each three drams, Borax,
and feather'd Allom of each two drams, the White of an Egg, Camphire a dram
and a half; infuse them four and twenty hours in a sufficient quantity of
Rose and Bean-flower water, equal parts; then distil it in _B.M._

_This Water smooths, whitens, beautifies & preserves the Complexions of
Ladies. They may wash their Faces with it at any time, but especially
Morning and Evening_.

3. _Another richer Perfume; being pleasant and wholesome, to perfume
Tobacco taken in a Pipe_.

Take Balm of Peru half an ounce, seven or eight Drops of Oyl of Cinamon,
Oyl of Cloves five drops, Oyl of Nutmegs, of Thyme, of Lavender, of Fennel,
of Aniseeds (all drawn by distillation) of each a like quantity, or more or
less as you like the Odour, and would have it strongest; incorporate with
these half a dram of Ambergrease; make all these into a Paste; which keep
in a Box; when you have fill'd your Pipe of Tobacco, put upon it about the
bigness of a Pin's Head of this Composition.

_It will make the Smoak most pleasantly odoriferous, both to the Takers,
and to them that come into the Room; and ones Breath will be sweet all the
day after. It also comforts the Head and Brains._ Approved by Sir _Kenelm
Digby_.

From Hartman, _The True Preserver of Health_, 1682.

APPENDIX II

_The true Preparation of the Powder of Sympathy, as it was prepared every
year in Sir_ Kenelm