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Wax. 
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Wax., 
Of the frwt And profit of 'Bees . P. 5 
( l ) Galen defimp. mtd.facul. 1 . 7. ( *, $ , 4, f. ) Geerritu Vithritu. Cera 
flava magi*£molfit,relaxat, dolorcm folvit : ebqueilla utimurad abfccfli* 
calefaciendos , emolliendos 5 concoquendos , & matarandos. lohannct 
Guintberim Aniernauu Omnis ceramollit, calefacit, explcr corpora : re- 
cens melior. Daturin forbitionedyfentericis, favsqueipfi in pultealicae 
priustoft$:advcr['atur laftistutursiacmilij imgmtudine decern gram 
ceraehaufta 0 nonpatiunturcoagularilacinftomacho. Si ingucn tumeat, 
albam ceram in pubc fixifie remedio eft. Nechujus ulus, quo* mixta alijs 
prsftat, enumerare medicina poteft. Vli. nat.hijl. li. 1 a. cap. 24, 
This naturall yellow Wax is by Art,forcertaincpurpofes, 
made white, red, and greene. 
Wax is whited after this manner. Take the whitcft and 
pureft Wax: which, being cut into fmall pecces, put into 
an earthen veffell, and poure Sea water x>r Brine into it, as 
much as may fuffice to boile it. And call in alfo alittleNiter: 
allthisfet ouer afoft fire. When it hath boiled vp twiceor 
thrice, lift the velTcll from the fire, and, the wax being prc- 
fently cooled with cold water, take it out rand when you 
hauefcrapedoffthedroffc, if any fuch hang on, and put it 
into other Salt water, feeth it againe. And hauing boiled vp 
twice or thrice, as before, lift it from the fire againe. And 
then take the bottom of an other earthen pot, or a little 
round board with a handle in the middle like a Churn-Aaffe, 
but without holes: and hauing firfl wetted the bottom of it 
in cold water, dip it into the hot veirell, and affoonc as this 
wet bottom toucheth the wax, pull it out againe, and you 
(hall haue flicking to the bottom athin cake : which when 
you haue taken off, wet the bottom againe, and dip it as 
before :and thus doe till you haue taken vp all the wax in 
cakes. Thefe cakes hang in the open aire vpon a line drawnc 
through them, fo that they may not touch one an other, 
befprinkling them with water in the Sun-fliine vntill they 
be white. If any man would haue wax whiter, let him 
boile it oftner , and doe all other things in like man- 
ner as before. 
Hanc de alband<t eera rationem docuit Diojcorides , l.l.c, 105. 
To make Wax red , Take to one pound of Wax, in Sum- 
mer three ounces of cleere Turpentine, in Winter foure. 
Thefe 
