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When gold color starts to grip, it is a sign that in ten or twelve <ms><tmp>hours</tmp></ms> it will be dry & appropriate for <m>gilding</m>.</ab>
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To make <m><fr>or mat</fr></m> beautiful, put in a little <m>varnish</m> or <m>fatty oil</m>, not from that which is made from the cleaning of <tl><fr>pinceaulx</fr></tl>, but the pure, which is made fatty <env>in the sun</env> or mixed with <m>ceruse</m>.</ab>
<ab><m><fr>Or mat</fr></m> of this sort is scarcely less beautiful than <fr><del>es</del></fr> <add><m>burnished gold</m></add>, and lasts longer <env>in the rain</env>, & besides, & is made sooner. <m>Burnished gold</m> is cracked <tmp>with time</tmp> & comes apart <env>in the rain</env>.</ab>
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<id>p066v_1</id>
<head>To prevent <bp>teats</bp> from swelling <del><fr>d</fr></del> <add>or to diminish overly large ones</add></head>
<ab>Take large <m>loaves of bread freshly drawn from the <tl>oven</tl></m> & split them <ms>in half</ms> &, as hot as may be done, apply them <del>& they</del> & do this 3<ms>times a <tmp>day</tmp></ms> & continue 4 or 5 <ms><tmp>days</tmp></ms>. Next, make a plaster with <m><pl>Venice</pl> turpentine</m> or better, <m>common turpentine</m>. Mix in <m><pa>sumac</pa></m>, <m><pa>sloes</pa> from bushes</m>, <m><pa>quince</pa> seeds</m>, <m><pa>pomegranate</pa> flowers</m>, <m><pa>olive tree</pa> leaves</m>, & the like, boiled, & mix with the <m>turpentine</m>. But, I forgot, one needs, after having applied the <m>hot bread</m>, which softens & makes one sweat, to put on <tl>linens soaked with <m>water from a honey beehive</m></tl>, that is to say <m>honey</m> & <m>wax</m> extracted all together from the honeycomb.</ab>
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<head>For attracting <al>pigeons</al></head>
<ab>Fry <m><pa>hemp</pa> seed</m> in a <tl>pan</tl> with <m>oil</m> & give some of it to the <al>pigeons</al>.</ab>
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<head>Against bruising of the <bp>eyes</bp></head>
<ab><tmp>At night</tmp>, apply <m>very thin sheets of lead</m>. Singular remedy.</ab>
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<head><tl><fr>Pinceaulx</fr></tl></head>
<ab>To make them well, cut the <m>hair from the tail of a <al>squirrel</al>’s fur</m>, <ms>as much in one go as one can hold in a <m>card</m> folded up into a small tube</ms>. And putting it thus into the aforesaid folded <m>card</m>, tap <add>it</add> & shake <add>it</add> such that the <m>hair</m> gathers together & becomes of the same length. Put one or two <m>bristles of a <al>rat</al>’s whiskers</m> in the middle, then, grabbing it with the fist & pinching it well with the <bp>thumb</bp> & <bp>index finger</bp>, thoroughly dip the tip of all this <m>hair</m> in <m>water</m>, then, moving close to</ab>
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