Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.
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Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.
Author
Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
Publication
London :: Printed for Matthew Gilliflower ... and James Partridge...,
1685.
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Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Recipes.
Home economics -- Early works to 1800.
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"Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47660.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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descriptionPage 161
To make all the People in a House to sleep, without being
able to wake.
Take half a quarter of an ounce of the herb called Dragon-wort,
which put into a Gourd, or Pumpkin, which cover with ano∣ther, and put it in a
Horses belly for the space of nine days, after which time you will find it
converted into little red Worms, from which, according to Art extract an Oyl,
which put into the Lamps, which being lighted, all that are in the House will
be seiz'd with a profound Sleep, so that they cannot be awaked without
putting out the Lamp.
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