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Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmeg, and Garlic, of each a 

 quarter of an ounce ; Camphire, half an ounce ; Red 

 Wine Vinegar, a gallon. Choose all the foregoing in- 

 gredients dry, except the Garlic and Camphire ; beat 

 them into grose powder, and cut the Garlic into thin 

 slices : put the whole into a matrass ; pour the Vinegar 

 on them, and digest the mixture in the sun, or in a gentle 

 sand-heat, for three weeks or a month. Then strain off 

 the Vinegar by expression, filter it through paper, and 

 add the Camphire dissolved in a little rectified Spirit of 

 Wine. Keep it for use in a bottle, tightly corked. 



The Vinegar of the Four Thieves is antipestilential, and 

 is used successively as a preservative against contagious 

 disorders. The hands and face are washed with it every 

 day ; the room fumigated with it, as are also the cloaths, 

 in order to secure the person from infection. j, ■ » 



To make Musk Sugar. 



Bruise six grains of Musk and tie them in a piece of 

 Tiffany, lay it in the bottom of a Gallipot, and then fill 

 it with Sugar, and tie it up close, when you have spent 

 that sugar, put in some more, it will be well perfumed. 



Ibid. 



A Perfume to perfume Starch. 



After you have made your starch something thick, 

 put in some rose water, which musk and ambergreese 

 have been steed in all night and it will make your linnen 

 to smell most pleasantly. 



The Book of Simples {circa 1650). 



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