007v - - - - - For giving the color of all kinds of metals to wood & other things
Take touchstone & pumice stone as much of one as of the other & grind them together & mix with a glue de retailles stronger than that used for painting, & paint it on whatever you like. Once dry, rub this layer with any metal whatsoever, then burnish it.
Against windy colic
Take a dozen dried common walnuts and throw them one after another onto a good brazier where they may catch fire, and take them out with tongs, and let them burn and flame well in the air, and extinguish them in a glass of good wine. Then let the wine cool and filter it, then pour half of it, since six extinguished nuts make one dose. An excellent cure against suffocation of the matrix.
To relieve the pain of gout
Take half a pound of finely powdered golden and yellow marcasite, half an ounce of storax, 4 lb. of urine, incorporate well together, little by little, in a mortar, then boil all together quite strongly. But the pot needs to be well covered so the smoke does not escape. Then distill the imbibed urine, separated by inclination, in an alembic, well luted and covered with a copper head. And soak a cloth with the said water and apply it lukewarm on the pain.
Against gonorrhea
Cook .i. lb. of old smiths’ water, .i. ℥ of Armenian bole reduced in the finest powder, and .iii. ʒ of common honey, until the honey stops foaming. Once cooled, strain with great pressure and use the results of filtration by injection.