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Black Pepper and Ginger, 
each one pram 3 make a 
powder according to Art. 
Sealing-wax is made of 
Gum-Lac : The fine, hard 
Sealing- wax is made of fine 
Gum- Lac, Melted in an 
Earthen Veflel, into which 
a fufficient quantity of the 
colour is put, and mix’d 
well together - y then take it 
off the Fife, and make it 
lip into Rolls, or Sticks. 
Red Wax is colour’d With 
choice Vermillion 3 Blue 
Wax with Blue Bice , 
Smalt , or Ultramarine 3 
Green Wax with Green 
Bice, . Verdigreafe, or the 
like 3 BlackWax with Ivo- 
ry, or Cherry- ftone-Blackj 
Purple Wax, with Red j 
Lake, and the like. Coarfe, 
hard Sealing-wax is made 
in the following manner : 
Take of Shel-lac twelve 
Ounces ; of Refin and, 
choice Vermillion, each fix 
Ounces 3 melt them, and 
mix them together 3 and 
when they are of a due 
Heat make them into 
Sticks. You may fet a 
Glofs upon them, by gent- 
ly heating them, in a na- 
ked Charcoal-fire , and 
rubbing them with a Cloth] 
p# rhey are cold. j 
d&um^gDPanum or 
Frankjncenfe , in Latin Oil- 
banum. It heats, dries, and 
is - fomewhat aftfingent. 
’Tis chiefly uled inwardly, 
for Difeales of the Head 
and Brealt, and for Fluxes 
of the Belly and Womb, 
and for a Cough, and Spit- 
ting of Blood. But the In- 
ternal Ufe of it is much 
difliked by forne 3 for they 
fay it occafions Madnefs. 
’Tis ufed outwardly for 
Fumes to ftrengthen the 
Head, and to ftpp Catarrhs. 
It incarns Ulcers, and cures 
Wounds. Mix’d with Lard, 
it cures Chilblains. It eafes 
the Pain of Ulcers of the 
Fundament, powder’d, and 
mix’d with Milk., .’Tis 
mingled with Blaifters, 
Ointments andBalfams, to 
cleanfe and incarn Ulcers 
and Wounds. But the chief 
ufe of it is in Fradiures of 
the Scull 3 being powder’d, 
and mix’d with the White 
of an Egg, and applied to 
the Temples, it does good 
for an Hemicrania,and the 
Head-ach. Infus’d infweet 
Wine, and drop’d hot into 
the Ears, it eafes the Pain 
of them, and cures Ulcers 
in them. The Bark o£ 
