CHAP. XLVII. Of P••ilothra, or Depilatories: and also of sweet-waters.
MEdicines to fetch off hair, which by the Greeks, are termed Psilothra, and Depilatoria in La∣tine vulgarly,* 1.1 are made as you may learn by these following examples. ℞. calcis viva ℥ iii. auripigmenti. ℥i. let the lime be quenchd in fair water, and then the orpiment added with some aromatick thing: have a care that the medicine lie not too long upon the part, otherwise it will burn; and this medicine must be made to the consistence of a pultis and applied warm, first fomenting the part with warm watet: for then the hair will fall off by gentle rubbing or washing it with warm water: but if there happen any excoriation thereupon, you may help it by the use of unguentum rosatum,* 1.2 or some other of the like faculty.
℞. calcis viv. aurip citrin. an ℥ i. amyl. spumae argent. ℥ ss, terantur et incorporentur cum aq. cum. bulliant simul: you shall certainly know that it is sufficiently boiled, if putting thereinto a goo∣ses quill, the feathers come presently off: some make into powder equal parts of unquench'd lime and orpiment, they tye them up in a cloth, with which being steeped in water they besmear the part,* 1.3 and within a while after by gentle stroaking the head, the hair falls away of it self. The following waters are very fitting for to wash the hands, face, and whole body, as also linnen, because they yield a gratefull smel:* 1.4 the first is lavander-water thus to be made. ℞. flor. lavend. lb iv. aq. rosar. & vini alb. an. lb ii. aq. vitae, ℥iv. misceantur omnia simul, & fiat distillatio in balneo Mariae: the same water may also be had without distillation, if you put some lavander-flowers in fair water,* 1.5 and so set them to sun in a glass, or put them in balneo, adding a little oyl of spike and musk. Clove-water is thus made.* 1.6 ℞. caryoph. ℥ii. aq. rosar. lbii. macerentur spatio xxiv. horarum, et distillentur in balneo Mariae. Sweet-water commonly so called, is made of divers odoriferous things put toge∣ther; as thus, ℞. menthae, majoranae, hyssopi, salviae, rorismarini, lavendulae, an. m ii. radicis ireos, ℥ii. caryophyllorum, cinamoni, nucis moschatae, ana. ℥ ss. limonum, nu. iv. maecerentur omnia in aqua rosarum, spacio viginti quatuor horarum, distillentur in balneo Mariae, addendo Moschi, ℈ ss.