Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1722 edition. Excerpt: ... ** in this place, only faying of Urine that it is used to "scour, and help the fermenting and heating of ** Woad; it. is used also in the blew-fats instead of "Lime: It difehargeth the yellow (of which and "blew, most Greens are compounded) and there"fore is always used to spend Weld withal. Lastly, "the stale Urine, or old mudd of pisling places, will "colour a well scoured small piece of Silver, into a "Golden colour, and it is with this (and not at all "with the Bath-water) wherewith the Boys at Bath H colour single pence; although the generality be"lieve otherwise. Lastly it seems to me, that Urine "agreeth much in its Nature with Tartarous Lixi"via; not only because Urine is a Lye made of Ve"getables in the body of Animals; nor because in "the Receptacles of Urine, Tartarous stones are bred "like as in Vessels of Wine; nor because Urine dis"charges and abrades Colours as the Lixivia of Tar* "tar, or the deliquated Salts of Tartar do DEGREES but be"cause Tartar and Sulphur-Lixivia do colour the supersicies of Silver, as we affirmed of Urine; and K the difference I make between Urine and Tarta"rous-Lixivia is only this, that though the Salts of "both of them seem by their effects in Dying, in a "manner the fame; yet that Urine is made and con"sists of Salt and Sulphur both. "Before we enter upon the Vegetable materials for "Dying, we may interpose this Advertisement, That "there are two sorts of Water used by Dyers, viz. "River-water, and Well-water: By the latter I mean "in this place the Pump-water in great Cities and '
