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I. To fofien Green IVlni. 



Put in fomc vinegar wherein litharge has been well fteeped, 

 and put a quart of it into a tierce, and this will mend 

 it, in fummer efpecially. 



2. To hinder Wtne from turning four. 



Put a pound of melted lead in fair water into your calk 

 pretty warm, and flop it clofe. 



From which it appears that William Graham 

 was deep in the myftery of vintners: and his book 

 having gone through no lefs than fix editions, may 

 be reafonably fuppofed to have revealed the dan- 

 gerous fccret of thofe adepts in iniquity, to at leaft 

 three thoufand innocent families, together with 

 their friends and connexions ! But to eftimate the 

 fum total of mifchief accruing from the numerous 

 receipt-books of this (lamp publifhed within thefe 

 fifty years paft, " highly neceflary (as the editors 

 gravely obferve) to all Families," entirely baffles 

 calculation ! For, according to the fage adyice of 

 thofe worthy authors, fcarcely any family is now 

 found without one or more of their " faithful guar- 

 dians of health, or trufty monitors In every thing 

 relating to food or phyfick 1" 



To fupply the publick with an effe6tual antidote 

 to the various poifons conveyed in thefe books, and 

 difleminated far and wide amongft the people^ would 



be 



