The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemont, by him collected out of diuers excellent authours, with a necessary table in the ende, conteyning all the matters treated of in this present worke. Englished by Wyllyam Warde

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Title: The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemont, by him collected out of diuers excellent authours, with a necessary table in the ende, conteyning all the matters treated of in this present worke. Englished by Wyllyam Warde
Author: Ruscelli, Girolamo, d. ca. 1565.
Publication: Printed at London :: By Roulande Hall, for Nycholas Englande,; 1562.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.; Recipes -- Early works to 1800.
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For to make heare blacke.

TAke Swallowes dung, and put it in good Uinai∣gre in a Uiolle, or some vernished earthen potte, than burye it in a dung hill, or in horse dung, and leaue it so. xxxv. dayes full. And than annoynte your head, being polde, with this medecine in the shadowe with a Painters pensille. But before you do thus, you must annoynt your face with deare suet, to the intent that none of the colour of the sayde oyntment doe spot or black your face. And while this colour & dying doth drie, holde in your mouth some oyle, to the ende that your teeth waxe not blacke with it: and the fourth day that you haue thus annoynted your head, you muste washe it well, and all is done.