Making and Knowing
A minimal edition of BnF Ms Fr 640

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To shoot a gun without noise

Warm up the barrel and close the lumiere d’embas, and take a piece of the freshest porksuint that you can find and as long as the phalanx of your little finger and the size of the diameter of the canon, and push it back and forth until it is completely melted. Then, load a cartridge which fits on the top of the barrel, as you know, and it will only make a little whistling.

Dipping for a bullet that will reach far away and will compromise the healing

Mix some suint and strong vinegar and dip the bullet in this mixture while it is still hot.

Against wounds

Hurt a chicken or a dog to test and put some sap and ground herb which is called sempervina on the wound. It is the one with the leaves like small grains that some call vernicularis. It well—known that it will not die.

Oneneu elbirro traut is no eheram
rus enn elbat no ueirtse

Get in the month of June and July, many of the biggest snails you can find with their shell, put them in a glass bottle with a sufficient quantity of very hard and very boiled egg yolks with some good vinegar. Cork it and put it under some horsemuck for fifteen days. The snails will first survive thanks to the egg yolks, then with the heat they will come out of their shells and eat live on it. Finally, it will come a white salve. For your own safety you will not cut the bottle, keep it well closed and put it in strong sun and dawn for

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